The stakes are high and the lineup is stacked as the Mutua Madrid Open\u2019s Round of 16 takes over Monday\u2019s schedule. All 16 players still standing \u2014 including four of the top five seeds and six unseeded challengers \u2014 will be in action across eight matchups. Here\u2019s how the day is set to unfold in what could be one of the biggest days of tennis this season.<\/p>\n
No. 4 Coco Gauff vs. Belinda Bencic (11 a.m. local, 5 a.m. ET)<\/strong><\/p>\n Head-to-head: 2-2; Bencic won their last match, at this year\u2019s Indian Wells Round of 16, in three sets.<\/p>\n No. 7 Mirra Andreeva vs. Yuliia Starodubtseva (11a.m., 5 a.m. ET)<\/strong><\/p>\n Head-to-head: 0-0.<\/p>\n No. 2 Iga Swiatek vs. No. 13 Diana Shnaider (1 p.m., 6 a.m. ET)<\/strong><\/p>\n Head-to-head: 0-0.<\/p>\n No. 5 Madison Keys vs. No. 19 Donna Vekic (1:30 p.m., 6:30 a.m. ET)<\/strong><\/p>\n Head-to-head: 3-1, Keys, who won the most recent match (in three sets) last month in the Round of 16 at Indian Wells.<\/p>\n No. 24 Marta Kostyuk vs. Anastasia Potapova (3 p.m., 9 a.m. ET)<\/strong><\/p>\n Head-to-head: 2-1, Potapova, though they have never played on clay.<\/p>\n No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka vs. Peyton Stearns (4 p.m., 10 a.m. ET)<\/strong><\/p>\n Head-to-head: 1-0, Sabalenka, but it was 6-7(2), 6-2, 7-6 (6) in last year\u2019s second round at Indian Wells.<\/p>\n No. 21 Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Moyuka Uchijima (7 p.m., 1 p.m. ET)<\/strong><\/p>\n Head-to-head: 0-0.<\/p>\n No. 17 Elina Svitolina vs. Maria Sakkari (9 p.m., 3 p.m. ET)<\/strong><\/p>\n Head-to-head: 2-2, but they haven\u2019t played in nearly four years.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The stakes are high and the lineup is stacked as the Mutua Madrid Open\u2019s Round of 16 takes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,661,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-56608","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\/114413878865814129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56608","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=56608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}