2021 US Open Champion Emma Raducanu, Former World No. 1 Karolina Pliskova and 2021 BNP Paribas Open Champion Paula Badosa Added to Principal Attracts;
Grand Slam Champions Venus Williams and Caroline Wozniacki Beforehand Awarded Wild Playing cards
INDIAN WELLS, Calif., March 1, 2024 – 2021 US Open Champion Emma Raducanu headlines the listing of gamers awarded most important draw wild playing cards into the 2024 BNP Paribas Open, a mixed ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 occasion to be held March 3-17 on the Indian Wells Tennis Backyard.
The 22-year previous Raducanu heads to Tennis Paradise seeking to jumpstart her 2024 season after a career-best displaying in Indian Wells final March, reaching the Spherical of 16. Becoming a member of her shall be former World No. 1 and two-time Grand Slam finalist Karolina Pliskova, together with 2021 BNP Paribas Open Champion Paula Badosa. Twenty-two-year-old American Amanda Anisimova, who reached the fourth spherical in Melbourne earlier this yr in her return to Tour after seven months away from the sport, was additionally awarded entry into the primary draw, together with Individuals Ashlyn Krueger and McCartney Kessler.
Former World No. 1 and seven-time Grand Slam Singles Champion Venus Williams was beforehand acquired a most important draw wild card, as was Caroline Wozniacki, the 2018 Australian Open and 2011 BNP Paribas Open Champion. Each gamers shall 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 most important 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 most important draw wild card recipients.
Wild playing cards into the BNP Paribas Open males’s qualifying draw had 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 consists of 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.
The 2024 BNP Paribas Open begins on Sunday, March 3 with WTA qualifying play. Principal draw play will begin on March 6 and the event will conclude on Sunday, March 17 with the lads’s and girls’s singles finals.Concerning the BNP Paribas OpenThe BNP Paribas Open is the most important mixed ATP Tour Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 tennis occasion on the planet, and one of many premier fixtures on tour having been named Event of the Yr by each the WTA and the ATP Tour for a record-setting 9 consecutive years. The 2024 BNP Paribas Open shall be held on the Indian Wells Tennis Backyard March 3-17.
