Monte-Carlo Masters

The Monte-Carlo Masters is an ATP Masters 1000 tennis tournament held in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on clay courts, played in April. One tour, one draw: 56 players in the men's singles.

Monte-Carlo is the one Masters 1000 tournament that ATP players are not required to enter, which makes its entry list the most revealing of the season. Who turns up says something about how seriously a player is treating the clay stretch, and who stays away says as much.

It is also the first proper clay event after four months of hard courts, and the adjustment is visible in the early rounds. Movement is the hardest part: sliding into a shot is a learned skill, and players who spent the winter on hard courts spend the first two rounds relearning it.

The courts sit above the Mediterranean and the conditions are heaviest in the morning, which slows the surface further and lengthens rallies that were already long.

The tournament has run since 1897, and despite the name the Monte-Carlo Country Club stands in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, on the French side of the border. Rafael Nadal won it eleven times between 2005 and 2018, and his losses there over that stretch fit on one hand.

The Monte-Carlo Country Club opened at its present site in 1928, and its courts are cut into terraces on the hillside, so the upper stands look down on the play and out to the sea behind it. The tournament has been part of the Masters series since the series was created in 1990, which makes it one of the nine originals still played in the same place.

Entry lists, the order of play and ticketing are on the official Monte-Carlo Masters site.

Two dates exist for this tournament: the day qualifying begins and the day the main draw does. The ones above are the second kind.

The Monte-Carlo Masters main draw holds 56 players in single elimination, 6 rounds to the title and 55 matches in all, with the top 8 seeds held out of the first round so their route is one match shorter. The guides explain what the numbers beside the names mean and who gets a bye in a draw of 56.

The Monte-Carlo Masters draw with every score is on its own page and updates while the tournament is being played.

Jannik Sinner won the men's title in 2026, beating Carlos Alcaraz in the final by 7-6, 6-3. That put them at number 1 in the world as this page was last built.

6 of the 8 quarter-finalists in the men's draw were seeded, which is close to what the seedings predicted. Jannik Sinner took the Monte-Carlo Masters title from the number 2 seeding, and the final went 2 sets.

Rights to the Monte-Carlo Masters are sold country by country, so the answer depends entirely on where you are sitting. No public broadcaster in the major markets carries it, which is normal for everything below the majors.

The Monte-Carlo Masters is played in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, and matches follow the local schedule, so check the order of play against your own time zone before committing an evening to it.

Monte-Carlo is a daytime tournament with no night session, so everything happens between late morning and early evening local time. That makes it one of the easiest events of the year to watch from Europe and one of the hardest from the Americas. Court Rainier III carries the main broadcast; the smaller courts around it are where the first round is played and where coverage thins out fastest.

Beyond the Monte-Carlo Masters, the viewing guide covers the season service by service.