ATP Tour: Jack Draper the latest superstar to crash out Miami Open

In his first match since winning his maiden Masters 1000 title in Indian Wells, and reaching a career-high of world No. 7 in the process, Draper was beaten 7-6(2), 7-6(3) by Jakub Mensik.

It was a sublime display from Mensik, widely considered one of the most talented rising stars in the men's game.

The 19-year-old hit a staggering 21 aces - with no double faults - and dominated both tiebreaks to seal the sixth top-10 win of his young career.

Defeat would have been a disappointment for Draper, though there was little he could have done against an in-form opponent â- and he was not the only man to go deep in Indian Wells and then struggle in Miami.

Joining the sixth seed in exiting the tournament on Saturday was 11th seed and Indian Wells runner-up Holger Rune.

The Dane was beaten 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(5) by Reilly Opelka in their second-round clash, with Rune missing out on the chance to seal a return to the top-10 win of the ATP Rankings.

Meanwhile, Carlos Alcaraz and Daniil Medvedev, who lost to Draper and Rune in the Indian Wells semi-finals, respectively - previously suffered shock defeats on Friday.

Second seed Alcaraz, the 2022 Miami Open champion and title favourite in 2025, was far from his best in a stunning 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 loss to David Goffin.

Earlier in the day, seventh seed and 2023 Miami champion Medvedev was stunned 6-2, 6-3 in a lopsided loss to world No 56 Jaume Munar.

Medvedev has fallen down to world No. 10 in the ATP Live Rankings and will be outside of the top 10 if Alex de Minaur wins his third-round clash against Joao Fonseca on Monday.

Draper is the first Indian Wells men's singles champion to lose his opening Miami match since Dominic Thiem in 2019, though collectively all four men have made unwanted history.

This is the first time since the Masters 1000 format was officially introduced in 1990 that all four Indian Wells men's singles semi-finalists have then lost their opening match at the Miami Open.

It is also only the second time in Masters 1000 history that the four semi-finalists from the previous Masters event have all tasted defeat at the next such event.

The previous time this happened was across the 2022 Canadian Open and 2022 Cincinnati Open.

On that occasion, Canadian Open champion Pablo Carreno Busta was beaten in round one by Miomir Kecmanovic, while runner-up Hubert Hurkacz fell in three sets to John Isner.

The two Canadian Open semi-finalists - Casper Ruud and Dan Evans - lost to Ben Shelton and Filip Krajnovic, respectively.

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