By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Photograph credit score: Matthew Calvis
Carlos Alcaraz performs for a uncommon Indian Wells three-peat subsequent month.
5-time BNP Paribas Open champion Novak Djokovic will attempt to snap the Spaniard’s desert reign.
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The BNP Paribas Open issued its 2025 entry record at present and Djokovic, who suffered a muscle tear in his left hamstring that compelled him to retire from final month’s Australian Open semifinals, is among the many champions on it.
Two-time defending champion Alcaraz rides a 12-match Indian Wells successful streak into the desert as he performs to turn out to be the primary man since Djokovic in 2016 to three-peat.
Reigning girls’s champion Iga Swiatek is enjoying for historical past.
Two-time champion Swiatek is bidding to turn out to be the primary lady to win three Indian Wells singles championships.
The 2025 BNP Paribas Open might be held on the Indian Wells Tennis Backyard March 2-Sixteenth.
World No.1 gamers and three-time Grand Slam champions Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner will high their respective attracts as each hope to seize a first-career title in Palm Springs.
Sabalenka reached the ultimate in 2023 and might be searching for her first title of the 2025 season after falling to Madison Keys in an exhilarating Australian Open closing. Sabalenka and Taylor Fritz gained the Eisenhower Cup blended doubles title performed earlier than the Indian Wells principal draw final 12 months.
Sinner, empowered by efficiently defending his Australian Open title final month, has reached back-to-back Indian Wells semifinals – falling to Alcaraz each occasions.
Total, Alcaraz is 16-2 lifetime in Tennis Paradise beating again Alexander Zverev, a sudden swarm of bees, Sinner and Daniil Medvedev in claiming the 2024 championship.
Olympic teammates Coco Gauff and former Indian Wells champion Taylor Fritz lead the cost of American contenders. The 2025 Australian Open finalist Alexander Zverev, three-time Grand Slam finalist Casper Ruud, two-time Grand Slam finalist Jasmine Paolini, and 2023 BNP Paribas Open champion Elena Rybakina full the record of High 5 gamers set to compete within the desert.
The 2025 Australian Open Champion Madison Keys, 2024 US Open finalist Jessica Pegula and 2024 US Open semifinalist Emma Navarro spherical out the record of High 10 gamers seeking to break the American WTA drought within the desert.
No American lady has lifted the BNP Paribas Open singles title since Serena Williams in 2001. Corridor of Famer Lindsay Davenport was runner-up three years in a row (2003 to 2005) and Serena fell to Victoria Azarenka within the 2016 closing. The 2019 champion Bianca Andreescu is the final North American lady to win Indian Wells.
Since Different high American girls set to vie for the crown embrace World No. 12 Danielle Collins, former NCAA Nationwide Champion Peyton Stearns, and Amanda Anisimova.
On the American males’s aspect, newly-minted High 10 participant Tommy Paul (World No. 9) will look to construct off a career-best Indian Wells displaying final 12 months, the place he reached the semifinal.
Former US Open semifinalist Ben Shelton will make his third look within the desert contemporary off a run to the Australian Open semifinal, with Frances Tiafoe and Sebastian Korda finishing the record of High 25-ranked American ATP gamers coming to Tennis Paradise.
Former High 50 American gamers Reilly Opelka and Jenson Brooksby may also compete in Indian Wells for the primary time for the reason that 2022 BNP Paribas Open as each gamers make comebacks from multi-year Tour absences. 2025 Australian Open semifinalist and World No. 10 Paula Badosa highlights a powerful crew of former BNP Paribas Open winners seeking to reclaim championship glory on the Indian Wells Tennis Backyard.
The 2021 champion Badosa might be joined by different previous Indian Wells titleholders together with Naomi Osaka (2018), Victoria Azarenka (2012, 2016), and Cameron Norrie (2021).
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