Tournament recap
🇪🇸Madrid Open 2026
Who the crowd backed, who let them down, and how the field scored.
The players
🇨🇿 T. Machac
7% had them lifting the trophy. They went out in R64.
🇮🇹 J. Sinner
Their wins paid out 44,910 points across every bracket in the draw.
🇨🇿 T. Machac
Named in 63 picks, across 12 brackets.
Counts every round, so deep runs inflate this.
How the field did
25%
320 of 1,301 picks called correctly.
60 of 95
matches went against the crowd's majority pick — 63% of the tournament.
Final
5% accuracy, against a 13% median across all rounds.
35 of 95
A bracket built from the majority pick in every match would have beaten 97% of the 100 real entries.
The crowd's bracket is complete; most real entries are not.
Accuracy falls with every round by design — calling a quarterfinal means having had the winner survive three earlier matches first. Compare a round against the same round elsewhere, not against the one before it.
The matches that did the damage
🇧🇪 A. Blockx def. 🇳🇴 C. Ruud
Quarterfinal — 0 of the 44 brackets that picked this match called it.
The people
5
of the 100 brackets that named a champion had J. Sinner winning the title.
bennyto
19 of 32 correct in R64.