How to Watch All the Action at the 2023 Madrid Open

The Madrid Open is a big event in the ATP Tour and WTA Tour calendars. It attracts most of the top tennis players from around the world and you won’t want to miss any of it. And you don’t need to spend much to do so. Read on to get all the details.

In a hurry? Tennis Channel is the only broadcaster for the Madrid Open. The cheapest way to get it is by signing up for either Sling Orange or Sling Blue and adding the Sports Extra add-on for a total of $51/mo. Save 50% on your first month of Sling TV.

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The Madrid Open takes place at the beginning of May each year — the biggest event between the Australian Open in January and the French Open in June before summer and Wimbledon and the US Open.

It is now officially known as the Mutua Madrid Open as it is sponsored by the insurance conglomerate Mutua Madrileña.

Madrid Open on TV

In the United States, Tennis Channel has complete broadcast rights to the Madrid Open. It provides pretty much 24/7 coverage for the two weeks of the event.

But Tennis Channel is a must-have for all tennis fans. Even when the big channels like NBC, CBS, and ESPN provide the headline coverage, Tennis Channel is always on hand to show the less-popular matches and news coverage.

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Streaming Madrid Open 2023

The Tennis Channel is not as widely available to live stream as other sports channels. There are three choices:

• DIRECTV STREAM: $99.99/mo
• Fubo: $74.99/mo + $11/mo for Sports Plus with NFL Redzone
• Sling TV: $40.00/mo + $11/mo for Sports Extra

Note that Fubo also charges an RSN fee in most areas, so that price will likely be $10.99/mo to $13.99/mo more than stated above.

As a result, we recommend Sling TV for serious tennis fans.

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Why Sling TV for Madrid Open

Sling TV isn’t just the cheapest streaming service to watch the Madrid Open. It is also arguably the best with by far the best customization and a great user interface with many features.

Sling offers two base plans. Both plans start with a good collection of channels including A&E, AMC, BBC America, BET, CNN, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, Food Network, HGTV, History Channel, IFC, Lifetime, Local Now, Nick Jr, TBS, TNT, and more.

Sling Orange adds ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, The Disney Channel, and more. Sling Blue focuses on Fox and NBC channels with those base networks in select markets along with Bravo, Discovery Channel, FS1, FX, Fox News, MSNBC, NFL Network, National Geographic, Syfy, truTV, USA Network, and more.

Both these plans provide 50 hours of cloud DVR storage but only Sling Blue allows you to stream on multiple screens at the same time. Either plan is $40.00/mo or $55.00/mo for both.

To get Tennis Channel, you need the Sports Extra add-on for $11/mo. Regardless of the plan, you get beIN Sports, Pac-12 Network, MLB Network, MLB Network Strike Zone, NBA TV, and NHL Network. With the Sling Blue plan, you also get NFL RedZone, Big Ten Network, FS2, and Golf Channel. And Sling Orange provides SEC Network, ACC Network, Longhorn Network, ESPNU, and ESPNews.

Sling TV offers apps for most streaming devices including Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, and Roku. And they support smart TVs from Android TV, LG, Samsung, and Vizio. They also support Xbox and Oculus gaming systems. Finally, you can stream on Android and iOS mobile devices.

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Madrid Open

The Madrid Open is the largest tennis event in Spain. It is one of the newer events in professional tennis. It dates back to 2002 but its modern form really only goes back to 2009. Until that time, the event featured only men and was played on a hard court.

In 2009, it was changed to feature both men’s and women’s matches played on clay courts.

Period	Venue	Location	Surface
Through 2008	Madrid Arena	Indoors	Hard
2009 and After	Caja Mágica	Outdoors	Clay

As an ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 event, there are 1,000 points up for grabs for the winners of each of the four events.

The prize money is also substantial with the winners of the singles tournaments getting over one million euros. The winners of the doubles events share almost 400,000 euros.

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2022 Madrid Open Results

Spain’s own Carlos Alcaraz dominated the men’s singles at the 2022 Madrid Open — defeating fellow countryman Rafael Nadal in the Quarterfinals and number one seed Novak Djokovic in a very close match in the semifinals. He then easily defeated Alexander Zverev in the final.

On the women’s side, Iga Świątek withdrew from a shoulder injury and defending champion Aryna Sabalenka by Amanda Anisimova who was eliminated in the quarterfinals. Ultimately, Ons Jabeur from Tunisia defeated Jessica Pegula in the finals in three very strange sets.

Wesley Koolhof (Netherlands) & Neal Skupski (UK) won the men’s doubles and Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada) & Giuliana Olmos (Mexico) won the women’s doubles.

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2023 Madrid Open Schedule

• Men’s Qualifying: April 24-25
• Women’s Qualifying: April 24-25
• Women’s First Round: April 25-27
• Men’s First Round: April 26-27
• Women’s Round 2: April 27-28
• Men’s Round 2: April 28-29
• Women’s Round 3: April 29-30
• Men’s Round 3: April 30 – May 1
• Women’s Round 4: May 1
• Men’s Round 4: May 2
• Women’s Quarterfinals: May 2-3
• Men’s Quarterfinals: May 3-4
• Women’s Semifinals: May 4
• Women’s Doubles Semifinals: May 5
• Men’s Semifinals: May 5
• Men’s Doubles Final: May 6
• Women’s Final: May 6
• Women’s Doubles Final: May 7
• Men’s Final: May 7

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Matches

Wrapping Up

The Madrid Open offers some of the best tennis in the world. And you can watch it all with Sling TV for less than you will pay anywhere else. Sign up today!

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Image cropped from Roger Federer at the 2012 Madrid Masters by Estaesmicuenta112 under CC BY 2.0.