Zizou Bergs and David Goffin miss out on Miami main draw

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Zizou Bergs (ATP 114) was unable to qualify for the main draw of the Masters 1,000 tournament in Miami (hard court/$8,995,555) on Tuesday. The 24-year-old Limburger lost in the second and final qualifying round in two sets to the American Aleksandar Kovacevic (ATP 98), the ninth seed in the preliminary rounds. After about an hour and a half it was 7-6 (7/2) and 6-2.

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David Goffin (ATP 106) also lost in the second and final qualifying round against the Frenchman Harold Mayot (ATP 141) in two sets. The Liège native lost 7-6 (7/5) and 6-2 after an hour and 36 minutes.

Bergs made his main draw debut in Miami last year, but lost in the first round to Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis (ATP 101). Goffin was not present in Florida last year, but was still on the main table at every participation. He had an outlier in 2016, when he lost to the Serbian star Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals.

Alexander Blockx (ATP 294) previously lost his first match in the preliminary rounds. The eighteen-year-old Antwerp resident, who took part in the qualifications in Miami thanks to a wild card from the organization, was eliminated twice 6-2 by the Spaniard Pedro Martinez (ATP 88), the eighth seed in the preliminary rounds.

Among the women, both Yanina Wickmayer (WTA 88) and Greet Minnen (WTA 79) also did not reach the main draw. Minnen lost her second qualifying round in straight sets (6-3 and 6-2) against the American Claire Liu (WTA 114), Wickmayer, the eleventh seed in the qualifications, went down in three sets (3-6, 6-3 and 6 -3) lost against the American Katie Volynets (WTA 121). Elise Mertens (WTA 28) is the only Belgian woman who is directly on the main table and is free in the first round.

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