This is all it’s essential to for this yr’s Madrid Open as Andrey Rublev and Iga Swiatek defend their titles.
A stacked males’s facet of the draw sees Novak Djokovic projected to satisfy Britain’s Jack Draper within the quarter-finals. Each gamers begin their match in spherical two matches on Saturday.
Alexander Zverev prime seeds on the opposite half of the draw and is already by way of to spherical three after a convincing win over Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut.
Defending champion Rublev obtained a walkover into the third spherical, in the meantime, after France’s Gael Monfils withdrew on account of sickness.
How are the Brits faring?
Within the males’s match, Jack Draper faces Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor in spherical two on Saturday after receiving a bye by way of the primary spherical.
Cameron Norrie, in the meantime, progressed to spherical two to play twenty sixth seed Jiri Lehecka after battling by way of sickness to to beat Spanish teen Martin Landaluce in three units.
Jacob Fearnley made it by way of qualifying after two large wins towards Pavel Kotov and Hugo Dellien. He then beat China’s Yunchaokete Bu to arrange a second-round encounter with nineteenth seed Tomas Machac
Billy Harris suffered defeat to Ethan Quinn in qualifying.
However there are already no British girls left within the match.
Emma Raducanu beat Suzan Lamens in straight units within the first spherical however misplaced to Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk in a aggressive three-set second spherical match.
Raducanu’s exit adopted on British No 1 Katie Boulter dropping on the similar stage, the British No 1 thumped in straight units 6-1 6-2 by Jasmine Paolini in simply 56 minutes.
It was the same story for Sonay Kartal towards in-form Elina Svitolina, the British No 3 dropping out 6-3 6-1 to the seventeenth seed.
Fran Jones had already misplaced in spherical one after progressing by way of qualifying.
Madrid Open schedule
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April 23-24: First Spherical
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April 25-26: Second Spherical
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April 27-28: Third Spherical
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April 29: Spherical of 16
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April 30-Could 1: Quarter-finals
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Could 2: Semi-finals
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Could 3: (Males’s doubles and ladies’s singles finals)
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Could 4: Last
Who’re the highest seeds on the Madrid Open 2025?
Girls’s:
Aryna Sabalenka
Iga Swiatek (POL)
Coco Gauff (USA)
Jessica Pegula (USA)
Madison Keys (USA)
Males’s:
Alexander Zverev (GER)
Taylor Fritz (USA)
Novak Djokovic (SRB)
Casper Ruud (NOR)
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