Mutua Madrid Open
Tournament information
Location	Madrid Spain
Venue	Madrid Arena (2002–2008) Caja Mágica (since 2009)
Surface	Hard - indoors (2002–2008) Clay - outdoors (since 2009)
Website	madrid-open.com
Current champions (2018)
Men's singles	Alexander Zverev
Women's singles	Petra Kvitová
Men's doubles	Nikola Mektić Alexander Peya
Women's doubles	Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina
ATP World Tour Category Masters 1000 Draw 56S / 28Q / 24D Prize money €6,408,230 (2017)
WTA Tour Category Premier Mandatory Draw 64S / 32Q / 28D Prize money US$5,439,350 (2017)

In 2012 blue clay was used for the first time in professional tennis

The Madrid Open, sponsored by Mutua Madrileña and so known as Mutua (Madrileña) Madrid Open, is a joint men's and women's professional tennis tournament, held in Madrid, during early May. The clay court event is classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 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 Madrid Masters. The tournament is traditionally played on a red clay surface. The event was played on blue courts in the 2012 tournament edition, with the ATP deciding against blue thereafter.^[1]

Ion Țiriac, a Romanian former ATP player and now billionaire businessman, has been the owner of the tournament since 2009.^[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[edit]

From its inauguration as a men's only event in 2002, the tournament was classified as one of the ATP Masters Series tournaments. It was held from 2002 to 2007 in the Madrid Arena as the first of two Master's indoor hard court late season events that preceded the ATP Tour Finals (also indoors). In 2009, tournament was transformed, expanding to include a premier women's contest and shifting to an earlier period of the tennis season to become the second Master's tournament of the spring European clay court swing; and moving outdoors to Park Manzanares, where a new complex with a retractable-roof equipped main court was constructed, the Caja Magica.

Blue clay[edit]

Tiriac proposed and implemented in 2012 a new color of blue clay for all the courts' surfaces, motivating that it would supposedly be better visually, especially for viewers on television (analogous to some hardcourt surface events migrating to blue from various previous color schemes). Some speculated that the adaptation of blue color was 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, Țiriac 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, after the event took place in 2012, threats of future boycotts from some players, especially Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic (who both lost on the blue surface), led the tournament to return to the traditional red clay for the 2013 season.^[7]

Past finals[edit]

Men[edit]

Singles[edit]

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
2002	Andre Agassi	Jiří Novák	Walkover
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)
Changed from Hard to Clay Court
2009	Roger Federer (2)	Rafael Nadal	6–4, 6–4
2010	Rafael Nadal (2)	Roger Federer	6–4, 7–6(7–5)
2011	Novak Djokovic	Rafael Nadal	7–5, 6–4
2012	Roger Federer (3)	Tomáš Berdych	3–6, 7–5, 7–5
2013	Rafael Nadal (3)	Stanislas Wawrinka	6–2, 6–4
2014	Rafael Nadal (4)	Kei Nishikori	2–6, 6–4, 3–0 Ret.
2015	Andy Murray (2)	Rafael Nadal	6–3, 6–2
2016	Novak Djokovic (2)	Andy Murray	6–2, 3–6, 6–3
2017	Rafael Nadal (5)	Dominic Thiem	7–6(10–8), 6–4
2018	Alexander Zverev	Dominic Thiem	6–4, 6–4

Doubles[edit]

Year	Champions	Runners-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 (2) Daniel Nestor (2)	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–3, 6–4
2005	Mark Knowles (3) Daniel Nestor (3)	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 (2) Mike Bryan (2)	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	6–3, 7–6(7–4)
2008	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	Mahesh Bhupathi Mark Knowles	6–4, 6–2
2009[Note 1]	Daniel Nestor (4) Nenad Zimonjić	Simon Aspelin Wesley Moodie	6–4, 6–4
2010	Bob Bryan (3) Mike Bryan (3)	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	6–3, 6–4
2011	Bob Bryan (4) Mike Bryan (4)	Michaël Llodra Nenad Zimonjić	6–3, 6–3
2012	Mariusz Fyrstenberg (2) Marcin Matkowski (2)	Robert Lindstedt Horia Tecău	6–3, 6–4
2013	Bob Bryan (5) Mike Bryan (5)	Alexander Peya Bruno Soares	6–2, 6–3
2014	Daniel Nestor (5) Nenad Zimonjić (2)	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]
2016	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău	Rohan Bopanna Florin Mergea	6–4, 7–6(7–5)
2017	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	Nicolas Mahut Édouard Roger-Vasselin	7–5, 6–3
2018	Nikola Mektić Alexander Peya	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	5–3, ret.

Women[edit]

Singles[edit]

Year	Champions	Runners-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
2016	Simona Halep	Dominika Cibulková	6–2, 6–4
2017	Simona Halep (2)	Kristina Mladenovic	7–5, 6–7(5–7), 6–2
2018	Petra Kvitová (3)	Kiki Bertens	7–6(8–6), 4–6, 6–3

Doubles[edit]

Year	Champions	Runners-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]
2016	Caroline Garcia Kristina Mladenovic	Martina Hingis Sania Mirza	6–4, 6–4
2017	Chan Yung-jan Martina Hingis	Tímea Babos Andrea Hlaváčková	6–4, 6–3
2018	Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina	Tímea Babos Kristina Mladenovic	2–6, 6–4, [10–8]

Records[edit]

Men's singles[edit]

• Most titles: 5
  
  • 
    Rafael Nadal (2005, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2017)


• Most finals: 8
  
  • 
    Rafael Nadal (2005, 2009–11, 2013–15, 2017)


• Most consecutive titles: 2
  
  • 
    Rafael Nadal (2013–14)


• Most consecutive finals: 3
  
  • 
    Rafael Nadal (2009–11, 2013–15)

Men's doubles[edit]

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


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

Women's singles[edit]

• Most titles: 3
  
  • 
    Petra Kvitová (2011, 2015, 2018)


• Most finals: 3
  
  • 
    Simona Halep (2014, 2016, 2017)
  
  
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    Petra Kvitová (2011, 2015, 2018)
  
  

Women's doubles[edit]

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

See also[edit]

• Madrid Tennis Grand Prix


• WTA Madrid Open

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official Madrid Open Website

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