View FedEx ATP Head2Head for the following match-ups Tuesday at the Mutua Madrid Open & vote for who you think will win!
A Zverev v Verdasco | M Zverev v Coric | Robredo v Almagro
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View Tuesday schedule, featuring top seed Andy Murray against Marius Copil, and check back later for preview notes.
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• There are nine first round and three second round singles matches on Tuesday’s schedule at the Mutua Madrid Open with World No. 1 Andy Murray, No. 8 seed Dominic Thiem and No. 9 seed David Goffin leading the way.
• In the opening match on Manolo Santana, big-serving Croat Ivo Karlovic takes on Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut for the first time. Karlovic is looking to break a five-match Madrid losing streak since his 1R win in 2010. In his last tournament in Budapest, Karlovic reached the quarter-finals. Bautista Agut enters with a 19-7 match record on the season and he’s trying to become the seventh player on the ATP World Tour to win 20 matches in 2017. Last week he advanced to the semi-finals in Munich where he lost to eventual champion Alexander Zverev.
• In the third match on, Murray and Romanian wild card Marius Copil square off for the first time. Murray, who won Madrid titles in 2008 and 2015 and reached the final last year, has never lost in his opening match here (10-0). In Murray’s last tournament in Barcelona he advanced to the semi-finals (l. to Thiem). Copil saved two match points in his 2h 52m win over Garcia-Lopez on Monday. The 26-year-old Romanian is looking for his first career Top 10 win (0-3).
• In the evening session, #NextGenATP star Alexander Zverev, fresh off his third career ATP World Tour title in Munich on Sunday, plays hometown favorite Fernando Verdasco, who won the previous meeting in three sets in the 1R of 2015 Metz. The 20-year-old German is making his main draw debut in Madrid. Verdasco is making his 15th straight start in the Mutua Madrid Open. His best results are quarter-finals in 2009 and 2012.
• On Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, local wild cards Tommy Robredo and Nicolas Almagro get things underway. Almagro holds a 7-1 head-to-head advantage and this is their first meeting on Spanish soil. Both players have 9-10 career records in Madrid. Next up is Benoit Paire, who celebrated his 28th birthday on Monday, against Pablo Carreno Busta, who is coming off his third career ATP World Tour title in Estoril on Sunday. This is their fifth meeting (tied 2-2). In the last men’s match on, Frenchmen Pierre-Hugues Herbert, a qualifier, and No. 13 seed Lucas Pouille meet for the second time. Pouille won the first meeting in Metz last year.
• On Estadio 3, Albert Ramos-Vinolas looks for his second win against Diego Schwartzman. Goffin, who is second on the ATP World Tour with 25 wins this season (behind Nadal 29), follows against Florian Mayer, who has won two of the previous three meetings. In the last match on, Thiem and #NextGenATP lucky loser Jared Donaldson, meet for the first time.
