Carlos Alcaraz, the reigning champion, will be the overwhelming favourite to win in Madrid and will try to become just the second person to successfully defend his title.
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The Madrid Open, now referred to as the Mutua Madrid Open and sponsored by Mutua Madrilea, is a men’s and women’s professional tennis tournament that takes place in Madrid in the first few weeks of May. The clay-court competition is categorised as a WTA 1000 event on the WTA Tour and an ATP Tour Masters 1000 on the ATP Tour. It was formerly referred to as the Madrid Masters. The red clay court on which the competition is typically played. The 2012 tournament edition was held on blue courts, but blue was later rejected by the ATP.
The tournament, which took the place of the now-gone Eurocard Open in Stuttgart, was categorised as an ATP Masters Series event from its inception as a men’s only event in 2002. As the first of two Master’s indoor hard court late-season competitions that came before the ATP Tour Finals (also indoors), it was held in the Madrid Arena from 2002 to 2008. After the 2008 season, the Shanghai Masters took its place on the Masters schedule. The tournament was revived in 2009 under new management, with a new venue, new surface, and new time slot. It moved to an earlier time in the tennis season and was expanded to include a top women’s competition (replacing the tournament in Berlin).
Both Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic will be noticeably absent from the competition. The defending champion Carlos Alcaraz, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Casper Ruud, Daniil Medvedev, and Andrey Rublev will all be competing in Madrid, though.
The 2023 Madrid Open will have seven rounds of play excluding the qualifying rounds. These are the round of 128, round of 64, round of 32, round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals. The main draw of the tournament is scheduled to begin on Wednesday, April 26 and conclude on Sunday, May 7. Here is the round-wise schedule of the ATP 1000 event.
| Tournament stage | Dates |
|---|---|
| Round of 128 | April 26-27 |
| Round of 64 | April 28-29 |
| Round of 32 | April 30-May 1 |
| Round of 16 | May 2 |
| Quarter-finals | May 3 |
| Semi-finals | May 5 |
| Final | May 7 |
Carlos Alcaraz, the reigning champion, will be the overwhelming favourite to win in Madrid and will try to become just the second person to successfully defend his title there. Together with Monte-Carlo Masters champion Andrey Rublev, the tournament’s fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas is anticipated to have a strong showing.
| Player | Seed |
|---|---|
| Carlos Alcaraz | 1 |
| Daniil Medvedev | 2 |
| Casper Ruud | 3 |
| Stefanos Tsitsipas | 4 |
| Andrey Rublev | 5 |
| Holger Rune | 6 |
| Felix Auger-Aliassime | 7 |
| Taylor Fritz | 8 |
| Frances Tiafoe | 9 |
| Karen Khachanov | 10 |
| Cameron Norrie | 11 |
| Hubert Hurkacz | 12 |
| Alexander Zverev | 13 |
| Tommy Paul | 14 |
| Lorenzo Musetti | 15 |
| Stage | Prize Money | Ranking Points |
|---|---|---|
| Champion | €1,105,265 | 1000 |
| Runner-up | €580,000 | 650 |
| Semifinalist | €308,790 | 390 |
| Quarterfinalist | €161,525 | 215 |
| Fourth Round | €84,900 | 120 |
| Third Round | €48,835 | 65 |
| Second Round | €27,045 | 35 |
| First Round | €16,340 | 10 |
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