Indian ace PV Sindhu will be eager to put an end to her barren run at the 2023 BWF World Tour by winning the Madrid Spain Masters badminton and ending her title drought, here, we examine the tournament’s schedule, draw, seeded players, tickets, & streaming information
Many of the top shuttlers including Spanish ace Carolina Marin will compete in the 2023 BWF Spain Masters, which is slated to run from March 28 to April 2 at Madrid’s Centro Deportivo Municipal Gallur. In addition, this challenge will include a $210,000 net prize.
BWF Madrid Spain Masters badminton 2023 schedule, date, time, draw, tickets, prize money, live stream telecast
Madrid Spain Masters 2023
[HSBC BWF World Tour Super 300]
📍 Madrid, Spain
🗓️ 28 March – 02 April
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2023 Spain Masters singles schedule, date, venue, fixtures, & first-round draw
PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal, both Olympic medalists, will head India’s campaign in the Madrid Spain Masters 2023 badminton competition, which gets underway on Tuesday. In the women’s singles, Sindhu is seeded second, behind local favorite & Rio 2016 champion Carolina Marin. To begin her title quest at the Spain Masters, Sindhu will face-off against one of the qualifier match winners.
Meanwhile, 2012 Olympic medalist Saina Nehwal will begin her campaign with atough clash against Thailand’s third-seeded Busanan Ongbamrungphan. Elsewhere, Parupalli Kashyap will begin his men’s singles campaign in the preliminary round. In men’s singles, Kidambi Srikanth is seeded fifth and hence he will face Thailand’s Sitthikom Thammasin in the first-round.
To watch this eagerly awaited event in-person, fans can purchase their tickets from here.
Below, we look at upcoming schedule of 2023 Spain Masters:
28th & 29th March: First-round matches will begin (from 10:00am GMT or 3:30 PM IST)
March 30: Round of 16 matches will begin
31st March: Quarter-finals begin
April 1: Semi-finals begin
2nd April: Finals begin
2023 Spain Masters (badminton): singles draw & schedule
Men’s Singles First Round Schedule (28th – 29th March)
Japan K Nishimoto vs Chinese Taipei Lee C-h
France A Merklé vs France B Leverdez
India S Kidambi vs Thailand S Thammasin
Netherlands M Caljouw vs India B. Sai Praneeth
Guatemala K Cordón vs France C Popov
Japan K Watanabe vs Chinese Taipei Wang T-w
Brazil Y Coelho vs Denmark A Antonsen
Thailand K Wangcharoen vs Denmark R Gemke
India S Verma vs Republic of Ireland N Nguyen
Canada B Yang vs Japan K Tsuneyama
Women’s Singles First Round Schedule (28th – 29th March)
Spain C Marín vs Denmark L Kjærsfeldt
India M Bansod vs Denmark J D Jakobsen
Canada M Li vs India A Kashyap
Thailand S Katethong vs Japan N Nidaira
Malaysia Goh J W vs Denmark L Christophersen
Indonesia G M Tunjung vs Scotland K Gilmour
Japan A Ohori vs South Korea Kim G-e
Japan R Gunji vs United States BW Zhang
India S Nehwal vs Thailand B Ongbamrungphan
Denmark M Blichfeldt vs United States I Wang
Chinese Taipei Sung S-y vs Chinese Taipei Hsu W-c
Belgium L Tan vs Indonesia P K Wardani
TBD vs India P. V. Sindhu
2023 Spain Masters: BWF points award system
According to BWF, the winner of each Spain Masters category will receive 7,000 BWF points, while the runner-up will receive around 5,950 points. Meanwhile, the loser of each semifinal match would receive 4,900 points under the BWF Points System.
| Winner | Runner-up | 3/4 | 5/8 | 9/16 | 17/32 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,000 | 5,950 | 4,900 | 3,850 | 2,750 | 1,670 |
2023 Spain Masters: prize money distribution
Because Spain Masters is a renowned BWF Super 300 event, each singles category winner will get $15,750 from the $210,000 total prize fund. While the losers of the semifinals will only receive $3,045, the singles runner-up will receive $7,500.
| Event | Winner | Finalist | Semi-finals | Quarter-finals | Last 16 |
| Singles | $15,750 | $7,980 | $3,045 | $1,260 | $735 |
| Doubles | $16,590 | $7,980 | $2,940 | $1,522.5 | $787.5 |
When & Where to watch: live stream & telecast of Spain Masters
Through the Badminton World Federation’s official YouTube channel BWF TV, live streaming of the Madrid Spain Masters 2023 tournaments will be available. It has not been confirmed that any Indian TV channel will broadcast the Madrid Spain Masters of badminton in real time.