April 20, 2026

Open Court

MORE TENNIS THAN YOU'LL EVER NEED

The final match of the night on Manolo Santana will feature the return of … 2025 French Open semifinalist Lois Boisson. Finally. Boisson has spent most of the time since then on the shelf.

Also: Venus Williams will try to put a win on the good side of the ledger against another wild card, Kaitlin Quevedo.

Quevedo, who is 20, has no bio on the WTA website. But she hit No. 5 in the ITF junior rankings less than two years ago, beating a lot of the high-profile players like Samson, Kovackova, Klugman and Jamrichova. She’s Florida born and raised, but traded the US flag for a Spanish one in 2024 because her father hails from the Canary Islands. She has already been able to play BJK Cup for Spain, and hit a career high of No. 127 on the WTA Tour just a couple of weeks ago. A year ago, she was at No. 267 and two years ago, No. 589.

(Madrid is six hours ahead of EDT)

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Mutua Madrid Open 
Location: Madrid, Spain
Category: WTA 1000 (Joint event with the ATP Tour)
Surface: Outdoor Clay
Dates:  April 21 – May 3, 2026
Prize Money: $8,235,540
Draws: S96 – D32

Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Order of play

Manolo Santana Stadium (11 a.m. start – 5 a.m. EDT)

1. Petra Marcinko (CRO) vs. [WC] Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva (AND)

2. Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) vs. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (ESP)

3. [WC] Paula Badosa (ESP) vs. Julia Grabheer (AUT)

4. [WC] Venus Williams (USA) vs. [WC] Kaitlin Quevedo (ESP) (not before 4 p.m.)

5. Peyton Stearns (USA) vs. Loïs Boisson (FRA)

Arantxa Sanchez Stadium 

1. Tatjana Maria (GER) vs. [WC] Laura Samson (CZE)

2. Laura Siegemund (GER) vs. Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU)

3. Anna Bondar (HUN) vs. Viktorija Golubic (SUI)

4. Magda Linette (POL) vs. [WC] Robin Montgomery (USA)

5. Camila Osorio (COL) vs. Anastasia Zakharova (RUS)

Stadium 3

1. [10] Nikola Bartunkova (CZE) vs Alina Charaeva (RUS) 

2. [5] Katie Volyets (USA) vs [14] Tamara Korpatsch (GER) 

3. [16] Anhelina Kalinina (UKR) vs Sloane Stephens (USA) 

4. [9] Alycia Parks (USA) vs [WC] Ksenia Efremova (FRA) 

Court 5

1. [7] Simona Waltert (SUI) vs  [24] Dominika Salkova (CZE)   

2. [6] Anna Blinkova (RUS) vs Elvina Kalieva (USA)  

3. [1] Yuliia Starodubtseva (UKR) vs [20] Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) 

4. [8] Dalma Galfi (HUN) vs [19] Darja Vidmanova (CZE)

Court 7

1. Léolia Jeanjean (FRA) vs Rebeka Masarova (SUI)  

2. [4] Panna Udvardy (HUN) vs [WC] Tyra Caterina Grant (ITA) 

3. [11] Hanne Vandewinkel (BEL) vs [13] Daria Snigur (UKR) 

4. [2] Anastasia Potapova (AUT) vs [22] Sinja Kraus (AUT) 

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