{"id":47683,"date":"2026-04-06T01:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47683"},"modified":"2026-04-06T01:29:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:29:38","slug":"sarasota-open-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47683","title":{"rendered":"Sarasota Open 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This year’s Open<\/a> is at IMG<\/a>, which is a far better venue than the past two years.<\/p>\n

The weather forecast is for a rainy week ahead, so we decided to go today, which is the qualifying rounds.<\/p>\n

The quality of tennis is low: double faults, unforced errors. I don’t even make these many doubles in a match. The lower level makes the match relatable -:)<\/p>\n

The four matches:<\/p>\n

1. Ryan Colby def Theodore Winegar 6-4, 6-3
\n2. Ronit Karki def Felix Corwin 2-6, 6-2, 7-5
\n3. Strong Kirchheimer def Ben Kitten 6-2, 4-6, 6-2
\n4. Draxl def Davidov, 6-4, 6-1<\/p>\n

Ran into Kei Nishikori (\u9326\u7e54 \u572d, 1989<\/a>-; 2007, US$26,087,810), who’s playing on Tuesday, April 7, Round of 32. He had a few surgeries and is slowly rebuilding his career. It’s funny to see the courts named after him.<\/p>\n

The last match of today on Bollettieri Court is between last year’s runner-up, Canadian Liam Draxl (2001-; 2023, US$583,572) and 15-year-old Teodor Davidov (his site<\/a>; no wiki page yet). The Canadian won 4 and 1.<\/p>\n

During one match, the female chair umpire warns a group of Chinese who are talking loudly,<\/p>\n

During the Kirchheimer & Kitten match, the electronic decided to take a break. It was the second set, 4-4, and Kirchheimer had the advantage when his shot was clearly out. No call came. So he got the game, 5-4. During the changeover and or the next game, did they realize the problem. But the umpire \/ supervisor didn’t agree to replay the last game, unfortunately. Kitten lost the 3rd set at 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year’s Open is at IMG, which is a far better venue than the past two years. The weather forecast is for a rainy week ahead, so we decided to go today, which is the qualifying rounds. The quality of tennis is low: double faults, unforced errors. I don’t even make these many doubles in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}