★ Mutua Madrid Open

01Почему это важно

Madrid is the largest clay tournament between Monte-Carlo and Rome and the first two-week clay event of the year, which gives it a disproportionate share of the spring's ranking points and attention. In our reading its social weight is Spanish rather than international: it is Madrid's tennis fortnight, entwined with the city's own spring calendar and the run-up to the San Isidro season, and it draws far fewer travelling visitors than its sporting rank suggests.

02Неделя вокруг мероприятия

Madrid in late April is at the start of its best season, and the tournament runs into the beginning of the city's spring festivities: the Dos de Mayo holiday falls on the final weekend in most years and the San Isidro programme follows in mid-May.

03Когда прибыть

The first weekend and the Monday and Tuesday after it are the best value, with qualifying and early rounds spread across all three roofed courts and the outside courts.

04Где остановиться

There is nothing to stay in near the venue, so choose on the city's terms. Salamanca and the Castellana corridor suit the corporate visitor and give the fastest run south by taxi.

05Доступ и гостеприимство

Tickets are sold through the tournament's own online platform, which the organizer states remains open until the day before each session or until sessions sell out, with the Caja Magica box office opening in early April.

06Где происходит светская активность

On site, the public social space is the commercial village between the three courts, with its food and drink concessions and sponsor pavilions, plus the outdoor terraces on the upper concourse.

07Как добраться

08Практические сведения

09История

The tournament was created in 2002 as an indoor Masters in a city that had no top-tier event, and for its first seven years it was a hard-court autumn fixture.

10Кто присутствует

A largely Spanish crowd, drawn from Madrid and from the regions, with substantial corporate hospitality from Spanish banking, insurance and telecoms, the touring tennis industry, and an international minority that is smaller here than at any other Masters 1000 of comparable size.