The number of players to withdraw or retire mid-match at the 2026 Madrid Open has reached 31 across both the women\u2019s and men\u2019s events.<\/p>\n
Madison Keys became the 27th player to pull out on Friday<\/a>, and she has since been followed by three more women and one man.<\/p>\n World No 18 Clara Tauson withdrew before her scheduled opening match against Katerina Siniakova on Friday, with the Dane\u2019s place in the draw taken by world No 89 Anna Blinkova.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Madrid Open: Iga Swiatek\u2019s ranking points and prize money from WTA 1000 event<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s physical trainer sends strong message after his French Open withdrawal<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as\u00a0<\/span>a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n With Swiatek\u2019s mid-match retirement included, 17 women have either withdrawn or retired in Madrid.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s event is 14.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Everything Iga Swiatek said after retiring at Madrid Open due to illness<\/a> The post Madrid Open withdrawals and retirements: 31 stars out as Iga Swiatek among 3 WTA players to join list<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The number of players to withdraw or retire mid-match at the 2026 Madrid Open has reached 31 across both the women\u2019s and men\u2019s 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 […]<\/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-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","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=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More Tennis News<\/h2>\n
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