2018 BNP Paribas Open explained

Date:	March 5–18
Edition:	45th (ATP) / 30th (WTA)
Draw:	96S / 32D
Category:	ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (Men) WTA Premier Mandatory (Women)
Surface:	Hard / outdoor
Prize Money:	$7,972,535 (ATP) $7,972,535 (WTA)
Location:	Indian Wells, California, United States
Venue:	Indian Wells Tennis Garden
Champms:	Juan Martín del Potro
Champmd:	John Isner / Jack Sock
Champws:	Naomi Osaka
Champwd:	Hsieh Su-wei / Barbora Strýcová
Main Name:	Indian Wells Open

The 2018 BNP Paribas Open (also known as the Indian Wells Open) was a professional tennis tournament played at Indian Wells, California in March 2018. It is the 45th edition of the men's event and 30th of the women's event, and is classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2018 ATP World Tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the 2018 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California, United States from March 5 through March 18, 2018, on outdoor hard courts.

For the first time ever, tournament organisers offered a $1,000,000 reward to any player, male or female, who wins both singles and doubles titles in the same year.^[1] However, for the 2018 edition, no players remained in contention for the bonus reward prize.

Finals

Men's singles

See main article: 2018 BNP Paribas Open – Men's singles.

Juan Martín del Potro defeated Roger Federer, 6–4, 6–7^(8–10), 7–6^(7–2)

Women's singles

See main article: 2018 BNP Paribas Open – Women's singles.

Naomi Osaka defeated Daria Kasatkina, 6–3, 6–2

Men's doubles

See main article: 2018 BNP Paribas Open – Men's doubles.

John Isner / Jack Sock defeated Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan, 7–6^(7–4), 7–6^(7–2)

Women's doubles

See main article: 2018 BNP Paribas Open – Women's doubles.

Hsieh Su-wei / Barbora Strýcová defeated Ekaterina Makarova / Elena Vesnina, 6–4, 6–4

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Event					Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Round of 128	width=85		width=85	width=85
Men's singles	1000	600	360	180	90	45	25*	10	16	8	0
Men's doubles		600	360	180	90	0
Women's singles		650	390	215	120	65	35*	10	30	20	2
Women's doubles		650	390	215	120	10

Players with byes receive first-round points.

Prize money

width=130 bgcolor=dfe2e9	Event	width=80 bgcolor=lime	W	width=85 bgcolor=thistle	F	width=85 bgcolor=ffff00	SF	width=85 bgcolor=ffebcd	QF	width=85 bgcolor=afeeee	Round of 16	width=85 bgcolor=afeeee	Round of 32	width=85 bgcolor=afeeee	Round of 64	width=85 bgcolor=afeeee	Round of 128	width=85	Q2	width=85	Q1
style=background:#ededed	Men's singles	$1,340,860	$654,860	$327,965	$167,195	$88,135	$47,170	$25,465	$15,610	$4,650	$2,380
style=background:#ededed	Women's singles^[2] ^[3]	$1,340,860	$654,860	$327,965	$167,195	$88,135	$47,170	$25,465	$15,610	$4,650	$2,380
style=background:#ededed	Men's doubles	$439,350	$214,410	$107,470	$54,760	$28,880	$15,460
style=background:#ededed	Women's doubles^[4]	$439,350	$214,410	$107,470	$54,760	$28,880	$15,460

ATP singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

The following are the seeded players. Rankings and seedings are based on ATP rankings as of March 5, 2018.

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Roger Federer	10,060	1,000	600	9,660	Runner-up, lost to Juan Martín del Potro [6]
2	3	Marin Čilić	4,870	10	45	4,905	Third round lost to Philipp Kohlschreiber [31]
3	4	Grigor Dimitrov	4,635	45	10	4,600	Second round lost to Fernando Verdasco
4	5	Alexander Zverev	4,540	45	10	4,505	Second round lost to João Sousa
5	6	Dominic Thiem	3,810	180	45	3,675	Third round retired against Pablo Cuevas [30]
6	8	Juan Martín del Potro	3,200	45	1000	4,155	Champion, defeated Roger Federer [1]
7	9		3,080	25	180	3,235	Quarterfinals lost to Borna Ćorić
8	10	Jack Sock	2,650	360	45	2,335	Third round lost to Feliciano López [28]
9	12	Lucas Pouille	2,455	45	10	2,420	Second round lost to Yuki Bhambri [Q]
10	13	Novak Djokovic	2,380	90	10	2,300	Second round lost to Taro Daniel [Q]
11	14	Pablo Carreño Busta	2,315	360	90	2,045	Fourth round lost to Kevin Anderson [7]
12	15	Tomáš Berdych	2,275	45	45	2,275	Third round lost to Chung Hyeon [23]
13	16	Roberto Bautista Agut	2,255	45	45	2,255	Third round lost to Borna Ćorić
14	17	Diego Schwartzman	2,220	10	10	2,220	Second round lost to Marcos Baghdatis [Q]
15	18	John Isner	2,205	45	10	2,170	Second round lost to Gaël Monfils
16	19	Fabio Fognini	2,190	45	10	2,155	Second round lost to Jérémy Chardy
17	20	~~Nick Kyrgios~~	2,125	180	0	1,945	Withdrew due to right elbow injury
18	21	Sam Querrey	2,095	10	180	2,265	Quarterfinals lost to Milos Raonic [32]
19	22	Albert Ramos Viñolas	1,745	45	10	1,710	Second round lost to Borna Ćorić
20	23		1,715	25	45	1,735	Third round lost to Jérémy Chardy
21	24	Kyle Edmund	1,642	25	10	1,627	Second round lost to Dudi Sela [LL]
22	25	~~Kei Nishikori~~	1,595	180	0	1,415	Withdrew due to illness
23	26		1,567	(20)^†	180	1,727	Quarterfinals lost to Roger Federer [1]
24	27		1,535	45	10	1,500	Second round lost to Pierre-Hugues Herbert
25	28	Filip Krajinović	1,503	(9)^†	45	1,539	Third round lost to Roger Federer [1]
26	30		1,445	25	10	1,430	Second round lost to Nicolás Kicker
27	31	Andrey Rublev	1,433	(50)^‡	10	1,393	Second round lost to Taylor Fritz
28	32		1,340	10	90	1,420	Fourth round lost to Sam Querrey [18]
29	33	David Ferrer	1,325	0	45	1,370	Third round lost to Juan Martín del Potro [6]
30	34	Pablo Cuevas	1,310	180	90	1,220	Fourth round lost to Chung Hyeon [23]
31	37	Philipp Kohlschreiber	1,290	45	180	1,425	Quarterfinals lost to Juan Martín del Potro [6]
32	38	Milos Raonic	1,270	0	360	1,630	Semifinals lost to Juan Martín del Potro [6]

† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017. Accordingly, points for his 18th best result are deducted instead.
‡ The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017, but was defending points from an ATP Challenger Tour tournament.

Withdrawals

Rank	Points before	Points defending	Points after	Reason
1	9,460	90	9,370	Right hip injury
7	3,280	90	3,190	Eye injury
11	2,475	600	1,875	Knee injury
29	1,460	10	1,450	Hip injury
35	1,310	10	1,300	Arm injury
36	1,305	0	1,305	Knee injury

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

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

Yoshihito Nishioka

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

The following players entered as lucky losers:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

Aljaž Bedene → replaced by Mikhail Youzhny
Alexandr Dolgopolov → replaced by Ivo Karlović
Guillermo García López → replaced by Maximilian Marterer
Richard Gasquet → replaced by Lukáš Lacko
David Goffin → replaced by Nicolás Kicker
Robin Haase → replaced by Radu Albot
Denis Istomin → replaced by Dudi Sela
Nick Kyrgios → replaced by Matteo Berrettini
Paolo Lorenzi → replaced by Stefanos Tsitsipas
Lu Yen-hsun → replaced by Taylor Fritz
Florian Mayer → replaced by Frances Tiafoe
Andy Murray → replaced by Víctor Estrella Burgos
Rafael Nadal → replaced by Marius Copil
Kei Nishikori → replaced by Ruben Bemelmans
Andreas Seppi → replaced by Márton Fucsovics
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga → replaced by Laslo Đere
Stan Wawrinka → replaced by Jérémy Chardy

During the tournament

Marcos Baghdatis

Retirements

ATP doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank¹	Seed
Poland	Łukasz Kubot	Brazil	Marcelo Melo	2	1
Finland	Henri Kontinen	Australia	John Peers	7	2
Austria	Oliver Marach		Mate Pavić	11	3
United Kingdom	Jamie Murray	Brazil	Bruno Soares	17	4
France	Pierre-Hugues Herbert	France	Nicolas Mahut	20	5
	Jean-Julien Rojer	Romania	Horia Tecău	21	6
	Bob Bryan		Mike Bryan	28	7
	Ivan Dodig		Rajeev Ram	33	8

¹ Rankings as of March 5, 2018.

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

WTA singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

The following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on WTA rankings as of February 26, 2018. Rankings and points before are as of March 5, 2018.

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Simona Halep	7,965	65	390	8,290	Semifinals lost to Naomi Osaka
2	2	Caroline Wozniacki	7,525	215	120	7,430	Fourth round lost to Daria Kasatkina [20]
3	3		6,175	215	10	5,970	Second round lost to Sachia Vickery [Q]
4	4		5,480	120	65	5,425	Third round lost to Carla Suárez Navarro [27]
5	5	Karolína Plíšková	5,080	390	215	4,905	Quarterfinals lost to Naomi Osaka
6	6	Jeļena Ostapenko	4,941	35	65	4,971	Third round lost to Petra Martić
7	7	Caroline Garcia	4,625	120	120	4,625	Fourth round lost to Angelique Kerber [10]
8	8	Venus Williams	4,277	215	390	4,452	Semifinals lost to Daria Kasatkina [20]
9	9	Petra Kvitová	3,086	0	65	3,151	Third round lost to Amanda Anisimova [WC]
10	10	Angelique Kerber	3,055	120	215	3,150	Quarterfinals lost to Daria Kasatkina [20]
11	11	Johanna Konta	2,930	65	10	2,875	Second round lost to Markéta Vondroušová
12	12	Julia Görges	2,910	65	65	2,910	Third round lost to Anastasija Sevastova [21]
13	13	Sloane Stephens	2,873	0	65	2,938	Third round lost to Daria Kasatkina [20]
14	15	Kristina Mladenovic	2,605	390	65	2,280	Third round lost to Wang Qiang
15	14	Madison Keys	2,703	120	10	2,593	Second round lost to Danielle Collins [WC]
16	21	Ashleigh Barty	2,189	(1)^†	10	2,198	Second round lost to Maria Sakkari
17	16	CoCo Vandeweghe	2,433	10	65	2,488	Third round lost to Maria Sakkari
18	17	Magdaléna Rybáriková	2,405	(20)^†	10	2,395	Second round lost to Sofya Zhuk [WC]
19	18	Svetlana Kuznetsova	2,362	650	10	1,722	Second round lost to Aryna Sabalenka
20	19	Daria Kasatkina	2,300	10	650	2,940	Runner-up, lost to Naomi Osaka
21	20	Anastasija Sevastova	2,295	10	120	2,405	Fourth round lost to Venus Williams [8]
22	22	Elise Mertens	2,185	(30)^†	10	2,165	Second round lost to Wang Qiang
23	23		2,125	215	10	1,920
24	24	Elena Vesnina	2,110	1,000	65	1,175	Third round lost to Angelique Kerber [10]
25	25	Barbora Strýcová	1,980	65	10	1,925	Second round lost to Petra Martić
26	26	Daria Gavrilova	1,870	65	65	1,870	Third round lost to Caroline Garcia [7]
27	27	Carla Suárez Navarro	1,785	10	215	1,990	Quarterfinals lost to Venus Williams [8]
28	28	Anett Kontaveit	1,765	65	10	1,710
29	29	Kiki Bertens	1,725	65	10	1,670	Second round lost to Serena Williams
30	30	Dominika Cibulková	1,610	120	10	1,500
31	32	Agnieszka Radwańska	1,525	65	10	1,470	Second round lost to Naomi Osaka
32	33	Zhang Shuai	1,500	10	65	1,555	Third round lost to Karolína Plíšková [5]

† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017. Accordingly, points for her 16th best result are deducted instead.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

Margarita Gasparyan → replaced by Belinda Bencic
Camila Giorgi → replaced by Pauline Parmentier
Ana Konjuh → replaced by Kaia Kanepi
Mirjana Lučić-Baroni → replaced by Alison Van Uytvanck
Peng Shuai → replaced by Verónica Cepede Royg
Lucie Šafářová → replaced by Petra Martić
Laura Siegemund → replaced by Lauren Davis

Retirements

WTA doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank¹	Seed
Russian Federation	Ekaterina Makarova	Russian Federation	Elena Vesnina	6	1
	Chan Hao-ching		Latisha Chan	16	2
Canada	Gabriela Dabrowski	China	Xu Yifan	20	3
Hungary	Tímea Babos	France	Kristina Mladenovic	23	4
Romania	Monica Niculescu	Czech Republic	Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková	23	5
Czech Republic	Barbora Krejčíková	Czech Republic	Kateřina Siniaková	42	6
	Kiki Bertens	Sweden	Johanna Larsson	44	7
	Andreja Klepač	Spain	María José Martínez Sánchez	44	8

¹ Rankings as of February 26, 2018.

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

Victoria Azarenka / Aryna Sabalenka
- Eugenie Bouchard / Sloane Stephens Karolína Plíšková / Kristýna Plíšková

External links

- Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tournament profile

Notes and References

News: BNP Paribas Open to Award $1 Million Bonus to Any Player Who Captures Both Singles and Doubles Titles at 2018 Event. March 6, 2018. BNP Paribas Open. March 3, 2018.
Web site: Archived copy . 2018-02-13 . 2017-03-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170328213643/http://www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/posting/2017/609/MDS.pdf . dead .
Web site: Archived copy . 2018-02-13 . 2017-03-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170328213653/http://www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/posting/2017/609/QS.pdf . dead .
Web site: Archived copy . 2018-02-13 . 2017-03-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170328213638/http://www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/posting/2017/609/MDD.pdf . dead .