ATP M1000 WTA 1000 Madrid 4/25 - 5/7 2023

[ponchi101]

ESPN down here did not even show today matches. They will start tomorrow.

[Owendonovan]

Just throwing this out too. The WTA is playing first round matches today. You can have an on court meltdown and throw your racquet into the stands and not hit a soul.

...might make it easier to avoid a default.

[JazzNU]

I know very few care about her so I assume that's why she's able to fly under the radar the way she has been, but Yastremska's results pre and post suspension are night and day. Most with overturned suspensions return to previous form and she most certainly has not. Kudos on the creative defense, but the few people who bought that must be wondering now why they ever did.

[ponchi101]

I know very few care about her so I assume that's why she's able to fly under the radar the way she has been, but Yastremska's results pre and post suspension are night and day. Most with overturned suspensions return to previous form and she most certainly has not. Kudos on the creative defense, but the few people who bought that must be wondering now why they ever did.

So completely out of my mind that I had not even noticed she had been gone. And returned.
Not that I mind either way. Txs for noticing.

[ponchi101]

And, BTW. Leylah lost today to a 15 yo ranked 194 (well, too young to be ranked much higher). She is actually ranked so low her BIO page in the WTA website is empty.
That 2021 USO final will go down as perhaps the most extreme example of a Black Swan in tennis, or even all sports. Leylah has done better than Emma, but she has also failed to gain any traction from that good run.

[ti-amie]

Thursday, April 27, 2023 Day 4

MANOLO SANTANA STADIUM Starts At 11:00 Am

(PR) Kyle Edmund VS (WC) Dominic Thiem
Not Before 1:00 PM
(6) Coco Gauff VS I. Burillo Escorihuela
Followed By
Elisabetta Cocciaretto VS (26) Paula Badosa
Not Before 4:30 Pm
(Q) Andrea Vavassori VS Andy Murray
Not Before 7:00 PM
Sorana Cirstea VS (2) Aryna Sabalenka

ARANTXA SANCHEZ STADIUM Starts At 11:00 Am

Jule Niemeier VS (10) Petra Kvitova
Followed By
Cristian Garin VS Marc-Andrea Huesler
Followed By
Lorenzo Sonego VS (LL) Jan-Lennard Struff
Not Before 5:00 PM
(5) Caroline Garcia VS Yulia Putintseva
Followed By
Mackenzie McDonald VS Bernabe Zapata Miralles

STADIUM 3 Starts At 11:00 Am

(Q) Arantxa Rus VS (9) Maria Sakkari
Followed By
(20) Donna Vekic VS (WC) Rebeka Masarova
Followed By
(WC) Abdullah Shelbayh VS Pedro Cachin
Followed By
Marton Fucsovics VS (Q) Marco Cecchinato
Followed By
Jason Kubler VS Dusan Lajovic

COURT 4 Starts At 11:00 Am

Tomas Martin Etcheverry VS Adrian Mannarino
Followed By
(Q) Jurij Rodionov VS Zhizhen Zhang
Followed By
Linda Fruhvirtova VS (19) Jelena Ostapenko
Followed By
M. Vondrousova VS (17) Magda Linette
Followed By
(31) Irina-Camelia Begu VS Karolina Muchova

COURT 5 Starts At 11:00 Am

J.J. Wolf VS (Q) Alexander Shevchenko
Followed By
Corentin Moutet VS (Q) Yosuke Watanuki
Followed By
(14) Liudmila Samsonova VS Maryna Zanevska
Followed By
Mayar Sherif VS (30) Anhelina Kalinina
After Suitable Rest
(1) Coco Gauff/Jessica Pegula VS Alexa Guarachi/Erin Routliffe

COURT 6 Starts At 11:00 Am

(Q) Roman Safiullin VS Nicolas Jarry
Followed By
Alex de Minaur/Grigor Dimitrov VS Nathaniel Lammons/Jackson Withrow
Followed By
Nuno Borges VS Marcos Giron
Followed By
Christopher O'Connell VS Filip Krajinovic
Followed By
(Q) Aslan Karatsev VS Laslo Djere

COURT 7 Starts At 11:00 Am

(13) Beatriz Haddad Maia VS (WC) Mirra Andreeva
Followed By
(32) Marta Kostyuk VS C. Osorio
Followed By
(24) Elise Mertens VS Rebecca Marino
After Suitable Rest
(OSE) Victoria Azarenka/Beatriz Haddad Maia VS (3) Desirae Krawczyk/Demi Schuurs
Followed By
Ana Bogdan VS (33) Shelby Rogers

COURT 8 Starts At 11:00 Am

(8) Yifan Xu/Zhaoxuan Yang VS (OSE) Ekaterina Alexandrova/Anastasia Potapova
Followed By
(OSE) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova/Elena Rybakina VS (7) Shuko Aoyama/Ena Shibahara
Followed By
Roberto Bautista Agut/Daniel Evans VS (7) Rohan Bopanna/Matthew Ebden
Followed By
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina/Emil Ruusuvuori VS Marcelo Melo/Alexander Zverev
Followed By
(6) Lloyd Glasspool/Harri Heliovaara VS Hubert Hurkacz/Ben Shelton

[ti-amie]

Grabher replaced Raducanu in the draw after the latter withdrew at the last minute.

[JazzNU]

And, BTW. Leylah lost today to a 15 yo ranked 194 (well, too young to be ranked much higher). She is actually ranked so low her BIO page in the WTA website is empty.

Not making excuses for Leylah, she probably should've won against the very young player, but this is a loss that might not look so bad in a few years. This event is now owned by IMG, which means this player is going to be a wild card entry, meaning she's an IMG repped player. It's how they work with few exceptions. They rarely rep nobodies so she's likely a hot prospect to keep an eye on in the future. They have had plenty of busts, but the potential is there just about every time, many times with good to great junior results. The exception to this rule, besides veteran players returning from injury, is if it is her sister that is the really talented player and they are just doing a favor by giving her a wild card. Given her win over Leylah, I'm thinking that's not the case here and they think both sisters have top tier talent, in the same vein as the Fruhvirtova sisters.

[skatingfan]

That 2021 USO final will go down as perhaps the most extreme example of a Black Swan in tennis, or even all sports. Leylah has done better than Emma, but she has also failed to gain any traction from that good run.

I think Fernandez has returned to the ranking/results that were expected. She had a good run at that US Open, but it's hard to replicate that run all the time when you're winning matches tight matches in 3 sets.

[ponchi101]

That 2021 USO final will go down as perhaps the most extreme example of a Black Swan in tennis, or even all sports. Leylah has done better than Emma, but she has also failed to gain any traction from that good run.

I think Fernandez has returned to the ranking/results that were expected. She had a good run at that US Open, but it's hard to replicate that run all the time when you're winning matches tight matches in 3 sets.

Still early, and I am covering my tracks by the use of "perhaps". Right now, it seems like that final was a fluke, but both players are still very young. Again, making conclusions after that final ("Emma will become a dominant force in the next years, Leylah has Slam champion written all over her") was a risky proposition. Making the opposite claims right now is not without peril, either.

[ti-amie]

Leylah is still out there fighting. Raducanu seems to be the one who isn't willing to put in the work to try and top an elite athlete.

[skatingfan]

Leylah is still out there fighting. Raducanu seems to be the one who isn't willing to put in the work to try and top an elite athlete.

I wonder about the impact of all the injuries. It has to be discouraging.

[ponchi101]

And, BTW. Leylah lost today to a 15 yo ranked 194 (well, too young to be ranked much higher). She is actually ranked so low her BIO page in the WTA website is empty.

Not making excuses for Leylah, she probably should've won against the very young player, but this is a loss that might not look so bad in a few years. ...

The loss ended up not looking so bad in a few days (one, actually). Andreeva took out Haddad Maia, seeded 13, so maybe this girl can play more than what her ranking right now says.

[ti-amie]

Friday, April 28, 2023 Day 5

MANOLO SANTANA STADIUM Starts At 11:00 Am

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova VS (8) Daria Kasatkina
Not Before 1:00 Pm
Stan Wawrinka VS (5) Andrey Rublev
Not Before 4:00 Pm
(1) Carlos Alcaraz VS Emil Ruusuvuori
Not Before 8:00 PM
(1) Iga Swiatek VS (LL) Julia Grabher
Followed By
Roberto Carballes Baena VS (13) Alexander Zverev

ARANTXA SANCHEZ STADIUM Starts At 11:00 Am

(3) Casper Ruud VS (Q) Matteo Arnaldi
Not Before 1:00 PM
Anna Kalinskaya VS (7) Elena Rybakina
Followed By
Alycia Parks VS (15) Victoria Azarenka
Followed By
(3) Jessica Pegula VS (Q) Magdalena Frech
Followed By
Alexander Bublik VS (6) Holger Rune

STADIUM 3 Starts At 11:00 Am

(11) Barbora Krejcikova VS Danka Kovinic
Followed By
Gregoire Barrere VS (26) Grigor Dimitrov
Followed By
Quentin Halys VS (20) Roberto Bautista Agut
Followed By
(12) Hubert Hurkacz VS Richard Gasquet
Followed By
Xiyu Wang VS (23) Bianca Andreescu

COURT 4 Starts At 11:00 Am

Daniel Altmaier VS Oscar Otte
Followed By
(18) Martina Trevisan VS (Q) Eugenie Bouchard
Followed By
Alizé Cornet VS (16) Ekaterina Alexandrova
Followed By
(25) Jil Teichmann VS Lesia Tsurenko
Followed By
(29) Alejandro Davidovich Fokina VS Albert Ramos-Vinolas

COURT 5 Starts At 11:00 Am

(12) Veronika Kudermetova VS (Q) Nuria Parrizas Diaz
Followed By
(27) Petra Martic VS (Q) Laura Siegemund
Followed By
(WC) Paula Badosa/Bethanie Mattek-Sands VS (WC) Brenda Fruhvirtova/Linda Fruhvirtova
After Suitable Rest
Veronika Kudermetova/Liudmila Samsonova VS Monica Niculescu/Makoto Ninomiya
Followed By
Nadiia Kichenok/Kimberley Zimmermann VS (WC) Erika Andreeva/Mirra Andreeva
Followed By
Timea Babos/Anna Danilina VS Marta Kostyuk/Elena-Gabriela Ruse

COURT 6 Starts At 11:00 Am

Jaume Munar VS (30) Tallon Griekspoor
Followed By
(Q) Yannick Hanfmann VS (15) Lorenzo Musetti
Followed By
(10) Karen Khachanov VS Thiago Monteiro
Followed By
(WC) Hugo Gaston VS (17) Borna Coric
Followed By
(22) Sebastian Korda VS (Q) Hugo Grenier

COURT 7 Starts At 11:00 Am

(28) Yoshihito Nishioka VS Alex Molcan
Followed By
Taylor Fritz/Frances Tiafoe VS Cameron Norrie/Tommy Paul
Followed By
Felix Auger-Aliassime/Denis Shapovalov VS Juan Sebastian Cabal/Robert Farah
Followed By
(5) Nikola Mektic/Mate Pavic VS Sebastian Baez/Jason Kubler
Followed By
(WC) Petros Tsitsipas/Stefanos Tsitsipas VS (4) Marcelo Arevalo/Jean-Julien Rojer
Followed By
(WC) Daniel Rincon/Abdullah Shelbayh VS (8) Santiago Gonzalez/Edouard Roger-Vasselin

COURT 8 Starts At 11:00 Am

(22) Qinwen Zheng VS Caty McNally
Followed By
Tatjana Maria VS (28) Bernarda Pera
Followed By
(OSE) Sofia Kenin/Magda Linette VS (6) Gabriela Dabrowski/Luisa Stefani
Followed By
Jaqueline Cristian VS (21) Anastasia Potapova
Followed By
Aliaksandra Sasnovich VS (29) Marie Bouzkova

[3mlm]

And, BTW. Leylah lost today to a 15 yo ranked 194 (well, too young to be ranked much higher). She is actually ranked so low her BIO page in the WTA website is empty.

Not making excuses for Leylah, she probably should've won against the very young player, but this is a loss that might not look so bad in a few years. ...

The loss ended up not looking so bad in a few days (one, actually). Andreeva took out Haddad Maia, seeded 13, so maybe this girl can play more than what her ranking right now says.

Andreeva reached the final of the junior Australian Open this year and won two ITF $60K tournaments on clay in April, including a win over Podoroska who reached the FO semifinals a few years ago. She's won six ITF titles overall and is 13-0 in ITF wins this year. She'll be 16 on Sunday.