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Iga Swiatek matched an outstanding Serena Williams statistic as she kept her title defence at the 2025 Madrid Open on track.

The world No 2 earned a strong 6-4, 6-2 third round victory over Linda Noskova at the WTA 1000 clay tournament.

Swiatek has contested some tough battles with Noskova, who beat her at the 2024 Australian Open, but she has now won her last five matches against the Czech and leads the head-to-head 6-1.

“I’m happy with my focus and my attitude today,” Swiatek said in her on-court interview. “It wasn’t easy at the beginning, but I’m happy I just kept calm, even when Linda broke me. It was a good match for sure.

“Every match that [Noskova and I] played was really with high intensity, and really good quality. I knew it’s going to be a challenge, but I just kept being focused on myself. And we kind of know each other’s game. I’m happy that I was more solid at the end.”

The Pole is seeking her first title since she secured her fourth French Open crown and fifth Grand Slam overall in June last year. She has not reached a final since her Roland Garros triumph.

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Swiatek’s win against Noskova improved her win-loss record at the Madrid Open to a stellar 15-2 (88.2%) from the 17 matches she has played at the tournament.

In the process, she has equalled Serena Williams‘ record for the fewest matches taken to record 15 wins at the Madrid Open since the tournament was introduced.

Williams is a two-time Madrid Open winner, having won the event in 2012 and 2013, and she amassed a 20-3 record across her six appearances in the Spanish capital.

Swiatek made her Madrid debut in 2021, losing in the third round to Ashleigh Barty.

The 23-year-old missed the event in 2022 before reaching the final in 2023, when she was beaten by Aryna Sabalenka.

In 2024, Swiatek gained her revenge on Sabalenka in an epic Madrid championship match to claim her maiden title.

What next for Swiatek?

Swiatek will face world No 13 Diana Shnaider in the last 16 of the Madrid Open on Monday.

It will be her first meeting with the 21-year-old Russian star.

Shnaider dismantled 35-year-old Latvian Anastasija Sevastova 6-0, 6-0 in her third round match. Sevastova had upset Swiatek’s nemesis and recent Stuttgart Open champion Jelena Ostapenko in the second round.

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Novak Djokovic suffered yet another shock opening-match loss, this time to Matteo Arnaldi at the 2025 Madrid Masters.

Arnaldi, who collected his second victory over a top-five player, served out the match with ease for a 6-3, 6-4 win to move into the third-round of the ATP Masters 1000 event.

The last time that the former world No 1 left Madrid without a victory was back in 2013, when he lost to Grigor Dimitrov in the round of 32 in a three-set tussle.

This encounter, however, cannot be described as such, with Djokovic several levels below his Madrid best.

“Yeah, pretty much [it feels like a dream] without any doubt,” remarked the Italian.

“He’s my idol, he has always been, so I was just glad that I could play him [Djokovic] because I had never played him – just practised once.

“So, to play him on a stage like this was already a victory for me, but, he’s not at his best right now, so I came on the court to try to play my best tennis and win, and it happened.

“Right now, I don’t even know what to say.”

The Italian had battled through a tough three-set match in the first round against Born Coric, but looked far more comfortable in the Manolo Santana stadium, with a crucial hold at 4-3 in the second after facing three break points proving critical.

In the end, Arnaldi utilised his second match point to claim the biggest win of his career.

“At the start, I just tried to not s*** in my pants to be honest,” said the world No 44, who will next face Damir Dzumhur.

“That was the main thing because, when I got on this court – I had never even practised on this court – so you don’t know anything, you don’t know the points of the court.

“Playing him, I just tried to rally a bit at the start, try to make him make mistakes. Then, the tension started to go away, and he gave me a little bit in a few games.

“For sure, when I broke him, I knew that I was going to be broken back straight after, then I was like ‘ok, that’s a good start.’ After that, it was an escalation and it became quite a good match.

“I have to watch the match again. Like I said, I have been watching him play since I was a kid, nine, ten, I always tried to play like him, so, at that point [in the 4-3 game in the second set], we were pretty similar and I won that point.”

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Meanwhile, Djokovic has been struggling for victories in 2025 – having fallen the his first match at four of his last 5 events, with the exception being at the Miami Masters.

The Serb conceded 32 unforced errors and will need to significantly raise his level at the Rome Masters, if he wishes to capture an elusive 100^th singles title.

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Carlos Alcaraz’s admission that he went partying before his 2023 Wimbledon title run has resulted in a lecture from fellow Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut.

The 21-year-old Alcaraz has been setting the tennis world alight since his teens as he won his maiden Grand Slam at the age of 19 at the 2022 US Open and also became the youngest world No 1 in the process.

Needless to say, the expectations are sky high whenever he enters one of the big tournaments, but he followed up his maiden Grand Slam with some setbacks as he missed the 2023 Australian Open due to injury and then lost in the semi-final of the French Open.

After his Roland Garros exit, Alcaraz opted to take a break and in the recently released Netflix three-part series “Carlos Alcaraz, My Way” he revealed he partied “hard” in Ibiza despite his agent Albert Molina advising him not to go.

“I ended up going and they know what I’m going there to do,” the youngster said. “In Ibiza, I’m not going to lie, it’s pretty much all about partying and going out.

“I basically went there to reventar (literally, ‘burst’), I’m not sure if that’s the best way to put it but I went there to go out.

“I really made the most of it because I knew I might not get another three days like that.”

It didn’t do him any harm as he returned to action with new mindset and ended up winning the Queen’s Club Championship and followed it up with the Wimbledon crown.

Alcaraz added: “When I got back, I won Queen’s and Wimbledon. I’m not saying I won because of the partying but those days were good for me. And I believe if things are going well, you have to keep at it. I had to do it again this year!”

There was no Roland Garros heartbreak in 2024 as he won his first crown in Paris last year and he stuck to his word as he again went to Ibiza.

Although he failed to successfully defend his Queen’s Club title as he lost early, he still managed to win back-to-back Wimbledon titles as he defeated Novak Djokovic for a second consecutive year in the final.

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His unusual approach may have had success the past two years, but veteran player Bautista Agut, has cautioned the four-time major winner against partying too hard.

“I believe that top-level tennis demands a lot. I don’t think Carlos will win Grand Slams by going to bed at seven in the morning,” he told Spanish media.

“Tennis is very demanding, though everything seems beautiful now, he is very young; he has to understand that to match the achievements of the top three, he must play at a high level for fifteen years.

“I consider him intelligent; he will surely gradually realise what it takes to reach that high level and implement it.”

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Emma Raducanu admits there is one key area of her clay-court game that she needs to work on, although she acknowledges she is “not really sure how to improve that”.

The 22-year-old has limited experience playing on the red dirt as last year she featured in six matches for a 4-2 record, in 2023 she played only one match while in 2022 she completed 11 matches (6–5).

After winning her opening match at the 2025 Madrid Open, Raducanu followed it up with a 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 loss against 24th seed Kostyuk.

Despite getting only one win at the WTA 1000 event, the world No 49 is seeing her glass as half full.

“I think it’s positive to get through and play two matches on the outdoor clay courts,” she stated. “I would say that it is pretty noticeable to me that I don’t necessarily feel very comfortable, but I think that’s something that I can improve on and work on.

“And it is my second proper clay season and the first one in three years. So I think I’m just trying to give myself a chance to play as many points as I can on it, and also [I need] time on the court training as well.”

One of the most important features of being a successful clay-court player is the ability to move, especially slide, on the surface and the 2021 US Open winner admits she is yet to master the art.

“I found moving really difficult,” Raducanu added. “I felt like I was slipping around, but it was taking me a long time to get out of the corners and after the serve as well. I’m not really sure how to improve that, so I guess I’ll just take that back and try to work on it in the next week.”

The former world No 10 will now head back to the training court before she returns to action at the Italian Open with the tournament running from May 6 to 18 before the clay-court season comes to a conclusion at the French Open (May 25 to June 8).

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Former British player turned tennis pundit Colin Fleming feels Raducanu can enjoy a successful run on clay this year.

“Emma Raducanu is a competitor. She’ll be disappointed at this stage but I think when the dust settles there’s a lot to take from this match. This was a good level at times on a surface where she hasn’t played a lot of tennis recently,” he told Sky Sports Tennis.

“If she can keep working, keep finding her feet in the clay, her movement, her balance and just comfort on this surface. I think she can still have some great results in this clay-court season and I think it will serve her well for beyond that into the grass and the hard.

“A lot of positives to take from this one.”

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Tennis icon Boris Becker has voiced his concerns about Carlos Alcaraz’s mental health and questioned the way the Spaniard’s team are handling his career.

Prior to the start of the clay season, Alcaraz spoke candidly about the challenges he dealt with during a difficult period this year.

The four-time major champion described his opening match defeat to David Goffin at the Miami Open as the “final straw” and revealed he had considered stepping away from tennis “for months” afterwards.

“In the end, in these situations, you think about a lot of things, and when something that hurt you is so recent, you never really put it into perspective,” the 21-year-old said.

“A lot of thoughts come to mind: stop, stop for a week, skip a tournament, stop for several months, keep training, take a vacation, and then train for what’s next…

“A lot of thoughts came to mind, and one of the best things I did was take a few days off and give myself the opportunity to think clearly and put things into perspective, and then decide from there.”

Having taken a brief holiday with family after Miami, Alcaraz won the Monte Carlo Masters and reached the final of the Barcelona Open.

On an episode of his podcast with former WTA star Andrea Petkovic, Becker addressed Alcaraz’s struggles and asserted that the world No 3 needs to be protected by those around him.

“We’re talking about a 21-year-old who couldn’t cope with the expectations and the pressure anymore,” said the six-time Grand Slam champion. “We’re talking about mental health.

“Someone like that almost reached the point of depression. So those around him have to ask themselves: haven’t we done something wrong? Demanding too much of such a young player? He almost has to act like a machine… at 21 it’s hard to say no.

“We have to protect Carlos from himself. But the point is that you can see that he’s overexerting himself, he does too much and I really hope that whether it’s his coach or his manager or his father, they need to [communicate], because we still need him in ten years.

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“He’s the most spectacular player on the tour right now, he gets the most spectators in, has the largest fanbase, but he can’t play every week.”

The former world No 1 also shed light on a telling conversation he had with Alcaraz at the Laureus World Sports Awards ceremony in Madrid on Monday.

Becker told Alcaraz: “This isn’t a sprint, your life is a marathon.”

Intriguingly, Becker revealed that Alcaraz replied: “You’re right. Talk to my people.”

The German also shared an experience he went through at the same stage of his own career.

“I was also in that phase when I was 21 to 22, when you’re not doing it from your heart, you’re running from one commitment to the next, and the contracts are very high-paying, and the tournaments have signed contracts, which means you are contractually bound and only an injury can save you, but that is not how it should be, which is why I was worried for him,” he explained.

“I hope he will be fit again in time to defend his title at Roland Garros.”

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Emma Raducanu’s run at the 2025 Madrid Open is over after a three-set defeat to world No 36 Marta Kostyuk in the second round.

The British star fell 4-6, 6-2, 2-6 to the 22-year-old Ukrainian in a hard-fought contest on Court 4 at the WTA 1000 tournament.

Raducanu was broken in the opening game of the match before striking back to level at 3-3, but she lost serve for a second time in the seventh game as a competitive opening set slipped away.

The 2021 US Open champion responded superbly in the second set as she raced into a 2-0 lead, and while Kostyuk broke back in the third game, Raducanu broke twice more to take the set in decisive fashion.

In the decider, it was Kostyuk’s turn to react strongly to dropping a set by establishing a 2-0 advantage, but Raducanu drew level at two games apiece.

The Ukrainian was not to be denied, though, as she broke Raducanu’s serve at 2-2 and 4-2 en route to sealing victory after just over two hours and 10 minutes.

Raducanu had started her clay season with a 7-6(4), 6-4 victory over world No 73 Susan Lamens in the opening round in the Spanish capital.

The former world No 10 climbed from 49th to 47th in the Live WTA Rankings with the 35 points earned from her first round win, and she would have risen above 46th-ranked Lulu Sun had she progressed to the third round.

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Raducanu will remain on 1,139 points, and a deeper run in Madrid could have seen the Brit make a more significant rankings jump given she was defending only 10 points from last year’s Madrid Open — when she exited in the first round.

The 22-year-old should leave her first clay-court tournament in a year with plenty of positives, though, after a strong opening round win over Lamens and an encouraging performance against Kostyuk, who has been ranked as high as 16th in the world.

Prior to Madrid, Raducanu had not played since her impressive run to the Miami Open quarter-finals, having opted to pull out of Great Britain’s Billie Jean King Cup qualifying ties in the Netherlands, as well as the WTA 250 tournament in Rouen.

Raducanu is next set to compete at the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome, where she has only played once before — in 2022.

She will have further opportunities to improve her ranking in the coming weeks as she is defending no points until the grass season, having ended her 2024 clay campaign early after Madrid.

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Dominic Thiem has assessed Alexander Zverev’s chances of winning a Grand Slam title and also named his three favourites to win the 2025 French Open.

Zverev secured his first title of 2025 at the ATP 500 tournament in Munich last week, where he cruised past Ben Shelton 6-2, 6-4 in the final.

The world No 2’s triumph on home soil ended a barren run that followed his defeat to Jannik Sinner in the Australian Open final in January — a loss that took his record in major finals to 0-3.

In his maiden Grand Slam championship match, Zverev lost to Thiem in a tension-riddled five-set 2020 US Open battle after leading by two sets to love and serving for the match in the fifth set.

The German also lost in five sets to Carlos Alcaraz in the 2024 French Open title match having held a 2-1 lead in sets.

After Zverev’s Munich Open title win, Thiem revealed he was impressed by his former rival’s performance.

“Sascha was too good. I don’t think Shelton played badly, but I was watching it live and it’s unbelievable,” the Austrian told Sky Sports.

“Shelton served well at 220, 225 km/h and Sascha just stands back and neutralises the balls on the return. That’s sensational. It’s such small things and that’s why he deserved to win.”

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Asked if Zverev can make his Grand Slam breakthrough this year, Thiem identified the German as a leading French Open contender — alongside Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner.

“It’s realistic for Sascha [to win] at every Grand Slam. He’s just so good,” said the former world No 3.

“You saw that in Australia too. I think the slight dip in form he had afterwards is completely normal.

“Now in Munich he has recovered, just at the right time. There are still two cool, big tournaments to go before the French Open.

“He is also one of the absolute top favourites at the French Open with Alcaraz and Sinner. Everything has to go well for a Grand Slam, but if that happens, he’s absolutely capable of winning it.”

Zverev is looking to build on his Munich victory at the Madrid Masters, where he crushed Roberto Bautista Agut 6-2, 6-2 in his opening match.

The 27-year-old is the top seed in Madrid as he chases a third title in the Spanish capital.

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Juan Martin del Potro has proclaimed that Novak Djokovic will be “the best” for as long as he continues playing and expressed his belief that the Serb can win more majors.

Djokovic holds the all-time men’s Grand Slam singles title record, having secured his 24th and most recent major at the 2023 US Open.

The Serbian has won 10 titles at the Australian Open, seven at Wimbledon, four at the US Open and three at the French Open.

The closest Djokovic has come to claiming a 25th Grand Slam crown was at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships, where he was a runner-up to Carlos Alcaraz. He was also a semi-finalist at the last two editions of the Australian Open.

The next stop on Djokovic’s major quest is this year’s French Open, which will be held from May 25 to June 8.

Djokovic, who will turn 38 on May 22, won his 99th and most recent title at the 2024 Paris Olympics in August.

In an interview with Olympics.com, del Potro was asked if the young generation of Joao Fonseca, Jakub Mensik and Learner Tien has the potential to be the best since the Big Three.

“Joao’s generation could be a good generation, but it’s too early to say if they will be as good [as Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz],” said the Argentine.

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“There is potential, but often talent is not enough. It takes work, discipline, being healthy. Besides, Djokovic is still playing and, as long as he’s active, he’s the best.

“Winning a Grand Slam is something very personal for him, I believe. I believe he can win more Slams. In tennis terms, he is the best. He has a lot of experience.

“If he can be in good physical shape, he will keep trying and possibly succeed. It would be a great thing for the world of tennis if he manages to win again after some time, as he did in Paris with the gold medal.”

The 2009 US Open winner and former world No 3 also revealed he would coach Djokovic if his friend and former rival offered him the opportunity.

“I have my tennis academy in Boynton Beach, Florida. That excites me a lot, coaching kids, all kinds of people,” del Potro added when asked about coaching on the tour.

“To be a full-time coach, you have to travel a lot again, be all over the world. I did that for 20 years and I’m tired. But of course, if Novak asks me to work with him, I’ll be happy [laughs]. I couldn’t say no to him, but now I think so. The door is not 100% closed, but I think that moment [to be a coach on the circuit] will come.”

Del Potro officially retired in December after sharing the court with Djokovic in an emotional farewell exhibition match in Buenos Aires.

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After plenty of waiting, Novak Djokovic is finally set to get his Madrid Open campaign underway.

There is plenty at stake for the Serbian in the Spanish capital, as he looks to win his fourth title at the Masters 1000 event – and finally capture his 100th career ATP Tour title.

Djokovic is in Madrid Open action for the first time since 2022 and will take to the court to start his campaign on Saturday after receiving a round-one bye.

And, the fourth seed now knows he will face Matteo Arnaldi in his first match, with the world No 44 fending off qualifier Borna Coric in the opening round.

Arnaldi has been part of a significant Italian surge on the ATP Tour in recent years, though he struggled at points in 2025 – can he challenge Djokovic when they meet this weekend?

Career highlights

Arnaldi made his ATP Tour debut in May 2022 thanks to a wildcard at the Italian Open, and has slowly been working his way towards the upper echelons of the game since then.

His first significant breakthrough came at the US Open in 2023, reaching the fourth round on his event debut before falling to top seed and reigning champion Carlos Alcaraz.

The 24-year-old also reached the second week of Roland Garros in 2024, beating both 29th seed Arthur Fils and sixth seed Andrey Rublev before a loss to ninth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas.

Later in 2024, he would reach his first Masters 1000 semi-final at the Canadian Open, beating the likes of Karen Khachanov and Kei Nishikori ahead of an eventual defeat to Rublev.

His run in Canada propelled him to a career-high of world No 30 last August, with 2024 proving to be the best season of his career to date.

Arnaldi is yet to reach an ATP Tour final but has won six titles across the Challenger and Futures tours, and has recorded four top-10 wins.

The first top-10 win of his career was the biggest win he has achieved by ranking, stunning world No 4 Casper Ruud in the second round of the Madrid Open in 2023.

He went on to beat world No 10 Taylor Fritz at the Mexican Open in 2024, before victories over Rublev at Roland Garros and again in Indian Wells this spring.

2025 so far

Arnaldi’s win over Rublev in Indian Wells was undoubtedly impressive, though it has been a challenging season for the 24-year-old outside of that.

Including his win over Coric on Thursday, the Italian has a 9-9 record for 2025, and has only achieved back-to-back wins on three occasions.

Arnaldi’s best run came as the fourth seed in Delray Beach, beating both Learner Tien and Brandon Nakashima before a semi-final loss to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina.

However, after reaching round three of Indian Wells, a second-round loss to Tomas Machac in Miami kickstarted a run of three straight defeats.

His clay season began with a round-one exit to Richard Gasquet at the Monte Carlo Masters, and he then tasted defeat to Sebastian Korda at the Barcelona Open.

Arnaldi’s 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 triumph over Coric inside the Caja Magica was his first victory in over a month, and his first of the 2025 clay-court season.

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First meeting

An opening match against Arnaldi will represent a new challenge for Djokovic, with the two having never met before on the ATP Tour.

It will be the 37-year-old’s first match since a disappointing start to his clay-court season at the Monte Carlo Masters, where he was beaten in straight sets by Alejandro Tabilo.

The Serbian has not played in Madrid since his dramatic semi-final loss to Carlos Alcaraz back in 2022, though he lifted the title in 2011, 2016, and 2019.

Djokovic and Arnaldi will meet in the third match inside the Manolo Santana Stadium on Saturday, not before 14.30pm local time.

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There is no doubt that the Emma Raducanu-Mark Petchey partnership has the potential to be successful, but one Sky Sports commentator says there is a key area that could be a “problem” in the long run.

The pair’s connection goes back to her junior days as they worked together during the summer of 2020 – the year before Raducanu made her breakthrough at Wimbledon with a run to the fourth round before going on to win the US Open.

Having hired and fired several coaches since her 2021 US Open fairytale run, Raducanu linked up with Petchey at the Miami Open in March and they had instant success.

Following a difficult couple of months, the 22-year-old reached her maiden WTA 1000 quarter-final as she defeated eighth seed Emma Navarro and 17th seed Amanda Anisimova before losing against fourth seed Jessica Pegula.

That run helped her to surge back into the top 50 of the WTA Rankings and there is talk that Raducanu and Petchey could make their coaching partnership permanent.

Sky Sports’ Jonathan Overend feels Petchey is the right man for the job.

“When Petchey appeared courtside in Miami, the results were instant, it was the best tournament of her year so far,” he told Sky Sports Tennis.

“Raducanu has talked about the desire to ask lots of questions to whoever her coach may be, and Petchey absolutely has answers whenever he is asked questions, so I can imagine the conversations between the two being very in-depth.

“It’s encouraging for the future because I still believe Raducanu has a big, big result in her and it may come sooner than we all think.”

Raducanu has admitted recently that “it’s working really well, and it’s nice to be with someone that I feel comfortable with”, but for now the relationship is still “informal”.

Petchey is once again in her camp at the Madrid Open, but if they do decide to make it “formal” then there is one obstacle they need to clear.

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Petchey is currently working with the Tennis Channel in the United States and that could have an impact on his ability to travel with Raducanu to several tournaments.

Overend added: “The problem is going to be time and commitment because Petchey has a job with the Tennis Channel in the States, which takes up a lot of his time.

“The chopping and changing of coaching by Raducanu just illustrates a business mindset whereby if something isn’t working, she is going to change it.

“She is absolutely within her right to make sure she is as comfortable as possible with the people around her. Tennis is a very isolated sport, you’re on the road with your coach and often it’s just the two of you so that one-to-one relationship is so important.”

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