Emma Raducanu will play Coco Gauff if she wins her first match at Indian Wells on Wednesday, dwell on Sky Sports activities.
Raducanu, who faces Japan’s Moyuka Uchijima, is making her first look since she was subjected to what the WTA described as “fixated behaviour” final month on the Dubai Tennis Championships, which resulted in a person being faraway from the stand.
The 22-year-old, who didn’t press prices, is about to be provided as much as 5 additional safety guards within the wake of her stalker ordeal in Dubai.
Raducanu’s childhood coach Roman Kelecic had claimed the person in query had adopted her throughout 4 international locations over three weeks whereas attending tournaments in Singapore, Abu Dhabi and Doha.
British No 1 Katie Boulter has a first-round bye, so will play Romania’s Irina-Camelia Begu or American Ann Li within the second spherical.
Defending girls’s champion Iga Swiatek is projected to satisfy China’s Zheng Qinwen within the quarter-finals.
Within the males’s draw, Nick Kyrgios might go up in opposition to Novak Djokovic in a mouthwatering second-round conflict.
Kyrgios, who’s utilizing a protected rating for the event, will face a qualifier in his first match and victory would imply a repeat of the 2022 Wimbledon last with Djokovic, who will probably be joined by coach Andy Murray in California.
Defending males’s Indian Wells champion Carlos Alcaraz is in line to satisfy Djokovic or Kyrgios within the quarter-finals.
British No 1 Jack Draper has a first-round bye, whereas Cameron Norrie faces Italy’s Luca Nardi and Jacob Fearnley has a difficult take a look at in opposition to thrilling teenage Brazilian Joao Fonseca.
World No 1 Jannik Sinner is serving a three-month ban from tennis after reaching an settlement with the World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) following two constructive drug exams in 2024.
Watch Indian Wells from Wednesday with protection starting at 7pm on Sky Sports activities Tennis, or stream with NOW and the Sky Sports activities app.