By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Photo credit: Miami Open/Hard Rock Stadium
Danielle Collins transformed Hard Rock Stadium into Danimal House last spring.
Next month, defending Miami champion Collins will lead a championship cast of stars at the 2025 Miami Open.
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The 2025 Miami Open will be contested March 16-30th at the iconic Hard Rock Stadium.
See the complete 2025 Miami Open Entry List here. For tickets, please visit this Miami Open tickets link.
Defending men’s champion Jannik Sinner is serving a three-month suspension and will not be back in South Florida next month.
Four past men’s winners are in the field, led by No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz (2022), who is joined by No. 6 Daniil Medvedev (2023), No. 20 Hubert Hurkacz, who beat Sinner in the 2021 final and six-time Miami Open champion Novak Djokovic, who is looking to make his first Miami Open appearance since 2019.
Four previous finalists are also in the field, including current Top 10 members Alexander Zverev (No. 2) and Casper Ruud (No. 5) as well as Grigor Dimitrov and Kei Nishikori.
Unleashing booming backhands, defiant drives and a fierce appetite for the fight, Collins conquered Elena Rybakina 7-5, 6-3 in rousing performance to capture the 2024 Miami Open championship.
The 53rd-ranked Collins denied 10 of 11 break points becoming the lowest-ranked Miami Open champion in history and first American woman to win Miami since fellow Floridian Sloane Stephens in 2018.
“I used to beg my dad to take me here and he said, ‘You can go when you play in the tournament.'”Danielle Collins just WON the tournament!#MiamiOpen pic.twitter.com/s2bN4gvGIV
— wta (@WTA) March 30, 2024
“That was a battle. This whole week has been tough,” Collins told Miami fans last March. “I’ve played against some of the toughest competitors, some of the best players in the world.”
The world’s best will return as the Top 10-ranked women, including No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, No. 2 Iga Swiatek, No. 3 Coco Gauff, No. 4 Jasmine Paolini and No. 5 Jessica Pegula are all in the field.
No. 7 Rybakina, who has been runner-up in each of the past two years, returns. The former Wimbledon winner is joined by other past finalists Naomi Osaka and Jelena Ostapenko in the field.
Ranked No. 12, Collins is one of six Americans in the WTA Top 20 in the Miami Open field, joined by No. 3 Coco Gauff, No. 5 Jessica Pegula, last month’s Australian Open champion and No. 6 Madison Keys, No. 9 Emma Navarro and No. 18 Amanda Anisimova.
Four Americans ranked inside the ATP’s Top 20 are among the men’s entries: No. 4 Taylor Fritz, No. 9 Tommy Paul, No. 13 Ben Shelton and No. 18 Frances Tiafoe.
A total of 25 players – 12 men and 13 women – aged 22-and-under are in the fields, led by 21-year-old Alcaraz and Delray Beach native Gauff, who will turn 21 on March 13th.
The youngest ATP player will be 18-year-old Joao Fonseca while for the WTA it will be 17-year-old Mirra Andreeva.
The entries include every eligible man in the Top 77 of the ATP rankings and woman in the Top 72 of the WTA rankings, and they include players representing 37 countries.
In addition, the following players have entered with an injury protected ranking: Jenson Brooksby, Nick Kyrgios, Reilly Opelka, Sorana Cirstea, Lauren Davis and Caty McNally.
