The Monte Carlo Masters have closed their doors for another year after Carlos Alcaraz won the ATP 1000 tournament.
Alcaraz beat Lorenzo Musetti to win the Monte Carlo Masters for the first time, as he now rises to world number two in the ATP rankings.
Following his biggest title win of the 2025 season so far, Alcaraz has received messages from Novak Djokovic and many other tennis players.
The ATP tournament has been on its own since 1983, with former top 10 player John Isner suggesting a WTA Monte Carlo tournament for the future.
Monte Carlo Masters tournament director says whether he would consider a WTA event
After Alcaraz won the Monte Carlo Masters, tournament director David Massey fielded questions from the media in his post-match press conference.
Massey, who previously worked for the ATP Tour, has been the Monte Carlo Masters tournament director for three years now.
When the subject of whether the WTA Tour could play in Monte Carlo in the future was broached, Massey did not rule it out, but confirmed that there are no talks of it happening in the near future.
“It’s a good question. I think at this stage right now there are no concrete plans to change our format,” said Massey. “So for next year we know our dates are already set, so we are on the 4th through 12th of April, a nine-day event with a 56 draw men’s singles, so the same format of the other two draws.
“We obviously remain open to introducing the WTA into our competition into the tournament. I believe that would require us to have more days for the event and a shift in date by at least one week to accommodate that.
“Nothing planned at this stage but not to be ruled out in the future either. The best product I believe would be a combined event and not back to back. So we are really, if it does happen in the future, it will be combined.
“Having said that, I think that the format we have right now works extremely well with a men’s competition. Intensity that we see with this format I think is really — I think it’s one of the best formats in tennis.
“As a reminder, the cutoff to enter this tournament, the top 45 players get into the draw directly, so we had a 48 original cutoff, with very few players actually not able to play this event.
“So we had a very healthy player field overall, and I think that it’s very tough to play this tournament, and the first rounds are very, very competitive. We saw this with some big matches from the first day.
“Even the qualifying is very competitive. Players who normally go straight into main draw in Indian Wells, Miami, and other tournaments of 96 draws or Grand Slams, cannot play here directly.
“So it’s a format I think that delivers to fans intense and very competitive tennis, very high-level tennis, and for that, I think, you know, we are in a great position for the future, as well.”
The Monte Carlo Masters is one of only two ATP 1000 tournaments that remains as a one-week event, alongside the Paris Masters tournament.
It has previously held a WTA tournament that was last held in 1982, with Romanian Virginia Ruzici winning the title.
Have the WTA Tour put any pressure on the Monte Carlo Masters?
That was not the only question that Massey was asked about a potential women’s event, with a follow-up question concerning whether the WTA have put any pressure on the Monte Carlo Masters.
Massey shut down the idea of any pressure being put on, but did not say that no enquiries had been made by the WTA Tour.
“I wouldn’t say pressure, no. I wouldn’t use the word ‘pressure’,” said Massey. “But again, we are not in active discussion to integrate a WTA tournament at this stage.
“There is no pressure; nor are we saying that we would never do that either. It’s just not an action item at this point.”
The 2026 edition of the Monte Carlo Masters main draw will take place between April 5-12.
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