dream of holding an international tournament in Miami began in 1960 when the best players in the caravan toured the country as part of Jack Kramer Soccer Circus.
player Frank Sedgman, Pancho Gonzales, Pancho Segura, and Earl "Butch" Buchholz. They will play in darkened arenas and fairgrounds and traveling with a portable canvas court.
In 1980, after Buchholz was forced to retire from the World Tour due to injury of the elbow was executive director of the ATP. He met Vice President Thomas J. Lipton Company who liked the idea of creating two weeks players turnira.Sponzorski agreement was reached for $ 1.5 million annually for five years and Lipton owned the title.
He was then called "Winter Wimbledon," as it was the first major tournament of the year (Australian Open was held in December in those days), and the first tournament was held in Laver's International Tennis Resort at Delray Beach, 50 miles north of Miami.
first tournament draw is on 84 of the 100 men and 97 of the top 100 žena.Prvi champions were Tim Mayotte and Martina Navratilova.
2011 tournament is sponsored by Sony Ericsson and the Top 10 men's seeds were
1 Rafael Nadal
Second Novak Djokovic
Third Roger Federer
4th Robin Soderling
5th Andy Murray
6th David Ferrer
7th Tomas Berdych
8th Andy Roddick
9th Fernando Verdasco
10th Jurgen Melzer
the biggest shock of the tournament came with the defeat of the species outside world No. 4 Andy Murray in the first round of the World ranked No. 118 Alex Bogomolov Jr.
Murray lost the first set 6-1, and although he recovered a bit in the second set was not enough that his candidate uznemiriti.Ljut Murray screamed at the sky, shook his head and muttered a bad word as it is struck with his shoes racket, but nothing could shake the British number 1 is the Australian Open after a crisis.
Roger Federer, who won the Miami twice, had a tough tournament and had to increase his level of play against the Argentine player Juan Monaco in the third round. It took him almost two hours to beat him 7-6 (4) / 6-4.
To reach the quarter finals Federer did not get on court until 12:36 due to Maria Sharapova is a marathon three and half hours before game match against Belgian Olivier Rochus.
Determined to have a quick match is disposed of Roka in just 52 minutes in straight sets. He then advanced the semifinals by default after his opponent Gilles Simon retired with a stiff neck while he was trailing 0-3.
His run ended there when world No. 1 Rafael Nadal produced one of the best performances of his life, knock out its main rival on the hard courts 6-3/6-2.Osvojiti evened his record of hard court match at 3-3 .
In the second half of the Draw The World No. 2 Novak Djokovic continued his successful 2011 for a 6-3/6-1 win over American Mardy Fish to reach his third Sony Ericsson Open final.
In the second half of the Draw The World No. 2 Novak Djokovic continued his successful 2011 for a 6-3/6-1 win over American Mardy Fish to reach his third Sony Ericsson Open final.
...It was the first time the World No. 1 and 2 had met in Miami in the finals since 1995, when Andre Agassi (2) defeated Pete Sampras (1) in the 3rd set tie-break.
Djokovic is a premier player in 2011 after he won all the tournaments he entered -. Australian Open, Dubai and Indian Wells
In one of the most electrifying finale in the history of the tournament, Djokovic continued his winning start beating Nadal 4-6/6-3/7-6 (4) and Djokovic to reporters after the game "It was one of the closest and the best finale I have ever played ."
Djokovic took the trophy and a check for $ 605,500, and Nadal won $ 295,500.
