View FedEx ATP Head2Head for the following match-ups Monday at the Mutua Madrid Open & vote for who you think will win! Dimitrov v Kohlschreiber | Monfils v Simon | Kyrgios v Baghdatis [GROUP POLL]39[/GROUP POLL] View Monday schedule and check back later for preview notes • Gael Monfils seeks his 400th victory on the ATP World Tour when he meets a countryman who’s already achieved that milestone, Gilles Simon, at the Mutua Madrid Open on Monday. The 15th-seeded Monfils would be the 18th active man to reach 400 wins, joining fellow Frenchmen Simon (412), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (405) and Richard Gasquet (468). Monfils is 2-6 lifetime against Simon. • Simon is one of six men in action on Monday who...
Novak Djokovic enters this week's Mutua Madrid Open in a situation unlike any he has experienced during the past decade. The defending champion arrives at the Spanish capital after having severed ties with his long-time team of coach Marian Vajda, fitness coach Gebhard Phil Gritsch and physiotherapist Miljan Amanovic. But Djokovic, who announced the split on his website last week, said he's excited about this new phase of his career and is energised by the challenge of returning to the top of the ATP World Tour. “It was not an easy decision, neither for my team nor for me... This team has been there with me ever since I started a professional career. So it's been 10 fantastic, successful years,”...
Although Rafael Nadal has been garnering the most attention so far this clay-court season, World No. 1 Andy Murray expects to generate headlines of his own at the Mutua Madrid Open. The top seed will open his campaign against a wild card in Guillermo Garcia-Lopez or Marius Copil. After defeating Rafael Nadal to win the 2015 Madrid title and finishing runner-up last year to Novak Djokovic, he believes the environment at La Caja Mágica offers everything he needs to have another big week at this event. “It's a great city, beautiful city. The venue is great for the fans. You have some really good courts. There's lots of fans watching the practices,” said Murray. “We have a lot of space...
In some ways, not much has changed for Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic since the 2016 Mutua Madrid Open. A year later, both men still sit atop the Emirates ATP Rankings, and this year, just like last, the Scot and the Serbian are among the favourites to win the season's second ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament on clay. But in other ways, much is different for the World No. 1 and No. 2, as both players head to this week's Mutua Madrid Open seeking similar reboots to their 2017 campaigns if they plan to keep their comfortable advantages atop the Emirates ATP Rankings. Djokovic, the 2016 Madrid champion, will be defending 1,000 Emirates ATP Rankings points, and Murray, last...
Rafael Nadal has looked untouchable this clay-court season, but he could face arguably his toughest test yet early at the Mutua Madrid Open. The 29-time ATP World Tour Masters 1000 champion is seeded to meet Australian shotmaker Nick Kyrgios in the third round. View Draw Kyrgios, the 16th seed in Madrid, will return to action next week after withdrawing from Estoril following the passing of his grandfather. A semi-finalist in Miami in his most recent Masters 1000 outing, Kyrgios will first need to come through an opening-round match against veteran Marcos Baghdatis and a potential second-round battle over fellow Aussie Bernard Tomic. Meanwhile, third seed Nadal could have a tricky opening match against the winner of Portugal's Joao Sousa and...
