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The rest of the tennis world is in Madrid – with 48 first-round qualifying matches going on Monday.

But Aryna Sabalenka and Jelena Ostapenko were still in Stuttgart to play the singles final, with a break on Good Friday as decreed by local laws.

Both have a first-round bye at the 96-draw in Spain, so they won’t have to play until at least Thursday.

Ostapenko continued her roll, all over Sabalenka and beating the top two players in the world in a clay-court tournament for the first time since Serena Williams did it in 2012.

But to outline how out there THIS result was, Williams not being No. 1 at the time wasn’t a function of her true space in the game. This one is far more of a feat, as it were.

No Canadians in the Madrid qualifying, even if Rebecca Marino and Marina Stakusic likely would have qualified by ranking. Marino is playing a $100K ITF on hard court in Japan, where she played BJK Cup 10 days ago. Stakusic withdrew from the qualifying.

Nearly half the 24 seeds in the 48-player draw went out in the first round.

 

ATP Tour – Monday, April 21, 2025 final results

(Stuttgart and Madrid are six hours ahead of EDT).

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Porsche Tennis Grand Prix
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Category: WTA 500 
Surface: Indoor Clay
Dates:  April 14 – 21, 2025
Prize Money: $1,064,510
Draws: S28 – D16

Monday April 21, 2025
Final results

 

Singles final

Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) def [1] Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) 64 61

 

 

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Mutua Madrid Open
Location: Madrid, Spain
Category: WTA 1000 (Joint event with the ATP Tour)
Surface: Outdoor Clay
Dates:  April 22 – May 4, 2025
Prize Money: €7,854,000
Draws: S96 – D32

Monday April 21, 2025
Final results
Qualifying, first round

 

Retirement

Elsa Jacquemot (FRA) def [8] Anca Todoni (ROU) 33 retd

 

Upsets

[WC] Tyra Caterina Grant (USA) def [5] Tatjana Maria (GER) 63 63

Jana Fett (CRO) def [6] Kamilla Rakhimova (RUS) 63 63

Rebeka Masarova (SUI) def [7] Arantxa Rus (NED) 61 75 

[WC] Teodora Kostovic (SRB) def [10] Elena-Gabriela Ruse (ROU) 64 26 76 (3)

Panna Udvardy (HUN) def [11] Olivia Gadecki (AUS) 67 (2) 75 61

Francesca Jones (GBR) def. [13] Laura Siegemund (GER) 64 63

Lucrezia Stefanini (ITA) def [15] Erika Andreva (RUS) 75 64

Sara Bejlek (CZE) def [16] Anna Bondar (HUN) 75 63

Jule Niemeier (GER) def [18] Anastasia Zakharova (RUS) 63 75

Varvara Lepchenko (USA) def [19] Harriet Dart (GBR) 64 67 (3) 63 

[WC] Kaitlin Quevedo (ESP) def [21] Nuria Parrizas Diaz (ESP) 62 64

 

Seeds advancing

[1] Anna Blinkova (RUS) def [WC] Neus Torner Sensano (ESP) 63 63

[2] Bernarda Pera (USA) def. [WC] Ruth Roura Llaverias (ESP) 62 64

[3] Zeynep Sonmez (TUR) def Leyre Romero Gormaz (ESP) 76 (8) 63

[4] Maya Joint (AUS) def Sara Errani (ITA) 64 26 62 

[9] Elisabetta Cocciaretto (ITA) def. Priscilla Hon (AUS) 62 61

[12] Cristina Bucsa (ESP) def. Maja Chwalinska (POL) 75 60 

[14] Jil Teichmann (SUI) def [PR] Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) 61 62

[17] Yuliia Stardubtseva (UKR) def. Chloe Paquet (FRA) 26 63 60

[20] Aliaksandra Sasnovich (BLR) def. [PR] Mirjam Bjorklund (SWE) 63 61

[22] Diane Parry (FRA) def Oksana Selekhmeteva (RUS) 62 75

[23] Antonia Ruzic (CRO) def. [WC] Ariana Gerrlings (ESP) 64 62

[24] Maria Lourdes Carlé (ARG) def Daria Snigur (UKR) 57 76 (7) 64

 

 

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ATP Tour – Sunday, April 20, 2025 final results

WTA Tour – Sunday, April 20, 2025 final results

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