Here, for the sake of convenience, are the WTA players ranked 1-47 (aka the Madrid main draw entry list).
Madrid, 1st Rnd, Mon-Tue losers' prize: €7,825; points: 5
# Serena Williams USA
# Dinara Safina RUS
# Jelena Jankovic SRB
# Elena Dementieva RUS
# Vera Zvonareva RUS
# Venus Williams USA
# Ana Ivanovic SRB
# Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS
# Nadia Petrova RUS
# Victoria Azarenka BLR
# Agnieszka Radwanska POL
# Caroline Wozniacki DEN
# Marion Bartoli FRA
# Alize Cornet FRA
# Flavia Pennetta ITA
# Dominika Cibulkova SVK
# Jie Zheng CHN
# Patty Schnyder SUI
# Kaia Kanepi EST
# Amelie Mauresmo FRA
# Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP
# Katarina Srebotnik SLO
# Anna Chakvetadze RUS
# Sybille Bammer AUT
# Agnes Szavay HUN
# Alisa Kleybanova RUS
# Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS
# Ai Sugiyama JPN
# Aleksandra Wozniak CAN
# Maria Sharapova RUS
# Iveta Benesova CZE
# Carla Suarez Navarro ESP
# Sara Errani ITA
# Shuai Peng CHN
# Gisela Dulko ARG
# Alona Bondarenko UKR
# Bethanie Mattek-Sands USA
# Virginie Razzano FRA
# Maria Kirilenko RUS
# Na Li CHN
# Sorana Cirstea ROU
# Samantha Stosur AUS
# Daniela Hantuchova SVK
# Petra Kvitova CZE
# Tamarine Tanasugarn THA
# Shahar Peer ISR
# Magdalena Rybarikova SVK + 5 wild cards & 8 qualifiers, the 4 Rome semifinalists will receive 1st round byes
Get a Google map of the venue, local forecast & time, results with photos & quotes, etc. at tennis.quickfound.net: Madrid 2009.
There is no joy in Mudville, TransAm, who defeated Firebird on Thursday,
has struck out to a fine European import...
WC will not be exclusively for Spanish, the tourney is property of Ion Tiriac and in ATP event he has given some WC to Romanian or other players. Last year Juan Carlos Ferrero was denied a WC that went to Safin (his protegee) and an Italian player (in exchange of a WC for Safin in Rome).
Anyway I think Ruano and Llagostera will get one, as well as Martinez if she doesn't enter Main Draw.