2018 Indian Wells - WTA Premier Mandatory

Who will be the Indian Wells champ?

  • Serena

    Votes: 7 30.4%

  • Halep

    Votes: 4 17.4%

  • Wozniacki

    Votes: 1 4.3%

  • Muguruza

    Votes: 5 21.7%

  • Svitolina

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Pliskova

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Venus

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Kvitova

    Votes: 3 13.0%

  • Kerber

    Votes: 2 8.7%

  • Other?

    Votes: 1 4.3%
  • Total voters
    23
  • Poll closed .
Aussie Darcy

Aussie Darcy

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First Premier Mandatory of the year.

I believe we will also finally have the tour return of the great Serena Williams. She will be unseeded too so that's one to watch.

Seeded players are: Halep, Wozniacki, Muguruza, Svitolina, Pliskova, Ostapenko, Garcia, Venus, Kvitova, Kerber, Konta, Goerges, Sloane, Mladenovic, Keys, Barty, Coco, Rybarikova, Kuznetsova, Kasatkina, Sevastova, Mertens, Pavlyuchenkova, Vesnina, Strycova, Gavrilova, Suarez Navarro, Kontaveit, Bertens, Cibulkova, Radwanska and Zhang.

Wildcards have gone to: Anismova, Azarenka :D, Bouchard, Collins, Day, Dolehide, Liu and Zhuk

Withdrawals so far: Konjuh, Gasparyan, Lucic-Baroni, Peng, Safarova and Siegemund.

Vesnina is the defending champion in singles, Chan/Hingis were the defending champs in doubles but Hingis has of course retired. Chan playing with her sister once more.

Number 1 ranking is in play. Wozniacki must reach at least the final to have a shot at regaining the top ranking.

Qualifying is stacked too: Hsieh, Niculescu, Brengle, Schiavone, Townsend, Tomljanovic, Petkovic and more.

So who will win this very exciting tournament?
Have done a poll, decided to remove Ostapenko and Garcia as options so I could put Serena and Kerber in the options as I rate their chances more.
 
Been quite a while since we've had this many slam champs in a draw: 12 or 13.

Wozniacki, Muguruza, Ostapenko, Venus, Kvitova, Kerber, Sloane, Kuznetsova, Sharapova, Stosur, Azarenka, Serena and possibly Schiavone.

Good draw looming.
 
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Aussie Darcy said:
Been quite a while since we've had this many slam champs in a draw: 10 or 11.

Wozniacki, Muguruza, Ostapenko, Venus, Kvitova, Kerber, Sloane, Kuznetsova, Sharapova, Azarenka, Serena and possibly Schiavone.
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Miami will be even crazier with Bartoli also in the ring following her return. These draws will be insanely good.
 
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Errani over Bondarenko in the IW Challenger 6-4 6-2. I caught the last few games and it seemed hard for her to close it out. She served the winning point underhanded :cool: Anyways a win is a win, congrats to Sara.
 
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Muguruza killing it at the Oscars

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Jana Fett over Wozniacki in the final, calling it now. She’s been training hard, revenge is sweet.
 
A new Masters winner perhaps?
Who in the draw has already won IW?
 
Anyone know what's happened to Jankovic? Injured or nearly retired?

The former Indian Wells champ is down to #283 in the live rankings. Hasn't played since the US Open.
 
Aussie Darcy said:
Serena, Sharapova, Wozniacki, Azarenka, Halep and Vesnina have all won Indian Wells.

Top 16 players who have never won a Premier 5/Premier Mandatory:
#6 Ostapenko, #10 Kerber, #13 Sloane, #12 Goerges, #14 Keys, #16 Vandeweghe. All the others have.
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Kerber never won 1 interesting :eek:
 
I Am Finnish said:
Kerber never won 1 interesting :eek:
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4 runner ups.

She has 7 Premier titles though. 4

Came close most recently in 2016 in Cincy but lost in the final to Pliskova.

It was funny actually, Kerber was going for the number 1 ranking in that final but the loss to Pliskova meant Serena held onto it. Karolina in her winners speech said 'you deserve to be number 1 but maybe next time' and Kerber had a bit of an eye roll. Couple of weeks later, Pliskova knocked Serena out of the US Open SF which meant Kerber would gain the #1 ranking as she had already made the final earlier that night. Interesting little bit of history ;)

Footage of the comment here:

 
Aussie Darcy said:
4 Premiers in 2015 and 2 slams and a Premier in 2016. Came close in Cincy but lost in the final to Pliskova.

It was funny actually, Kerber was going for the number 1 ranking in that final but the loss meant Serena held onto it. Pliskova in her winners speech said 'you deserve to be number 1 but maybe next time' and Kerber had a bit of an eye roll. Couple of weeks later, Pliskova knocked Serena out of the US Open SF which meant Kerber would gain the #1 ranking as she had already made the final earlier that night. Interesting little bit of history ;)
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Lol she was like whatever girl (rolleyes):p:D
 
    • Notable 3R matches to watch among the seeds:​
    • Halep-Cibulkova​
    • Konta-Kuznetsova​
    • Vandeweghe-Barty​
    • Muguruza-Radwanska​
    • Stephens-Kasatkina​
    • Kerber-Vesnina​
    • Projected quarterfinal match-ups for the singles draw:​
  • [1] Halep vs. [6] Ostapenko​
  • [3] Muguruza vs. [6] Ka. Pliskova​
  • [8] Venus Williams vs. [4] Svitolina​
  • [7] Garcia vs. [2] Wozniacki​
 
  • Notable first round clashes for the @WTA singles draw at the #BNPPO18:
  • Sharapova-Osaka
  • Serena Williams-Diyas
  • Azarenka-Watson
  • Bencic-Babos
  • Anisimova-Parmentier
  • Makarova-Flipkens
  • Vekic-Sakkari
Two-time winner Victoria Azarenka is in action for the first time since Wimbledon. She takes on Heather Watson in the first round
 
World No. 1 Simona Halep’s projected path to the #BNPPO18

1R - Bye 2R - Kr. Pliskova 3R - Cibulkova 4R - Mladenovic QF - Ostapenko (Konta) SF - Muguruza (Ka. Pliskova) F - Wozniacki (Svitolina/S. Williams)
 
Bacsinszky is in the draw which is great to see. She hadn't played since Wimbledon last year when she made her return in St Petersburg in January but was upset by Rybakina.

She opens against Wang.
 
Firstservingman said:
A new Masters winner perhaps?
Who in the draw has already won IW?
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Aussie Darcy said:
Serena, Sharapova, Wozniacki, Azarenka, Halep and Vesnina have all won Indian Wells.

Top 16 players who have never won a Premier 5/Premier Mandatory:
#6 Ostapenko, #10 Kerber, #13 Sloane, #12 Goerges, #14 Keys, #16 Vandeweghe. All the others have.
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At the time of posting that, former champ Zvonareva wasn't in qualifying but someone must've withdrawn and she got in as an alternate. She smoked Duval 6-2 6-1 and now the 2009 champ is one win away from the main draw. So that makes possibly 7 former champs in the draw.
 
Serena with some errors there including a bad miss and a double fault but still looks far better then her other exhibiton and Fed Cup performance.

I think she can get past Diyas and perhaps Bertens. Venus will be a challenge although she hasn't played much lately either.
 
Svitolina wins the tiebreak tens in great form. Will win the Sunshine double and French Open. :cool:

36 points played, won 30 of them.

Beat Venus 10-3, Coco 10-0 and Zhang 10-3.

Takes home $250k. Easiest money really..
 
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