Why tennis' Madrid Open is a prestigious tournament full of curiosities

If organizers schedule an important tennis tournament and a slew of the best players in the world miss it, is it still an important tournament?This is the question the Madrid Open will present to the tennis world over the next 10 days. It’s the same question that the Canadian Open presented last summer, when Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka decided to skip the event in favor of rest.Advertisement