2021 BNP Paribas Open

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2021 BNP Paribas Open
Date	October 6–17
Edition	47th (ATP) / 32nd (WTA)
Category	ATP Tour Masters 1000 (Men) WTA 1000 (Women)
Draw	96S / 32D
Surface	Hard
Location	Indian Wells, California, United States
Venue	Indian Wells Tennis Garden
Champions
Men's singles
United Kingdom Cameron Norrie
Women's singles
Spain Paula Badosa
Men's doubles
Australia John Peers / Slovakia Filip Polášek
Women's doubles
Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei / Belgium Elise Mertens
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The 2021 Indian Wells Open (also known as the BNP Paribas Open for sponsorship reasons) was a professional men's and women's tennis tournament played in Indian Wells, California. After the event was cancelled the preceding year amid the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was initially scheduled to take place on March 10–21, 2021, but was postponed to October 6–17, 2021 to accommodate logistics disruptions owing to the pandemic.^[1]

It was the 47th edition of the men's event and 32nd of the women's event, and was classified as an ATP Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2021 ATP Tour and a WTA 1000 event on the 2021 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's qualifying and main draw events took place at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden from October 4 through October 17, 2021 on outdoor hard courts.^[1]

Dominic Thiem was the defending men's singles champion from when the tournament was last held in 2019. However, after Thiem ended his season early due to an ongoing wrist injury, he withdrew from the tournament.^{[2] [3]} Cameron Norrie won the men's singles title to become the first British man to win the Indian Wells Masters and earn his first ATP Masters 1000 title.^[4] Bianca Andreescu was the defending women's singles champion from 2019, but she lost in the third round to Anett Kontaveit.^[5] Paula Badosa won the women's singles title to become the first Spanish woman to win the Indian Wells Masters and earn her first WTA 1000 title.^[6]

The teams of Nikola Mektić and Horacio Zeballos ^[7] and Elise Mertens and Aryna Sabalenka ^[8] were the defending champions in the men's and women's doubles draws, respectively. Mektić and Zeballos chose not to participate together. Mektić played alongside partner Mate Pavić as the top seeds, but the pair lost in the quarterfinals.^[9] Zeballos played alongside partner Marcel Granollers, but were eliminated in the first round. Sabalenka chose not to defend her title and Mertens entered alongside partner Hsieh Su-wei. Mertens successfully defended her title with Hsieh, making it Mertens' second and Hsieh's third Indian Wells title, respectively.^[10]

• United Kingdom Cameron Norrie def. Georgia (country) Nikoloz Basilashvili, 3–6, 6–4, 6–1

• Spain Paula Badosa def. Belarus Victoria Azarenka, 7–6^(7–5), 2–6, 7–6^(7–2)

This was Badosa's second WTA Tour singles title, and first at the WTA 1000 level.

• Australia John Peers / Slovakia Filip Polášek def. Russia Aslan Karatsev / Russia Andrey Rublev, 6–3, 7–6^(7–5)

• Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei / Belgium Elise Mertens def. Russia Veronika Kudermetova / Kazakhstan Elena Rybakina, 7–6^(7–1), 6–3

Event	W	F	SF	QF	R16	R32	R64	R128	Q	Q2	Q1
Men's singles	1000	600	360	180	90	45	25*	10	16	8	0
Men's doubles						0	—	—	—	—	—
Women's singles		650	390	215	120	65	35*	10	30	20	2
Women's doubles						10	—	—	—	—	—

Event	W	F	SF	QF	R16	R32	R64	R128	Q2	Q1
Men's singles	1,209,730ドル	640,000ドル	335,000ドル	175,000ドル	92,000ドル	51,895ドル	29,045ドル	18,155ドル	9,110ドル	4,785ドル
Women's singles
Men's doubles*	414,500ドル	220,000ドル	117,240ドル	59,740ドル	31,500ドル	16,870ドル	—	—	—	—
Women's doubles*							—	—	—	—

• per team

The following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on ATP rankings as of October 4, 2021. Rank and points before are as of October 4, 2021.

As a result of pandemic-related adjustments to the ranking system, players are defending their points from the 2019 tournament (which had already been reduced by 50%), as well as from tournaments held during the weeks of 7 and 14 October 2019 (Shanghai, Stockholm, Antwerp and/or Moscow) and 12 October 2020 (St. Petersburg, Cologne or Sardinia). Points from 2019 and 2020 tournaments are included in the table only if they counted towards the player's ranking as of October 4, 2021.

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points dropped from 2019 and/or 2020	Points won	Points after	Status
1	2	Russia Daniil Medvedev	10,575	1,000+45	90+10	9,630	Fourth round, lost to Bulgaria Grigor Dimitrov [23]
2	3	Greece Stefanos Tsitsipas	8,175	360	180	7,995	Quarterfinals, lost to Georgia (country) Nikoloz Basilashvili [29]
3	4	Germany Alexander Zverev	7,603	23+600+250	180+10+10	6,930	Quarterfinals lost to United States Taylor Fritz [31]
4	5	Russia Andrey Rublev	6,130	90+250+500	45+90+90	5,560^	Third round, lost to United States Tommy Paul
5	7	Italy Matteo Berrettini	5,173	360	45	4,858	Third round, lost to United States Taylor Fritz [31]
6	10	Norway Casper Ruud	3,615	(90)†	90	3,615	Fourth round, lost to Argentina Diego Schwartzman [11]
7	11	Canada Félix Auger-Aliassime	3,368	45+150	10+45	3,263^	Second round, lost to Spain Albert Ramos Viñolas
8	12	Poland Hubert Hurkacz	3,333	90+90	180+45	3,378	Quarterfinals, lost to Bulgaria Grigor Dimitrov [23]
9	13	Canada Denis Shapovalov	3,265	45+250+180	45+45+23	2,903	Third round, lost to Russia Aslan Karatsev [19]
10	14	Italy Jannik Sinner	3,100	90	90	3,100	Fourth round, lost to United States Taylor Fritz [31]
11	15	Argentina Diego Schwartzman	2,800	10	180	2,970	Quarterfinals, lost to United Kingdom Cameron Norrie [21]
12	16	Spain Pablo Carreño Busta	2,550	70+90	45+10	2,445	Third round, lost to Russia Karen Khachanov [24]
13	17	Chile Cristian Garín	2,510	45	45	2,510	Third round, lost to Australia Alex de Minaur [22]
14	18	France Gaël Monfils	2,418	90+45	90+10	2,383	Fourth round, lost to Germany Alexander Zverev [3]
15	19	Spain Roberto Bautista Agut	2,360	90+90	45+45	2,270	Third round, lost to United Kingdom Cameron Norrie [21]
16	20	United States Reilly Opelka	2,161	45+90	45+0	2,071	Third round, lost to Bulgaria Grigor Dimitrov [23]
17	21	Italy Lorenzo Sonego	2,122	10	10	2,125^	Second round, lost to South Africa Kevin Anderson
18	22	United Kingdom Daniel Evans	2,122	(23)†	45	2,144	Third round, lost to Argentina Diego Schwartzman [11]
19	23	Russia Aslan Karatsev	2,109	45	90	2,154	Fourth round, lost to Poland Hubert Hurkacz [8]
20	24	United States John Isner	2,091	45+90	45+0	2,001	Third round, withdrew
21	26	United Kingdom Cameron Norrie	2,015	70+90	1,000+40	2,895	Champion, defeated Georgia (country) Nikoloz Basilashvili [29]
22	27	Australia Alex de Minaur	1,991	10	90	2,071	Fourth round, lost to Greece Stefanos Tsitsipas [2]
23	28	Bulgaria Grigor Dimitrov	1,881	(10)†	360	2,231	Semifinals, lost to United Kingdom Cameron Norrie [21]
24	29	Russia Karen Khachanov	1,830	90+90+90	90+45+23	1,718	Fourth round, lost to Georgia (country) Nikoloz Basilashvili [29]
25	30	Italy Fabio Fognini	1,664	180	45	1,529	Third round, lost to Greece Stefanos Tsitsipas [2]
26	31	South Africa Lloyd Harris	1,652	57	45	1,640	Third round, lost to Norway Casper Ruud [6]
27	34	Serbia Filip Krajinović	1,589	53+10+150	45+28+23	1,472	Third round, lost to Russia Daniil Medvedev [1]
28	35	Serbia Dušan Lajović	1,565	10+45	10+23	1,556^	Second round, lost to United States Tommy Paul
29	36	Georgia (country) Nikoloz Basilashvili	1,556	90	600	2,066	Runner-up, lost to United Kingdom Cameron Norrie [21]
30	38	Spain Carlos Alcaraz	1,499	80+80	10+6	1,355	Second round, lost to United Kingdom Andy Murray [WC]
31	39	United States Taylor Fritz	1,495	45	360	1,810	Semifinals vs Georgia (country) Nikoloz Basilashvili [29]
32	40	United States Sebastian Korda	1,469	(10)†	10	1,469	Second round, lost to United States Frances Tiafoe

† The player is not defending points from either 2019 or 2020. Accordingly, his 19th best result is shown in this column instead.
^ Because the 2021 tournament is non-mandatory, the player substituted his 19th best result in place of the points won in this tournament.

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:^[11]

• United Kingdom Andy Murray
• Denmark Holger Rune
• United States Jack Sock
• United States Zachary Svajda
• United States J. J. Wolf

The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:

• Germany Philipp Kohlschreiber

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Italy Salvatore Caruso
• United States Maxime Cressy
• United States Ernesto Escobedo
• United States Christopher Eubanks
• Ecuador Emilio Gómez
• Turkey Cem İlkel
• Italy Roberto Marcora
• Argentina Renzo Olivo
• Portugal João Sousa
• Chile Alejandro Tabilo
• Netherlands Botic van de Zandschulp
• Australia Aleksandar Vukic

Before the tournament

• Slovenia Aljaž Bedene → replaced by Germany Daniel Altmaier
• Kazakhstan Alexander Bublik → replaced by Spain Carlos Taberner
• France Jérémy Chardy → replaced by Brazil Thiago Monteiro
• Croatia Marin Čilić → replaced by United States Jenson Brooksby
• Croatia Borna Ćorić → replaced by Argentina Guido Pella
• Uruguay Pablo Cuevas → replaced by Spain Roberto Carballés Baena
• Serbia Novak Djokovic → replaced by Spain Feliciano López
• Switzerland Roger Federer → replaced by Germany Philipp Kohlschreiber
• Belgium David Goffin → replaced by Belarus Egor Gerasimov
• France Ugo Humbert → replaced by United States Steve Johnson
• Belarus Ilya Ivashka → replaced by Colombia Daniel Elahi Galán
• Spain Rafael Nadal → replaced by United States Brandon Nakashima
• Canada Milos Raonic → replaced by United States Denis Kudla
• Austria Dominic Thiem → replaced by Argentina Facundo Bagnis
• Switzerland Stan Wawrinka → replaced by United States Tennys Sandgren
• Sweden Mikael Ymer → replaced by Japan Taro Daniel

During the tournament

• United States John Isner

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank	Seed
CRO	Nikola Mektić	CRO	Mate Pavić	1	1
USA	Rajeev Ram	GBR	Joe Salisbury	2	2
ESP	Marcel Granollers	ARG	Horacio Zeballos	3	3
COL	Juan Sebastián Cabal	COL	Robert Farah	13	4
GER	Kevin Krawietz	ROU	Horia Tecău	20	5
GBR	Jamie Murray	BRA	Bruno Soares	19	6
AUS	John Peers	SVK	Filip Polášek	8	7
CRO	Ivan Dodig	BRA	Marcelo Melo	30	8

• Rankings are as of October 4, 2021.

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

• United States John Isner / United States Jack Sock
• United States Steve Johnson / United States Sam Querrey
• United States Mackenzie McDonald / United States Brandon Nakashima

The following pair received entry as alternates:

• Serbia Filip Krajinović / Serbia Dušan Lajović

Before the tournament

• Italy Matteo Berrettini / Italy Jannik Sinner → replaced by Serbia Filip Krajinović / Serbia Dušan Lajović
• Brazil Marcelo Demoliner / Russia Daniil Medvedev → replaced by Chile Cristian Garín / Mexico Santiago González

During the tournament

• United States John Isner / United States Jack Sock

The following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on WTA rankings as of September 27, 2021. Rankings and points before are as of October 4, 2021.

As a result of pandemic-related adjustments to the ranking system and changes to the WTA Tour calendar in 2020 and 2021, players will have the following potential adjustments to their ranking points after the tournament:

• players who have points from the 2020 French Open counting towards their ranking on October 4, 2021, will have those points replaced by points from the 2021 French Open;^[12]
• players will be dropping points from tournaments held during the weeks of 7 and 14 October 2019 (Tianjin, Linz, Moscow and Luxembourg);^[13] and
• players who are not defending points from October 2019 will have their 16th best result replaced by their points from the 2021 Indian Wells tournament.

Points from the 2019 Indian Wells tournament will be dropped on November 8, 2021.^[13]

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	2020 French Open Points †	2021 French Open Points †	Points dropped from 2019 (or 16th best result)	Points won	Points after	Status
1	3	Czech Republic Karolína Plíšková	5,285	-	-	30	65	5,320	Third round, lost to Brazil Beatriz Haddad Maia [LL]
2	4	Poland Iga Świątek	4,756	2,000	430	0	120	3,306	Fourth round, lost to Latvia Jeļena Ostapenko [24]
3	5	Czech Republic Barbora Krejčíková	4,668	-	-	40	120	4,748	Fourth round, lost to Spain Paula Badosa [21]
4	7	Ukraine Elina Svitolina	4,376	430	130	100	120	4,096	Fourth round, lost to United States Jessica Pegula [19]
5	6	Spain Garbiñe Muguruza	4,595	130	10	60	10	4,425	Second round, lost to Australia Ajla Tomljanović
6	9	Greece Maria Sakkari	4,055	-	-	60	10	4,005	Second round, lost to Switzerland Viktorija Golubic
7	11	Czech Republic Petra Kvitová	3,735	780	70	55	65	3,035	Third round, lost to Belarus Victoria Azarenka [27]
8	10	Switzerland (削除) Belinda Bencic (削除ここまで)	3,835	-	-	470	0	3,365	Withdrew due to knee injury
9	13	Russia Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	3,255	-	-	305+30	65+1	2,986	Third round, lost to Canada Leylah Fernandez [23]
10	15	Germany Angelique Kerber	3,105	-	-	55	215	3,265	Quarterfinals, lost to Spain Paula Badosa [21]
11	17	Romania Simona Halep	2,982	240	0	0	65	2,807	Third round, lost to Belarus Aliaksandra Sasnovich
12	14	Tunisia Ons Jabeur	3,220	-	-	110	390	3,500	Semifinals, lost to Spain Paula Badosa [21]
13	16	Kazakhstan Elena Rybakina	2,983	-	-	110	10	2,883	Second round, lost to Kazakhstan Yulia Putintseva
14	18	Belgium Elise Mertens	2,885	-	-	60	10	2,835	Second round, lost to Italy Jasmine Paolini [LL]
15	19	United States Coco Gauff	2,815	-	-	280	65	2,600	Third round, lost to Spain Paula Badosa [21]
16	21	Canada Bianca Andreescu	2,563	-	-	0	65	2,628	Third round, lost to Estonia Anett Kontaveit [18]
17	22	United Kingdom Emma Raducanu	2,558	-	-	0	10	2,568	Second round, lost to Belarus Aliaksandra Sasnovich
18	20	Estonia Anett Kontaveit	2,616	-	-	65	215	2,766	Quarterfinals, lost to Tunisia Ons Jabeur [12]
19	24	United States Jessica Pegula	2,470	-	-	35	215	2,650	Quarterfinals, lost to Belarus Victoria Azarenka [27]
20	30	Russia Daria Kasatkina	2,195	-	-	55	65	2,205	Third round, lost to Germany Angelique Kerber [10]
21	27	Spain Paula Badosa	2,298	-	-	50	1,000	3,248	Champion, defeated Belarus Victoria Azarenka [27]
22	25	United States Danielle Collins	2,361	430	130	100	65	2,026	Third round, lost to Tunisia Ons Jabeur [12]
23	28	Canada Leylah Fernandez	2,254	130	70	25	120	2,289	Fourth round, lost to United States Shelby Rogers
24	29	Latvia Jeļena Ostapenko	2,205	130	10	180+280	390+55	2,070	Semifinals, lost to Belarus Victoria Azarenka [27]
25	31	Russia Veronika Kudermetova	2,045	-	-	110+100	65+80	1,980	Third round, lost to Poland Iga Świątek [2]
26	33	Slovenia Tamara Zidanšek	1,841	-	-	30	65	1,876	Third round, lost to Australia Ajla Tomljanović
27	32	Belarus Victoria Azarenka	1,856	-	-	1	650	2,505	Runner-up, lost to Spain Paula Badosa [21]
28	35	Spain Sara Sorribes Tormo	1,760	-	-	55	10	1,715	Second round, lost to Russia Anna Kalinskaya [Q]
29	36	Argentina (削除) Nadia Podoroska (削除ここまで)	1,722	820	10	50	0	862	Withdrew due to physical ailments
30	38	Italy Camila Giorgi	1,660	-	-	10	10	1,660	Second round, lost to United States Amanda Anisimova
31	39	Switzerland Jil Teichmann	1,650	10	0	30	10	1,620	Second round, lost to Romania Irina-Camelia Begu
32	40	Romania Sorana Cîrstea	1,594	-	-	30	65	1,629	Third round, lost to Ukraine Elina Svitolina [4]

† Only players who were counting their 2020 French Open points in their rankings as of October 4, 2021 are shown in these columns.

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:^[11]

• Belgium Kim Clijsters
• France Elsa Jacquemot
• United States Ashlyn Krueger
• United States Claire Liu
• (削除) United States Caty McNally (削除ここまで)
• United Kingdom Emma Raducanu
• United States Katrina Scott
• United States Katie Volynets

The following players received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:

• China Zheng Saisai

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• United States Usue Maitane Arconada
• Kazakhstan Zarina Diyas
• Belgium Kirsten Flipkens
• Poland Magdalena Fręch
• Japan Mai Hontama
• Russia Anna Kalinskaya
• Ukraine Kateryna Kozlova
• Chinese Taipei Liang En-shuo
• United States Alycia Parks
• Romania Elena-Gabriela Ruse
• Australia Astra Sharma
• Italy Martina Trevisan

The following players received entry as lucky losers:

• Brazil Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Slovakia Kristína Kučová
• Italy Jasmine Paolini

Before the tournament

• Russia Ekaterina Alexandrova → replaced by Czech Republic Marie Bouzková
• Australia Ashleigh Barty → replaced by Slovenia Polona Hercog
• Switzerland Belinda Bencic → replaced by Slovakia Kristína Kučová
• United States Jennifer Brady → replaced by Colombia Camila Osorio
• United States Sofia Kenin → replaced by Croatia Ana Konjuh
• United Kingdom Johanna Konta → replaced by Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei
• United States Caty McNally → replaced by Italy Jasmine Paolini
• France Kristina Mladenovic → replaced by Spain Nuria Párrizas Díaz
• Czech Republic Karolína Muchová → replaced by Belarus Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Japan Naomi Osaka → replaced by Japan Misaki Doi
• Argentina Nadia Podoroska → replaced by Brazil Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Belarus Aryna Sabalenka → replaced by United States Lauren Davis
• Belgium Alison Van Uytvanck → replaced by Egypt Mayar Sherif
• Russia Elena Vesnina → replaced by Slovakia Anna Karolína Schmiedlová
• United States Serena Williams → replaced by United States Madison Brengle

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank	Seed
CZE	Barbora Krejčiková	CZE	Kateřina Siniaková	3	1
TPE	Hsieh Su-wei	BEL	Elise Mertens	7	2
JPN	Shuko Aoyama	JPN	Ena Shibahara	16	3
CHI	Alexa Guarachi	USA	Desirae Krawczyk	31	4
USA	Nicole Melichar-Martinez	NED	Demi Schuurs	35	5
USA	Hayley Carter	CAN	Gabriela Dabrowski	41	6
CRO	Darija Jurak	SLO	Andreja Klepač	46	7
CAN	Sharon Fichman	MEX	Giuliana Olmos	57	8

• Rankings are as of September 27, 2021.

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

• United States Amanda Anisimova / Ukraine Dayana Yastremska
• United States Reese Brantmeier / United States Katrina Scott
• Romania Simona Halep / Romania Elena-Gabriela Ruse

The following pairs received entry using protected rankings:

• Japan Nao Hibino / Poland Alicja Rosolska
• Germany Julia Lohoff / Russia Alexandra Panova
• Australia Anastasia Rodionova / Australia Arina Rodionova
• United Kingdom Heather Watson / China Zheng Saisai

Before the tournament

• Russia Anna Blinkova / Belarus Aliaksandra Sasnovich → replaced by Norway Ulrikke Eikeri / Belarus Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• France Caroline Garcia / France Kristina Mladenovic → replaced by Belgium Kirsten Flipkens / Spain Sara Sorribes Tormo

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