Indian Wells Women’s Draw: The Indian Wells Open, which is a WTA 1000 event, will see the participation of all top Tennis players in action. The tournament is scheduled to be held from 9th March 2022 at California. The draw has World No.2 Barbora Krejcikova as the top seed in this competition, following the absence of World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty. Krejcikova is followed by Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek as the second and third seeds respectively. Follow InsideSport.IN for more updates.
Indian Wells Masters Women’s Draw: Barbora Krejcikova, Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek top seeds in 2022 Indian Wells Masters
Main draw at Indian Wells (WTA 1000), where Barbora Krejcikova, Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, and Anett Kontaveit are the top seeds.
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First Quarter
Barbora Krejcikova leads the top quarter of the draw, she rose to second in the world rankings after her impressive performance s over the last year. She won her maiden singles Grand Slam title at the 2021 French Open. She reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open this year but has not yet won any title. She will look to live up to the billing as No.1 seed and win the title in this tournament. She will face a qualifier or Sweden’s Rebecca Peterson in the Round of 32.
The draw also has Coco Gauff and Simona Halep, who are likely to meet in the third round. The winner of this contest will go on to meet Krejcikova, if she advances to the fourth round. The draw also has No.8 Karolina Pliskova return to competition for the first time in 2022. Pliskova will face either Danka Kovinic or last year’s Cincinnati finalist, Jil Teichmann. 2021 US Open champion Emma Raducanu also features in this draw. Seeded No.11, Raducanu could have a tough opener in the second round against either Lyon runner-up Dayana Yastremska or Lyon semifinalist Caroline Garcia.
Second Quarter
In the next draw, World No.4 Iga Swiatek is the top seed. Swiatek will open her Indian Wells campaign against either France’s Clara Burel or Anhelina Kalinina. The draw features WTA Finals champion Garbiñe Muguruza. Muguruza will face either Alison Riske or a qualifier in the second round and could face Australian Open semifinalist Madison Keys in the third round.
Swiatek could be headed for an enticing match-up against Danish teenager Clara Tauson in the third round. The big-hitting 19-year-old is seeded No.29 and will face either 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin or Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia in the second round.
Third Quarter
Estonia’s Anett Kontaveit headlines the third quarter in the Indian Wells Masters. She was one match shy from going undefeated in February, having run off nine consecutive wins to win the title in St. Petersburg and make her first WTA 1000 final since 2018 Wuhan, losing to Swiatek in the Doha final. Kontaveit will look to continue her run of form when she opens her tournament against either Elena Gabriela Ruse of Romania or Kristina Kucova of Slovakia.
The big news coming out of the Kontaveit quarter is the blockbuster first-round match-up between unseeded 2018 champion Naomi Osaka and 2017 US Open champion Sloane Stephens. Osaka is playing her first tournament since the Australian Open and will be making her return to Indian Wells for the first time since 2019. Stephens comes into the tournament on the heels of winning Guadalajara, her first title since 2018 Miami. Stephens has won their two prior meetings, but this will be their first showdown since the 2018 WTA Finals, which Stephens won in three sets. The winner will face No.21 Veronika Kudermetova.
Fourth Quarter
No.2 seed Aryna Sabalenka anchors the last quarter of the draw with No.6 seed Maria Sakkari. The other seeds in the quarter include 2021 semifinalist and No.9 seed Ons Jabeur, two-time champion Victoria Azarenka, and two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova.
Sabalenka will open against either Italy’s Jasmine Paolini or a qualifier, and the first seed she could face is Switzerland’s Viktorija Golubic in the third round. Sakkari will face either Irina Camelia Begu or Katerina Siniakova in the second round, with No.27 Kvitova a potential opponent in the third round.
Indian Wells Masters Women’s Draw: Barbora Krejcikova, Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek top seeds in 2022 Indian Wells Masters
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