A far more obscure Carlos Alcaraz in Estoril last year (Photo: Estoril Millennium Open)
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The women get short shrift as the “semi” mid-week start for the WTA 1000 in Madrid has led to there not being any other WTA events this week.
There is a 125-level tournament, but while the moving up of the women to extend Madrid to 10 days might give the women the sole spotlight for the first round, it penalizes a lot of other players.
The men have two ATP 250 events this week – Estoril (where Félix Auger-Aliassime is the top seed) and Munich.
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Millennium Estoril Open
Location: Estoril, Portugal
Category: ATP Masters 250
Dates: April 25 – May 1, 2022
Prize money: €697,900
Draws: S28 – D16
Monday, April 25, 2022
Final results
Singles, first round
[5] Frances Tiafoe (USA) def. Dusan Lajovic (SRB) 26 75 60
[WC] Nuno Borges (POR) def Pablo Andujar (ESP) 64 30 retd
Soonwoo Kwon (KOR) def Benoit Paire (FRA) 64 75
[Q] Bernabe Zapata Miralles (ESP) def. Federico Coria (ARG) 64 63
Doubles, first round
[WC] Pablo Cuevas (URU) / Joao Sousa (POR) def [2] Matthew Ebden / Max Purcell (AUS) 64 63
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BMW Open
Location: Munich, Germany
Category: ATP 250
Dates: April 25 – May 1, 2022
Prize money: €597,900
Draws: S28 – D16
Monday, April 25, 2022
Final results
Singles, first round
[7] Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB) def. [WC] Max Hans Rehberg (GER) 62 63
Daniel Altmaier (GER) def [WC] Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) 76 (5) 36 61
Alex Molcan (SVK) def. [LL] Norbert Gombos (SVK) 61 36 76 (7)
[WC] Holger Rune (DEN) def. [Q] Jiri Lehecka (CZE) 76 (4) 63
Emil Ruusuvuori (FIN) def. [Q] Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN) 76 (5) 75
[6] Daniel Evans (GBR) vs. Maxime Cressy (USA) 02 – suspended
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Double edged sword for the women. It is good though… gives the top girls from Stuttgard and Istanbul a breather for a few days… less chance they will blow the tournament off because of exhaustion or whatever. Nice field… clay court tennis at its best.
The top “girls” from Stuttgart are all playing Madrid anyway, and won’t even play until next weekend.
And they wouldn’t be likely to play a tournament between Stuttgart and Madrid (with Rome looming).
The winner in Istanbul isn’t even into the QUALIFYING in Madrid at this point, through she might squeeze in.
But it’s not relevant to her anyway because the qualies start on Wednesday so she couldn’t even play anything else.
Whether one or two of them “blew off” a lower-level WTA tournament for whatever reason is fairly irrelevant to the big picture of hundreds of players.
So it’s really not about them in the least.
There are not two edges to this sword.