2009 Mutua Madrileña Masters Madrid

The 2009 Madrid Masters (also known as the Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open for sponsorship reasons) is a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It is the 8th edition of the event on the ATP and 1st on the WTA. It is classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2009 ATP World Tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the 2009 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Park Manzanares in Madrid, Spain from May 9–17.

2009 Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open
DateMay 9 – May 17
Edition8th (men)
1st (women)
SurfaceClay / Outdoor
LocationMadrid, Spain
VenuePark Manzanares
Champions
Men's Singles
Roger Federer
Women's Singles
Dinara Safina
Men's Doubles
Daniel Nestor / Nenad Zimonjić
Women's Doubles
Cara Black / Liezel Huber

2009 was the first year that the Madrid Masters was played on clay rather than a hard-court surface, which replaced Hamburg Masters (for men) that was now downgraded into an ATP 500 tournament and Berlin (for women) which was now defunct.[1]

ATP entrants

Seeds
Player Country Ranking* Seeding
Rafael Nadal  Spain 1 1
Roger Federer   Switzerland 2 2
Novak Djokovic  Serbia 3 3
Andy Murray  United Kingdom 4 4
Juan Martín del Potro  Argentina 5 5
Andy Roddick  United States 6 6
Fernando Verdasco  Spain 7 7
Gilles Simon  France 8 8
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga  France 9 9
Nikolay Davydenko  Russia 11 10
Stanislas Wawrinka   Switzerland 13 11
David Ferrer  Spain 14 12
Marin Čilić  Croatia 15 13
James Blake  United States 16 14
Radek Štěpánek  Czech Republic 17 15
Tommy Robredo  Spain 18 16
  • Seedings based on the May 4, 2009 rankings.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

The following players received entry into lucky losers:

WTA Entrants

Seeds
Player Country Ranking* Seeding
Dinara Safina  Russia 1 1
Serena Williams  United States 2 2
Elena Dementieva  Russia 3 3
Jelena Janković  Serbia 4 4
Venus Williams  United States 5 5
Svetlana Kuznetsova  Russia 8 6
Victoria Azarenka  Belarus 9 7
Nadia Petrova  Russia 10 8
Caroline Wozniacki  Denmark 11 9
Agnieszka Radwańska  Poland 12 10
Marion Bartoli  France 13 11
Flavia Pennetta  Italy 14 12
Alizé Cornet  France 15 13
Anabel Medina Garrigues  Spain 16 14
Zheng Jie  China 17 15
Kaia Kanepi  Estonia 19 16
  • Seedings based on the May 4, 2009 rankings.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Champions

Men's singles

Roger Federer defeated Rafael Nadal 6–4, 6–4.

  • It was Federer's first title of the year and the 58th title of his career.

Women's singles
Main article: 2009 Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open – Women's Singles

Dinara Safina defeated Caroline Wozniacki 6–2, 6–4.

  • It was Safina's second title of the year and 11th of her career.

Men's doubles

Daniel Nestor / Nenad Zimonjić defeated Simon Aspelin / Wesley Moodie 6–4, 6–4.

Women's doubles
Main article: 2009 Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open – Women's Doubles

Cara Black / Liezel Huber defeated Květa Peschke / Lisa Raymond 4–6, 6–3, 10–6.

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References
  1. NYTimes.com: Special Report
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