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Jannik Sinner has revealed whether he considered skipping the 2026 Madrid Open to rest after winning his previous three tournaments.

Prior to Madrid, Sinner began the clay-court season by securing his maiden title at the Monte Carlo Masters, where he defeated Carlos Alcaraz in the final. This triumph saw Sinner replace Alcaraz as the world No 1.

In March, Sinner won the back-to-back Masters 1000 events in Indian Wells and Miami to complete the Sunshine Double for the first time.

The 24-year-old Italian is just the second player to win Indian Wells, Miami and Monte Carlo in the same season after Novak Djokovic in 2015.

Some had expected Sinner to pull out of Madrid given his exploits since the start of March, but he chose to compete, and he has extending his winning streak to 19 matches by bearing Benjamin Bonzi and Elmer Moller.

If Sinner secures the title at Caja Magica, he will become the first player in history to win the first four ATP Masters 1000 tournaments on the calendar.

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In an interview on Tennis Channel Live, Sinner was asked if it was always his plan to play in Madrid.

“I mean, yes and no,” the four-time major champion replied. “When I won, or when I finished there in Monaco, I said, you know, in three, four days we decide if we play or if we don’t play.

“I woke up quite good body-wise. I was like, why not? So we go here, we try how my body feels.

“Even though the body is the most important, and I will always protect it, also for future events and also for future years.

“I made choices last year. I made choices a couple of years ago by not playing certain events. When I feel like that’s the right thing to do, I’m always going to do it.

“And also, in the middle of tournaments, you know? When I feel like it’s getting too much for the body, I’m not scared to say no.

“But at the moment, I feel quite good. Also mentally, in a quite good position, even though I played a lot in the last month.

“So let’s see, but I’m happy to be here, I’m happy to play at least one more match here, and then we’ll see how it goes.”

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Aryna Sabalenka had to dig deep as she overcame an impressive performance from Naomi Osaka at the Madrid Open.

The World No 1 entered the clay tournament as the clear favourite but her progress to the fourth round looked under threat when Osaka won the opening set tie break.

But Sabalenka showed her class in the second, winning 6-3, which took the momentum out of Osaka and the deciding set finished 6-2.

When Sabalenka looks back on where she can improve from this match, undoubtedly the answer will be converting break points as she managed to finish just four of 14 presented opportunities. Osaka on the overhand was 100% with her one from one.

It was also a match with an unusually high number of double faults as Sabalenka hit six and Osaka five.

After her progression into the next round was confirmed, Sabalenka praised Osaka for performing at such a high level given her maternity leave with the contest lasting two hours and 20 minutes.

“That was an incredible level,” she said. “She played really incredible tennis. I feel like I just got lucky a couple of shots in the third set. That’s why it went that fast.

“But overall, it was a really incredible fight. I’m happy that she brought the fight. I had to fight through. I had to level up my game and I’m happy with the performance.

“She’s such an inspiration and coming back out of pregnancy in sport like tennis, it’s not that easy at all. And to see her back in the top 20, for sure, she’s going towards the top 10. It’s incredible. It’s inspiring.

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“She gives all of us hope that we can go for [have a] baby and we can come back and still play that level of tennis. It’s inspiring.”

Sabalenka was also asked about the praise of Brazilian fans given she is now married to one and said that helped push her through.

“My Brazilian fans, they’re the best. They turn on the volume at the right moment, and it really, really helped me. So, yeah, I really appreciated their support. So it’s honestly incredible to feel in the arena.”

The head-to-head is now 2-1 in Sabalenka’s favour who has beaten Osaka twice already this year.

Osaka’s win meanwhile came in 2018 at the US Open when she defeated the then-No 26 Sabalenka.

Sabalenka will now face World No 32 Hailey Baptiste in the quarter finals while Osaka has gained 17 ranking points from the tournament.

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World No 4 Iga Swiatek has shared a message on social media after she was forced to retire at the 2026 Madrid Open on what she described as “a real rough day.”

The six-time Grand Slam champion retired due to a virus when trailing 6-7(4), 6-2, 0-3 against world No 34 Ann Li in the third round in Madrid.

Swiatek is next set to compete at the Italian Open, which will be held from 5 to 17 May. The former world No 1 won the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome in 2021, 2022 and 2024.

In a post on her Instagram account, Swiatek wrote: “What can I say? It was a real rough day.

“It stings not having full control over my performance or being in charge of every decision.

“Today is a bit better and I’ll take the next day or two to recover fully. Then we’ll push forward with more hard work.

“I’m pretty excited for the next one in Rome.”

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Tennis legend Boris Becker, a former world No 1 and winner of six majors, replied to Swiatek’s post.

The German wrote: “Don’t be too hard on yourself!

“Even the greatest champions lose sometimes… you have great people by your side! Upwards and Onwards IGA.”

Following her retirement in Madrid, Swiatek said: “I’ve been feeling awful for the last two days. I think I have some kind of virus. Some hours I’ve been fine, but other times I’ve been feeling really bad.

“I’ve heard there’s something going around in the locker room, a virus that’s out there somewhere. I know I’ll be fine in a couple of days, but today I felt like I had zero energy, zero stability.

“I’ve been feeling really bad physically; yesterday was even worse. I thought maybe things would be better today, and maybe they were, but not enough to play that much.

“I knew it was going to be tough, but I still wanted to try, because I’ve been sick a couple of times in my career and I was able to win most of my matches. It depended on how bad I was going to feel, and this time it was quite a bit worse than the previous times.”

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Elena Rybakina says she has no “trust” in the electronic line-calling system after a controversial point during her match against Zheng Qinwen in the Madrid Open.

The World No 2 rallied to win after losing the first set but was left annoyed after one point was called in favour of her opponent by the electronic system.

A serve was called an ace but Rybakina remonstrated with the umpire, asking that the official come down and see the visible mark left on the clay surface.

After the match, Rybakina said there was not even a mark close to what the TV had suggested.

“The system is wrong, this is not a joke,” Rybakina said. “I won’t trust it at all. Because there was no mark even close to what the TV showed.”

Rybakina likened it to an incident involving Alexander Zverev last year at the same tournament with the German taking a photo of a shot he believed was out but the system said was in.

“It was, I think, similar to what Zverev had last year because it was in front of her (the umpire’s) nose,” she said.

“You can’t not see it. It was pretty frustrating. It’s kind of a stolen point. I understand it was her serve and she was serving really well, but it’s really frustrating.”

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Zverev received a warning for taking a photo while Aryna Sabalenka received the same punishment for doing the same offence during her quarter-final victory at the Stuttgart Open last year.

While not only being the cause of the controversial point, it was the serve of Zheng that had been proving difficult for Rybakina and she made note to praise her opponent despite beating her in four of their five meetings.

“I think the level of the match was better than the first one,” Rybakina said. “I think my serve was better, but Qinwen, she is a tough opponent. She was serving really well. She was also returning all my serves. I don’t think that the serve was really an issue today.

“So yeah, I’m just happy that I took the opportunity in the second set. I was fighting, trying to always stay close. Somehow again, another three-set match, but I’m happy.”

Rybakina will face Anastasia Potapova in the next round on Monday.

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Joao Fonseca candidly admitted his attitude on court “needs to be better” after his third round defeat to Rafael Jodar at the 2026 Madrid Open.

The world No 31 was beaten 7-6(4), 4-6, 6-1 by 42nd-ranked Jodar on Sunday night at the clay-court Masters 1000 tournament in Madrid.

It was Fonseca‘s first match of the event as he received a walkover from scheduled second round opponent Marin Cilic after getting a first round bye.

After being broken to fall 0-2 behind in the third set, Fonseca’s frustration boiled over as he destroyed his racket on the court.

Fonseca’s racket is GONE 👀 pic.twitter.com/MgyhP7dX8c

— Tennis Masterr (@tennismasterr) April 26, 2026

The Brazilian did not recover as Jodar raced into a 5-0 lead before sealing the win in emphatic fashion.

In his press conference, Fonseca assessed that mentality was the most important aspect of the match against his fellow 19-year-old.

“Naturally, there was a strategy from a technical standpoint,” Fonseca said.

“However, I believe the most important aspect of today’s match was the mental one. We both stepped onto the court with a certain degree of nervousness, which is completely normal.

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“It was my first match in Madrid, while for him it was his third. Furthermore, we were two young players facing each other, which inevitably leads us to overthink things.

“I had the opportunity to break his serve right at the start. At the beginning of the third set, I felt better, even better than him. I had more control of the match.

“However, after going up 40-15, when I missed some easy forehands, frustration set in. Clearly, my attitude on the court needs to be better. It’s something we need to work on.

“From that moment on, he played better, with less nervousness, and found the right way to take control.

“In that sense, I feel it was definitely a tough match. My main focus was on the mental aspect, as I knew we were both under pressure. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to manage it in the third set.”

Fonseca also praised Jodar and addressed the challenge of facing a player younger than him.

“He’s a great player, achieving impressive results and climbing the rankings very quickly. He has all the qualities to become an extraordinary player,” he said.

“As I said, facing a younger opponent on the ATP Tour made me a little nervous. It’s a situation we have to get used to and see how we respond to it.

“I’m still working, trying to find aspects that will help me improve both as a person and as a player. I continue to progress, and that’s the key point.

“Going back on the court, reflecting in the following days on what I could have done better, what attitude would have been more appropriate, and working on it.”

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Novak Djokovic has yet to confirm if or when he will play his first match on a clay court in 2026, but the Serbian legend has already been given his biggest boost after it was confirmed that defending champion Carlos Alcaraz will not be competing at the French Open.

Djokovic was beaten by Jannik Sinner in last year’s Roland Garros semi-finals, with the comprehensive manner of his defeat leaving many observers to conclude the veteran will struggle to get past the Italian or Alcaraz in a best-of-five-set match on clay at this phase of his career.

A challenge for Wimbledon appeared to be his most likely route to what would be a record-breaking 25th Grand Slam title, but former British No 1 Greg Rusedski has suggested Alcaraz’s wrist injury has changed the dynamics around the second Grand Slam of the season.

“For me, Wimbledon is the one Novak could win, but all of a sudden Roland Garros has gotten rather interesting on the men’s side,” said Rusedski on an Off Court Cuts slice of his podcast.

“Yes, Sinner is the hot favourite, but let’s see how the expectation is there because the expectation has been on two guys. It’s been about Sinner. It’s been about Alcaraz and now everybody’s saying Sinner, Sinner, Sinner. It’s going to put a little bit more pressure, a little bit more expectation on Sinner.

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“Now, there’s a lot of people saying, okay, Carlos is out of the French Open. I don’t have to beat Alcaraz and Sinner back to back to win a major.

“So it’s gonna be interesting to see what Novak shows up in Rome. All of a sudden he’s thinking, hmm, maybe there’s an opportunity here. [Alexander] Zverev will be thinking the same thing and he’s been the most consistent guy out there apart from Alcaraz and Sinner.

“All of a sudden, players are starting to think maybe there’s a little bit more belief because it’s only one guy on one given day that you have to come through, not both of them back to back.

“So there are a lot of people thinking what an opportunity. The other guy who’s a little dark horse is Arthur Fils, who won in Barcelona. He’s playing well as well and being a Frenchman in France, that is a big deal. So all of a sudden people are thinking ‘what an opportunity’.”

Despite suggesting the chasing pack may be encouraged by the absence of the defending French Open champ over the next few weeks, Rusedski believes the biggest winner could be the dominant Sinner, who lost after having two match points in the Roland Garros final against Alcaraz last year.

“He’s been by far the better player since the end of the Australian Open,” added the 1997 US Open finalist.

“He’s won every Masters Series to date. I have a sneaky feeling he might win in Madrid and Rome, but the one in Paris is the one that hurt him last year.

“He also wants to complete that career Grand Slam, as Alcaraz did it in Australia I feel that Sinner is the hot favourite to do that right now.

“He needs some sort of freak accident to stop him because he’s just putting himself in a different level than everybody else at the moment.

“He’s incredible on the court and he’s one of the strongest guys mentally I’ve ever seen. Physically, he’s left no stone unturned in diet preparation. So, he has a little added pressure now without Alcaraz, but I think he’s looking forward to the challenge.”

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Coco Gauff has spoken after she battled through illness and being sick on court to defeat Sorana Cirstea in the third round at the 2026 Madrid Open.

The world No 3 fought back to prevail 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 against 25th seed Cirstea in Manolo Santana Stadium at the WTA 1000 event.

In the opening set, Cirstea complained about Gauff‘s coaching team to chair umpire Kader Nouni.

“Her coach is screaming from that end, ‘Come on, aggressive, let’s go, do this all game long, come on, forehand, backhand, first serve’,” the Romanian was heard saying.

“This is coaching! Because I’m there and they are bothering me, because they are screaming in my ear.”

The umpire replied: “I do not hear any coaching.”

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During the second set, Gauff had her blood pressure checked by the doctor after she vomited.

Gauff was a break down on three separate occasions in the second set, but she recovered to force a decider — which she won convincingly.

In her on-court interview, Gauff was asked how she managed to win the match.

“Yeah, I don’t know. Honestly, I was just trying to finish the match and one point turned into another,” the two-time Grand Slam winner said.

“I think I got what everybody else is having here in Madrid, unfortunately. Just gotta try to push through for tomorrow.

“Honestly, I was trying not to throw up on the court. It was a weird, weird feeling today. I don’t know how I got through it.

“I just pulled out in Indian Wells, I’m not someone who likes to pull out, so I didn’t want to pull out again today. I’m glad I was able to get through it.”

Speaking to Sky Sports, Gauff said: “I tried to keep my food down, but once I threw up I was able to throw up again and then I felt a bit better.

“It was a tough match. I think I got the Madrid virus, stomach virus, that’s going around and I’m usually someone who doesn’t get sick.”

Gauff will face world No 13 Linda Noskova in the fourth round. Noskova received a walkover into the last 16 as her third round opponent, Liudmila Samsonova, pulled out due to illness.

Madison Keys and Marin Cilic also withdrew from Madrid due to illness, while Iga Swiatek retired during her third round match due to a virus.

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Iga Swiatek was forced to retire in her third round match at the 2026 Madrid Open, but what impact has the Pole’s early exit had on the WTA Rankings?

The six-time Grand Slam winner retired due to a virus when trailing 6-7(4), 6-2, 0-3 against world No 34 Ann Li in Manolo Santana Stadium on Saturday.

Swiatek took a medical timeout and had her vitals checked by the tournament doctor before she took the decision to retire. The former world No 1 left the court in tears.

“I’ve been feeling awful for the last two days. I think I have some kind of virus. Some hours I’ve been fine, but other times I’ve been feeling really bad,” Swiatek said.

“I’ve heard there’s something going around in the locker room, a virus that’s out there somewhere. I know I’ll be fine in a couple of days, but today I felt like I had zero energy, zero stability.”

Swiatek started the Madrid Open as the world No 4 on 7,273 points, with world No 3 Coco Gauff just six points ahead.

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The 24-year-old has collected 65 points for reaching the third round in Madrid, but she was defending 390 points as she reached the semi-finals at last year’s event. She has, therefore, dropped 325 points, which leaves her on 6,948 points in the Live WTA Rankings.

Swiatek is up to third position in the live rankings, with Coco Gauff — who is defending 650 points for her 2025 Madrid runner-up result — dropping to fourth.

Gauff is 199 points behind Swiatek on 6,749 points, but she has the chance to regain the No 3 spot before the rankings update following the Madrid Open.

If Gauff reaches the semi-finals in Madrid, she will take her points total to 7,019 and move back above Swiatek.

Swiatek began the Madrid Open 1,137 points clear of world No 5 Jessica Pegula, who was on 6,136 points. The gap has reduced to 812 points before Pegula’s third round match against Kostyuk in Madrid.

Pegula needs to win the Madrid Open to overtake Swiatek as securing the WTA 1000 title would lift the American’s points total to 7,071.

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The second Grand Slam of the tennis year is just around the corner and the withdrawals will start to flow ahead of the French Open at Roland Garros.

Carlos Alcaraz is the headline name who has already confirmed he will not be defending his title in Paris, with the wrist injury he picked up at the Barcelona Open earlier this month ruling him out of contention.

The ranking points and prize money on offer in one of the four marquee events of the tennis year should ensure all the big names will play in Paris, but there could be a host of players who join Alcaraz on the sidelines.

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If there was a hope he could play in Paris, Alcaraz would have delayed his announcement and given himself time to have a shot at playing, but he pulled the plug on his Roland Garros defence very quickly and that suggests the medical advice was clear.

He is due to play his first grass court event at The Queen’s Club in mid-June and if he also pulls out of that event, his hopes of playing at Wimbledon will also be in doubt.

Emma Raducanu’s big worry 

British No 1 Emma Raducanu remains in the top 30 of the WTA Rankings despite only playing 14 matches in 2026 and losing seven of them.

The mystery around Raducanu’s continued absence from the game deepened when she pulled out of this week’s Madrid Open and confirmed the problem was the ongoing effects of a virus she picked up in February.

After former British No 1 Greg Rusedski suggested Raducanu flew to Madrid and hoped to play in that event before her withdrawal, she must be a major doubt for the French Open if she fails to appear in what may be her only warm-up event in Rome next month.

Novak Djokovic concerns

Novak Djokovic has not been seen in competitive action since he lost against Jack Draper at the Indian Wells Masters in early March and he confirmed earlier this month that he is still nursing an injury problem.

There have been suggestions that the 24-time Grand Slam-winning legend could skip the French Open and focus his attention on Wimbledon, but Carlos Alcaraz’s injury could open the door for Djokovic to make a charge in Paris.

Getting past Alcaraz and Sinner on a clay court in the space of three-days may be tough for a player who will be 39 by the end of the French Open, but it injury or illness downs Sinner now, Novak may feel he has a shot at glory in Paris.

Jack Draper’s problem

British No 1 Jack Draper has only played a handful of matches since losing against Marin Cilic at Wimbledon last year and he is now nursing a knee problem that kept him out of the Madrid Open.

His ranking is sliding, but health and fitness need to be the focus for Draper right now as his career is sliding by as he continues to miss big events.

He showed his clay court prowess last year by reaching the Madrid Open final and if he can get fit for Paris, he will fancy his chances. The trouble is, he can’t stay fit for long enough.

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Lois Boisson under pressure

French player Lois Boisson was an impressive semi-finalist at last year’s French Open, but she has been struggling with injuries over the last few months.

Ranked 361st in the world before the 2025 edition of Roland Garros, Boisson shot into the top 50 of the rankings after her incredible run in Paris and most of the points she has on her record come from that run at Roland Garros a year ago.

She returned to action at the Madrid Open, but was well beaten by Peyton Stearns and if she is not fit for Roland Garros, he WTA Ranking will fall off a cliff at the end of that tournament.

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The number of players to withdraw or retire mid-match at the 2026 Madrid Open has reached 31 across both the women’s and men’s events.

Madison Keys became the 27th player to pull out on Friday, and she has since been followed by three more women and one man.

World No 18 Clara Tauson withdrew before her scheduled opening match against Katerina Siniakova on Friday, with the Dane’s place in the draw taken by world No 89 Anna Blinkova.

Former US Open champion Marin Cilic, who is ranked 51st, pulled out before his second round match against Joao Fonseca on Friday due to food poisoning.

Iga Swiatek, the fourth seed and a 2024 Madrid Open winner, was forced to retire due to a virus in the third set of her third round match against Ann Li on Saturday.

Liudmila Samsonova, the world No 20, then became the 30th player to withdraw when she pulled out before her third round match with Linda Noskova on Sunday due to illness.

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WTA Madrid Open withdrawal list

There are 15 women who either pulled out before the draw was made or before their opening matches, while Samsonova withdrew after winning her first match.

With Swiatek’s mid-match retirement included, 17 women have either withdrawn or retired in Madrid.

• Amanda Anisimova (world No 6) – replaced by Panna Udvardy
• Karolina Muchova (world No 11) – replaced by Viktorija Golubic
• Ekaterina Alexandrova (world No 14) replaced by Yuliia Starodubtseva
• Madison Keys (world No 17) – replaced by Anastasia Potapova
• Clara Tauson (world No 18) – replaced by Anna Blinkova
• Liudmila Samsonova (world No 20) – withdrew before third round
• Emma Raducanu (world No 27) – replaced by Ajla Tomljanovic
• Emma Navarro (world No 28) – replaced by Ashlyn Krueger
• Maya Joint (world No 29) – replaced by Moyuka Uchijima
• Sara Bejlek (world No 35) – replaced by Zeynep Sonmez
• Marketa Vondrousova (world No 45) – replaced by Julia Grabher
• McCartney Kessler (world No 48) – replaced by Kamilla Rakhimova
• Barbora Krejcikova (world No 52) – replaced by Irina-Camelia Begu
• Sonay Kartal (world No 55) – replaced by Petra Marcinko
• Varvara Gracheva (world No 60) – replaced by Eva Lys
• Veronika Kudermetova (world No 64) – replaced by Taylor Townsend

ATP Madrid Open withdrawal list

Of the 13 men to withdraw from the Madrid Open, 12 pulled out either before the draw was made or before their opening matches, while Cilic withdrew after winning his first round match.

• Carlos Alcaraz (world No 2) – replaced by Sebastian Ofner
• Novak Djokovic (world No 4) – replaced by Adam Walton
• Taylor Fritz (world No 7) – replaced by Roberto Bautista Agut
• Frances Tiafoe (world No 19) – replaced by Jesper de Jong
• Jack Draper (world No 28) – replaced by Patrick Kypson
• Holger Rune (world No 39) – replaced by Francisco Comesana
• Sebastian Korda (world No 40) – replaced by Alexander Shevchenko
• Marin Cilic (world No 51) – withdrew before second round
• Botic van de Zandschulp (world No 52) – replaced by Cristian Garin
• Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (world No 53) – replaced by Alexandre Muller
• Raphael Collignon (world No 71) – replaced by Marco Trungelliti
• Arthur Cazaux (world No 73) – replaced by Alexander Blockx
• Kamil Majchrzak (world No 74) – replaced by Thiago Agustin Tirante

World No 70 Reilly Opelka retired when trailing Nicolai Budkov Kjaer 3-5 in his first round match, which means the number of withdrawals or retirements from the men’s event is 14.

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