Not only the weather did heat up in Madrid on Saturday as the 2015 Mutua Madrid Open had plenty of fantastic women’s tennis to offer inside the Caja Magica.
The tournament’s qualifying stage drew to a close on Saturday as Paula Badosa Gibert, Julia Görges, Christina McHale, Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Marina Erakovic, Olga Govortsova, Andreea Mitu & Mariana Duque-Marino managed to fight their way into the tournament’s main draw.
While the qualifying finals were still in progress on some courts, the tournament’s 64-player main draw got underway. The first big-name player to enter Caja Magica was Ana Ivanovic, the Serbian looked to recover from a disappointing first-round exit in Stuttgart two weeks ago.