Madrid Open (tennis)

Mutua Madrid Open
Tournament information
Location	Madrid Spain
Venue	Madrid Arena (2002–2008) Caja Mágica (since 2009)
Surface	Hard – indoors (2002–2008) Clay – outdoors (since 2009)
Website	madrid-open.com
Current champions (2021)
Men's singles	Alexander Zverev
Women's singles	Aryna Sabalenka
Men's doubles	Marcel Granollers Horacio Zeballos
Women's doubles	Barbora Krejčíková Kateřina Siniaková
ATP Tour Category Masters 1000 Draw 56S / 28Q / 24D Prize money €3,226,325 (2021)
WTA Tour Category WTA 1000 Draw 64S / 32Q / 28D Prize money €2,549,105 (2021)

The Madrid Open (Spanish: Masters de Madrid), 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.^[1]

Ion Țiriac, a Romanian billionaire businessman and former ATP professional, was the owner of the tournament between 2009 and 2021.^[2] According to Digi Sport which interviewed Țiriac in 2019, the tournament brings to the city of Madrid annual benefits exceeding €107 million.^[3] In 2021, Țiriac sold the tournament to New York–based giants IMG for approximately $283 Million.^[4][5]

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). In 2009, the tournament was transformed, expanding to include a premier women's contest (replacing the tournament in Berlin) and shifting 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) and moving 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.^[6] Because he agreed to continue in Madrid, Țiriac will receive more than 30 million euros from the city of Madrid in the coming years.^[3] Feliciano López was announced as the Madrid tournament director, commencing 2019.^[7]

Starting in 2021, the tournament will expand to become a two week tournament.^[8] 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.^[4]

Blue clay[]

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.^[9] 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.^[10]

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.^[11]

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.^[12]

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[]

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

Singles[]

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

Doubles[]

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

Women[]

Petra Kvitová (winner in 2011, 2015 & 2018) holds the record in Madrid for the most title wins (three).

Simona Halep has made four finals in Madrid, winning her first title in 2016 before defending it 2017, besides making finals in 2014 and 2019 too.

Singles[]

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

Doubles[]

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

Records[]

	Player(s)	Record	Year(s)
Most Titles
Men's Singles	Rafael Nadal	5	2005, 2010, 2013–14, 2017
Women's Singles	Petra Kvitová	3	2011, 2015, 2018
Men's Doubles	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	5	2006–07, 2010–11, 2013
	Daniel Nestor[1]		2002, 2004–05, 2009, 2014
Women's Doubles	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	2	2012, 2014
Most Finals
Men's Singles	Rafael Nadal	8	2005, 2009–11, 2013–15, 2017
Women's Singles	Simona Halep	4	2014, 2016–17, 2019
Most Consecutive Titles
Men's Singles	Rafael Nadal	2	2013–14
Men's Doubles	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	2	2004–05
	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan		2006–07, 2010–11
Most Consecutive Finals
Men's Singles	Rafael Nadal	3	2009–11, 2013–15

^ Daniel Nestor won these titles with two different partners; Mark Knowles and Nenad Zimonjić.

See also[]

• Madrid Tennis Grand Prix
• WTA Madrid Open

Notes[]

References[]

External links[]

• Official Madrid Open website

Coordinates: 40°22′08″N 3°41′02″W / 40.3688°N 3.684°W / 40.3688; -3.684