{"id":32624,"date":"2025-04-19T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T09:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/32624\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T09:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T09:52:10","slug":"dates-draws-prize-money-and-everything-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/32624\/","title":{"rendered":"Dates, draws, prize money and everything you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year&#8217;s first clay-court WTA 1000 event starts imminently, when the Hologic WTA Tour&#8217;s top players head to the Spanish capital for the Mutua Madrid Open.<\/p>\n<p>As it has in the past, Madrid has a stellar field lined up for its 16th edition as one of the top-tier events on the calendar. 49 of the world&#8217;s Top 50 players will be in the hunt for the singles trophy at the Caja Magica.<\/p>\n<p>Main-draw action in Madrid kicks off on Tuesday, April 22, leading to a singles final on Saturday, May 3 and a doubles final on Sunday, May 4. The singles champion will pick up nearly one million Euros and 1000 precious ranking points.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the key facts surrounding the first of two WTA 1000 clay-court events over the next month (and keep this article flagged for updates as the tournament gets closer):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Main-Draw Start Date: Tuesday, April 22<\/li>\n<li>Singles Final: Saturday, May 3, not before 5:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Doubles Final: Sunday, May 4 at 2:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Qualifying Dates: Monday, April 21 and Tuesday, April 22<\/li>\n<li>Main-Draw Ceremony: Sunday, April 20 at 6:00 pm<\/li>\n<li>Singles Main-Draw Size: 96 players (including 12 qualifiers and 8 wild cards); first-round byes for the 32 seeds<\/li>\n<li>Doubles Main-Draw Size: 32 teams<\/li>\n<li>Time Zone: Central European Summer Time (BST +1, EST +6)<\/li>\n<li>Tournament Ball: Dunlop Fort Clay Court<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ranking points and prize money<\/strong><br \/>First round: 10 points | \u20ac20,820<br \/>Second round: 35 points | \u20ac30,895<br \/>Third round: 65 points | \u20ac52,925<br \/>Round of 16: 120 points | \u20ac90,445<br \/>Quarterfinals: 215 points | \u20ac165,670<br \/>Semifinals: 390 points | \u20ac291,040<br \/>Finalist: 650 points | \u20ac523,870<br \/>Champion: 1000 points | \u20ac985,030<\/p>\n<p>                        Champions Reel: How Iga Swiatek won Madrid 2024<\/p>\n<p>And here are some key storylines to watch for in Madrid:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, who has mastered the hard courts on tour, has won only two clay-court titles thus far. The good news for Sabalenka is that they have both come in Madrid. She defeated the World No. 1 for both of those titles as well: Ashleigh Barty in 2021 and Iga Swiatek in 2023. Her record in Madrid is 17-4.<\/li>\n<li>If Sabalenka hoists the trophy again, she will tie the record for the most Madrid titles. Petra Kvitova has won this title three times, in 2011, 2015 and 2018.<\/li>\n<li>World No. 2 Iga Swiatek comes in as the defending champion and boasts a 13-2 record in Madrid. Last year, Swiatek won her first Madrid title, handing Sabalenka her first loss in a Madrid final. Naturally, Swiatek had to go down to the wire to topple Sabalenka in a classic final, saving three championship points before winning in a third-set tiebreak.<\/li>\n<li>Three Americans will round out the Top 5 seeds: No. 3 Jessica Pegula, No. 4 Coco Gauff and No. 5 Madison Keys. Of the three, Pegula has gone the deepest in Madrid &#8212; she made her first career WTA 1000 final here in 2022, finishing runner-up to Ons Jabeur.<\/li>\n<li>As for record-holding three-time champion Kvitova, she is entered in the main draw on her special ranking, following her return from maternity leave. The Czech is aiming for the first match-win of her comeback after opening losses in Austin, Indian Wells and Miami &#8212; and one of her happiest hunting grounds might propel her to a victory.<\/li>\n<li>Spain has a Top 10 player entered in the field this year: World No. 9 Paula Badosa, who reached the Madrid semifinals as a wild card in 2021. However, fitness could be an issue for Badosa, who has been struggling with a back injury that caused her to withdraw from the Miami Round of 16 and miss Indian Wells, Charleston and Stuttgart.<\/li>\n<li>Sabalenka, Swiatek, Jabeur and Kvitova are the former champions entered in this year&#8217;s main draw. But the inaugural Madrid champion will also likely be on site: former World No. 1 Dinara Safina, the 2009 titlist, has started coaching World No. 13 Diana Shnaider.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay tuned for more updates as the Mutua Madrid Open gets closer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The year&#8217;s first clay-court WTA 1000 event starts imminently, when the Hologic WTA Tour&#8217;s top players head to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,661,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-32624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114364019086279203","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}