Andreescu, who stormed to the title at the age of 18 in 2019, will make her fourth appearance at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, and first since 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The former World No. 4 and 2019 US Open champion recently won a title in Vero Beach, Florida, and hopes to continue her ascent next week, as she seeks her first tour-level win of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
2024 Olympic Silver Medalist Donna Vekic<\/a> also received a main draw wild card, along with 2021 Australian Open runner-up Jennifer Brady<\/a>, 2025 Roland Garros Junior Champion Lilli Tagger<\/a>, and Americans Alycia Parks<\/a> and Katie Volynets<\/a>.<\/p>\n Additionally, seven-time major champion Venus Williams<\/a>, who at 45 will become the oldest player to ever contest a main draw match in Tennis Paradise, received her main draw wild card last week.<\/p>\n Get Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n Jagger Leach, Darwin Blanch Join Qualifying Field<\/p>\n Qualifying wild cards were also handed out to Jagger Leach<\/a>, the son of two-time women\u2019s singles champion Lindsay Davenport, Elizabeth Mandlik<\/a>, daughter of four-time Grand Slam champion Hana Mandlikova and former junior No.4 Darwin Blanch.\u00a0<\/p>\n 18-year-old Leach already has a winning experience under his belt in Tennis Paradise. He claimed the Boys\u2019 singles and doubles titles at the third annual FILA International Junior Championships.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Laguna Beach, California native is currently a Freshman at Stanford.\u00a0<\/p>\n Blanch, who trains at the Juan Carlos Ferrero Tennis Academy in Villena, Spain, earned his first ATP Tour win in Winston-Salem last year, where he became the youngest American man to record an ATP Tour win since Frances Tiafoe in 2015.<\/p>\n Trevor Svajda<\/a>, Andrew Johnson, and Izyan Zizou Ahmad<\/a>, also received qualifying wild cards on the men\u2019s side, while 2025 FILA International Junior Champion Julieta Pareja<\/a> received a women\u2019s qualifying draw wild card, along with Emerson Jones<\/a>, Mary Stoiana<\/a>, Elvina Kalieva<\/a>, Elizabeth Mandlik<\/a>, and Akasha Urhobo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andreescu, who stormed to the title at the age of 18 in 2019, will make her fourth appearance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-494434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}