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The BNP Paribas Open has added a dose of star energy to the sphere.
2019 BNP Paribas Open and US Open Champion Bianca Andreescu, 2017 US Open Champion Sloane Stephens, and former World No. 6 Gael Monfils lead the listing of gamers awarded major draw wild playing cards into the 2026 BNP Paribas Open, a mixed ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 occasion to be held March 1-15 on the Indian Wells Tennis Backyard.
Canada’s Andreescu is about to make her fourth BNP Paribas Open major draw look, returning to the event the place she broke out for her first WTA title in 2019, changing into the primary wild card champion in event historical past. Stephens will make her 14th event look, returning to Tennis Paradise after lacking the occasion in 2025 as a result of damage.
2024 Olympic Silver Medalist Donna Vekic additionally acquired a major draw wild card, together with 2021 Australian Open runner-up Jennifer Brady, 2025 Roland Garros Junior Champion Lilli Tagger, and People Alycia Parks and Katie Volynets. Former World No. 1 and seven-time Grand Slam singles champion Venus Williams additionally beforehand acquired a wild card.
French legend Gael Monfils headlines the listing of ATP wild playing cards in what will likely be his seventeenth and closing look at Indian Wells. Monfils, who introduced that 2026 will likely be his closing yr on the ATP Tour, is a 13-time ATP title winner who made his Indian Wells debut in 2005 and has reached the quarterfinals twice in his profession. ATP major draw wild playing cards had been additionally awarded to two-time NCAA singles Nationwide Champion Michael Zheng, 2024 US Open Juniors Champion Rafael Jodar, and People Martin Damm Jr., and Zachary Svajda, who’s a Southern California native.
Wild playing cards for the lads’s qualifying draw had been awarded to 2025 FILA Worldwide Junior Singles and Doubles Champion Jagger Leach, USTA Nationwide Boys 18s Champion Darwin Blanch, Trevor Svajda, Andrew Johnson, and Izyan Zizou Ahmad. 2025 FILA Worldwide Junior Champion Julieta Pareja acquired a ladies’s qualifying draw wild card, together with Emerson Jones, Mary Stoiana, Elvina Kalieva, Elizabeth Mandlik, and Akasha Urhobo.
