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Mutua Madrid Open – Madrid, Spain

Spanish tennis legends Manolo Santana, the tournament director, Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario, and Manuel Orantes were honoured in an on-court ceremony Tuesday, commemorating their inscription into the tournament’s Hall of Fame. The event was attended by Rafael Nadal, International Tennis Hall of Fame CEO Todd Martin and Spanish greats, including Albert Costa, Alberto Berasategui and Alex Corretja.

Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga paid homage to the history of the game by taking a tour of the Hall of Fame. View Photos

With the help of Rafael Nadal, Feliciano Lopez and Marat Safin, €55,000 was raised to help Syrian refugees through UNHCR (The UN agency for refugees), CEAR (Spanish Commission for Refugee Aid), UNICEF and Mensajeros de la Paz. In a fun hour of exhibition tennis, two teams of tennis stars and celebrities entertained the fans on Court Manolo Santana. Read & Watch

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic joined an illustrious group of recipients, including Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Andre Agassi, John McEnroe, Pete Sampras, Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Pele, Johan Cruyff, Lionel Messi, Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps in receiving the prestigious Marca Leyenda (Marca Legend) award. Read

With help from a host of spectators and ATP World Tour stars Stan Wawrinka, Kei Nishikori, Tomas Berdych and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the Mutua Madrid Open made history on Sunday morning by setting a new Guinness World Record for the most people bouncing tennis balls on racquets at the same time for 10 seconds. Read & Watch

Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco joined Genie Bouchard for a cooking class on site, while Juan Monaco helped out with the draw ceremony. Watch Video/View Photo

Novak Djokovic, Boris Becker, Manolo Santana, Teymuraz Gabashvili, Pablo Cuevas, Joao Sousa and Bruno Soares attended the Players’ Party at Platea Market in Madrid. Watch Video

Taylor Fritz enjoyed a visit to the home of Real Madrid, Santiago Bernabéu Stadium (View Photo) and returned on Wednesday to watch the Champions League semi-final (View Photo)

A few players even tried their hand at paddle tennis at Caja Magica, including Sam Querrey (View Photo), Djokovic and his younger brother Marko Djokovic (View Photo).

Novak Djokovic defeated #NextGen player Borna Coric 6-2, 6-4 at the Mutua Madrid Open on Wednesday to score his first win in the Spanish capital since 2012. Djokovic fell to Grigor Dimitrov in his opening match in 2013, and did not take part in the past two editions of the event. This week, he is bidding to become the first man to win 29 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events. The Serb is currently tied with Rafael Nadal with 28 titles.

Djokovic was pushed by the 19-year-old Coric in the pair’s first meeting, but controlled the run of play from the baseline. The World No. 1 only dropped five points on serve in the first set and closed out the win in 78 minutes with the lone service break of the second set.

The 2011 Madrid champion improved to 17-6 at the event and will next face Roberto Bautista Agut, who edged fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 6-3, 5-7, 7-5 in two hours and 27 minutes. Djokovic is undefeated against Bautista Agut in three FedEx ATP Head2Head meetings. 

Eighth seed Tomas Berdych, the 2012 runner-up, swept past qualifier Denis Istomin 6-3, 6-3 in 69 minutes on Wednesday for a place in the Mutua Madrid Open third round. Having recorded his 20th match win at the tournament (20-11), Berdych goes onto face ninth seed David Ferrer or qualifier Denis Kudla.

Later, Roberto Bautista Agut, the No. 15 seed, battled hard to beat fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez for the first time, 6-3, 5-7, 7-5 in two hours and 57 minutes. Lopez had previously beaten Bautista Agut at the 2014 Rogers Cup in Toronto and this year’s BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.

Twelve second-round matches will be played at the Mutua Madrid Open on Wednesday, highlighted by the return of World No. 1 Novak Djokovic. The 2011 Madrid champion has not appeared at Caja Mágica since falling to Grigor Dimitrov in his opening match three years ago. Djokovic will be competing for the second time since 3 April, having lost to Jiri Vesely at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters in his only clay-court match of the season. The top seed meets Next Generation star Borna Coric for the first time not before 4 pm on Manolo Santana.

Coric is one of six players challenging Top 10 opponents on Wednesday. All six underdogs are on losing streaks against the Top 10, with the 19-year-old Coric falling in eight straight matches. Albert Ramos-Vinolas is 1-18 going into his meeting with No. 7 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, while Denis Istomin is 1-30 entering his matchup with No. 8 Tomas Berdych. Fabio Fognini’s past three Top 10 wins were against Rafael Nadal, but his opponent on Wednesday is No. 6 Kei Nishikori. Qualifier Denis Kudla goes for the biggest win of his career against No. 9 David Ferrer.

On Estadio 3, Next Generation No. 1 Nick Kyrgios faces fourth-ranked Stan Wawrinka for the fourth time in 11 months. After Wawrinka defeated Kyrgios at London/Queen’s Club, their last two encounters have ended with back injuries. Kyrgios advanced at the Rogers Cup when Wawrinka retired, then Wawrinka reached the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships final when Kyrgios conceded. Roberto Bautista Agut and Feliciano Lopez, two of eight Spaniards in the second round, meet for the first time since a three-hour and 16-minute marathon won by Lopez at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.

Milos Raonic pushed through against an aggressive Alexandr Dolgopolov to make the third round of the Mutua Madrid Open on Tuesday. The Canadian hit 17 aces and erased all four break points to win 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-2 in two hours. In the final set, Raonic earned two of his three breaks against the Ukrainian.

The No. 11 seed now leads their FedEx ATP Head2Head rivalry 2-1. Raonic is trying to surpass his quarter-final showing last year in Madrid. He’ll face No. 7 seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga or Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas, who beat Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 6-3, 6-4 in the second round.

Nicolas Almagro couldn’t keep his clay-court winning streak alive. Sunday’s Millennium Estoril Open champion lost to #NextGen star Borna Coric 6-2, 6-2 in first-round action. Coric lost only six points on his serve the entire match (34/40). The 19 year old will face World No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the second round for the first time.