By Aiberto Amalfi | @Tennis_Now | Friday, March 1, 2024
The BNP Paribas Open area simply grew much more formidable. .
Former world No. 1 Karolina Pliskova, 2021 US Open champion Emma Radaucanu, 2021 BNP Paribas Open champion Paula Badosa and former Roland Garros semifinalist Amanda Anisimova have all been awarded wild playing cards into subsequent week’s BNP Paribas Open on the Indian Wells Tennis Backyard.
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The BNP Paribas Open is about for March 3-17.
Primary draw play will start on March 6, Rafael Nadal is about to make his return on Thursday evening, March 7 and the event will conclude on Sunday, March 17 with the lads’s and girls’s singles finals.
Twenty-two-year-old American Anisimova, who reached the fourth spherical in Melbourne earlier this yr in her return to Tour after seven months away from the sport, was awarded entry into the primary draw, together with People Ashlyn Krueger and McCartney Kessler.
Former World No. 1 and seven-time Grand Slam Singles Champion Venus Williams was beforehand obtained a essential draw wild card, as was Caroline Wozniacki, the 2018 Australian Open and 2011 BNP Paribas Open Champion. Each gamers will likely be returning to the desert for the primary time since 2019.
Twenty-two-year-old Brandon Nakashima, who received each his inaugural title at his hometown San Diego Open and the Subsequent Gen ATP Finals crown in 2022, was awarded a essential draw wild card, alongside former World No. 9 Fabio Fognini, who’s a nine-time ATP Tour Singles Champion. 2024 Qatar Open finalist Jakub Mensik of the Czech Republic, three-time ATP Challenger Tour winner Patrick Kypson and former College of Illinois All-American Aleksander Kovacevic are additionally on the listing of ATP essential draw wild card recipients.
Wild playing cards into the BNP Paribas Open males’s qualifying draw have been awarded to former World No. 10 and five-time ATP Tour champion Lucas Pouille; Southern California native and former College of Southern California Trojan Steve Johnson; 22-year-old Stefan Dostanic, the winner of the 2023 USTA Southern California “Race to Indian Wells;” 2023 NCAA Males’s Singles Champion Ethan Quinn; and 17-year-old Cooper Woestendick, the winner of final yr’s inaugural FILA Worldwide Junior Championships in Indian Wells and the 2024 Australian Open Boys’ Doubles Champion.
An all-American roster of BNP Paribas Open girls’s qualifying wild playing cards contains 2022 Wimbledon Ladies’ Singles champion Liv Hovde; 2021 US Open Ladies’ Singles and Doubles Champion Robin Montgomery; 2024 Australian Open Ladies’ Doubles Champion Iva Jovic; former College of California All-American and 2023 USTA Southern California “Race to Indian Wells” winner Haley Giavara; three-time Junior Grand Slam Champion Clervie Ngounoue; and New York native Christasha McNeil, a member of BNP Paribas’s Mac 1 Crew.
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