Belinda Bencic, Sloane Stephens and Reilly Opelka Awarded Indian Wells Wild Cards

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday February 28, 2025

2020 Olympic Gold Medalist Belinda Bencic and 2017 US Open Champion Sloane Stephens are becoming a member of Petra Kvitova as BNP Paribas Open wild card recipients into the ladies’s singles major draw at Indian Wells.

Switzerland’s Bencic is within the early levels of her comeback from maternity depart – she gave beginning to her child lady Bella final April.

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The previous World No.4 (at present 58) took dwelling the title in Abu Dhabi earlier this month. Individuals Robin Montgomery, Alycia Parks and Bernarda Pera had been additionally awarded entry into the principle draw, in addition to Southern California native Iva Jovic, a 17-year-old ranked 162.

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One extra WTA major draw wild card stays to be awarded within the coming days.

On the lads’s facet, American Reilly Opelka headlines the record of males’s major draw wild playing cards, alongside a pair of former standout Stanford College gamers and Southern California natives Nishesh Basavareddy and Tristan Boyer. Basavareddy and Boyer each made their Grand Slam debuts on the 2025 Australian Open, with Boyer profitable his first spherical match and Basavareddy, who reached the semifinals in Auckland, pushing Novak Djokovic to 4 units.

These wild playing cards will be a part of beforehand named recipients Joao Fonseca. Learner Tien was earlier awarded a wild card however has now certified on the idea of his rating, so there’s another males’s singles wild card to be awarded.