On March 13, Beijing time, the WTA1000 Indian Wells station continued. Bardoza will make his defending debut at WTA1000 Indian Wells, and the Spaniard has a great start at the beginning of the year, reaching his second week of the Australian Open in addition to winning the Sydney title. However, in the subsequent Middle East season, she only achieved 1 win and 2 losses, which was not as good as expected. Bardoza's opponent is Martinkova, who has beaten the TOP20 players four times so far in her career (three times on hard courts, all from these two seasons) and she will be on the verge of the first TOP10 win.
In the match, defending champion Bardoza withstood the test of the second set and finally defeated Czech Martinkova 6-2, 7-6 (4) to win the first of the four meetings between the two sides. The Spaniard is currently unbeaten in the IW regular tournament and will wait for the winner between Tomo and Euvan.
No. 2 seed Sabalenka missed out on winning the first set and was reversed by Italian player Borini 6-2, 3-6, 3-6. She has only won 6 wins and 6 losses this season, with three of those races being out of the first game. Borinie won her first career top-10 victory against 31st seed Grubich, who beat Pudintseva 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 in the next round.
No. 27 seed Kvitova defeated Sassnovic 6-7 (4)/ 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 in three sets, and the first game was difficult to pass. She will face No. 6 seed Sakkari in the next round, who beat Syniakova 6-3, 7-5. The two sides have previously met in a record 3-3 draw (2-2 on hard courts), the most recent encounter was at last year's US Open, when Sakkari won in two sets.
No. 4 seed Kontawirt overcame a 2-4 start to beat Kukova 6-4, 6-1 to make a successful start. She will face No. 30 seed Vladrosova in the next round, who swept lucky loser Fletcher 6-1, 6-3. Vandrosova led 2-1 on the head-to-head record, although the most recent encounter between the two sides (moscow last year) was won by Kontawit.
Last year's final four, No. 9 seed Abdul-Abdul-Abdul-Jabbar suffered a big upset, missed the first two sets to win the set, although saving two match points in the second set, but finally lost 5-7, 7-6 (0)/ 4-6 to the world's 409th qualifier Savile, and was eliminated in the first game. The Australians won their first top 10 victory since the 2018 Central Open, with the next round against 20th seed Mertens.
Homegrown Rogers overcame a 2-4 deficit in the first set and saved two sets in the second to defeat 10th seed Ostapenko 7-5, 7-6 (7) to avenge last year's 1/4 final defeat and win their first victory in four encounters between the two sides. Latvians also became the top ten seeds out of the fifth game this week.
So far, five of the top ten seeds in the women's singles in Indian Wells have been eliminated in the first game and have missed the lead to varying degrees. No. 2 seed Sabalenka, lost to Borinne (first set), No. 7 seed Ka Pliskova, lost to Kovinic (6-2 5-2 lead), No. 8 seed Muguruza, lost to Risk (6-0 3-0 lead), No. 9 seed Abbay, lost to Savile (first two sets to win the set, 2-0 lead in the decider), No. 10 seed Ostapenko, lost to Rogers (4-2 lead in the first set, two sets in the second set). Top seed Kregitskova withdrew before the match and currently has four top ten seeds on the draw.