In the early morning of May 5, the final of the WTA1000 Madrid will be contested against the two sides of world No. 1 Swiatek and world No. 2 Sabalenka. The two sides have played each other nine times before, with Swiatek holding a 6-3 advantage. The match was played in three sets, with Swiatek narrowly beating Sabalenka to win the title for the first time in Madrid.
Swiatek broke in the first set, and Sabalenka quickly broke back in the second game. Swiatek made a crucial break in the 11th game, and then she held serve to win the set 7-5.
Sabalenka broke first in the second game in the second set, Swiatek broke back in the third, Sabalenka broke again in the fourth game, and then Swiatek broke back. In the 10th game, Swiatek was broken in a game that had to be held, and Sabalenka took the match to the deciding set 6-4.
Swiatek broke serve in the fourth game of the deciding set, and in the fifth game she broke back to make it 2-3. In the 12th game, Swiatek saved two championship points and successfully held serve and brought the game into a tie-break. The tie-break was still fierce, with Swiatek saving match point and cashing in her second match point to win the tiebreaker 9-7.
In a match that lasted 3 hours and 11 minutes, Swiatek narrowly defeated world No. 2 Sabalenka 7-5, 4-6, 7-6(7) to win the Women's Singles title in Madrid. It was Swiatek's first win in Madrid, where she won her third title of the season, her 20th career title and her ninth in the WTA1000.