- Serena Williams heads the list of the planet’s best players who will compete in Madrid
- Garbiñe Muguruza and Carla Suárez will represent the Spanish Armada
- The fifteenth anniversary tournament takes place in the Caja Mágica from 29 April to 8 May
With just over a month until the start of the fifteenth Mutua Madrid Open, the WTA has published the list of players with direct access to the tournament’s main draw, who are guaranteed to be at the Caja Mágica. Without exception, all the biggest stars on the women’s tour will be back to compete on the Madrid clay for the season’s third Premier Mandatory, one of the most important events on the calendar.
List of players qualified by ranking to play in the Mutua Madrid Open:
- Serena Williams
- Agnieszka Radwanska
- Angelique Kerber
- Garbiñe Muguruza
- Simona Halep
- Carla Suárez Navarro
- Petra Kvitova
- Victoria Azarenka
- Roberta Vinci
- Belinda Bencic
- Venus Williams
- Karolina Pliskova
- Lucie Safarova
- Elina Svitolina
- Ana Ivanovic
- Sara Errani
- Svetlana Kuznetsova
- Timea Bacsinszky
- Andrea Petkovic
- Sloane Stephens
- Johanna Konta
- Madison Keys
- Caroline Wozniacki
- Jelena Jankovic
- Samantha Stosur
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Kristina Mladenovic
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
- Ekaterina Makarova
- Barbora Strycova
- Monica Niculescu
- Daria Gavrilova
- Irina-Camelia Begu
- Daria Kasatkina
- Sabine Lisicki
- Coco Vandeweghe
- Jelena Ostapenko
- Annika Beck
- Margarita Gasparyan
- Alizé Cornet
- Camila Giorgi
- Misaki Doi
- Eugenie Bouchard
- Karin Knapp
- Lesia Tsurenko
- Yanina Wickmayer
- Caroline Garcia
- Timea Babos
- Teliana Pereira
- Danka Kovinic
- Anna-Lena Friedsam
Also, to complete the 64-player draw, the tournament organisers will grant 5 invitations, which will be announced in the coming weeks, and 8 other players will come through the qualifying rounds, which start on 29 April.
Dinara Safina, the Mutua Madrid Open women players’ intermediary, made the following statement after seeing the list: “Once again this year we are going to be able to enjoy the best female players in the world in Madrid. This year’s tournament is even more special as it is the fifteenth anniversary, so we are excited to have such a spectacular line-up. We are going to give our all to make it an unforgettable few days”.
