After losing his opening match in three sets to Dominic Thiem at the Madrid Open, Stanislas Wawrinka says both he and the other top players are capable of reasserting themselves during the rest of the clay season. "It's not early at the beginning of a tournament, especially in Madrid where

On October 21, 2007—13 years ago to this day—David Nalbandian pulled off the first and still only Big 3 sweep, beating Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic at the same tournament. It all went down at the ATP Masters 1000 event in Madrid (then called the Tennis Masters Series),

MADRID (AP) — Many of the tennis players who endured the power outage that brought Spain and Portugal to a standstill and disrupted the Madrid Open tournament on Monday said they actually enjoyed some of their time off the grid. A total of 22 matches had to be postponed because

Iga Swiatek won the Mutua Madrid Open in 2024, but there's one problem in her title defense: Jelena Ostapenko is in her quarter of the draw. The clay-court superstar is 0-6 against the Latvian after their latest meeting, in Stuttgart. Aryna Sabalenka, the top-ranked player on tour, has won this

If you listen to Tennis Bets Live, you probably know that I have Iga Swiatek to win the Mutua Madrid Open at +150 odds. I played that on the futures market before the tournament, and I don’t think it’d be wise to hedge off it as she prepares to face

TC DESK: Kecmanovic chats with Prakash about his Madrid start

After lifting his first ATP Masters 1000 trophy at Indian Wells in March, Jack Draper is one win away from adding the Mutua Madrid Open crown to his collection. In a contest that had no shortage of shot-making flair from a pair of 23-year-olds, Draper closed out a 6-3, 7-6

After her attempts to gain an edge in a Madrid match against Serena Williams two weeks ago, Anabel Medina Garrigues todoay summoned Maria Sharapova's name in a different controversy, this one in her opening match at the French Open in Paris. At Roland Garros, AMG faced Li Na, the 2011

ROME (AP) — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek remained on course for an uncommon Madrid-Rome double after beating Angelique Kerber to reach the Italian Open quarterfinals on Monday. It was a ninth straight win for Swiatek, and the two-time Rome champion will next face Madison Keys after the American player eased past

The depth of the WTA Tour has been a regular topic of discussion in recent years. But only at the four Grand Slam events and the tour’s four mandatory tournaments—now called WTA 1000s—do we get to see it laid out before us, bracket by bracket. The Mutua Madrid Open is

MADRID (AP) Petra Kvitova won her third title of the season Sunday, beating Victoria Azarenka 7-6 (3), 6-4 in the Madrid Open final. The 18th-ranked Czech player won the first set tiebreaker when Azarenka netted. The players exchanged breaks before Kvitova gained the momentum, helped by 40 winners. Kvitova secured

MADRID (AP) — Back home, Rafael Nadal looks to resume his season where he left off before being sidelined by an injury that halted a great start to his year. Nadal will seek his fourth title of the season this week at the Madrid Open as he returns to action

We’re in for an exciting All-American battle in the Round of 16 at the Mutua Madrid Open, as Madison Keys takes on world No. 3 Coco Gauff. Keys is probably at her best on grass courts, where she is 44-14 at the WTA level. But she’s also a little underrated

MADRID (AP)—Elena Dementieva cruised into the second round of the Madrid Open with a 6-0, 6-1 win Saturday against Aleksandra Wozniak. Melanie Oudin of the United States lost 6-3, 6-4 to Vera Zvonareva on the clay courts. Alona Bondarenko came from a set down to beat Magdalena Rybarikova 2-6, 6-1,

Danielle Collins was twice a point away from serving for her fourth-round match with Aryna Sabalenka at the Mutua Madrid Open. But the defending champion found her way out of the tight spot, then turned the contest around in ending the American’s 15-match win streak, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, as the

WATCH: Daniil Medvedev rallied from a set down, and 4-2 down in the decider, to beat Alexander Shevchenko and advance in Madrid.

MADRID (AP)—Serena Williams overcame a sluggish start to beat Caroline Wozniacki 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 Thursday and reach the Madrid Open quarterfinals. Williams hit the net on three straight points in her opening service game and then didn't put up much resistance in the rest of the of the first set.

World No. 3 Victoria Azarenka says that her injured ankle in feeling better as she prepares for her return to tournament tennis in Madrid. Azarenka was runner-up to Serena Williams in the 2012 Madrid final. Since she defended her Australian Open title, Azarenka has repeated as the titlist in Doha,

MADRID (AP) Dominika Cibulkova knocked Svetlana Kuznetsova out of the Madrid Open on Saturday, defeating the two-time Grand Slam champion 6-3, 6-2 in the first round of the clay-court Masters series event. The 28th-ranked Slovakian beat Kuznetsova for the third straight time. Second-seeded Vera Zvonareva overcame a second-set drop-off in

MADRID (AP) -- Second-seeded Simona Halep and Venus Williams both lost in the opening round of the Madrid Open on Sunday, while top-seeded Serena Williams had a trouble-free debut. Defending champion Maria Sharapova also advanced after beating Timea Bacsinszky 6-2, 6-3. Halep, a finalist both in Madrid and at the