ATP M1000 WTA 1000 Madrid 4/22 - 5/4 2025

[ponchi101]

I was expecting Mirra to win. But the score is indeed surprising.
Coco fluctuates quite a bit; but she likes clay and it gives her a nice, high bounce to play with. Her extreme FH grip is not affected that much.

[ashkor87]

Apparently Coco lost only 1 point on serve in the second set!

[ashkor87]

Meanwhile, a bagel for swiatek...has that ever happened before?!

[Suliso]

I was only scoreboard watching, but Mirra was serving at 5-4, 40-15 before collapsing for whatever reason.

[JTContinental]

Apparently Coco lost only 1 point on serve in the second set!

And it was match point!

[ti-amie]

ORDER OF PLAY - THURSDAY, 01 MAY 2025

Manolo Santana Stadium - start 1 p.m.

ATP - [14] Casper Ruud (NOR) vs [9] Daniil Medvedev

Not Before 4 p.m.
WTA - [4] Coco Gauff (USA) vs [2] Iga Swiatek (POL)

Not Before 8 p.m.
ATP - [10] Lorenzo Musetti (ITA) vs [LL] Gabriel Diallo (CAN)

Not Before 9:30 p.m.
WTA - [1] Aryna Sabalenka vs (UKR) vs [17] Elina Svitolina (UKR)

Arantxa Sanchez Stadium - start 1 p.m.

ATP - [5] Marcel Granollers (ESP) / Horacio Zeballos (ARG) vs [2] Harri Heliovaara (FIN) / Henry Patten (GBR)

Not Before 3 p.m.
ATP - [20] Francisco Cerundolo (ARG) vs [22] Jakub Mensik (CZE)
ATP - [5] Jack Draper (GBR) vs Matteo Arnaldi (ITA)

Stadium 3 - start 1 p.m.

ATP - [1] Marcelo Arevalo (ESA) / Mate Pavic (CRO) vs [6] Nikola Mektic (CRO) / Michael Venus (NZL)
ATP - Sander Gille (BEL) / Jan Zielinski (POL) vs [3] Kevin Krawietz (GER) / Tim Puetz (GER)
ATP - Christian Harrison (USA) / Evan King (USA) vs Maximo Gonzalez (ARG) / Andres Molteni (ARG)

[jazzyg]

Swiatek no longer is the favorite to win Roland Garros. In fact, I'd be surprised if it happened, and I'm even more surprised to be writing that.

She was lucky to win it last year. Osaka had her dead to rights before getting tight, or the what's wrong with Swiatek narrative would have started much earlier.

[ashkor87]

What a serving performance from Coco !!

[JTContinental]

A title here will put Gauff back at #2

[mick1303]

Swiatek no longer is the favorite to win Roland Garros. In fact, I'd be surprised if it happened, and I'm even more surprised to be writing that.

She was lucky to win it last year. Osaka had her dead to rights before getting tight, or the what's wrong with Swiatek narrative would have started much earlier.

I see a strong correlation between her decline and the debacle with doping suspension. Which happened a lot later. I'm convinced that she got a raw deal with how it was handled. Now I'm actually worried that Sinner will have a similar slump.

[JTContinental]

They’re both convicted dopers—the fallout from that is all on them

[ponchi101]

Agree that she is no longer the favorite at RG.
But I have buried other players way too prematurely, only to have to eat my words on a nice slice of toasted bread. I will not be surprised if she wins it again,
But I know give her less than 50% of a chance. Way less.

[ponchi101]

Swiatek no longer is the favorite to win Roland Garros. In fact, I'd be surprised if it happened, and I'm even more surprised to be writing that.

She was lucky to win it last year. Osaka had her dead to rights before getting tight, or the what's wrong with Swiatek narrative would have started much earlier.

Agree that Naomi had her. But she then crushed everybody else.
And that is the nature of the sport. Let's not forget that in January, it went backwards. Swiatek held MP against Maddie, but did not convert. And we are not invalidating Maddie's Aussie just because of that.

[ti-amie]

ORDER OF PLAY - FRIDAY, 02 MAY 2025

Manolo Santana Stadium - start 1:30 PM

WTA - Victoria Azarenka / Ashlyn Krueger (USA) vs Veronika Kudermetova / Elise Mertens (BEL)

Not Before 4:00 PM
ATP - [20] Francisco Cerundolo (ARG) vs [14] Casper Ruud (NOR)

Not Before 8:00 PM
ATP - [5] Jack Draper (GBR) vs [10] Lorenzo Musetti (ITA)
WTA - Sorana Cirstea (ROU) / Anna Kalinskaya vs [3] Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) / Jelena Ostapenko (LAT)

Arantxa Sanchez Stadium - start 1:30 PM

ATP - [3] Kevin Krawietz (GER) / Tim Puetz (GER) vs [5] Marcel Granollers (ESP) / Horacio Zeballos (ARG)

Not Before 5:00 PM
ATP - [1] Marcelo Arevalo (ESA) / Mate Pavic (CRO) vs Christian Harrison (USA) / Evan King (USA)

[ashkor87]

Wonder which Coco will show up in the finals against Saba...the one who has been serving bombs or double faults .if the former, she will win...