The top half of the draw is led by Iga Swiatek, who might face Emma Raducanu in the second round.
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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 Tuesday, April 25 and conclude on Saturday, May 6. Here is the round-wise schedule of the WTA 1000 event.
| Tournament stage | Dates |
|---|---|
| Round of 128 | April 25-26 |
| Round of 64 | April 27-28 |
| Round of 32 | April 29-May 30 |
| Round of 16 | May 1 |
| Quarter-finals | May 2 |
| Semi-finals | May 4 |
| Final | May 6 |
A first-round bye has been granted to every player that is seeded. The top half of the draw is led by Iga Swiatek, who might face Emma Raducanu in the second round. Elena Rybakina, the Pole’s archrival, is also included in this half of the draw and might compete against her there. The top player in the bottom half of the draw is Aryna Sabalenka. In the second round, she might face Sorana Cirstea, who eliminated her from the Miami Open. This half of the draw also includes the defending champion Ons Jabeur, Coco Gauff, Petra Kvitova, and Caroline Garcia.
| Player | Seed |
|---|---|
| Iga Swiatek | 1 |
| Aryna Sabalenka | 2 |
| Jessica Pegula | 3 |
| Ons Jabeur | 4 |
| Caroline Garcia | 5 |
| Coco Gauff | 6 |
| Elena Rybakina | 7 |
| Daria Kasatkina | 8 |
| Maria Sakkari | 9 |
| Petra Kvitova | 10 |
| Barbora Krejcikova | 11 |
| Veronika Kudermetova | 12 |
| Beatriz Haddad Maia | 13 |
| Liudmila Samsonova | 14 |
| Victoria Azarenka | 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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