THE qualifying rounds have begun at both the ATP Tour and WTA Tour Miami Open 1000 event in the United States, with plenty of talented names looking to break into the main draw entries over the next few days.

In the men’s draw, the day’s top ranked players in Mackenzie McDonald and Thiago Seyboth Wild both made it through to Day 2 unscathed, whilst fellow top 10 qualifying seeds in Damir Dzumhur, Henri Laaksonen, Federico Gaio, Brandon Nakashima and Jason Jung also completed their first round matches successfully. Wildcards Mischa Zverev and Shintaro Mochizuki both kept their main draw hopes alive with the former overcoming 16th seed Danilo Petrovic, whilst the latter was 4-1 up against seventh seed Daniel Altmaier before the German retired mid-match. Looking at the home-grown American talent, Bjorn Fratangelo, Mitchell Krueger and Ernesto Escobedo all join McDonald and Nakashima in the second day of qualifiers, with Emilio Nava still yet to play.

Looking to the women’s, and there are plenty of quality players looking to earn their way into the main draw with yesterday’s Monterrey victor in Leylah Fernandez one of them. The Canadian second seed is yet to play, but will hope her result goes a different way to her fellow top seeds with Misaki Doi (first seed) and Martina Trevisan (third) both falling in three sets. Rounding out the top five seeds are Kirsten Flipkens and Tamara Zidansek, with both reigning supreme in their respective matches, whilst Varvara Gracheva and Nina Stojanovic were the only other two top 10 qualifiers to remain in the hunt. Looking once more to the American talent aiming to earn their way into the main draw, Kristie Ahn and Hailey Baptiste both did what their more high profile compatriots could not, making it through to the next round as Caty McNally and Coco Vandeweghe both fell.