Europe 1 with AFP 22:18 p.m., March 21, 2023

Since her exceptional end of the season in 2022 and her Masters title, Caroline Garcia has experienced a more complicated period at the beginning of 2023. The Frenchwoman advances to the Masters 1000 in Miami with the desire to shine again on the courts as explained by Benoit Maylin in "Europe 1 Sport".

As in Indian Wells, Caroline Garcia and Gaël Monfils will focus French expectations at the Masters 1000 in Miami (March 22-April 2): the first with the hope of making sparks again, the second with that of winning his first match in more than seven months. "We must evacuate the expectations she has around her," explained Benoit Maylin in Europe 1 Sport (every evening from 20 p.m. to 23 p.m. live on Europe 1).

For Caroline Garcia, world number 4 but struggling to regain the game and confidence that allowed her to win the Masters at the end of the year last season, the tournament will start in the second round, her ranking exempting her from the first. She will face Romania's Sorana Cirstea (74th) or Spain's Fernanda Contreras (179th).

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Complicated journey

And she will have a complicated journey since, according to the draw, she could meet Karolina Pliskova (17th) in the eighth-finals, Aryna Sabalenka (2nd), winner of the Australian Open in January and finalist at Indian Wells on Sunday, in the quarters, then Ons Jabeur (5th) or Maria Sakkari (10th) in the semis, before a possible final against the number 1 Iga Swiatek or Elena Rybakina (10th), finalist in Melbourne and winner in California.

On the men's side, the Blues' best chance, Monfils (280th), will play his third match since his retirement in the eighth-finals of the Masters 1000 of Canada last August and aims for a first victory. He will face his compatriot Ugo Humbert (78th) in Florida. The winner of this Franco-French duel will face Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic (35th), exempt from the first round.