Indian Wells (USA) – The first Masters 1000 of the season, in Indian Wells, is seeded by world number 2 Carlos Alcaraz and with chances of regaining the lead. Besides the Spaniard, the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas is also fighting for number 1.

Alcaraz awaits the winner between the North American guest Brandon Holt and a tennis player from the qualifications. The closest seed is Dutch Tallon Griekspoor, 36th in the standings, who awaits the South American duel between Brazilian Thiago Monteiro and Argentinian Guido Pella.

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In the same sector of the table, the Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta can face the former world number 1 Andy Murray, who faces the Argentinian Tomas Etcheverry on his debut. Fellow Britons Daniel Evans and Jack Draper could also cross paths with the top seed. In the same quadrant are Felix Auger-Aliassime and Hubert Hurkacz. The Canadian has Argentine Francisco Cerundolo, while the Pole can face North American Tommy Paul.

Current tournament champion and world number 5, Taylor Fritz may have a North American duel against Ben Shelton or the Italian Fabio Fognini. No. 4 in Indian Wells, Frtiz could face Argentinian Sebastian Baez in the third round, while Croatian Borna Coric or Australian Alex de Minaur, champion of Acapulco, could cross paths with Fritz in the round of 16. The quadrant still includes the Italians Jannik Sinner and Lorenzo Musetti, as well as names like the Dane Holger Rune or the Swiss Stan Wawrinka.

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On the other side of the table, Stefanos Tsitsipas could face the French Gaël Monfils or the Australian Jordan Thompson. The Greek could face Maxime Cressy in the third round, while Grigor Dimitrov and Frances Tiafoe are possible rivals in the round of 16. The quadrant still has Andrey Rublev, who debuts against Jiri Lehecka or Arthur Rinderknech, as well as Denis Shapovalov, Matteo Berrettini and 2021 champion Cameron Norrie.

Undefeated in 14 games over the past three weeks, Daniil Medvedev will hope to win the home game between John Isner and Brandon Nakashima. The former number 1 and seed 5 of the tournament could face Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp in the third round. Names like Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut and German Alexander Zverev can face him in the round of 16. Also in the quadrant is Norway’s Casper Ruud, seeded 3, who awaits the Argentinian duel between Federico Coria and Diego Schwartzman. Ruud could face Yoshihito Nishioka in the third round and Karen Khachanov in the round of 16.