American Grand Slam champions now have a spot in Tennis Paradise.
Sofia Kenin, the 2020 Australian Open champion, and Jack Sock, a three-time main doubles champion, lead the listing of main-draw wild card recipients for subsequent week’s BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells.
The ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 occasion is ready for March 6 – 19 on the Indian Wells Tennis Backyard. Ten whole People together with Kenin had been awarded wild card entry into the lads’s and ladies’s predominant attracts.
On the ATP aspect, Sock obtained a predominant draw wild card, because the three-time BNP Paribas Open doubles champion will return to Tennis Paradise after bringing house the title final 12 months alongside associate John Isner. Sock has been ranked as excessive as World No. 8 and World No. 2 in singles and doubles respectively, along with being a three-time Grand Slam doubles champion.
23-year-old Yibing Wu has additionally been awarded a predominant draw wild card after turning into the primary Chinese language man to win an ATP title earlier this 12 months. In profitable the Dallas Open, Wu turned the highest-ranked Chinese language participant within the historical past of the ATP Rankings and the primary Chinese language participant to ever enter the High 60.
Former College of Southern California standout Brandon Holt and 24-year-old American Alex Kovacevic are additionally on the listing of ATP predominant draw wild card recipients.
2019 BNP Paribas Open champion and 2020 US Open champion Dominic Thiem beforehand obtained a predominant draw wild card and can make his first journey again to the desert since his title run 4 years in the past.
Headlining the listing of Hologic WTA Tour predominant draw wild playing cards is 2020 Australian Open Champion and former world No. 4 Kenin. The 24-year-old heads to Tennis Paradise seeking to jumpstart her 2023 season with a career-best displaying in Tennis Paradise, the place she has beforehand reached the second spherical (2018, 2019).
Becoming a member of Kenin in receiving a predominant draw wild card is an thrilling listing of younger American expertise that features 2021 NCAA Division I Singles Champion Emma Navarro; former High 50 participant Ann Li; seven-time Hologic WTA Tour doubles champion Caty McNally; California native Katie Volynets, who lately reached the third spherical on the 2023 Australian Open; 2022 NCAA Division I Singles Champion Peyton Stearns and 21-year-old Elizabeth Mandlik. Three-time WTA titlist Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine completes the listing of Hologic WTA Tour predominant draw wild playing cards.
Wild playing cards into the BNP Paribas Open males’s qualifying draw had been awarded to two-time Grand Slam singles quarterfinalist Tennys Sandgren, 2022 USTA boy’s 18s singles nationwide champion Learner Tien, 2022 Wimbledon boys’ doubles champion Alex Michelsen, and San Diego native Zach Svajda. One further qualifying wild card recipient might be introduced within the coming days.
5 People—2022 Wimbledon ladies’ singles champion Liv Hovde, 18-year-old Ashlyn Kreuger, World No. 33 doubles participant Caroline Dolehide, 17-year-old Stephanie Yakoff, and 2021 US Open ladies’ singles and doubles champion Robin Montgomery—obtained wild playing cards into the BNP Paribas Open ladies’s qualifying draw. 2022 Australian Open ladies’ singles champion Petra Marcinko of Croatia completes the listing of Hologic WTA Tour qualifying wild playing cards.
