Aussies set for Indian Wells as six qualify for fundamental draw | 5 March, 2025 | All Information | Information and Options | Information and Occasions

Kimberly Birrell, Maya Joint, Maddison Inglis, Ajla Tomljanovic, Li Tu and Adam Walton have certified for Indian Wells, boosting Australia’s main-draw illustration to 13 gamers.

Indian Wells, CA, United States, 5 March 2025 | Matt Trollope

9 males and 4 girls will fly the Australian flag at Indian Wells after a profitable begin to one of many sport’s largest occasions outdoors the Grand Slams.

The mixed variety of 13 Australians throughout the boys’s and ladies’s singles attracts is the very best variety of Aussies competing at Indian Wells because the girls’s occasion was launched in 1989.

Qualifying concluded on the joint ATP-WTA 1000 event on Tuesday (California time), with six Aussies securing their place in the principle draw.

It was an particularly fruitful day for Australia’s girls, with 4 – Kimberly Birrell, Maya Joint, Ajla Tomljanovic and Maddison Inglis – coming by way of the ultimate spherical of qualifying.

Birrell, the highest Aussie lady and No.1 seed in qualifying, clinched her spot with a 6-4 6-4 win over Cristina Bucsa, one other straight-sets win after her 6-3 6-0 rout of Kristina Penickova in her first match.

DRAW: Indian Wells girls’s singles

Joint, Australia’s latest member of the WTA high 100, survived Mirian Bjorkland in three units to enhance her 2025 report to 16-6, whereas Inglis upstaged twenty second seed Aoi Ito to finish her profitable qualifying marketing campaign.

Inglis has now received 13 of 18 matches this season and elevates her stay rating to world No.128.

Tomljanovic, a semifinalist final week in Austin, superior when opponent Zeynep Sonmez withdrew forward of their match citing harm.

INDIAN WELLS: Girls’s singles fundamental draw

Aussie		1R opponent
[Q] Kimberly Birrell	v	[Q] Viktorija Golubic (SUI)
[Q] Maya Joint	v	Sorana Cirstea (ROU)
[Q] Ajla Tomljanovic	v	Caty McNally (USA)
[Q] Maddison Inglis	v	Sofia Kenin (USA)

On the boys’s facet, Li Tu bested James Duckworth in an all-Australian battle to take his place in the principle draw.

Tu’s 6-4 6-2 win sees the 28-year-old South Australian clinch a main-draw spot in his first journey to the Indian Wells Tennis Backyard.

Later within the day, Adam Walton overcame Michael Mmoh in three units to make his Indian Wells main-draw debut.

This time final 12 months, he was ranked a hundred and fiftieth and fell within the first spherical of qualifying; now inside the highest 100, he hopes to proceed his run when he faces fellow qualifier Giulio Zeppieri in spherical one.

Tu and Walton kind a part of a nine-strong Aussie males’s contingent in the principle draw led by Alex de Minaur, the No.9 seed who after a first-round bye opens towards both Lorenzo Sonego or David Goffin.

Alexei Popyrin can be seeded, and like De Minaur enjoys a first-round bye.

DRAW: Indian Wells males’s singles

Additionally competing within the Californian desert will probably be Jordan Thompson, Chris O’Connell, Aleksandar Vukic, Rinky Hijikata and Nick Kyrgios, who enters on a protected rating.

Kyrgios, enjoying his first event since Australian Open 2025, may face Novak Djokovic within the second spherical.

INDIAN WELLS: Males’s singles fundamental draw

Aussie		1R opponent
[9] Alex de Minaur	v	BYE
[26] Alexei Popyrin	v	BYE
Jordan Thompson	v	Corentin Moutet (FRA)
Chris O’Connell	v	Roberto Carballes Baena (ESP)
Aleksandar Vukic	v	[WC] Tristan Boyer (USA)
Rinky Hijikata	v	Alexander Shevchenko (KAZ)
[PR] Nick Kyrgios	v	[LL] Botic van de Zandschulp (NED)
[Q] Li Tu	v	Dusan Lajovic (SRB)
[Q] Adam Walton	v	[Q] Giulio Zeppieri (ITA)

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