Archive: mutua-madrid-open
Novak Djokovic has charged that former ATP boss Adam Helfant orchestrated the undercover switch to blue clay in Madrid
Roger Federer started very slowly, being broken in his first service game. That was all it took to settle the first set. He went up an early break in the second, lost it, got it back.
Now that Madrid is coming to an end, the tennis world making a gradual move towards Rome, Italy
Sixth-seeded Czech Tomas Berdych will meet No. 10 seed Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina in the Mutua Madrid Open semi-finals on Saturday.
After his battle to beat Milos Raonic in a Madrid opening match, Roger Federer is focusing strictly on survival in Spain, with four matches to play in four days for anyone hoping to become Sunday's champion at the Masters 1000 played on blue clay.
Okay so maybe it isn't an uproar, but many ATP and WTA players are extremely unhappy with the new surface chosen for this year's Mutua Madrid Open.
Sixth-seeded Sania Mirza and Anastasia Rodionova and eigth-seeded Iveta Benesova and Barbora Zahlavova Strycova were eliminated on the first day of doubles action featuring seeded teams at the Mutua Madrid Open on Monday.
Rafael Nadal rides a 10-match winning streak into the Mutua Madrid Open, following his triumphs in Monte-Carlo and Barcelona, and will look to reclaim this ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title after losing to Novak Djokovic in the 2011 final. Roger Federer, who won this event in its first year on clay three years ago.
Italy’s Sara Errani not only cracked the Top 25 by winning the Budapest Grand Prix, she also extended her clay court winning streak to 15 matches in a row (the longest since Dinara Safina in 2009) and three tournaments in a row (the longest since Nadia Petrova in 2006).
World No. 1 and defending champion Novak Djokovicheadlines the fourth ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament of the season that features a new blue clay surface. Djokovic is joined by second-ranked Rafael Nadal (2005, 2010 champion) and third-ranked Roger Federer (2006, 2009 champion).
Madrid was one of six titles Petra Kvitova won in 2011, and she is hoping to win her first one of 2012 here too. "It was my first big tournament win and it was a nice surprise for me to find out that I could play on clay and beat the top players," Kvitova said. In her first clay tournament of the season, Kvitova was a semifinalist two weeks ago in Stuttgart.
Roberta Vinci and Varvara Lepchenko both sprung upsets over Top 20 players at the Mutua Madrid Open on Sunday afternoon, with one of them serving up a storm and the other scoring the very best win of her career. Watch Madrid all week on WTA Live powered by TennisTV! Vinci beat No.14 seed Dominika Cibulkova, 63 62, blasting an impressive 16 aces in the process.
Alexandr Dolgopolov took part in a charity exhibition in Forte dei Marmi, Italy against local hero Walter Trusendi to collect funds for the construction of a guest house for the parents of hospitalised children in the nearby town of Massa.
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