10:00 CET – Good morning and welcome to our coverage of today’s tennis at the Madrid Open, as the women’s semi-finals take centre stage, while the remaining two men’s quarter-finals also take place.
The first women’s semi-final sees world number eight Mirra Andreeva come up against Hailey Baptiste, with the American coming off the back of a sensational victory over Aryna Sabalenka in the last eight.
On the other side of the draw, Marta Kostyuk is targeting an 11th straight clay-court triumph when she takes on lucky loser Anastasia Potapova, with both women chasing their biggest-ever final.
Read an in-depth preview of both matches here.
Over on the men’s side of the tournament, play gets started in a few hours at 13:00 CET, as Norway’s Casper Ruud continues his title defence against talented Belgian Alexander Blockx in the last eight.
Later on, the men’s quarter-finals conclude with second seed Alexander Zverev taking on Flavio Cobolli, with the German looking to avenge his defeat to Cobolli in the Munich semi-finals a couple of weeks ago.
Keep track of the full men’s draw here and the full women’s draw here.
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