Tennis Madrid Open

The Madrid Open (Spanish: Masters de Madrid; formerly known as the Madrid Masters, and currently known as the Mutua Madrid Open for sponsorship reasons) is an annual professional tennis tournament held in Madrid, Spain.

It is played on clay courts at the Caja Mágica in Manzanares Park, San Fermín, and is held in late April and early May. The tournament is a ATP Masters 1000 event on the ATP Tour and a WTA 1000 event on the WTA Tour. The tournament is traditionally played on a red clay surface, though it was played on blue clay courts in 2012.

Mutua Madrid Open
Tournament information
Founded2002; 22 years ago (2002)
Editions21 (2023)
LocationMadrid
VenueMadrid Arena (2002–2008)
La Caja Mágica (since 2009)
SurfaceHard – indoors (2002–2008)
Clay – outdoors (since 2009)
Websitemutuamadridopen.com
Current champions (2023)
Men's singlesSpain Carlos Alcaraz
Women's singlesTennis Madrid Open Aryna Sabalenka
Men's doublesTennis Madrid Open Karen Khachanov
Tennis Madrid Open Andrey Rublev
Women's doublesTennis Madrid Open Victoria Azarenka
Brazil Beatriz Haddad Maia
ATP Tour
CategoryMasters 1000
Draw96S / 48Q / 32D
Prize money7,705,780 (2023)
WTA Tour
CategoryWTA 1000
Draw96S / 48Q / 32D
Prize money7,705,780 (2023)

Ion Țiriac, a Romanian billionaire businessman and former ATP professional, was the owner of the tournament between 2009 and 2021. According to Digi Sport which interviewed Țiriac in 2019, the tournament brings to the city of Madrid annual benefits exceeding €107 million. In 2021, Țiriac sold the tournament to New York–based IMG for approximately €390 million.

History

From its inauguration as a men's only event in 2002, the tournament was classified as one of the ATP Masters Series tournaments, where it replaced the now-defunct Eurocard Open in Stuttgart. It was held from 2002 to 2008 in the Madrid Arena as the first of two Master's indoor hard court late-season events that preceded the ATP Tour Finals (also indoors). It was replaced on the Masters schedule by the Shanghai Masters after the 2008 season. In 2009, the tournament was reborn under new ownership with a new location, new surface, and new time slot. It expanded to include a premier women's contest (replacing the tournament in Berlin) and shifted to an earlier period of the tennis season to become the second Master's tournament of the spring European clay-court swing (replacing the Hamburg Open). The event moved outdoors to Park Manzanares, where a new complex with a retractable-roof equipped main court was constructed, the Caja Magica.

Țiriac announced in April 2019 that he has extended his sponsorship contract of the Mutua Madrid Open for 10 additional years, until 2031. Because he agreed to continue in Madrid, Țiriac will receive more than 30 million euros from the city of Madrid in the coming years. Feliciano López was announced as the Madrid tournament director, commencing 2019.

Starting in 2021, the women's tournament, part of the WTA tour, expanded to become a two-week tournament. By December of the same year, it was announced Tiriac sold the event to IMG, which is now the new organizator and has already planned an expansion of courts, including a new stadium for over 10,000 people, to be built by partly draining the lake circling Caja Magica.

In June 2022 ATP announced some changes to the ATP calendar for the coming year. The ATP Masters 1000 event in Madrid along with those in Shanghai and in Rome would now be held over two weeks starting in 2023, thus becoming 12 day events just like the Masters 1000 events in Indian Wells and Miami.

Blue clay

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In 2012 blue clay was used for the first (and only) time in professional tennis

Tiriac proposed and implemented in 2012 a new color of blue clay for all the courts' surfaces, motivating that it would supposedly be better visually, especially for viewers on television (analogous to some hardcourt surface events migrating to blue from various previous color schemes). Some speculated that the adaptation of blue colour was a nod to the titular sponsor of the tournament, the Spanish insurance giant Mutua Madrileña. This controversial change was subsequently granted and began to be used in the 2012 edition of the tournament. In 2009 one of the outer tennis courts had already been made of the new surface for the players to test it. Manuel Santana, the Open's director, had assured that aside from the colour, the surface kept the same properties as the traditional red clay.

On 1 December 2011, Țiriac confirmed that the blue clay surface was officially approved for the 2012 edition of the tournament, in both the ATP and WTA circuits.

However, after the event took place in 2012, threats of future boycotts from some players, especially Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic (who both lost on the blue surface), led the tournament to return to the traditional red clay for the 2013 season. This was due to the blue clay being more slippery than regular clay.

Roger Federer is the only male player to win the tournament on three different surfaces: hard courts (2006), red clay (2009), and blue clay (2012). Serena Williams is the only female player to win the tournament on two different surfaces: blue clay (2012) and red clay (2013).

Past finals

Men

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Spanish player Rafael Nadal clinched the title five times on home turf (a record).

Singles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
↓  ATP Tour Masters 1000  ↓
2002 Tennis Madrid Open  Andre Agassi Tennis Madrid Open  Jiří Novák (walkover)
2003 Tennis Madrid Open  Juan Carlos Ferrero Tennis Madrid Open  Nicolás Massú 6–3, 6–4, 6–3
2004 Tennis Madrid Open  Marat Safin Tennis Madrid Open  David Nalbandian 6–2, 6–4, 6–3
2005 Tennis Madrid Open  Rafael Nadal Tennis Madrid Open  Ivan Ljubičić 3–6, 2–6, 6–3, 6–4, 7–6(7–3)
2006 Tennis Madrid Open  Roger Federer Tennis Madrid Open  Fernando González 7–5, 6–1, 6–0
2007 Tennis Madrid Open  David Nalbandian Tennis Madrid Open  Roger Federer 1–6, 6–3, 6–3
2008 Tennis Madrid Open  Andy Murray Tennis Madrid Open  Gilles Simon 6–4, 7–6(8–6)
2009 Tennis Madrid Open  Roger Federer (2) Tennis Madrid Open  Rafael Nadal 6–4, 6–4
2010 Tennis Madrid Open  Rafael Nadal (2) Tennis Madrid Open  Roger Federer 6–4, 7–6(7–5)
2011 Tennis Madrid Open  Novak Djokovic Tennis Madrid Open  Rafael Nadal 7–5, 6–4
2012 Tennis Madrid Open  Roger Federer (3) Tennis Madrid Open  Tomáš Berdych 3–6, 7–5, 7–5
2013 Tennis Madrid Open  Rafael Nadal (3) Tennis Madrid Open  Stan Wawrinka 6–2, 6–4
2014 Tennis Madrid Open  Rafael Nadal (4) Tennis Madrid Open  Kei Nishikori 2–6, 6–4, 3–0 (ret.)
2015 Tennis Madrid Open  Andy Murray (2) Tennis Madrid Open  Rafael Nadal 6–3, 6–2
2016 Tennis Madrid Open  Novak Djokovic (2) Tennis Madrid Open  Andy Murray 6–2, 3–6, 6–3
2017 Tennis Madrid Open  Rafael Nadal (5) Tennis Madrid Open  Dominic Thiem 7–6(10–8), 6–4
2018 Tennis Madrid Open  Alexander Zverev Tennis Madrid Open  Dominic Thiem 6–4, 6–4
2019 Tennis Madrid Open  Novak Djokovic (3) Tennis Madrid Open  Stefanos Tsitsipas 6–3, 6–4
2020 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
2021 Tennis Madrid Open  Alexander Zverev (2) Tennis Madrid Open  Matteo Berrettini 6–7(8–10), 6–4, 6–3
2022 Tennis Madrid Open  Carlos Alcaraz Tennis Madrid Open  Alexander Zverev 6–3, 6–1
2023 Tennis Madrid Open  Carlos Alcaraz (2) Tennis Madrid Open  Jan-Lennard Struff 6–4, 3–6, 6–3

Doubles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
↓  ATP Tour Masters 1000  ↓
2002 Tennis Madrid Open  Mark Knowles
Tennis Madrid Open  Daniel Nestor
Tennis Madrid Open  Mahesh Bhupathi
Tennis Madrid Open  Max Mirnyi
6–3, 7–5, 6–0
2003 Tennis Madrid Open  Mahesh Bhupathi
Tennis Madrid Open  Max Mirnyi
Tennis Madrid Open  Wayne Black
Tennis Madrid Open  Kevin Ullyett
6–2, 2–6, 6–3
2004 Tennis Madrid Open  Mark Knowles (2)
Tennis Madrid Open  Daniel Nestor (2)
Tennis Madrid Open  Bob Bryan
Tennis Madrid Open  Mike Bryan
6–3, 6–4
2005 Tennis Madrid Open  Mark Knowles (3)
Tennis Madrid Open  Daniel Nestor (3)
Tennis Madrid Open  Leander Paes
Tennis Madrid Open  Nenad Zimonjić
3–6, 6–3, 6–2
2006 Tennis Madrid Open  Bob Bryan
Tennis Madrid Open  Mike Bryan
Tennis Madrid Open  Mark Knowles
Tennis Madrid Open  Daniel Nestor
7–5, 6–4
2007 Tennis Madrid Open  Bob Bryan (2)
Tennis Madrid Open  Mike Bryan (2)
Tennis Madrid Open  Mariusz Fyrstenberg
Tennis Madrid Open  Marcin Matkowski
6–3, 7–6(7–4)
2008 Tennis Madrid Open  Mariusz Fyrstenberg
Tennis Madrid Open  Marcin Matkowski
Tennis Madrid Open  Mahesh Bhupathi
Tennis Madrid Open  Mark Knowles
6–4, 6–2
2009 Tennis Madrid Open  Daniel Nestor (4)
Tennis Madrid Open  Nenad Zimonjić
Tennis Madrid Open  Simon Aspelin
Tennis Madrid Open  Wesley Moodie
6–4, 6–4
2010 Tennis Madrid Open  Bob Bryan (3)
Tennis Madrid Open  Mike Bryan (3)
Tennis Madrid Open  Daniel Nestor
Tennis Madrid Open  Nenad Zimonjić
6–3, 6–4
2011 Tennis Madrid Open  Bob Bryan (4)
Tennis Madrid Open  Mike Bryan (4)
Tennis Madrid Open  Michaël Llodra
Tennis Madrid Open  Nenad Zimonjić
6–3, 6–3
2012 Tennis Madrid Open  Mariusz Fyrstenberg (2)
Tennis Madrid Open  Marcin Matkowski (2)
Tennis Madrid Open  Robert Lindstedt
Tennis Madrid Open  Horia Tecău
6–3, 6–4
2013 Tennis Madrid Open  Bob Bryan (5)
Tennis Madrid Open  Mike Bryan (5)
Tennis Madrid Open  Alexander Peya
Tennis Madrid Open  Bruno Soares
6–2, 6–3
2014 Tennis Madrid Open  Daniel Nestor (5)
Tennis Madrid Open  Nenad Zimonjić (2)
Tennis Madrid Open  Bob Bryan
Tennis Madrid Open  Mike Bryan
6–4, 6–2
2015 Tennis Madrid Open  Rohan Bopanna
Tennis Madrid Open  Florin Mergea
Tennis Madrid Open  Marcin Matkowski
Tennis Madrid Open  Nenad Zimonjić
6–2, 6–7(5–7), [11–9]
2016 Tennis Madrid Open  Jean-Julien Rojer
Tennis Madrid Open  Horia Tecău
Tennis Madrid Open  Rohan Bopanna
Tennis Madrid Open  Florin Mergea
6–4, 7–6(7–5)
2017 Tennis Madrid Open  Łukasz Kubot
Tennis Madrid Open  Marcelo Melo
Tennis Madrid Open  Nicolas Mahut
Tennis Madrid Open  Édouard Roger-Vasselin
7–5, 6–3
2018 Tennis Madrid Open  Nikola Mektić
Tennis Madrid Open  Alexander Peya
Tennis Madrid Open  Bob Bryan
Tennis Madrid Open  Mike Bryan
5–3 (ret.)
2019 Tennis Madrid Open  Jean-Julien Rojer (2)
Tennis Madrid Open  Horia Tecău (2)
Tennis Madrid Open  Diego Schwartzman
Tennis Madrid Open  Dominic Thiem
6–2, 6–3
2020 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
2021 Tennis Madrid Open  Marcel Granollers
Tennis Madrid Open  Horacio Zeballos
Tennis Madrid Open  Nikola Mektić
Tennis Madrid Open  Mate Pavić
1–6, 6–3, [10–8]
2022 Tennis Madrid Open  Wesley Koolhof
Tennis Madrid Open  Neal Skupski
Tennis Madrid Open  Juan Sebastián Cabal
Tennis Madrid Open  Robert Farah
6–7(4–7), 6–4, [10–5]
2023 Tennis Madrid Open  Karen Khachanov
Tennis Madrid Open  Andrey Rublev
Tennis Madrid Open  Rohan Bopanna
Tennis Madrid Open  Matthew Ebden
6–3, 3–6, [10–3]

Women

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Petra Kvitová (winner in 2011, 2015 & 2018) holds the record in Madrid for the most title wins (three).
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Simona Halep has reached four finals in Madrid, winning her first title in 2016 before defending it in 2017.
Tennis Madrid Open 
Ons Jabeur the 2022 champion, becoming the first African player to win a title at this level.

Singles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
2009 Tennis Madrid Open  Dinara Safina Tennis Madrid Open  Caroline Wozniacki 6–2, 6–4
2010 Tennis Madrid Open  Aravane Rezaï Tennis Madrid Open  Venus Williams 6–2, 7–5
2011 Tennis Madrid Open  Petra Kvitová Tennis Madrid Open  Victoria Azarenka 7–6(7–3), 6–4
2012 Tennis Madrid Open  Serena Williams Tennis Madrid Open  Victoria Azarenka 6–1, 6–3
2013 Tennis Madrid Open  Serena Williams (2) Tennis Madrid Open  Maria Sharapova 6–1, 6–4
2014 Tennis Madrid Open  Maria Sharapova Tennis Madrid Open  Simona Halep 1–6, 6–2, 6–3
2015 Tennis Madrid Open  Petra Kvitová (2) Tennis Madrid Open  Svetlana Kuznetsova 6–1, 6–2
2016 Tennis Madrid Open  Simona Halep Tennis Madrid Open  Dominika Cibulková 6–2, 6–4
2017 Tennis Madrid Open  Simona Halep (2) Tennis Madrid Open  Kristina Mladenovic 7–5, 6–7(5–7), 6–2
2018 Tennis Madrid Open  Petra Kvitová (3) Tennis Madrid Open  Kiki Bertens 7–6(8–6), 4–6, 6–3
2019 Tennis Madrid Open  Kiki Bertens Tennis Madrid Open  Simona Halep 6–4, 6–4
2020 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
2021 Tennis Madrid Open  Aryna Sabalenka Tennis Madrid Open  Ashleigh Barty 6–0, 3–6, 6–4
2022 Tennis Madrid Open  Ons Jabeur Tennis Madrid Open  Jessica Pegula 7–5, 0–6, 6–2
2023 Tennis Madrid Open  Aryna Sabalenka (2) Tennis Madrid Open  Iga Świątek 6–3, 3–6, 6–3

Doubles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
2009 Tennis Madrid Open  Cara Black
Tennis Madrid Open  Liezel Huber
Tennis Madrid Open  Květa Peschke
Tennis Madrid Open  Lisa Raymond
4–6, 6–3, [10–6]
2010 Tennis Madrid Open  Serena Williams
Tennis Madrid Open  Venus Williams
Tennis Madrid Open  Gisela Dulko
Tennis Madrid Open  Flavia Pennetta
6–2, 7–5
2011 Tennis Madrid Open  Victoria Azarenka
Tennis Madrid Open  Maria Kirilenko
Tennis Madrid Open  Květa Peschke
Tennis Madrid Open  Katarina Srebotnik
6–4, 6–3
2012 Tennis Madrid Open  Sara Errani
Tennis Madrid Open  Roberta Vinci
Tennis Madrid Open  Ekaterina Makarova
Tennis Madrid Open  Elena Vesnina
6–1, 3–6, [10–4]
2013 Tennis Madrid Open  Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Tennis Madrid Open  Lucie Šafářová
Tennis Madrid Open  Cara Black
Tennis Madrid Open  Marina Erakovic
6–2, 6–4
2014 Tennis Madrid Open  Sara Errani (2)
Tennis Madrid Open  Roberta Vinci (2)
Tennis Madrid Open  Garbiñe Muguruza
Tennis Madrid Open  Carla Suárez Navarro
6–4, 6–3
2015 Tennis Madrid Open  Casey Dellacqua
Tennis Madrid Open  Yaroslava Shvedova
Tennis Madrid Open  Garbiñe Muguruza
Tennis Madrid Open  Carla Suárez Navarro
6–3, 6–7(4–7), [10–5]
2016 Tennis Madrid Open  Caroline Garcia
Tennis Madrid Open  Kristina Mladenovic
Tennis Madrid Open  Martina Hingis
Tennis Madrid Open  Sania Mirza
6–4, 6–4
2017 Tennis Madrid Open  Chan Yung-jan
Tennis Madrid Open  Martina Hingis
Tennis Madrid Open  Tímea Babos
Tennis Madrid Open  Andrea Hlaváčková
6–4, 6–3
2018 Tennis Madrid Open  Ekaterina Makarova
Tennis Madrid Open  Elena Vesnina
Tennis Madrid Open  Tímea Babos
Tennis Madrid Open  Kristina Mladenovic
2–6, 6–4, [10–8]
2019 Tennis Madrid Open  Hsieh Su-wei
Tennis Madrid Open  Barbora Strýcová
Tennis Madrid Open  Gabriela Dabrowski
Tennis Madrid Open  Xu Yifan
6–3, 6–1
2020 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
2021 Tennis Madrid Open  Barbora Krejčíková
Tennis Madrid Open  Kateřina Siniaková
Tennis Madrid Open  Gabriela Dabrowski
Tennis Madrid Open  Demi Schuurs
6–4, 6–3
2022 Tennis Madrid Open  Gabriela Dabrowski
Tennis Madrid Open  Giuliana Olmos
Tennis Madrid Open  Desirae Krawczyk
Tennis Madrid Open  Demi Schuurs
7–6(7–1), 5–7, [10–7]
2023 Tennis Madrid Open  Victoria Azarenka (2)
Tennis Madrid Open  Beatriz Haddad Maia
Tennis Madrid Open  Coco Gauff
Tennis Madrid Open  Jessica Pegula
6–1, 6–4

Records

Player(s) Record Year(s)
Most titles
Men's singles Tennis Madrid Open  Rafael Nadal
5
2005, 2010, 2013–14, 2017
Women's singles Tennis Madrid Open  Petra Kvitová
3
2011, 2015, 2018
Men's doubles Tennis Madrid Open  Bob Bryan
Tennis Madrid Open  Mike Bryan
5
2006–07, 2010–11, 2013
Tennis Madrid Open  Daniel Nestor 2002, 2004–05, 2009, 2014
Women's doubles Tennis Madrid Open  Sara Errani
Tennis Madrid Open  Roberta Vinci
2
2012, 2014
Tennis Madrid Open  Victoria Azarenka 2011, 2023
Most finals
Men's singles Tennis Madrid Open  Rafael Nadal
8
2005, 2009–11, 2013–15, 2017
Women's singles Tennis Madrid Open  Simona Halep
4
2014, 2016–17, 2019
Most consecutive titles
Men's singles Tennis Madrid Open  Rafael Nadal
2
2013-14
Tennis Madrid Open  Carlos Alcaraz 2022-23
Men's doubles Tennis Madrid Open  Mark Knowles
Tennis Madrid Open  Daniel Nestor
2004–05
Tennis Madrid Open  Bob Bryan
Tennis Madrid Open  Mike Bryan
2006–07, 2010–11
Most consecutive finals
Men's singles Tennis Madrid Open  Rafael Nadal
3
2009–11, 2013–15

See also

Notes

References

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