The wild cards are set for the 2020 BNP Paribas Open.


The wild cards are set for next week’s BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells. Eleven American were given main draw wild cards into this year’s event, which begins Monday March 9 and ends Sunday March 22.

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Jack Sock, Tennys Sandgren, Marcos Giron, Mitchell Krueger and 18-year-old Brandon Nakashima were awarded spots in the men’s singles draw, while Michael Mmoh, J.J. Wolf, Thai-Son Kwiatkowski, Govind Nanda and Carlos Alcaraz nabbed spots in the qualifying draw.

In addition to Kim Clijsters, who received her wild card in February, Catherine McNally, Kristie Ahn, Christina McHale, Shelby Rogers and 17-year-old Leylah Fernandez received wild cards.

Americans Madison Brengle and Usue Arconada also earned main draw wild cards by accumulating the most points over the four events of the 2019-2020 Oracle Challenger Series.

Nicole Gibbs, Whitney Osuigwe, Caroline Dolehide, Hailey Baptiste and BNP Paribas Open pre-qualifying champion Ashley Kratzer received wild cards into qualifying on the women’s side, along with 18-year-old Diane Parry of France.

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