How will Coco Gauff handle an all-American meeting vs. Alycia Parks in Miami?

Before each day's play at the Miami Open, we'll preview three must-stream matches, on the Tennis Channel app.

Coco Gauff vs. Alycia Parks

It’s hard to believe that Parks is 25 and Gauff 22, isn’t it? Gauff has been embedded in the Top 5 for three years now, while Parks still seems to be finding her level and searching for her breakthrough.

She has a lot going for her. She’s 6’1 and can belt the ball with anyone. She has a title to her name and has been ranked as high as No. 40. But she can also go through rough patches. She’s ranked 105th right now, and had a 23-32 record in 2025. She also lost her only previous match to Gauff 6-0, 6-2.

The best piece of news for Parks is the most recent: She has won two main-draw matches in Miami, and she handled former WTA No. 2 Maria Sakkari in comfortable, 6-3, 6-3 fashion on Friday.

Parks will have her chances to tee off and take the offensive against Gauff, and the relatively quick courts in Miami may help. But whatever the speed of the surface, the speedy, never-weary Coco will likely be able to make her play one more shot that she wants to, on one too many occasions:

Winner: Gauff

Jannik Sinner vs. Damir Dzumhur

If Sinner needed some rest after his Indian Wells title run last week, he was fortunate in a couple of ways. First, the opening day of Miami was rained out. Second, his side of the men’s draw went last. That means he’ll be taking the court for the first time on Saturday, six days after IW ended.

Not that Sinner sounded all that weary on Sunday. He said Miami was “very important” to him, and seemed ready to get right back to business. Everything is a bonus for him right now: Last year at this time, he was serving a doping-related suspension, so he has nothing to defend until Rome in May.

Sinner will return against the 33-year-old, 76th-ranked Dzumhur. The Italian will surely do his due diligence and make all of the proper preparations, particularly because he has never faced this opponent before before. But on paper Dzumhur isn’t the most imposing foe. He’s 3-7 this season, and, at 5’9, he’ll be giving up six inches to Sinner.

Dzumhur won’t bring a booming serve or a ton of ground-stroke power, and at 33 he can’t be as fast as used to be. What he will do is fight tooth and nail for every game he can get. Even if he doesn’t end up winning all that many of them.

Winner: Sinner

Naomi Osaka vs. Talia Gibson

I’m sure Gibson doesn’t want to play qualies her whole life, but they seem to put her in a winning frame of mind. Last week in Indian Wells, the 21-year-old Australian won two qualifying matches, then beat three Top 20 opponents—Alexandrova, Tauson, and Paolini—on her way to the quarterfinals. So far in Miami, she has won two more in the qualies, and steamrolled Sara Bejlek 1 and 0 in the first round.

That brings Gibson to her highest-profile match-up so far. Osaka spent a lot of her youth in this part of Florida, and she has been pretty good at the Miami Open; she’s 17-8, with a final-round appearance in 2022. She’s coming off a decent showing in Indian Wells, where she won two matches before coming up short against Aryna Sabalenka.

Osaka and Gibson should generate some fireworks from the baseline when they meet on Saturday evening. They’re both tall, they both hit hard and fairly flat, and they both attack the corners at the first opportunity. With Osaka, the forehand is lethal; with Gibson, at least from what I’ve seen, it seems to be the two-handed backhand.

Gibson has more momentum; Osaka has more experience—and probably a deeper well of confidence to draw from.

Winner: Osaka