Madrid Matters

Men's Tournament

ATP World Tour No. 2 Roger Federer ended his title drought in style with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over rival and reigning ATP World Tour Champion Rafael Nadal in the final of the Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open. This ends Nadal's 33 match clay-court winning streak.

This win should give Federer the much needed confidence to regain his supremacy in tennis, but his win is marred by the fact that Nadal seem tired and possibly injured in the final, courtesy of his epic semi-final match when he saved three match points in a dramatic final-set tie-break to beat Novak Djokovic of Serbia 3-6, 7-6(5), 7-6(9) in four hours and three minutes. Djokovic's attacking style in the semi-final match may possibly be a successful formula against the clay-court king Nadal in the future.

Women's Tournament

Dinara Safina continued to prove herself as the best player in the world, winning her second straight Premier-level Sony Ericsson WTA Tour title at the Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open with a 62 64 victory over the Top 10's newest member, Caroline Wozniacki.

Veterans, Patty Schnyder and Amélie Mauresmo, both unseeded, also made lots of noise in Madrid, coming into their own and winning through to the semifinals.