April 4-10, 2022
Charleston, SC WTA
Bogota, Columbia WTA
Houston, TX, ATP
Marrakech, Morocco, ATP
Welcome to the full-fledged official two months of the Clay Season, leading up to the French Open starting May 22, 2022. Between now and Roland Garros, there's 17 ATP/WTA clay prep tournaments on the calendar - dirt-baller heaven for some, for others they'll need to learn to slide step - dance on dirt. This week, there's four tournaments - two WTA and two ATP to get us started.
First, congratulations to the Miami Open champions: Iga Swiatek, at 20 years old becomes one of only an elite four women to have won the Sunshine Double. And on the men's side, 18 yo Carlos Alcaraz is the Miami Masters 1000 Champ, who also set records for this achievement (in Indian Wells he lost in the SF to fellow Spaniard Rafa Nadal).
And congratulations to the doubles champs - Hubert Hurkacz/John Isner (Hurkacz - defending Singles Champ Miami 2021 - lost in the SF to champ Alcaraz). Women's Doubles Champs are Vera Zvonareva/Laura Siegemund.
Congratulations to all. Miami left many speechless, others with more than enough to say (I'm thinking of Naomi Osaka😷).
So let's get to the first week of the official Clay Season!👇