By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Picture 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 checklist at the moment and Djokovic, who suffered a muscle tear in his left hamstring that pressured 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 change into the primary man since Djokovic in 2016 to three-peat.
Reigning ladies’s champion Iga Swiatek is enjoying for historical past.
Two-time champion Swiatek is bidding to change into the primary girl to win three Indian Wells singles championships.
The 2025 BNP Paribas Open shall 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 prime their respective attracts as each hope to seize a first-career title in Palm Springs.
Sabalenka reached the ultimate in 2023 and shall 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 most important draw final yr.
Sinner, empowered by efficiently defending his Australian Open title final month, has reached back-to-back Indian Wells semifinals – falling to Alcaraz each instances.
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 checklist of Prime 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 checklist of Prime 10 gamers seeking to break the American WTA drought within the desert.
No American girl 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 girl to win Indian Wells.
Since Different prime American ladies 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 Prime 10 participant Tommy Paul (World No. 9) will look to construct off a career-best Indian Wells exhibiting final yr, the place he reached the semifinal.
Former US Open semifinalist Ben Shelton will make his third look within the desert recent off a run to the Australian Open semifinal, with Frances Tiafoe and Sebastian Korda finishing the checklist of Prime 25-ranked American ATP gamers coming to Tennis Paradise.
Former Prime 50 American gamers Reilly Opelka and Jenson Brooksby may also compete in Indian Wells for the primary time because the 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 robust crew of former BNP Paribas Open winners seeking to reclaim championship glory on the Indian Wells Tennis Backyard.
The 2021 champion Badosa shall be joined by different previous Indian Wells titleholders together with Naomi Osaka (2018), Victoria Azarenka (2012, 2016), and Cameron Norrie (2021).
