Madrid Open (tennis)

Mutua Madrid Open
Location	Madrid Spain
Venue	Caja Mágica (2009–present) Madrid Arena (2002–2008)
Surface	Hard court (indoors) (2002–2008) Clay court (red) (2009–2011, 2013-present) Clay court (blue) (2012)
Official website
ATP World Tour
Category	Masters 1000
Draw	48S / 24Q / 16D
Prize Money	€2,835,000
WTA Tour
Category	Premier Mandatory
Draw	64M / 32Q / 28D
Prize Money	US$4,942,700

In 2012 blue clay was used

The Madrid Open, currently sponsored by Mutua Madrileña, is a male and female professional tennis tournament, currently held in Madrid, Spain, during the first week of May. The event is classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the Women's Tennis Association tour. In the past it has also been known as the Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open and before that the Madrid Masters. The tournament is traditionally played on a red clay surface. Despite having been played on blue courts in the 2012 tournament edition the ATP decided against it for the 2013 edition.^[1]

Ion Ţiriac, former Romanian ATP player and now billionaire businessman, is the current owner of the tournament.^[2] Țiriac stated that he has an annual net profit of over €35 million and that his tournament brings to Madrid revenues exceeding €200 million.^[3]

History

From 2002, the tournament was classified as an ATP Masters Series event on the men's tour. The event was held since 2002 the Madrid Arena. The tournament was played from 2002 through 2008 on indoor hardcourts. In 2009, the surface became clay courts, the venue was changed to the Park Manzanares, and the tournament was expanded to include WTA professionals.

Blue clay

Businessman and former player Ion Ţiriac, the Romanian owner of the Madrid Masters that since 2009 has been a clay court tournament, proposed a new color of blue clay for all the courts, on the grounds that it would supposedly be better visually, especially for viewers on television. Critics suggested that the adaptation of blue color is a nod to the titular sponsor of the tournament, the Spanish insurance giant Mutua Madrileña. This controversial change was subsequently granted and began to be used in the 2012 edition of the tournament.^[4] In 2009 one of the outer tennis courts had already been made of the new surface for the players to test it. Manuel Santana, the Open's current director, has assured that aside from the colour, the surface keeps the same properties as the traditional red clay.^[5]

On 1 December 2011, Ţiriac confirmed that the blue clay surface was officially approved for the 2012 edition of the tournament, in both the ATP and WTA circuits.^[6]

However, due to many top players' concerns over slipping over and not feeling steady on the surface, the tournament returned to the traditional red clay for 2013.

Records

Men's singles

• Most titles: 4
  • Rafael Nadal (2005, 2010, 2013–14)
• Most finals: 7
  • Rafael Nadal (2005, 2009–11, 2013–15)
• Most consecutive titles: 2
  • Rafael Nadal (2013–14)
• Most consecutive finals: 3
  • Rafael Nadal (2009–11, 2013–15)

Men's doubles

• Most titles: 5
  • Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan (2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013)
  • Daniel Nestor (2002, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2014)
• Most consecutive titles: 2
  • Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor (2004-2005)
  • Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan (2006-2007, 2010-2011)

Women's singles

• Most titles: 2
  • Petra Kvitová (2011, 2015)
  • Serena Williams (2012, 2013)
• Most finals: 2
  • Victoria Azarenka (2011, 2012)
  • Petra Kvitová (2011, 2015)
  • Serena Williams (2012, 2013)
  • Maria Sharapova (2013, 2014)

Women's doubles

• Most titles: 2
  • Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci (2012, 2014)

Past finals

Men

Singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
2002	Andre Agassi	Jiří Novák	W/O
2003	Juan Carlos Ferrero	Nicolás Massú	6–3, 6–4, 6–3
2004	Marat Safin	David Nalbandian	6–2, 6–4, 6–3
2005	Rafael Nadal	Ivan Ljubičić	3–6, 2–6, 6–3, 6–4, 7–6^(7–3)
2006	Roger Federer	Fernando González	7–5, 6–1, 6–0
2007	David Nalbandian	Roger Federer	1–6, 6–3, 6–3
2008	Andy Murray	Gilles Simon	6–4, 7–6^(8–6)
2009*	Roger Federer	Rafael Nadal	6–4, 6–4
2010	Rafael Nadal	Roger Federer	6–4, 7–6^(7–5)
2011	Novak Djokovic	Rafael Nadal	7–5, 6–4
2012	Roger Federer	Tomáš Berdych	3–6, 7–5, 7–5
2013	Rafael Nadal	Stanislas Wawrinka	6–2, 6–4
2014	Rafael Nadal	Kei Nishikori	2–6, 6–4, 3–0, ret.
2015	Andy Murray	Rafael Nadal	6–3, 6–2
2016

Doubles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
2002	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	Mahesh Bhupathi Max Mirnyi	6–3, 7–5, 6-0
2003	Mahesh Bhupathi Max Mirnyi	Wayne Black Kevin Ullyett	6–2, 2–6, 6–3
2004	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–3, 6–4
2005	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	Leander Paes Nenad Zimonjić	3–6, 6–3, 6–2
2006	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	7–5, 6–4
2007	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	6–3, 7–6^(7–4)
2008	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	Mahesh Bhupathi Mark Knowles	6–4, 6–2
2009*	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	Simon Aspelin Wesley Moodie	6–4, 6–4
2010	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	6–3, 6–4
2011	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	Michaël Llodra Nenad Zimonjić	6–3, 6–3
2012	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	Robert Lindstedt Horia Tecău	6–3, 6–4
2013	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	Alexander Peya Bruno Soares	6–2, 6–3
2014	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–4, 6–2
2015	Rohan Bopanna Florin Mergea	Marcin Matkowski Nenad Zimonjić	6–2, 6–7^(5–7), [11–9]

• - As a successor of Hamburg Masters since 2009.

Women

Singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
↓  Premier Mandatory tournament   ↓
2009	Dinara Safina	Caroline Wozniacki	6–2, 6–4
2010	Aravane Rezaï	Venus Williams	6–2, 7–5
2011	Petra Kvitová	Victoria Azarenka	7–6^(7–3), 6–4
2012	Serena Williams	Victoria Azarenka	6–1, 6–3
2013	Serena Williams (2)	Maria Sharapova	6–1, 6–4
2014	Maria Sharapova	Simona Halep	1–6, 6–2, 6–3
2015	Petra Kvitová (2)	Svetlana Kuznetsova	6–1, 6–2

Doubles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
↓  Premier Mandatory tournament   ↓
2009	Cara Black Liezel Huber	Květa Peschke Lisa Raymond	4–6, 6–3, [10–6]
2010	Serena Williams Venus Williams	Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta	6–2, 7–5
2011	Victoria Azarenka Maria Kirilenko	Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik	6–4, 6–3
2012	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina	6–1, 3–6, [10–4]
2013	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Lucie Šafářová	Cara Black Marina Erakovic	6–2, 6–4
2014	Sara Errani (2) Roberta Vinci (2)	Garbiñe Muguruza Carla Suárez Navarro	6–4, 6–3
2015	Casey Dellacqua Yaroslava Shvedova	Garbiñe Muguruza Carla Suárez Navarro	6–3, 6–7^(4–7), [10–5]

See also

• Madrid Tennis Grand Prix
• WTA Madrid Open

References

1. "ATP DECIDES AGAINST BLUE CLAY IN 2013". atpworldtour. 23 June 2012.
2. "Madrid Masters goes bling". tennisworldusa. 8 April 2011.
3. "VIDEO Ion Țiriac e foarte mândru de turneul pe care-l patronează: "Madridul nu avea nimic în afară de Real!"" (in Romanian). Digi Sport. 8 May 2015.
4. http://www.as.com/tenis/articulo/mutua-madrid-open-jugara-pista/20111129dasdasten_7/Tes
5. "Blue clay may be in play". Retrieved 2011-10-17.
6. "Is blue the new red? Madrid's clay court revolution". Retrieved 2011-12-01.

External links

• Official Madrid Open Website

Coordinates: 40°22′08″N 3°41′02″W / 40.3688°N 3.684°W