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Mutua Madrid Open
Tournament information
Founded	2002; 22 years ago (2002)
Editions	22 (2024)
Location	Madrid Spain
Venue	Madrid Arena (2002–2008) La Caja Mágica (since 2009)
Surface	Hard – indoors (2002–2008) Clay – outdoors (since 2009)
Website	mutuamadridopen.com
Current champions (2024)
Men's singles	Andrey Rublev
Women's singles	Iga Świątek
Men's doubles	Sebastian Korda Jordan Thompson
Women's doubles	Cristina Bucșa Sara Sorribes Tormo
ATP Tour Category Masters 1000 Draw 96S / 48Q / 32D Prize money €7,877,020 (2024)
WTA Tour Category WTA 1000 Draw 96S / 48Q / 32D Prize money US$8,770,480 (2024)

The Madrid Open (Spanish: Masters de Madrid; formerly known as the Madrid Masters, and currently known as the Mutua Madrid Open for sponsorship reasons) is an annual professional tennis tournament held in Madrid, Spain. It is played on clay courts at the Caja Mágica in Manzanares Park, San Fermín, and is held in late April and early May. The tournament is an ATP Masters 1000 event on the ATP Tour and a WTA 1000 event on the WTA Tour. The tournament is traditionally played on a red clay surface, though it was played on blue clay courts in 2012.

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 IMG for approximately €390 million.

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 in the Madrid Arena from 2002 to 2008, as the first of two Master's indoor hard court late-season events that preceded the ATP Tour Finals (also indoors). It was replaced on the Masters schedule by the Shanghai Masters after the 2008 season. In 2009, the tournament was reborn under new ownership with a new location, new surface, and a new time slot. It expanded to include a premier women's contest (replacing the tournament in Berlin) and shifted 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). The event moved 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 had extended his sponsorship contract of the Mutua Madrid Open for 10 additional years, until 2031. Because he has agreed to continue in Madrid, Țiriac will receive more than 30 million euros from the city of Madrid in the coming years. Feliciano López was announced as the Madrid tournament director, commencing 2019.

Starting in 2021, the women's tournament, part of the WTA tour, expanded to become a two-week tournament. By December of the same year, it was announced that Tiriac sold the event to IMG, which is now the new organizer 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.

In June 2022, ATP announced some changes to the ATP calendar for the coming year. The ATP Masters 1000 event in Madrid along with those in Shanghai and in Rome would now be held over two weeks starting in 2023, thus becoming 12 day events just like the Masters 1000 events in Indian Wells and Miami.

Blue clay

Tiriac proposed and implemented a new color of blue clay for all the courts' surfaces in 2012, 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. 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.

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.

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. This was due to the blue clay being more slippery than regular clay.

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

Singles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
↓  ATP Tour Masters 1000  ↓
2002	Andre Agassi (1/1)	Jiří Novák	(walkover)
2003	Juan Carlos Ferrero (1/1)	Nicolás Massú	6–3, 6–4, 6–3
2004	Marat Safin (1/1)	David Nalbandian	6–2, 6–4, 6–3
2005	Rafael Nadal (1/5)	Ivan Ljubičić	3–6, 2–6, 6–3, 6–4, 7–6
2006	Roger Federer (1/3)	Fernando González	7–5, 6–1, 6–0
2007	David Nalbandian (1/1)	Roger Federer	1–6, 6–3, 6–3
2008	Andy Murray (1/2)	Gilles Simon	6–4, 7–6
2009	Roger Federer (2/3)	Rafael Nadal	6–4, 6–4
2010	Rafael Nadal (2/5)	Roger Federer	6–4, 7–6
2011	Novak Djokovic (1/3)	Rafael Nadal	7–5, 6–4
2012	Roger Federer (3/3)	Tomáš Berdych	3–6, 7–5, 7–5
2013	Rafael Nadal (3/5)	Stan Wawrinka	6–2, 6–4
2014	Rafael Nadal (4/5)	Kei Nishikori	2–6, 6–4, 3–0 (ret.)
2015	Andy Murray (2/2)	Rafael Nadal	6–3, 6–2
2016	Novak Djokovic (2/3)	Andy Murray	6–2, 3–6, 6–3
2017	Rafael Nadal (5/5)	Dominic Thiem	7–6, 6–4
2018	Alexander Zverev (1/2)	Dominic Thiem	6–4, 6–4
2019	Novak Djokovic (3/3)	Stefanos Tsitsipas	6–3, 6–4
2020	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Alexander Zverev (2/2)	Matteo Berrettini	6–7, 6–4, 6–3
2022	Carlos Alcaraz (1/2)	Alexander Zverev	6–3, 6–1
2023	Carlos Alcaraz (2/2)	Jan-Lennard Struff	6–4, 3–6, 6–3
2024	Andrey Rublev (1/1)	Félix Auger-Aliassime	4–6, 7–5, 7–5

Doubles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
↓  ATP Tour Masters 1000  ↓
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
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,
2016	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău	Rohan Bopanna Florin Mergea	6–4, 7–6
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
2021	Marcel Granollers Horacio Zeballos	Nikola Mektić Mate Pavić	1–6, 6–3,
2022	Wesley Koolhof Neal Skupski	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6–7, 6–4,
2023	Karen Khachanov Andrey Rublev	Rohan Bopanna Matthew Ebden	6–3, 3–6,
2024	Sebastian Korda Jordan Thompson	Ariel Behar Adam Pavlásek	6–3, 7–6

Women

Singles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
2009	Dinara Safina (1/1)	Caroline Wozniacki	6–2, 6–4
2010	Aravane Rezaï (1/1)	Venus Williams	6–2, 7–5
2011	Petra Kvitová (1/3)	Victoria Azarenka	7–6, 6–4
2012	Serena Williams (1/2)	Victoria Azarenka	6–1, 6–3
2013	Serena Williams (2/2)	Maria Sharapova	6–1, 6–4
2014	Maria Sharapova (1/1)	Simona Halep	1–6, 6–2, 6–3
2015	Petra Kvitová (2/3)	Svetlana Kuznetsova	6–1, 6–2
2016	Simona Halep (1/2)	Dominika Cibulková	6–2, 6–4
2017	Simona Halep (2/2)	Kristina Mladenovic	7–5, 6–7, 6–2
2018	Petra Kvitová (3/3)	Kiki Bertens	7–6, 4–6, 6–3
2019	Kiki Bertens (1/1)	Simona Halep	6–4, 6–4
2020	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Aryna Sabalenka (1/2)	Ashleigh Barty	6–0, 3–6, 6–4
2022	Ons Jabeur (1/1)	Jessica Pegula	7–5, 0–6, 6–2
2023	Aryna Sabalenka (2/2)	Iga Świątek	6–3, 3–6, 6–3
2024	Iga Świątek (1/1)	Aryna Sabalenka	7–5, 4–6, 7–6

Doubles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
2009	Cara Black Liezel Huber	Květa Peschke Lisa Raymond	4–6, 6–3,
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,
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,
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,
2019	Hsieh Su-wei Barbora Strýcová	Gabriela Dabrowski Xu Yifan	6–3, 6–1
2020	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Barbora Krejčíková Kateřina Siniaková	Gabriela Dabrowski Demi Schuurs	6–4, 6–3
2022	Gabriela Dabrowski Giuliana Olmos	Desirae Krawczyk Demi Schuurs	7–6, 5–7,
2023	Victoria Azarenka (2) Beatriz Haddad Maia	Coco Gauff Jessica Pegula	6–1, 6–4
2024	Cristina Bucsa Sara Sorribes Tormo	Barbora Krejčíková Laura Siegemund	6–0, 6–2

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		2002, 2004–05, 2009, 2014
Women's doubles	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	2	2012, 2014
	Victoria Azarenka		2011, 2023
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
	Carlos Alcaraz		2022–23
Men's doubles	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor		2004–05
	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan		2006–07, 2010–11
Most consecutive finals
Men's singles	Rafael Nadal	3	2009–11, 2013–15

1. Daniel Nestor won these titles with two different partners; Mark Knowles and Nenad Zimonjić.
2. Victoria Azarenka won these titles with two different partners; Maria Kirilenko and Beatriz Haddad Maia.

See also

• Madrid Tennis Grand Prix
• WTA Madrid Open

Notes

1. ^ Known as Masters Series till 2008.
2. ^ Changed from indoor hard court to clay court, taking the place of the Hamburg Masters as a clay court Masters Series event.
3. ^ Competed under no nationality due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

References

1. "Madrid's blue clay given red card by ATP". 11 May 2019.
2. "Madrid Masters goes bling". tennisworldusa. 8 April 2011.
3. ^ "Ion Țiriac a încheiat o nouă super-afacere. Va semna un contract de peste 30 de milioane de euro" (in Romanian). Digi Sport. 9 April 2019.
4. "El Ayuntamiento indemnizará al dueño del Mutua Madrid Open con medio millón de euros por la Copa Davis". ABC (in Spanish). 9 April 2019.
5. "Feliciano Lopez is going to be Madrid's tournament director". Baseline.
6. "Madrid Open expands to become a two-week tournament". Retrieved 27 November 2020.
7. "IMG compra la dueña del Mutua Madrid Open y el Acciona Open de España y ficha a Gerard Tsobanian" (in Spanish). 2playbook. 6 December 2021.
8. "ATP calendar: Madrid and Rome over two weeks from 2023, Munich advances". tennisnet.com. 9 June 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
9. AS, Diario (29 November 2011). "El Mutua Madrid Open se jugará en una pista azul". as.com. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
10. Benito, Álvaro (26 June 2012). "Santana: "Se confundió el color de las pistas con el estado de las mismas"". Marca (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
11. "Is blue the new red? Madrid's clay court revolution". December 2011. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
12. "Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal threaten to boycott Madrid Open if they don't change blue clay-court". 11 May 2012.
13. "Even four year later, bad feelings linger over the blue clay in Madrid". New York Times. 8 May 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2023.

External links

• Official Madrid Open website
• ATP tournament profile

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