Miami marked the last week of hard-court tennis until the summer, and the spring season finished with flair and grace as some great matches were played at the Sony Open.

5) R2: Joao Sousa d. Gilles Simon 7-6(5) 3-6 6-3

A quality win came for the rising Portuguese player Sousa, who is pursuing a seed at Roland Garros. He saved triple set point at 5-4 40-0 in the first set to win the set in a tight tiebreak. Sousa also bounced back from losing the second set to defeat the veteran French counterpuncher Simon in three sets. Simon oddly won more total points in the match, but it was not enough.

4) R1/R2: Marcos Baghdatis d. Santiago Giraldo 1-6 6-2 7-5 and Philipp Kohlschreiber 3-6 7-6(1) 7-6(5)

Baghdatis showed he still has some fight left in him during the first two rounds in Miami. He recovered from an utterly listless first set against Giraldo to prevail with sparkling shot-making in the third set, although both players were inconsistent and wild in their aggressive hitting. Giraldo led 5-2 30-0 in the third set but lost the next five games from there.

Kohlschreiber suffered another uncharacteristic loss after winning the first set. He played two very poor tiebreaks and was bounced early instead of winning a match he should have won. Kohlschreiber finished the third-set tiebreak with a racquet smash and a throwaway match point. Baghdatis played three good matches this week overall and showed he can still compete against some of the top players, if he is in the right mental and physical conditions.

3)  R3/R4: Alexandr Dolgopolov d. Dusan Lajovic 3-6 6-0 7-6(5) and Stanislas Wawrinka 6-4 3-6 6-1

Dolgopolov continued his stellar season thus far with two clutch wins over the lucky loser Lajovic in round three and Australian Open champion Wawrinka in round four. Against Lajovic, he played some very uneven tennis in the early stages as he dropped the first set but bageled the Serb in the second set. Dolgopolov’s level slipped in the third set, but he still made his way to a dramatic tiebreak, which is where the drama was.

At 5-5 in the decisive tiebreak, Lajovic had a return called out that was very much in. The point had to be replayed instead of his holding a match point. Dolgopolov won both the replayed point and the next point to win the match, a lucky survivor of a tough opponent.

Against Wawrinka, Dolgopolov raised his level and grabbed another top-five win. He won the first set comfortably and then blitzed a listless Wawrinka in the deciding set to reach the quarterfinals. Wawrinka struggled on the backhand side and did not play the clean tennis that he usually expects, while Dolgopolov was unusually consistent in earning the win.

2) R3: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga d. Marcos Baghdatis 4-6 7-6(6) 7-5

Tsonga has been struggling and was lucky to survive this match against Baghdatis. The 11th-ranked Frenchman dropped the first set and nearly lost the second, falling behind 1-5 in the second-set tiebreak. But Baghdatis crumbled under pressure on serve with a double fault on a key point. The match ended up in a third set that Baghdatis kept close but couldn’t win as he was broken in his final service game.

1) R4: Kei Nishikori d. David Ferrer 7-6(7) 2-6 7-6(9)

Nishikori saved four match points to defeat the dogged Spaniard David Ferrer in the round of 16, continuing what has been a great week for the top man from Japan. He nearly lost the first set after leading 4-1, but he survived a slip in quality to win that set in a tiebreak. Although his quality slipped again in the second set against Ferrer’s counterpunching, Nishikori came back to grab the victory in a 20-point final-set tiebreak as the Spanish veteran’s struggles this season continued.