Mutua Madrid Open, Madrid, Spain, WTA Premier

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DATE: April 30 - May 7, 2016
SURFACE: Clay
PRIZE MONEY: €4,771,360
FIELD SIZE: 56
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Petra Kvitova

Seeds:

1 RADWANSKA, Agnieszka
2 KERBER, Angelique
3 MUGURUZA, Garbiñe
4 AZARENKA, Victoria
5 KVITOVA, Petra
6 HALEP, Simona
7 VINCI, Roberta
8 SUÁREZ NAVARRO, Carla
9 KUZNETSOVA, Svetlana
10 BACSINSZKY, Timea
11 SAFAROVA, Lucie
12 SVITOLINA, Elina
13 PLISKOVA, Karolina
14 IVANOVIC, Ana
15 ERRANI, Sara
16 STEPHENS, Sloane


Madrid Tennis by Jimmie48 Tennis Photography, on Flickr

The Players

Serena Williams withdrew from the tournament due to influenza, so Aga Radwanska tops the billing. She heads a deep field including the in-form Victoria Azarenka, defending champion Petra Kvitova and Australian Open champ Angelique Kerber.



About Madrid

Madrid is one of the greatest, and quirkiest of Europe's capitals. Fashion center, food destination, film mecca, and yet it keeps trying to be a small town. Or a number of of small towns, at once. It's high-end fashion street is the Calle Serrano, though many of the smaller designers can be found in the Chueca neighborhood. Lavapiés, once a Jewish Quarter, and long a down-market working class area, has become a lively area of immigrants and their influence on cuisine and music.

Tourism Guide:



Map:

 

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The Draw:

 

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Aga v Dominika in a first round clash... Don't think Cibu is going to get out of the first round

 

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I don't know how, but I think I have Suarez Navarro as the winner in Madrid in the draw challenge.o_O

 

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SINGLES - FIRST ROUND

Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) d Annika Beck (GER) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 4
Christina Mchale (USA) d Anna-Lena Friedsam (GER) | 6 - 0 | 6 - 4
[12] Elina Svitolina (UKR) d Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) | 4 - 6 | 6 - 3 | 6 - 4
[16] Sloane Stephens (USA) d Teliana Pereira (BRA) | 3 - 6 | 6 - 3 | 6 - 2
Alizé Cornet (FRA) d [WC] Paula Badosa Gibert (ESP) | 2 - 6 | 6 - 2 | 2 - 2 | RET
Camila Giorgi (ITA) d [15] Sara Errani (ITA) | 7 - 5 | 7 - 5

 

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Kerber out.... unexpected

 

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Vinci's gone too, but she had a tough first round.

 

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I won't be surprised if Safarova struggles too. Less than 24h after her title in Prague, should be mentally tough to get into a new tournament so soon

 

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the british burdz crash out..heather Watson lost in qualifiers, got through as lucky loser and then lost again (unlucky).

laura robson lost..making it a double british defeat bonanza.

 

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the british burdz crash out..heather Watson lost in qualifiers, got through as lucky loser and then lost again (unlucky).

laura robson lost..making it a double british defeat bonanza.

I guess Konta has some load bearing to do.

 

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SINGLES - First Round

[3] Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP) d Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (SVK) | 6 - 2 | 7 - 5
Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) d Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) | 6 - 4 | 3 - 6 | 6 - 4
Sabine Lisicki (GER) d [Q] Monica Puig (PUR) | 6 - 1 | 6 - 3
[8] Carla Suárez Navarro (ESP) d Timea Babos (HUN) | 3 - 6 | 6 - 2 | 6 - 3
[11] Lucie Safarova (CZE) d Coco Vandeweghe (USA) | 7 - 6 (4) | 6 - 1
Samantha Stosur (AUS) d [WC] Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP) | 6 - 1 | 6 - 3
[10] Timea Bacsinszky (SUI) d Andrea Petkovic (GER) | 6 - 4 | 2 - 6 | 6 - 3
[13] Karolina Pliskova (CZE) d [WC] Lourdes Dominguez Lino (ESP) | 6 - 2 | 6 - 1
[Q] Elena Vesnina (RUS) d Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) | 7 - 5 | 6 - 0
Daria Gavrilova (AUS) d [L] Heather Watson (GBR) | 7 - 5 | 6 - 4
[14] Ana Ivanovic (SRB) d [Q] Katerina Siniakova (CZE) | 6 - 3 | 3 - 6 | 6 - 4
Karin Knapp (ITA) d Margarita Gasparyan (RUS) | 4 - 6 | 6 - 3 | 6 - 2
[6] Simona Halep (ROU) d Misaki Doi (JPN) | 6 - 0 | 6 - 3
[5] Petra Kvitova (CZE) d [WC] Lara Arruabarrena (ESP) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 2
Madison Keys (USA) d [Q] Alison Riske (USA) | 1 - 6 | 6 - 3 | 6 - 4
[Q] Louisa Chirico (USA) d Monica Niculescu (ROU) | 7 - 5 | 6 - 1
[Q] Patricia Maria Tig (ROU) d Daria Kasatkina (RUS) | 6 - 3 | 4 - 6 | 6 - 2
[4] Victoria Azarenka (BLR) d Laura Robson (GBR) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 2
Barbora Strycova (CZE) d [2] Angelique Kerber (GER) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 2
[Q] Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (CRO) d Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) | 6 - 2 | 6 - 3
[Q] Laura Siegemund (GER) d [9] Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) | 6 - 0 | 3 - 6 | 6 - 3
Danka Kovinic (MNE) d [7] Roberta Vinci (ITA) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 2
[WC] Sorana Cirstea (ROU) d Jelena Jankovic (SRB) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 3
Caroline Garcia (FRA) d Johanna Konta (GBR) | 6 - 4 | 2 - 1 | RET
Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) d [1] Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 7 (7) | 6 - 3
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) d Lesia Tsurenko (UKR) | 6 - 2 | 6 - 1 |

 

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Top seed Aga gets taken out by my fave Dominika Cibulkova... Revenge for the finals loss in Indian Wells where she blew a huge lead in the third set.

Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) d [1] Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 7 (7) | 6 - 3

 

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[3] Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP) d Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (SVK) | 6 - 2 | 7 - 5