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Miami is filled with players who are shaking off slow starts to 2025. You can add Djokovic and Korda, who will play the last match of the night session on Wednesday, to that list. Coming into this tournament, neither had won a match since the Australian Open in January.

Now here they are in the quarterfinals. Korda has beaten a Top 10 opponent in Stefanos Tsitsipas, and survived a three-setter, and a long rain delay, against Gael Monfils. Djokovic has yet to drop a set, and on Tuesday he was in vintage cruise control in a 6-2, 6-2 win over Lorenzo Musetti, a player who has pushed him to the limit on a couple of occasions before.

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Djokovic and Korda have played once, in the Adelaide final in 2023, and it was good one. The Serb escaped 6-4 in the third, but Korda used that performance to launch himself into the second week at the Australian Open soon after.

In this meeting, Djokovic is the steadier rally player, which means that Korda will likely have to take chances and be the aggressor to win. Korda has a penetrating forehand and an excellent two-handed backhand; how much damage can he do, and how well can he combine pace with consistency, over the course of two or three sets? A win is there for the taking for Korda, but I’ll say Djokovic will make it a little too high a hill to climb. Winner: Djokovic—Steve Tignor

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Betting Odds

Djokovic is a -375 moneyline favorite; Korda is a +275 underdog.

(Odds from BetMGM as of 10:15 p.m. ET on Tuesday, March 25.)

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