Beijing time on October 5 news, the 2021 season WTA1000 Indian Wells Tournament announced the women's singles regular match signing table, due to the absence of the world's first Barty, Ka Pliskova will play as the number one seed. The two Chinese mainland players Zhang Shuai and Zheng Saisai played against Ukrainian teenager Koschuk and local rising star McNally in the first round. New Kemei Open champion Radulcanu, defending champions Andreescu, Svatek, Halep, Kerber and other famous players will play, and former world number one Christers will play with a wild card.
After two and a half years, the Indian Wells Open, known as the "fifth Grand Slam", was held again. Although this year's men's and women's singles are missing star players such as the Big Three, Serena Williams, Barty, and Naomi Osaka, the addition of new U.S. Champion Raducannu still makes the singles field full of points.
Chinese mainland players played only two times, us Opening women's doubles champion Zhang Shuai in the first round against Ukrainian teenager Koschuk, the two have previously met once, occurred in the second round of this season's Eastbourne qualifiers, Zhang Shuai lost in three sets. The winner of the first round of this game will face former tournament champion Halep in the second round, and in the third round, he is expected to face the new US Open champion Raducannu. Due to the low ranking of Raducano at the deadline for registration, the British people unsurprisingly received a regular wild card, which is also The first time That Raducannu has played in the WTA1000 main competition. Whether she can continue the strong state of the US Open will be a major attraction in the women's singles field, and her first opponent will be between Serrano and Sasnovic.
Zheng Saisai faced homegrown wild card youngster McNalie in the first round, which was the first meeting between the two sides. The winner of the match will face top seed Ka Pliskova in the second round.
The top 16 seeds in the women's singles are aligned as follows:
[1] Ka Pliskova — [16] Andreescu
[12] Jabbar — [6] Sakkari
[3] Kregitskova — [15] Gauff
[10] Korbel — [5] Muguruza
[7] Kvitova — [11] Halep
[14] Mertens — [4] Svitolina
[8] Bencic — [9] Pavlyuchenkova
[13] Lybakina — [2] Swatak
The complete signature form is as follows:
In addition, former world no. 1 and four-time Grand Slam champion Cristels will continue her comeback journey, with the Belgian veteran with a wild card against Czech player Snyakova in the first round, and if she passes the second round, she will face the 10th seed Kerber. Since returning to the tour last February, Christers has swallowed up a four-game losing streak in singles and a win that is hard to come by.
Adalenka and Kvitova are expected to meet in the third round, French Open runner-up Pavlyuchenkova and US Open runner-up Fernandez are in the same zone, and defending champion Andreescu are in the third round against strong rivals Kontawit.
The first round of the women's singles qualifier also started today, Wang Xinyu lost to Liang Enshuo 6-7 (4)/6-3/4-6, yuan Yue lost 2-6/1-6 to No. 7 seed Kukova, and both of them stopped in the first round.