BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells, CA, 2025 - WTA 1000

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DATE: March 5 - 16, 2025
SURFACE: Hard
PRIZE MONEY: $11,918,990
FIELD SIZE: 128
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Iga Swiatek

SEEDS [based on current Top 32 players; will change as needed]:

1. Aryna Sabalenka
2. Iga Swiatek
3. Coco Gauff
4. Jessica Pegula
5. Madison Keys
6. Jasmine Paolini
7. Elena Rybakina
8. Emma Navarro
9. Zheng Qinwen
10.Paula Badosa
11. Mirra Andreeva
12. Daria Kasatkina
13.Diana Shnaider
14. Danielle Collins
15. Karolina Muchova
16.Barbora Krejickova
17.Beatriz Haddad Maia
18.Amanda Anisimova
19. Ekaterina Alexandrova
20. Yulia Putintseva
21.Clara Tauson
22.Donna Vekic
23.Elina Svitolina
24.Marta Kostyuk
25. Liudmila Samsonova
26. Jelena Ostapenko
27. Leylah Fernandez
28.Elise Merterns
29. Maria Sakkari
30. Magdalena Frech
31. Linda Noskova
32.Ons Jabeur

The Tournament:

The Indian Wells Open (also known as the Indian Wells Masters and as the BNP Paribas Open for sponsorship reasons) is an annual professional tennis tournament held in Indian Wells, California, United States. It is played on outdoor hardcourts at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, and is held in March. The tournament is part of the ATP Masters 1000 events on the ATP Tour and part of the WTA 1000 events on the WTA Tour.

The tournament is the best-attended tennis tournament outside the four Grand Slam tournaments (475,372 in total attendance during the 2019 event); it is often called the "fifth Grand Slam" in reference to this. The Indian Wells Tennis Garden has the second-largest permanent tennis stadium in the world, behind the US Open's Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York. The Indian Wells Open is the premier tennis tournament in the Western United States and the second largest tennis tournament throughout the United States and the Americas (behind the US Open in the Eastern United States).

Preceding the Miami Open, it is the first event of the "Sunshine Double" — a series of two elite, consecutive hard court tournaments in the United States in early spring.

About Indian Wells:

Indian Wells is a city in Riverside County, California, in the Coachella Valley. Incorporated in 1967, it lies in between the cities of Palm Desert and La Quinta. As of the 2010 Census, the city population was 4,757.

Tourism Guide:

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

IW Main Draw Wild Cards,
Belinda Bencic
Iva Jovic
Petra Kvitova
Robin Montgomery
Alycia Parks
Bernarda Pera
Sloane Stephens
Caroline Dolehide is the last main draw wild card

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Projected Qfs at IW by ranking only
Sabalenka 1 vs Paolini 6
Gauff 3 vs Keys 5
Pegula 4 vs Rybakina 7
Swiatek 2 vs Zheng 8

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

I want to see improvements at IW especially from Sabalenka, Gauff and lets see if Iga the defending champion can defend her title this year at IW? and to become the first player to win IW 3 times?
Paolini and Zheng are players that need a good tournament as well., Zheng has been struggling since the AO, her coach Pere Riba over his surgery and will be with her at IW and Miami.
Keys playing her first tournament back since she won the AO, though her record at the Sunshine Double isnt a good one,
Keys is 10-11 at IW and 11-13 at Miami, and has made the QFs just once at each tournament in 26 tries ?can Madison turn this around?
I am also interested to see Mirra Andreeva if she can continue her great form in IW after winning in Dubai
Osaka still has a injury cloud coming into IW with a abdominal issue, also Paula Badosa under a injury cloud with a back injury.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Some interesting first round matches at IW,
Sloane Stephens WC vs Sofia Kenin
Anna Blinkova vs McCartney Kessler
Emma Raducanu vs Moyuka Uchijima
Belinda Bencic vs Tatjana Marai
Naomi Osaka vs Camila Osario
Petra Kvitova WC vs Varvara Gacheva
Caroline Garcia vs Bernarda Pera