Since her exceptional end to the season in 2022 and her Masters title, Caroline Garcia has been going through a more complicated period at the start of 2023. The Frenchwoman is advancing to the Masters 1000 in Miami with the desire to shine again on the courts like the explained Benoit Maylin in “Europe 1 Sport”.
As in Indian Wells, Caroline Garcia and Gaël Monfils will concentrate French expectations at the Masters 1000 in Miami (March 22-April 2): the first with the hope of rekindling the sparks, the second with that of winning his first match in addition to seven months. “You have to get rid of the expectations she has around her,” explained Benoit Maylin in Europe 1 Sports (every evening from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. live on Europe 1).
For Caroline Garcia, world number 4 but who is struggling to regain the game and confidence that allowed her to win the Masters at the end of the year last season, the tournament will begin in the second round, her ranking exempting her from the first. She will therefore face to start the Romanian Sorana Cirstea (74th) or the Spaniard Fernanda Contreras (179th).
Complicated course
And she will have a complicated journey since, according to the draw, she could meet Karolina Pliskova (17th) in the round of 16, Aryna Sabalenka (2nd), winner of the Australian Open in January and finalist in Indian Wells on Sunday, in the quarters, then Ons Jabeur (5th) or Maria Sakkari (10th) in the semis, before a possible final against number 1 Iga Swiatek or Elena Rybakina (10th), finalist in Melbourne and winner in California.
Among the men, the best chance of the Blues, Monfils (280th), will play his third match since his retirement in the round of 16 of the Masters 1000 of Canada last August and is aiming for a first victory. He will be opposed in Florida to his compatriot Ugo Humbert (78th). The winner of this Franco-French duel will face the Serb Miomir Kecmanovic (35th), exempted from the first round.
Source: Europe1
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