![]() We've also listed the tournament schedule further down the page. Ready for the last few days of hard-court action at the Hard Rock Stadium? Here's how to watch a Miami Open 2023 live stream wherever you are - starting with FREE access in the UK. Aryna Sabalenka fell in the quarter-finals In the second women's semi-final, Petra Kvitová will come up against Romania's Sorana Cîrstea. Indian Wells champ Elena Rybakina is already through to Saturday's final having despatched third seed Jessica Pegula 7-6 6-4. With Iga Swiatek out with an injury, the women's Miami Open draw remains wide open. The 26-year-old American showed his character to break back in the second set but it was not to be. US qualifier Chris Eubanks fell to Medvedev in the quarter-finals yesterday. The all-Russian affair is due to start at 6pm BST / 1pm ET. The Spaniard now faces Jannick Sinner, who might have many more titles to his name were it not for constantly coming up against Alcaraz, in the second of today's men's semi-finals.īefore that, it's the first of the men's semi-finals: fourth seed Daniil Medvedev vs Karen Khachanov. Men's no.1 seed Carlos Alcaraz exhibited the kind of form that won him last month's Indian Wells title as he breezed past Taylor Fritz 6-4 6-2 in the quarter-finals yesterday. The semi-finals of the 2023 Miami Open – aka the coast-to-coast Sunshine Double – take place today at the Hard Rock Stadium. ![]() Watch free: Amazon Prime Video FREE trial (UK) | Kayo Sports FREE trial (AUS) The tennis organization has not revealed how much Amazon paid for its exclusive Roland Garros nighttime broadcasts.īut as a measure of the huge possible amounts, Amazon signed a similar broadcast-rights deal last year, to air most of France’s Ligue 1 football (soccer) matches, for about €275 million ($296 million) a year-slapping Amazon Prime members with an additional €4.99 monthly charge to view the games.ĭespite those giant amounts, for Amazon, live broadcasting has an equally big advantage: converting sports fans into Amazon shoppers, according to Alex Green, Amazon Prime Video’s managing director for sports in Europe, who told a sports convention in London in March that the live sportscasting “makes people feel really good about their subscriptions.Dates: Wednesday, March 22 - Sunday, April 2 Until its contract with the company, the French tennis federation earned €25 million a year from its broadcast rights with France Televisions and Eurosport-less than half the €70 million broadcasters pay to London’s Wimbledon and New York’s U.S. There have been repeated protests against Amazon’s expansion plans, including new warehouses, with demonstrators linking the company’s rising success in France with President Emmanuel Macron’s business-friendly policies. In early 2020, French workers at the country’s Amazon fulfillment centers went on strike, for lack of COVID-19 pandemic protections, and the French government blocked Amazon from applying for government COVID-19 relief funds. Amazon’s deep pocketsīut at the root of controversy is money-specifically, the very deep pockets of Amazon.Īmong many French people, the company already has a reputation for cut-throat business practices. “When we finish at midnight, with all that comes with it-dinner, physio, trying to come down in terms of adrenaline-it’s harder to recover,” he said. But like his countryman, Alcaraz wants nothing to do with Amazon’s nighttime games.Īfter his win Sunday, he said it would be “unfair” if Nadal books a daytime slot, and likely leaves him playing at night. In the stands-far from full-some spectators unfolded blankets as they shivered through the match.Īlcaraz has ignited frenzied excitement as the new global superstar-echoing his fellow Spaniard, Nadal, who won his first French Open at age 19. During breaks in the play, both men wrapped Roland Garros towels around them to ward off the cold, which dropped to single-digit Celcius as it neared midnight. ![]() That weather problem was on stark display on Sunday night, when 19-year-old Carlos Alcaraz smashed the Russian player Karen Khacharov, 26, in straight sets. ![]()
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