Mutua Madrid Open: Bencic shines in virtual tournament

In professional tennis, due to the corona pandemic, rackets are no longer swinging – until now! Only virtually, but with a top-class field of participants. Instead of the Madrid Open, which would have taken place from May 1st to May 10th, the tournament is now taking place online.

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32 professionals duel on Playstation 4 in the game “Tennis World Tour”. Among them are Rafael Nadal, Dominic Thiem, Andy Murray and Stefanos Tsitsipas. From a Swiss perspective, we can look forward to using Belinda Bencic.

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Prize money of 150,000 euros

The game is played in four groups of four in a round-robin principle (women and men separately), the first and second places in the groups enter the knockout phase consisting of quarter-finals, semi-finals and the big final.

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The two winners will receive prize money of 150,000 euros. It is up to them how much they want to donate to tennis players in need. To support the corona pandemic, 50,000 euros will also go to a Madrid organization.

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Bencic gets off to a good start

Belinda Bencic is measured in her group by the world number three Karolina Pliskova, Fiona Ferro and Carla Suarez Navarro. Against the latter, Bencic wins their starting game 3-1. The eastern Swiss girl shines with an outstanding position game and thus leaves her opponent no chance. The next two group games of Bencic will follow on Tuesday. (mou)

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All games can be played live on the Facebook page of Mutua Madrid Open can be followed.

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