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Indian Wells Ladies Main Draw......Top half 1 Osaka vs BYE Mladenovic vs Saisai Flipkens vs Bouchard BYE vs 25 Collins 23 Bencic vs BYE Riske vs Van Uytvanck Peterson vs Alexandrova BYE vs 13 Wozniacki 11 Sevastova vs BYE WC Brengle vs Stosur Puig vs Rodina BYE vs 21 Kontaveit 28 Vekic vs BYE Bonaventure vs WC Townsend M. Doi vs Jabeur BYE vs 5 Ka. Pliskova 3 Kvitova vs BYE Venus vs Petkovic McHale vs Sakkari BYE vs 30 Pavlyuchenkova 17 Keys vs BYE L. Zhu vs Barthel Kanepi vs Larsson BYE vs 15 Goerges 9 Sabalenka vs BYE Tomljanovic vs Cornet WC Pegula vs Diyas BYE vs 24 Tsurenko 26 Suárez Navarro vs BYE P. Hon vs N. Vikhlyantseva Putintseva vs Babos BYE vs 8 Kerber Bottom half 7 Bertens vs BYE Martic vs Linette Konta vs Parmentier BYE vs 27 Hsieh 20 Muguruza vs BYE Schmidelova vs WC Davis Azarenka vs Lapko BYE vs 10 Serena 16 Mertens vs BYE Krunic vs WC Anisimova Pera vs C. McNally BYE vs 18 Q. Wang 32 Cibulkova vs BYE WC Andreescu vs Begu S. Voegele vs WC Vickery BYE vs 4 Stephens 6 Svitolina vs BYE Y. Wang vs Kenin Gavrilova vs Yastremska BYE vs 29 Buzărnescu 19 Garcia vs BYE N. Hibino vs Brady Maria vs Rybarikova BYE vs 12 Barty 14 Kasatkina vs BYE Vondrousova vs Siegemund Kuzmova vs Zhang BYE vs 22 Ostapenko 31 Sasnovich vs BYE Siniakova vs K. Kozlova Strycova vs V. Golubic BYE vs 2 Halep Re: Indian Wells Ladies Main Draw......Respecting this draw, Ben Rothenberg projects Serena's run to the title: R1: Bye R2: Azarenka R3: Muguruza R4: Bertens QF: Stephens SF: Halep F: Osaka Venus faces Petkovic in the lst. If she prevails, she gets Petra K. Rough stuff for the Sisters..... Re: Indian Wells Ladies Main Draw......True... it's rough for the sisters. I like Halep's draw. She should make the SF. Re: Indian Wells Ladies Main Draw......Yes, Simona's draw is weak..... Quick revenge matches for two: If Kris gets by Saisa Zheng.....Naomi v Kristina Mladenovic, who dismissed Naomi at Dubai...... Sofia Kenin gets a replay of the Acapulco final versus Yafan Wang in the lst..... Re: Indian Wells Ladies Main Draw......Kuzmova could do some damage here if she gets control of the UEs.. That's a big 'IF' Re: Indian Wells Ladies Main Draw......I've seen in different places that fans think that Serena has a difficult draw. Yet when I saw it, I thought that the third quarter looked rather easy for both Serena and Mertens to meet in the QF. Serena may have Azarenka in her opening match, but the current Azarenka is only difficult for mediocre players; She is nowhere near her peak form of years ago. And the same for Muguruza and Bertens: the way they've been playing recently, they should be no problem for Serena (I assume that Serena will be playing decent tennis; if she has issues too, then any draw would be hard). First quarter is a big opportunity for Bencic. I am not convinced that Osaka and Pliskova will do well. Defending this title is a big test for Naomi, first time that she enters an event with 1000 points that needs defending. Q2 and Q4 are tough, imo. Kvitova getting Venus in opener, then Pavs in R3, followed by Keys, and then probably Sabalenka or Kerber. And at that point in time, she only got to the SF... "Never argue with an idiot - they take you down to their level and then beat you on experience" "Don't wrestle with a pig: you both get dirty, but the pig actually likes it" Re: Indian Wells Ladies Main Draw......On tennisforum it is also a head-line: tough draw for Serena because of Azarenka.... Azarenka is W:L 3-4, and that includes a R1 loss at the AO against a player outside the top100. If that is tough for Serena, then it is time to lower expectations, because the current top20 is vastly superior to Azarenka v.2019... "Never argue with an idiot - they take you down to their level and then beat you on experience" "Don't wrestle with a pig: you both get dirty, but the pig actually likes it" Re: Indian Wells Ladies Main Draw......That's a tough draw for Serena by any measure. Azarenka is a top player. We know what she is capable of. If Serena survives that, she's got Muguruza around the corner, who's also a top player. Then Bertens, who's been playing well. So yes, compared to other top players like Halep, Osaka, Pliskova, who are not facing any top player, any slam winner, Serena's draw is rough. Re: Indian Wells Ladies Main Draw......Azarenka WAS a top player... not anymore; #48, despite having played a full tour (16 events). This year, lost R1 AO to a player outside the top100, has a negative win-loss ratio in 2019, so far collected 126 ranking points in 4 events. Serena - on the other hand, got 430 points (in one event), in 2019, and is ranked in the top 10 by playing half a tour (collected her points in 8 events). I would not even be surprised to see Azarenka lose in R1.... Again, if Serena loses to Azarenka, her form is not worth a top10-ranking. We will talk again after R2: I predict Azarenka losing in R1 or losing badly in R2. Probably the weakest opponent that Serena faced recently. "Never argue with an idiot - they take you down to their level and then beat you on experience" "Don't wrestle with a pig: you both get dirty, but the pig actually likes it" |