Mutua Madrid Open - WTA 1000

[125Guy]

Welcome @125Guy glad to see you here. Between the altitude, floating virus, and numerous upstarts, it's definitely getting wilder by the minute.

Oh yes and today just continued the trend!! To be perfectly honest I have no problems saying this is so far the most entertaining 1000 of the year so far! I mean my gosh I got to see Tereza take on Yulia on clay xD

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Round of 16 matches,
Monday 27th April,

Sabalenka (1) vs Osaka (14)
Gauff (3) vs Noskova (13)
Rybalina (2) vs Potapova
Bencic (11) vs Baptiste (30)
Kostyuk (26) vs McNally
Fernandez (24) vs Li (31)
Pliskova vs Sierra
Andreeva (9) vs Bondar

 

[britbox]

According to Jim Courier shrimp tacos in the players canteen having been found to be 'off' thats great isnt it, a few players have had food poisoning also a stomach virus is going around,

Shrimp Tacos...it makes my stomach turn thinking about them.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Iga Swiatek will rise to No 3 with Coco Gauff's loss in Madrid, Gauff down to No 4, quite frankly I dont think Coco recovered from her stomach illness she was , lucky to win in her previous match

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Back to back QFs for Hailey Baptiste
Her kick serve and fhand are monstrous in these conditions, her movement has improved as well

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Mirra Andreeva reaches her 3rd conseuctive Madrid QF equaling her best result in Madrid
From 5-1 to 6-6 in the 3rd set, this got too close for comfort, but she found a way to regroup
10 wins , 1 loss on the clay in 2026