LAS VEGAS (February 27, 2023) – The primary occasion of MGM Rewards The SLAM Introduced by Chase Sapphire – 2022 U.S. Open champion Carlos Alcaraz, the world’s No. 2-ranked tennis participant, towards the winner of an earlier match between USA’s prime two gamers, Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe – will air dwell domestically Sunday, March 5 on Tennis Channel at 8:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. PT from the MGM Grand Backyard Area.
The ATP World Tour’s fifth-ranked Fritz will face No. 15-ranked Tiafoe in a one-set singles match, with the winner to face Alcaraz in a best-of-three-set ultimate. The format will characteristic no-ad scoring in each matches with a 10-point tiebreaker in place for the ultimate’s third set, if needed. Tennis Channel’s Mark Petchey and Prakash Amritraj will name the motion for the community’s U.S. viewers.
“Tennis Channel is happy to supply dwell protection of MGM Rewards The SLAM Introduced by Chase Sapphire to our viewers,” stated David Egdes, Senior Vice President of Tennis Channel. “We’re blissful to associate with MGM Grand to showcase these extraordinary gamers at this iconic venue and know that followers will love this new, distinctive occasion at first of the American spring season.”
The MGM Grand Backyard Area doorways are scheduled to open to followers at 2 p.m. The day’s on-court festivities are scheduled to start at 3 p.m. with a lately added all-American doubles match between Bob and Mike Bryan, tennis’ all-time biggest duo, towards the workforce of 6-foot-10 John Isner and 6-foot-6 Sam Querrey. The Fritz-Tiafoe match is scheduled to start at 4 p.m.
Instantly following the Fritz-Tiafoe singles match, followers might be handled to the Ace Problem offered by Heineken Silver. The primary-of-its-kind serving competitors will pit Isner, the game’s all-time ace chief, towards Querrey, Fritz and Tiafoe, to find out the proprietor of the quickest and most correct serves.
Isner holds 16 ATP singles titles and eight doubles titles, whereas Querrey owns 10 ATP singles titles and 5 doubles titles. Isner and Querrey partnered for 2 ATP Tour doubles championships, together with one in all Isner’s 5 Masters 1000 doubles wins. Querrey reached Wimbledon’s singles semifinals in 2017 and the quarterfinals in 2016 and 2019.
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