Alcaraz’s struggle to find consistency demonstrates – if we didn’t already know – how difficult it is for the world’s best players to reproduce their best every week.
Jack Draper also received a call-up to Miami.
Fresh from winning the title in Indian Wells, the new men’s world number seven came back down to earth with a first defeat against the talented 19-year-old Czech, Jakub Mensik.
More positively, Emma Raducanu responded to some skeptics with an impressive win over eighth seed Emma Navarro and aims to reach the quarterfinals of a WTA 1,000 event for the first time.
The increase in warp speed Jacob Fearnley shows no signs of stopping yet.
As we keep reminding you, the 23-year-old was still a university student in the United States this time last year and was not in the world’s top 500.
He has now provisionally become Britain’s male number two, overtaking the former world number eight. Cameron Norrie – and is on track to become a top 75 player when the rankings are updated next week.
Norrie has fallen outside the top 80 as his struggles continue, while Dan Evans – who is playing an ATP Challenger in Naples this week – is on the verge of falling out of the top 200.
