 What's going on everybody welcome back to another draw preview and we have the third masters 1000 event the Madrid open And we've got some big names playing as we would expect but some big names are pulled out Let's go to the list of withdrawals. There's some big names are pulled out of this one. We have Marin Chilic He's out Chorich no back Jokovic the defending champion He's out better a goffin monfice round itch sonny go and Vavrinca is still recovering from surgery that he had a couple months ago. I'll start at the top of the draw There are 16 seeds in this one and the top eight seeds get a buy in the first round Rafa Nadal, he's the number one seed after Jokovic pulled out gets a buy in the first round He's gonna play the winner of Manorino or the wild card Alcares in the second round So straight away you can see that we might get a battle of the generations between Nadal and baby Nadal They may have a qualifier versus Strouf winner That's gonna play either Pella or the number 14 seeds in up the number 12 seed her catch taking on Milman winner That's gonna take on the winner of shadi versus Evans Then we have Hashinov versus Nishikori a big first round circle that one is one to watch winner of that takes a number five seed Alexander Zverev so straight away you can see there are some tough names for Rafa to get through in this one Of course, you got to watch out for Rafa this week and Zverev didn't do great last week in Munich Keep an eye on Sinner as well and also Alcares Let's see how he does playing in front of his home crowd second corner of the draw We have number three seed Dominic team He's back he gets a buy in the first round and no matter what happens He's gonna play a qualifier in the second round because there's a first-round match between two qualifiers So a good start for team then we have Diminor versus Munair winner That's gonna take on either Harris or the number 13 seed Dmitrop in the second round And we have the number nine seed Batista a guru getting a qualifier in the first round winner of that match will take on The winner of is now versus Ketchmenovich in the second round And with the wild card Martins versus Paul winner of that would take on number six seed Andre Rubelev So Dominic team first time we've seen him for a couple of months and the first time on clay as well So let's see how he's feeling and he's got a good start as well But also we've got to keep an eye out on Rubelev after making the Monte Carlo final a couple of weeks ago Let's see how he does in Madrid and I'm also interested to see how Diminor does because he did grow up playing on the clay When he moved over to Spain or be interested to see how he does this week as well in a pretty good draw Going to the third quarter now the bottom half of the draw We got the number seven seed Schwartzman he gets a buy in the first round He'll take on the winner of umbear versus Carrots of in the second round Then we got foot of each versus Bublek winner That's going to take on the winner of Lyovic and the number 11 seed Shapa Valov in the second round Then we have the number 15 seed Ozealia seam versus in Casper wood That's a great first round match circle that one is one to watch winner That's going to take on either Norrie or Crianovic in the second round Then we have Basilash Vili versus pear winner That's going to take on number four seats to final city pass in the second round So obviously we're going to keep an eye on city pass He's been the best player of 2021 and definitely the best player on clay in 2021 also Schwartzman We know he's a good clay quarter as well Keep an eye on Carrots of and also Rood as some of the unseated players who have proven They can do well on clay over the last couple of weeks. All right bottom quarter of the draw now And we have the number eight seed Baratini. He gets a buy in the first round He'll take on the winner of a qualifier or Fabio Finini in the second round Then we have Fritz versus Ramos Finoles winner That's going to take on either a qualifier or the number 10 seed Carino Buster Then we have the number 16 seed Garin. He gets Vadasco in the first round So that's a great first round match and a Vadasco back We haven't seen much of him lately winner of that match is going to take on either Coppa or Opelka in the second round Then we have a qualifier versus Vakina winner That's going to take on number two seed Daniel Medvedev who is back after testing positive for coronavirus He's back in action and very interested to see how he does because we haven't seen him on clay in 2021 The players to watch out for obviously Medvedev We're going to keep an eye on him this week see how well he can do Baratini coming off winning the Serbia open last week Got to keep an eye on him He can play on clay but also interested to see how Garin does and Fabio Finini being unseeded that might actually help him Sneak through the draw with no expectation. So keep an eye on Finini as well. So there it is the draw for the Madrid open Let me know down the comments below. Who do you think's gonna win this one? We've got Medvedev We've got team they're back in action raffer the top seed obviously We've got some big names that aren't playing but it's going to be a really interesting tournament because raffer is definitely going to be The favorite but then who's going to be the next favorite because there's a couple of guys We haven't seen play that might be the favorites had we have seen them obviously sitzee pass He's in some great form too. Okay, so for the predictions having a look at the draw now And the players that have played well over the last couple of weeks of the clay court season are definitely the standouts Finding it hard not to pig Rafa Nadal. It's in front of his home crowd. It's in Madrid He's got a pretty good drawer as well with sashes very being the highest ranked opponent And if you can get through a roulette potentially in the semi-finals I reckon you can win it all and he's full of confidence after winning in Barcelona So Rafa's my pick in this one. Let me know down the comments below. Who are you picking to win this event? So the Madrid open it's back in 2021, but we are missing some key names