Ehe former number 1 in the world and two-time champion of the Mutua Madrid Open, Andy Murrayhas applied for a ‘wild card’ for el II Madrid Community Open, Challenger 75 ATP organized by the Madrid Tennis Federation and will be played from April 10 to 16 in it Villa de Madrid Country Club. His presence is not yet certain, since the Scottish tennis player must evaluate all his options to prepare for the Mutua Madrid Open, which will begin three weeks later. However, it is a sign of prestige achieved in a single edition by the tournament which, moreover, enjoys a privileged situation on the calendar because it was played very shortly before and under the same conditions as the Madrid Masters 1,000.
This tournament gives the starting signal to a profuse and high quality international calendar, which makes the Community of Madrid the European region with the greatest quantity, quality and variety. In the 2023 season they will play a Challenger 75 ATP, an ITF W100 II Open Comunidad de Madrid, nine appointments on the ITF World Tennis Tour, 2 ITF Wheelchairs, an ITF Junior and a Tennis Europe U14. All these tournaments are organized or supported by the Tennis Federation of Madrid and Hispaniola and supposes the delivery of 400,000 euros in prizes and an investment of one million. “As a ATP 500“said Paul carabias, Marketing Manager of the FTM. This entire calendar was presented at an event in Sala Alcalá 31 of the Community of Madrid.
According to the president of the FTM, these tournaments fulfill “the important task of help our young players to get quality competition and the points that help them in their progression without too much economic investment”, which helps to prevent talents from being lost for this reason, and which is one of the reasons for the strength of the quarry and the relay chain of Spanish tennis. The president of the RFET, Miguel Díazstressed Spain’s position as a reference country for tennis, despite competing against others from much more media such as France, Italy or the US “but we have a club network that they don’t have in other places. For these clubs that are capable of organizing these international tournaments, we have the best tournament pyramid in the world“.
Among the tournaments we find the Open Villa de Madrid and Comunidad de Madrid, the Copa Alamedathe oldest tournament in Madrid, the double date, male and female, in the Raquet Cityin addition to ITF Wheelchair of the ESV Foundationthe appointments of the Chamartín and Brezo Osuna Tennis Club, Alcalá de Henares, Getafe, Club Internacional with its J-60 junior…
Sofia MirandaMinister of Culture, Tourism and Sports of the Community of Madrid, praised the effort of Madrid tennis to organize a calendar of this caliber, and stressed that “we all like to see the Roland Garros and Wimbledon trophies lifted, but it is not there where tennis was born, but in these tournaments”.
MADRID COMMUNITY INTERNATIONAL TENNIS CALENDAR 2023
April 10-16: Open Community of Madrid. Challenger 75 ATP
April 16-22: Racket City ITF Europe U14
May 15-21: Villa de Madrid Open. ITF W100
May 17-21: XI Emilio Sánchez Vicario Foundation. Racket City. ITF Wheelchair Grade II
June 4-11: Villa de Madrid International Women’s Tournament ITF W25
June 11-18. Open Arcadis Club Brezo Osuna. ITF W60
4-10 September. Alameda Cup. ITF W15
10-17 September. Villa de Madrid International Men’s Tournament ITF M26
14-17 September. ONCE Ciudad de Rivas Foundation Trophy. ITF Future Wheelchair
September 25-30: International Tennis Club. Junior ITF
October. Getafé city. ITF
20-26 November. City of Alcalá ITF M15 and W15
27-3 November/December. II Autumn Open/FTM. ITF M15
4-10 December: IX Women’s International Tournament CT: Chamartín ITF M25