MIAMI, March 20 — World number two Aryna Sabalenka intends to play in the Miami Open this week, organisers said yesterday, as fellow players offered their support following the death of her boyfriend in an apparent suicide.

Sabalenka’s partner, Belarusian former NHL ice hockey player Konstantin Koltsov, 42, died late Monday after jumping from the balcony of a room in an upmarket resort in Miami, police said.