The number of players to withdraw from the 2026 Madrid Open has risen to 17 across both the women\u2019s and men\u2019s singles tournaments.<\/p>\n
By Saturday, 13 players had pulled out of the Madrid Open, with Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic the biggest names to withdraw.<\/a><\/p>\n Since then, four women have joined the list, including former Grand Slam champions Barbora Krejcikova and Emma Raducanu.<\/p>\n The combined event in Madrid is the first clay-court WTA 1000 of the season and second clay-court ATP 1000 after Monte Carlo.<\/p>\n Both the ATP and WTA tournaments in Madrid feature 96 players, including 32 seeds \u2014 who receive an opening round bye.<\/p>\n Main draw action in the women\u2019s event will begin on Tuesday, while the men\u2019s tournament will get underway on Wednesday. The women\u2019s singles final will be played on Saturday 2 May before the men\u2019s singles final on Sunday 3 May.<\/p>\n Aryna Sabalenka and Casper Ruud are the reigning Madrid Open champions.<\/p>\n Alcaraz, the world No 2 and a two-time Madrid Open winner, will miss the event in the Spanish capital for the second straight year after he suffered a wrist injury at the Barcelona Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n World No 4 Djokovic, a three-time champion in Madrid, pulled out as he revealed he is continuing his recovery from a shoulder injury.<\/a> The Serb has played just two tournaments in 2026.<\/p>\n Taylor Fritz, who is yet to play on clay this year, is the other top 10 ATP player to withdraw.<\/p>\n WTA Madrid Open: Points being dropped by Sabalenka, Gauff, Swiatek, Raducanu, Eala<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u2018Jannik Sinner is controlling his emotions better than Carlos Alcaraz\u2019, claims Rafael Nadal\u2019s ex-coach<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n Reports have emerged that 2021 US Open winner Raducanu, who has not played since Indian Wells, has withdrawn from the Madrid Open.<\/p>\n Two-time major champion Krejcikova, Sara Bejlek and McCartney Kessler are the other WTA players in the latest cohort of withdrawals.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Zverev upset, Swiatek \u2018figuring out\u2019 coach link, Toni Nadal assesses Fonseca \u2013 Tennis roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Madrid Open withdrawal list: Emma Raducanu joins Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic as 17 players out<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The number of players to withdraw from the 2026 Madrid Open has risen to 17 across both the women\u2019s and men\u2019s singles tournaments. By Saturday, 13 players had pulled out of the Madrid Open, with Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic the biggest names to withdraw. Since then, four women have joined the list, including former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}ATP Madrid Open withdrawal list<\/h2>\n
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