Miami Open 2019: A Bizarre Wild Card Entry – Mari Osaka

With the Indian Wells 2019 tournament winding up in California, the tennis professionals are moving to the next Masters event Miami Open 2019 in Florida. The premiere event of the American Double Sunshine consisted of more than half a dozen Americans as wild card entrants in the main draw.

Besides them, Laslo Djere, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Bianca Andreescu were also wild card entrants in the main draw and certainly, the three of them meritoriously did justice to their access to the main draw and moreover, Andreescu is one of the finalists in the desert.

In the consecutive Masters event at the Miami Open 2019, the World Number 338, Mari Osaka has been awarded a wild card in the main draw of theMiami Open 2019. She suffered two straight losses in the two ITF events she played this year. And till date, Mari Osaka couldn’t win a match in any of the ITF tournaments she played. Also, in the challenger events, the Japanese couldn’t win a game against her opponents. The World Number 280 position accounts for her pinnacle position in professional tennis. The opening round match in the Miami Open 2019 will be Osaka’s first WTA singles main draw match.

Definitely, for a budding tennis player, to be enrolled in the main draw of a renowned tournament is altogether a different feeling. However, an unbiased threshold is essential for a player to be eligible for the main draw of a Masters event. By evaluating, the accomplishments of Mari Osaka, would certainly impel a tennis official to reconsidered Osaka to be a wild card entrant at an established tournament on the circuit. 

Well, Mari Osaka is the younger sister to the World Number one tennis player, Naomi Osaka. Palpably, that highlights the prejudice behind her arrival in the main draw at Miami Open 2019, a tournament which is a grade lower than a Grand Slam. Her appearance at the Miami Open 2019 has impeded a deserved candidate from taking part in the Miami Open 2019. 

Primarily, the conferring of the wild cards is tennis is irrefutably subjective and there isn’t any transparent system which has been giving away the wild cards. This is a fragment in professional tennis which needs to be revamped. There are a plethora of talented athletes in the world outside who sacrifice their entire lives training and do not get an opportunity to step on the professional courts of tennis. Considering the efforts of those players, a rational selection of wild card entrants should be inevitably implemented.