Play at the Miami Open is set to resume momentarily, at 12.30pm local time (4.30pm GMT) following a rain delay. It\u2019s been a tough start to the tournament weather-wise, as all matches on Wednesday were cancelled due to the rain. Now, they are running two-and-a-half hours behind schedule on the outer courts.<\/p>\n
But as WTA Queen\u2019s tournament director and broadcaster Laura Robson told Sky Sports, there\u2019s no need for Miami Open organisers to worry just yet \u2013 especially as this is an extended 12-day Masters 1000 event, where players get days off in between their matches.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a tough start to the day, but we\u2019re hopeful that that\u2019s it, and blue skies for the rest of the day. We are about two, two-and-a-half hours behind now, which is a shame considering how jam-packed the schedule is,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou never really know how long a tennis match is going to take. But if you\u2019re looking at sort of, an hour-and-a-half, two hours per match, I think we\u2019re still feeling plenty calm behind the scenes, because they can play so late here. Obviously we\u2019ve got the 11pm curfew, but they didn\u2019t even need it yesterday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think James Blake, the tournament director, still feeling pretty good, and they have the bonus of having days off in between matches, too. So, worst comes to worst, someone might have to play back-to-back again, but we\u2019re not there yet, we\u2019re not thinking that far ahead!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Play at the Miami Open is set to resume momentarily, at 12.30pm local time (4.30pm GMT) following a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4105],"tags":[35772,4719,6359,25761,1069,10091,240454,240455,240456,79,1068,31635,47601,5838,49765,16,15,11911],"class_list":["post-840292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-atp-tour","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-joao-fonseca","tag-katie-boulter","tag-miami-open","tag-miami-open-scores","tag-miami-open-updates","tag-rain-delays","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-section","tag-tennis-live","tag-tennis-news","tag-tennis-updates","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wta-tour"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116266241011679661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}