Mutua Madrid Open, Madrid, Spain, 2024 - Masters 1000

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DATE: April 24 - May 5, 2024
SURFACE: Clay
PRIZE MONEY: €7,877,020
SINGLES DRAW: 96
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Carlos Alcaraz

Seeds:

1. Jannik Sinner
2. Carlos Alcaraz
3. Daniil Medvedev
4. Alexander Zverev
5. Casper Ruud
6. Stefanos Tsitsipas
7. Andrey Rublev
8. Hubert Hurkacz
9. Grigor Dimitrov
10. Alex de Minaur
11. Holger Rune
12. Taylor Fritz
13. Ugo Humbert
14. Ben Shelton
15. Tommy Paul
16. Karen Khachanov
17. Alexander Bublik
18. Sebastian Baez
19. Adrian Mannarino
20. Frances Tiafoe
21. Francisco Cerundolo
22. Nicolas Jarry
23. Jan-Lennard Struff
24. Tallon Griekspoor
25. Sebastian Korda
26. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
27. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
28. Lorenzo Musetti
29. Cameron Norrie
30. Jiri Lehecka
31. Arthur Fils
32. Jordan Thompson


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The Tournament:

The Madrid Open, currently sponsored by Mutua Madrileña and known as the Mutua Madrid Open, is a joint men's and women's professional tennis tournament, held in Madrid, during early May. The clay-court event is classified as an ATP Tour Masters 1000 on the ATP Tour and a WTA 1000 event on the WTA Tour. In the past, it has also been known as the Madrid Masters. The tournament is traditionally played on a red clay surface. The event was played on blue courts in the 2012 tournament edition, with the ATP deciding against blue thereafter.

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 giants IMG for approximately €390 Million.

About Madrid:

Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.6 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the second-largest in the EU. The municipality covers 604.3 km2 (233.3 sq mi) geographical area.

Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula. Capital city of both Spain (almost without interruption since 1561) and the surrounding autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also the political, economic and cultural centre of the country. The city is situated on an elevated plain about 300 km (190 mi) from the closest seaside location. The climate of Madrid features hot summers and cool winters.

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Madrid ATP Wild Cards ( are heavily IMG-tinged and definateky skewing younger players)
Bergs,
Shang
Fonseca
Landaluce
Darwin Blanch

Bautista Agut, Martinez, Ramos, Zapata Miralees will need to play qualifying in Madrid. No wild cards for any of them

Qualifying draw in Madrid with 6 former top ten players, Thiem, Gasquet, Schwartzman, Bautista Agut, Pouille and Goffin
Pedro Martinez who didnt receive a wild card despite being Spanish and world No 57 ( unbelievable decision) is the top seed
 
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Scanning through the mens final qualifying today in Madrid,
Bautista Agut out to Ramos Vinolas
Kokkinakis over Thiem
Hassan is a Lebanese player I've not heard of.
#4 Nakashima, #7 Moutet, #8 Kokkinakis,#11 Kovacevic of the top seeds made it though to the main draw
Dan Evans withdrew, due to a right calf injury, Bautista Agut gets the LL card and plays Galan. Evans is replaced by Nakashima.
Diego Schwartzman is another player that should think seriously about retirement who didnt qualify for Madrid, his results last year and so far this year have been poor
 
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Scanning through the mens final qualifying today in Madrid,
Bautista Agut out to Ramos Vinolas
Kokkinakis over Thiem
Hassan is a Lebanese player I've not heard of.
#4 Nakashima, #7 Moutet, #8 Kokkinakis,#11 Kovacevic of the top seeds made it though to the main draw
Dan Evans withdrew, due to a right calf injury, Bautista Agut gets the LL card and plays Galan. Evans is replaced by Nakashima.
Diego Schwartzman is another player that should think seriously about retirement who didnt qualify for Madrid, his results last year and so far this year have been poor
I noticed that Schwartzman went out early in qualies, myself. He's fallen out of the top 100, and he's past 30. He's someone who made the most of his gifts for a certain window of time, but it seems that has passed.
 

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I noticed that Schwartzman went out early in qualies, myself. He's fallen out of the top 100, and he's past 30. He's someone who made the most of his gifts for a certain window of time, but it seems that has passed.
Agree, I think we had a conversation regarding Diego, regarding his poor results I read he is frustrated with his results especially on clay, if he wants to play Rome he will have to play qualifiers again
 
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Projected QFs on seedings
(1) Sinner v Ruud (5)
(3) Medvedev vs Tsitsipas
(8) Hirkacz vs Zverev (4)
(7) Rublev vs Alcaraz (2)
 

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Watched some of 18 yo Jakub Mensik, who can surely move and play well on clay, good debut from Jakub d Hanfmann 63 76(3), he will play Dimitrov in R2.
 
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