 What's going on everybody welcome back to another breaking news story and we have some word out of Madrid that the ATP 1000 slash WTA mandatory event in Madrid is going to be extended to two weeks So now it's going to be a bigger event a two-week event Of course it's played on the clay courts in Madrid leading up to the French open for both the WTA and the ATP and now It's going to be extended by a couple of days therefore being a two-week tournament Now it's going to start on the 27th of April and finish on the 9th of May So that is going to be the extension. It's one of very few WTA and ATP events where they're both there at the same time We don't have many of those around the tour and this is one of those events So they're going to extend it because of that reason of course the 2020 event was cancelled at the very last minute It was supposed to be played as that lead in September French open tournament But God cancelled the last minute Feliciano Lopez the current Spanish veteran. He's still playing on the tour He is the tournament director has come out with a statement We're happy to have achieved the goal of becoming a two-week tournament We sought this expansion and it is well-deserved necessary and will allow us to enjoy the best tennis in the world for a few more days I'm sure that both our sponsors and all our fans will welcome this news with open arms as well as the city of Madrid Which will receive more visitors for a longer period of time So that is coming straight from the director the tournament director of course Philly Lopez Like I said Spanish veteran has been on the tour forever and he's been the tournament director for a couple of years there But Madrid's had a very interesting history This is the next chapter of its history now It's a bigger event it joins Indian Wells and Miami as one of those longer two-week events Obviously, we've got the majors that are two weeks, but these are about week and a half two weeks So it joins those big tournaments it joins Indian Wells and Miami which are both combined events as well with WTA and ATP Of course started in 2002 took over from Stuttgart as an indoor hardcore tournament. That's where it started It was in a different stadium across town started on the indoor hardcourts between 2002 and 2008 Rafa Nadal 1 if you know if you watch that match in 2005 He run one from two sets down to win that tournament on the indoor hardcourts He's only indoor hardcore tournament win by the way and then 2009 it converted to a clay court event It went across town new stadium and it's been a clay court event ever since and then of course Who can forget the 2012 blue clay where we had a blue clay court and it looked like a hard court Roger Federer winning that one and then they went back straight back to the red clay the year after so Madrid's had a very interesting History it's had an interesting tournament history a couple of changes And this is going to be the latest change and like I said joining Indian Wells and Miami as a two-week event