Madison Keys has become the latest high-profile player to withdraw from the Madrid Open with the announcement coming just hours before she was due to start her campaign.<\/p>\n
The 2025 Australian Open winner joins Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, Emma Raducanu<\/a>, Marketa Vondrousova and Barbora Krejcikova on the list of Grand Slam winners to pull out of the joint-ATP-WTA 1000 tournament.<\/p>\n 2025 Australian Open champion Keys has not featured on the WTA Tour<\/a> since losing in the semi-final of the Charleston Open, but travelled to Spain for the first WTA 1000 event on clay this year.<\/p>\n She was seen practising at Caja Magica on Thursday and was due to face China\u2019s Zhang Shuai in the second round on Friday, but organisers confirmed that she withdrew due to illness.<\/p>\n Why Alcaraz & Sinner have \u2018big opportunity to get closer to Djokovic, Nadal, Federer\u2019 \u2013 Juan Martin Del Potro<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Emma Raducanu gets some strong advice from former British No 1 amid ongoing illness<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Austria\u2019s Anastasia Potapova took her place in the main draw and the lucky loser made the most of her opportunity as she defeated Zhang 6-3, 6-1 to secure her place in the third round.<\/p>\n Keys, though, is the 14th WTA player to withdraw from the Madrid Open with Amanda Anisimova the highest-seeded woman to pull ot.<\/p>\n On the ATP side, the tournament suffered two hammer blows when local hope and seven-time Grand Slam winner Alcaraz<\/a> was forced to withdraw due to a wrist injury he sustained at last week\u2019s Barcelona Open.<\/p>\n That news came not long after tennis great Djokovic<\/a> also announced he would miss the Madrid Open and they were joined by fellow seeds Taylor Fritz, Frances Tiafoe and Jack Draper.<\/p>\n There has also been one retirement in the men\u2019s draw with Reilly Opelka unable to finish his first-round match against qualifier Nicolai Budkov Kj\u00e6r as he retired while 3-5 down against the Norwegian.<\/p>\n The post Madrid Open withdrawals and retirements: 27 stars out as another Grand Slam winner joins the list<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Madison Keys has become the latest high-profile player to withdraw from the Madrid Open with the announcement coming just hours before she was due to start her campaign. The 2025 Australian Open winner joins Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, Emma Raducanu, Marketa Vondrousova and Barbora Krejcikova on the list of Grand Slam winners to pull out […]<\/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-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","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=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tennis News<\/h2>\n
WTA Madrid Open withdrawal list<\/h2>\n
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ATP Madrid Open withdrawal list<\/h2>\n
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