History… The tournament has a rich history dating back from 1897 and it is one of the 3 Masters Series events played on Clay before the culmination which is Roland Garros.

Rafael Nadal is the absolute king here, having won 8 consecutive titles 2005-2012,and 11 in total.

Tournament wasn’t played last year due to the Covid pandemic

In the most recent event, Fabio Fognini took away the title in 2019 beating Nadal in the ¼ final  and the surprising finalist Dusan Lajovic, who on other hand beat Medvedev in the Semi-Final

The Andalucia Open just like ATP Cagliari reached agreement with ATP for 1 yearlong licence to stage a tournament and will fill a void created in the calendar from the cancellations of Marrakesh and Houston

Favourites/Top Seeds…. Marbella has the only 2 top 20 players playing this week in face of Carreno Busta and Fognini. The draw had to be even more packed but Alexander Zverev decided to not take advantage of the given Wildcard and withdraw and that opportunity was accepted but very talented and promising Carlos Alcaraz.

Last year’s QF at Roland Garros, Carreno Busta must be relieved coming into the clay court season

The tournament has been played since 1973 and wasn’t contested in 2 years (1973,2020) and with a 48 draw size (64 but first 6 seeds gets a bye in R2) filled with top tier players, has always brought quality matches and also it can be said that brings a good measurement where the participants currently are in their hard court to clay transition.

Played on green clay who is significantly fast than the red one used in Europe, seems to fit a much faster adaptation from the girls, before flying to Europe for the continuation of the Clay court season

With the tournament cancelled last year due

The Copa Colsanitas tournament has a rich history dating from 1998. Standing at 2644m above sea level this WTA calendar stop is not for everyone looking for ‘cheap’ points as it usually gets played in the same week as other top tier tournament who is a preferable destination for the biggest names in tennis. recover files from recycle bin ssd The altitude sickness is not a joke and tournament usually a good ground for local players to achieve big wins and go deep into draws where usually it’s not the case if they are being played elsewhere. how to recover excel temp file

Amanda Anisimova

After such horrendous 2020,it was kind of normal to be expected, that the 2021 Calendar for both ATP and WTA will be made available late and close to new season resuming. In the last couple of days it was finally revealed, but not the whole one – just the first 7 weeks of it

What we know for sure is that the Australian Open will indeed take place with a start date of 8th of February

“This will be an historic Australian Open on so many levels,” Australian Open Tournament Director Craig Tiley said.