The entire Top 20 in the PIF WTA Rankings will be in Madrid next month for the Mutua Madrid Open, the first WTA 1000 tournament of the Clay-Court swing.<\/p>\n
World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka leads the field, and she’ll be joined by Elena Rybakina, Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Amanda Anisimova, Jasmine Paolini, Elina Svitolina, Victoria Mboko and Mirra Andreeva.<\/p>\n
Other notable names in this year’s field include Naomi Osaka, Iva Jovic, Emma Raducanu, Qinwen Zheng and Alexandra Eala.<\/p>\n
A staple on the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz since 2009, the Mutua Madrid Open features a 96-player singles draw, including 76 direct entries, 12 qualifiers and eight wild cards. The top 32 seeds will receive byes into the second round.<\/p>\n
Sabalenka is a three-time champion in Madrid, first winning in 2021 and then adding titles in 2023 and 2025. She’s gone 23-4 in main-draw matches at La Caja M\u00e1gica since making her tournament debut in 2018, and has won 23 of her past 25 matches there.<\/p>\n
In her run to the 2025 title, Sabalenka dropped just one set and beat Svitolina and Gauff in the semifinals and final, respectively.<\/p>\n
“I’m just super excited every time to come to Madrid to play on this beautiful court,” Sabalenka said after defeating Gauff 6-3, 7-6 (3) in last year’s final. “I don’t know, I just love this court. I love the support here. I think that’s the secret.”<\/p>\n
Swiatek is also a former champion in Madrid, having won this tournament in 2024. She reached the semifinals last year before losing to Gauff 6-1, 6-1.<\/p>\n
The Mutua Madrid Open will kick off on April 21 and run through May 3. The draw will be revealed on April 19 at 6 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n
After Madrid, the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz will head to Rome for the WTA 1000 Internazionali BNL D’Italia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The entire Top 20 in the PIF WTA Rankings will be in Madrid next month for the Mutua…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-497580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}