Mutua Madrid Open 2025 Preview

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17/04/25 • 3 MINUTE READ

We're days away from the first combined WTA and ATP 1000 event of the clay court season, as the world's best tennis stars gear up to compete at the Mutua Madrid Open.

Find out everything you need to know about the 2025 Madrid Open from when it begins, to who's competing and how you can watch all the action in the UK.

When is the Madrid Open 2025?

The 2025 Madrid Open will take place over a two-week period for the second year in a row. The qualification stage of the combined WTA and ATP 1000 event will begin on Monday 21 April with main draw action getting underway on Tuesday 22 April.

The women’s singles final will be staged on Saturday 3 May, with the men’s singles final taking place the following day on Sunday 4 May.

Match action will begin at 10:00 BST.

Where is the Madrid Open taking place?

The Madrid Open has been held at the La Caja Magica every year since 2009, with the world-class complex once again playing host to tournament this year.

The grounds have the capacity to welcome over 17,000 spectators across its three red clay courts.

Who are the reigning Madrid Open champions?

Women’s singles – Iga Swiatek (POL)

– Iga Swiatek (POL) Men’s singles – Andrey Rublev

– Andrey Rublev Women’s doubles – Cristina Bucsa (ESP) & Sara Sorribes (ESP)

– Cristina Bucsa (ESP) & Sara Sorribes (ESP) Men’s doubles – Jordan Thompson (AUS) & Sebastian Korda (USA)

When is the Madrid Open 2025 draw?

Information on the draw will be available soon. Keep up with the latest draw updates on the link below:

Women’s draw

Men’s draw

Who are the top seeds at the Madrid Open 2025?

Women's:

Aryna Sabalenka Iga Swiatek (POL) Coco Gauff (USA) Jessica Pegula (USA) Madison Keys (USA)

Men's

Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) Alexander Zverev (GER) Taylor Fritz (USA) Novak Djokovic (SRB) Casper Ruud (NOR)

Which British players will be competing at the Madrid Open 2025?

Singles

Katie Boulter will enter the tournament as the highest ranked British women's singles player in her first WTA clay court tournament of the season.

The British No.1 will arrive in plenty of confidence after clinching two out of three wins on the clay during the 2025 Billie Jean King Cup Qualifiers. While Boulter is still navigating her game on the surface, the 28-year-old is becoming more comfortable with each match she plays and will hope to reap the rewards in Madrid.

Boulter will also be joined by Billie Jean King Cup teammate Sonay Kartal who well and truly found her form on the clay during the tie. The Qualifiers marked Kartal's first call up for her country where she clocked two wins against Germany's Jule Niemeier and Dutchwoman Eva Vedder to help carry her nation to the Finals.

During the ties, Kartal showed her game can be dangerous on the surface and will be one to watch as she prepares to contest in her first WTA 1000 event on the surface.

Meanwhile, Emma Raducanu completes the British interest. The former US Open champion previously made the third round in Madrid back in 2022 and will be hoping to kick-start her clay court campaign with a strong run in the Spanish city.

In the men's draw, British No.1 Jack Draper is the only player confirmed for main draw action.

Draper will enter the tournament as the sixth seed and full of confidence following his run to a maiden ATP 1000 title last month at Indian Wells.

The Brit has made the second round in Madrid on two prior occasions (2024 and 2022) and will be gunning to surpass his tournament best in the lead up to the second Grand Slam of the season at Roland Garros.

Jacob Fearnley, Cam Norrie and Billy Harris will all compete in qualifying in a bid to join Draper in the main draw.

Doubles

This year's Mutua Madrid Open will welcome an extensive British doubles line-up with seven Brits lining up across the men's and women's draws.

Just last week, Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool were crowned runners-up at the Rolex Monte Carlo Masters and have placed themselves amongst the favourites to claim the title.

They'll be joined by reigning Wimbledon and Australian Open champions Henry Patten and Harri Heliovaara who continue their quest for a maiden Masters 1000 title, while former champion Neal SKupski and Joe Salisbury will be hoping to ignite their clay season with a deep run in Madrid.

Jamie Murray is also set to star alongside American Rajeev Ram, while in the women's doubles, Indian Wells runners-up Olivia Nicholls and Tereza Mihalikova will be hoping for another strong run at a WTA 1000 event.

Past British performances at the Madrid Open

While he’s not set for action this year due to injury, former world No.1 Andy Murray is the only British tennis player to date who has been crowned the Madrid Open men’s singles champion. His first title came in 2008 when the event was played on a hard court, with the Brit recording a 6-4, 7-6(6) victory against Frenchman Gilles Simon to clinch the silverware.

In 2015, six years after the tournament transitioned to a clay surface, Murray went on to dispatch clay-court maestro Rafael Nadal 6-3, 6-2 to clinch his second crown at the tournament, before finishing runner-up to Novak Djokovic the following year.

Skupski remains the most recent British victor at the tournament, having engraved his name on the trophy in 2022. The Brit teamed up with Koolhof to defeat Columbian duo Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah 6-7,(3), 6-4, (10-5) – marking the first of three Masters 1000 titles they collected that year.

How to watch Madrid Open 2025

You can watch live coverage of all the action at the Madrid Masters exclusively on Sky Sports Tennis and Now TV.

Madrid Open prize money

Full details of prize money at the Madrid Open is still yet to be announced.

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