The Mutua Madrid Open is one of the most important tournaments on both the male and female circuit today. It has been held in the Spanish capital since 2002 and was originally a male only competition played indoors and on hard court.
However, in 2009 it opened its doors to the WTA circuit and changed to an outdoor clay competition. It is played in May just before the second Grand Slam of the season, the Roland Garros, in the luxurious surroundings of the Caja Magica. Since the tournament was revamped it is now a Masters 1000 event in the men’s category and a Premier event in the women’s, placed only behind the Grand Slams in terms of precedence.
The Mutua Madrid Open is the second most important clay court competition in the world, and beginning in 2012 will be the only clay tournament to be played on a blue surface. A glance at some of the names to have won the ATP title here in previous years points to the prestige of the tournament: Andre Agassi, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Marat Safin, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. Nadal and Federer have both been crowned champion here twice, but their success is eclipsed by the Bryan brothers, Bob and Mke, who have won the doubles category four times.
The female category of the competition has only had three editions, however, of the six players to reach the finals, four of them have led the WTA rankings, such as Dinara Safina, the first woman to triumph here. Petra Kvitova, for her part, picked up the title in 2011 and since then has seen her career rise meteorically, winning Wimbledon and the WTA Championships as well as being voted as WTA player of the year.
Blue ClayBusinessman 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.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 color the surface keeps the same properties as the traditional red clay.
In 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.
MEN'S SINGLES
http://www.madrid-open.com/wp-content/uplo...ingles-draw.pdfWOMEN'S SINGLES
http://www.madrid-open.com/wp-content/uplo...ingles-Draw.pdfDay 1 Results Women's -- First Round
No. 5 Sam Stosur d. Petra Martic 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (5)
Sorana Cirstea d. No. 7 Marion Bartoli 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-3
No. 8 Na Li d. Garbine Mugurza Blanco 6-2, 6-4
Petra Cetkovska d. No. 10 Vera Zvonareva 6-2, 6-2
Venus Williams d. Simona Halep 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (6)
Silivia Soler-Espinosa d. Tamira Paszek 6-7 (2), 6-2, 6-2
Christina McHale d. Sofia Arvidsson 6-4, 7-5
Mona Barthel d. Julia Goerges 6-4, 6-1
Klara Zakopalova d. Iveta Benesova 6-4, 7-6 (5)
Day 2 Results Women's -- First Round
No. 1 Victoria Azarenka d. Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-6 (5), 6-4
No. 2 Maria Sharapova d. Irina-Camelia Begu 6-0, 6-3
No. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska d. Lara Arruabarrena-Veci 6-3, 6-1
No. 6 Caroline Wozniacki d. Ksenia Pervak 7-6 (7), 3-6, 6-4
Varvara Lepchenko d. No. 11 Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 6-7 (8), 6-3
No. 12 Angelique Kerber d. Johanna Larsson 6-1, 6-4
No. 13 Ana Ivanovic d. Mathilde Johansson 6-4, 6-1
Roberta Vinci d. No. 14 Dominika Cibulkova 6-3, 6-2
No. 16 Maria Kirilenko d. Jie Zheng 6-2, 7-5
Nadia Petrova d. Vania King 4-6, 6-3, 6-1
Yanina Wickmayer d. Jarmila Gajdosova 6-2, 6-4
Shahar Peer d. Polona Hercog 6-3, 7-5
Anabel Medina Garrigues d. Tsvetnana Pironkova 6-0, 6-2
Lourdes Dominiguez Lino d. Monica Niculescu 6-0, 7-6 (6)
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-2, 6-7 (6), 6-1
Men's -- First Round
Kevin Anderson d. Alex Bogomolov Jr. 6-3, 6-2
Nikolay Davydenko d. Ivo Karlovic 7-6 (4), 6-3
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