Alex De Minaur of Australia faces king of clay Rafael Nadal in Madrid on Saturday. Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images Mutua Madrid Open Madrid, SpainApril 22-May 5, 2024Prize Money: €7,877,020 Alcaraz Aims to Defend Madrid World No. 1 Novak Djokovic is out and king of clay Rafael Nadal returns in Madrid. Two-time champion Carlos Alcaraz…
Panathinaikos-MTel-Aviv-95-79- -Point guard Kostas Sloukas (191, 1990) notched 29 points and 4 assists to lead the effort, and French center Mathias Lessort (206, 1995) supported him with 11 points and 8 rebounds. Even 18 points and 6 assists by American-Spanish point guard Lorenzo Brown (196, 1990, college: NC State) did not help to save the…
Day Three 2024 Madrid Open Round of 64 Results Winner | Loser | Scoreline Carlos Alcaraz (2) | Alexander Shevchenko | 6-2, 6-1 Alexander Zverev (4) | Borna Coric | 6-3, 6-2 Andrey Rublev (7) | Facundo Bagnis (Q) | 6-1, 6-4 Hubert Hurkacz (8) | Jack Draper | 6-1, 7-5 Holger Rune (11) |…
Getty Images Despite being the two-time defending champion, Carlos Alcaraz went into the Mutua Madrid Open as a bit of a question mark. A right-arm injury forced Alcaraz to miss both the Monte-Carlo Masters and the Barcelona Open, but the 20-year-old put any and all concerns to rest with a convincing performance during second-round action…
Sloane Stephens and Maria Sakkari will face off in the third round of the 2024 Madrid Open at La Caja Magica. While Stephens may not be at her peak form on clay like she was when she reached the French Open final in 2018, she is still a formidable player on the surface. As a…
Ons Jabeur is slowly starting to win matches again, but she will face always-tricky Leylah Fernandez at the 2024 Madrid Open. It’s been a very tough year for Jabeur, who hasn’t played the type of tennis we know she can play. She’s also dealt with some physical issues, which certainly didn’t help her. Fernandez has…
There were some serious injury doubts about Carlos Alcaraz leading up to his first match at the 2024 Madrid Open, but he erased all of them with a spectacular performance. This is Alcaraz’s first big clay event this year. He played briefly in South America, but that wasn’t a long stay on the surface, and…
Denis Shapovalov played one of his most complete matches of the season, defeating 26th seed Tomas Martin Etcheverry 7-6(3), 6-3 to advance to the third round of Madrid. The Canadian struck 33 winners and fired eight aces to collect his second clay court win of 2024. In a match dripping with quality from the outset,…
Aryna Sabalenka started her title defense at the 2024 Madrid Open with a very hard-fought win over Magda Linette. This was a match that was much tougher than the Belarusian might have liked, but there are reasons for it. Chiefly, it’s because Linette is a pretty solid player who rarely loses matches without a fight,…
Mirra Andreeva recorded another win at the 2024 Madrid Open, beating fellow teenager, Linda Noskova, in three sets. Last year, the Russian player entered the tournament as a 15-year-old and stunned Beatriz Haddad Maia early on. She turned 16 during the event and reached the round of 16. Now, one year later, Andreeva is back…
