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

[ponchi101]

Seems like the book is out on Ruud. 3 & 4 loss against Matteo Arnaldi (who?), who came in from the qualies. And this is clay, so I would say Casper has no explanations for this.

[JazzNU]

Seems like the book is out on Ruud. 3 & 4 loss against Matteo Arnaldi (who?), who came in from the qualies. And this is clay, so I would say Casper has no explanations for this.

Not that bad of a loss most likely. One that Casper should win with this being his best surface, but he's clearly in a bit of a slump this season, wouldn't say it's over and done for him anytime soon. Arnaldi is somewhat of an unknown, but not for much longer. He was in the Next Gen Finals last year. He beat Munar last week and this week Paire and Fils (the talented young Frenchmen who has been on the rise recently) in addition to Ruud. I think he's about to crack the top 100 and he's pretty young, so I'm guessing we'll be adding him into the conversation of the Italian men's resurgence.

[skatingfan]

We'll have a much better idea where Ruud's game, and head are at after the French Open. He has a fair number of points to defend through till the end of the clay court season, but so far he's matched last year's results with the exception that he lost 45 points because he didn't play Munich, probably because of the changes to Rome & Madrid.

[Owendonovan]

Ruud's rut strikes me as a personal issue, not really a tennis issue, distracted.

[ti-amie]

Saturday, April 29, 2023 Day 6

MANOLO SANTANA STADIUM Starts At 11:00 Am

(Q) Andrea Vavassori VS (2) Daniil Medvedev
Not Before 1:00 PM
(WC) Camila Osorio VS (2) Aryna Sabalenka
Not Before 4:00 PM
(6) Coco Gauff VS (26) Paula Badosa
Not Before 8:00 Pm
(WC) Dominic Thiem VS (4) Stefanos Tsitsipas
Followed By
(WC) Rebeka Masarova VS (9) Maria Sakkari

ARANTXA SANCHEZ STADIUM Starts At 11:00 Am

(24) Elise Mertens VS Jule Niemeier
Followed By
(7) Felix Auger-Aliassime VS Dusan Lajovic
Followed By
(8) Taylor Fritz VS Christopher O'Connell
Followed By
(21) Denis Shapovalov VS Zhizhen Zhang
Not Before 6:00 PM
(5) Caroline Garcia VS Mayar Sherif

STADIUM 3 Starts At 11:00 Am

(31) Irina-Camelia Begu VS (33) Shelby Rogers
Followed By
(14) Liudmila Samsonova VS (19) Jelena Ostapenko
Followed By
Bernabe Zapata Miralles VS (19) Daniel Evans
Followed By
Tomas Martin Etcheverry VS (9) Frances Tiafoe
Followed By
(Q) Yosuke Watanuki VS (11) Cameron Norrie

COURT 4 Starts At 11:00 Am

(31) Jiri Lehecka VS (Q) Alexander Shevchenko
Followed By
(14) Tommy Paul VS (Q) Roman Safiullin
Followed By
(WC) Mirra Andreeva VS (17) Magda Linette
Followed By
(24) Francisco Cerundolo VS Pedro Cachin
Followed By
(1) Wesley Koolhof/Neal Skupski VS Kevin Krawiez/Tim Puetz

COURT 5 Starts At 11:00 Am

(LL) Jan-Lennard Struff VS (32) Ben Shelton
Followed By
(16) Alex de Minaur VS (Q) Marco Cecchinato
Followed By
Cristian Garin VS (27) Miomir Kecmanovic
Followed By
(3) Ivan Dodig/Austin Krajicek VS Simone Bolelli/Fabrice Martin

COURT 6 Starts At 11:00 Am

Jamie Murray/Michael Venus VS (2) Rajeev Ram/Joe Salisbury
Followed By
(Q) Aslan Karatsev VS (23) Botic van de Zandschulp
Followed By
(25) Sebastian Baez VS Marcos Giron
Followed By
Hugo Nys/Jan Zielinski VS Alexander Erler/Lucas Miedler
Followed By
Matwe Middelkoop/Andreas Mies VS Maximo Gonzalez/Andres Molteni

COURT 7 Starts At 11:00 Am

Su-Wei Hsieh/Barbora Strycova VS Hao-Ching Chan/Latisha Chan
Followed By
Laura Siegemund/Vera Zvonareva VS Anna Kalinskaya/Caty McNally
Followed By
Tereza Mihalikova/Alycia Parks VS Oksana Kalashnikova/Yana Sizikova
Followed By
Giuliana Olmos/Alexandra Panova VS Kirsten Flipkens/Alicja Rosolska
After Suitable Rest
Leylah Fernandez/Taylor Townsend VS (2) Lyudmyla Kichenok/Jelena Ostapenko

COURT 8 Starts At 11:00 Am

(5) Nicole Melichar-Martinez/Ellen Perez VS Miyu Kato/Aldila Sutjiadi
Followed By
Marcel Granollers/Horacio Zeballos VS Karen Khachanov/Andrey Rublev
Not Before 2:00 Pm
Rafael Matos/David Vega Hernandez VS (WC) Roberto Carballes Baena/Martin Landaluce
After Suitable Rest
(4) Storm Hunter/Elise Mertens VS (OSE) Daria Kasatkina/Martina Trevisan
Followed By
TBD VS (OSE) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova/Elena Rybakina

[ashkor87]

Samsonova justifying my confidence in her.. that was an impressive demolition of Ostapenko.. the players seem to find that the ball flies a bit too much at Madrid, because of the altitude, maybe doesnt suit Ostapenko's flat out hitting..
anyway, one should not read too much into Madrid.. the champion at Madrid seldom goes on to win at RG (except if his name is Nadal)..

[JazzNU]

Ruud's rut strikes me as a personal issue, not really a tennis issue, distracted.

I don't have any information about this, but there were commentators on his final Aussie Open match that felt the need to tell me something similar in a very strange and offputting way, so there definitely might be something to your theory.

[JazzNU]

Petkovic said during the Karatsev vs. Van de Zandschulp, that "Van de Zandschulp just looks perpetually disappointed by life." Absolutely dying. Not sure if she'll stick around with the commentating, but she's been growing on me. I think who she partners with matters right now, but probably won't as much later on.

[mick1303]

15 yo continues her run. 3rd top 50 win in a raw. Actually two of them is top 20.

[ponchi101]

Petkovic said during the Karatsev vs. Van de Zandschulp, that "Van de Zandschulp just looks perpetually disappointed by life." Absolutely dying. Not sure if she'll stick around with the commentating, but she's been growing on me. I think who she partners with matters right now, but probably won't as much later on.

Botic is Dutch. Now, I really don't want to go for the stereotypes but, when a GERMAN WOMAN says that you are perpetually disappointed by life, well...
(How I wish I could listen to her. Here? Today they decided not to show any matches. NONE. Why? Football )

[ashkor87]

Samsonova doing well... as I expected.. her game is good for this surface.. not sure she can do well at Rome or RG but hoping she can..

[ponchi101]

15 yo continues her run. 3rd top 50 win in a raw. Actually two of them is top 20.

Further up the topic I mentioned that Leylah's 1R loss looked very bad. JazzNu corrected me a bit, the next day Andreeva's win over BHM provided some data for that correction, today's win proved me totally wrong.
Not only she won, the score was convincing. Near-future top 20?

[ashkor87]

Petkovic said during the Karatsev vs. Van de Zandschulp, that "Van de Zandschulp just looks perpetually disappointed by life." Absolutely dying. Not sure if she'll stick around with the commentating, but she's been growing on me. I think who she partners with matters right now, but probably won't as much later on.

Petkovic was always one of the most thoughtful players around.. a bit too much into philosophy, perhaps but really insightful.. her remarks on Serena versus Osaka are very insightful too..

[ti-amie]

Sunday, April 30, 2023 Day 7

MANOLO SANTANA STADIUM Starts At 11:00 Am

(10) Karen Khachanov VS (20) Roberto Bautista Agut
Not Before 1:00 PM
(3) Jessica Pegula VS (29) Marie Bouzkova
Not Before 4:00 PM
(1) Iga Swiatek VS (28) Bernarda Pera
Followed By
Wheelchair Exhibition

Not Before 8:00 Pm
(1) Carlos Alcaraz VS (26) Grigor Dimitrov
Followed By
(29) Alejandro Davidovich Fokina VS (6) Holger Rune

ARANTXA SANCHEZ STADIUM Starts At 11:00 Am

Lesia Tsurenko VS (8) Daria Kasatkina
Followed By
(28) Yoshihito Nishioka VS (5) Andrey Rublev
Not Before 2:00 Pm
(Q) Hugo Grenier VS (13) Alexander Zverev
Not Before 6:00 PM
(11) Barbora Krejcikova VS Xiyu Wang
Not Before 8:00 PM
(22) Qinwen Zheng VS (16) Ekaterina Alexandrova

STADIUM 3 Starts At 11:00 Am

(Q) Matteo Arnaldi VS Jaume Munar
Followed By
(12) Veronika Kudermetova VS (21) Anastasia Potapova
Followed By
(27) Petra Martic VS Anna Kalinskaya
Followed By
(12) Hubert Hurkacz VS (17) Borna Coric
Followed By
(LL) Daniel Altmaier VS (Q) Yannick Hanfmann

COURT 4 Starts At 11:00 Am

(18) Martina Trevisan VS Alycia Parks
Followed By
Nathaniel Lammons/Jackson Withrow VS Jamie Murray/Michael Venus
Followed By
Taylor Fritz/Frances Tiafoe VS (4) Marcelo Arevalo/Jean-Julien Rojer
Followed By
(6) Lloyd Glasspool/Harri Heliovaara VS Felix Auger-Aliassime/Denis Shapovalov
Followed By
Hugo Nys/Jan Zielinski Or Alexander Erler/Lucas Miedler VS (8) Santiago Gonzalez/Edouard Roger-Vasselin
Followed By
Ivan Dodig/Austin Krajicek Or Simone Bolelli/Fabrice Martin VS Matwe Middelkoop/Andreas Mies Or Maximo Gonzalez/Andres Molteni

COURT 5 Starts At 11:00 Am

(WC) Erika Andreeva/Mirra Andreeva VS (6) Gabriela Dabrowski/Luisa Stefani
Followed By
(8) Yifan Xu/Zhaoxuan Yang VS (WC) Paula Badosa/Bethanie Mattek-Sands
After Suitable Rest
TBD VS Monica Niculescu/Makoto Ninomiya
After Suitable Rest
(1) Coco Gauff/Jessica Pegula VS TBD
After Suitable Rest
Anna Kalinskaya/Caty McNally VS (OSE) Victoria Azarenka/Beatriz Haddad Maia

[ti-amie]

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