He The Madrid women’s tournament will have the best round of 16 draw in its historywith an unprecedented number of eight of the top ten seeds qualified for the fourth round.
Big favorites come to Caja Mágica in great form, with Polish Iga Swiatek as the undisputed number one in the worldwith the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka and the American Coco Gauff fighting for number two and with the Kazakh Elena Rybakina leads the way in titles and victories this year.
The four are in the round of 16, the same as Greece Maria Sakkari (5), the Tunisian Ons Jabeur (8), the Latvian Jelena Ostapenko (9) and the Russian Daria Kasatkina (10).
China Qinwen Zheng, who retired in his first match due to injury and became the sixth seedand the Czech Marketa Vondrousovaseventh, who fell this Sunday against Russian Mirra Andreeva, is the only absences in the round of 16 where the main candidates started.
But the second week of the women’s draw will offer other incentives, such as the presence of the team itself Andreeva, now trained by Spaniard Conchita Martínez, will turn 17 this Mondayand another young promise, Czech Sara Bejlek, 18 years old; tracking the great season Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, eleventh seed, who reached sixteenth in both Indian Wells and Miami; or the contest the Spanish Sara Sorribeswhose strength in the previous rounds captivated the public of Madrid.
In 2023 there are five players in the top ten heads series are those who reach the round of 16. In In 2022 there will be only two and in 2021 there will also be five.
They only came close to the numbers this year the 2018, 2015, 2014, 2012 and 2011 editions, with seven of the top ten favorites They were eighth finalists.
There were six in 2019 and 2009, five in 2023, 2021 and 2016, four in 2013 and 2010, three in 2017 and two in 2022.
Madrid Open
Round of 16 – girls
Iga Swiatek (POL, 1) – Sara Sorribes (ESP)
Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA, 11) – Maria Sakkari (GRE, 5)
Coco Gauff (USA, 3) – Madison Keys (USA, 18)
Jelena Ostapenko (LET, 9) – Ons Jabeur (TUN, 8)
Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) – Daria Kasatkina (RUS, 10)
Sara Bejlek (RCH) – Elena Rybakina (KAZ, 4)
Mirra Andreeva (RUS) – Jasmine Paolini (ITA, 12)
Aryna Sabalenka (BIE, 2) – Danielle Collins (USA, 13)
Source: La Verdad
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