Main draw action at the 2026 Indian Wells Open will get underway on Wednesday 4 March, and 15 players have already withdrawn across both singles events.<\/p>\n
Indian Wells is the first ATP 1000 event of the season and the third WTA 1000 after tournaments in Doha and Dubai in February.<\/p>\n
The combined ATP\/WTA tournament, which is staged at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in the Californian desert, is one of the most prestigious events in the sport outside of the four Grand Slams.<\/p>\n
Indian Wells is the first leg of the \u2018Sunshine Double\u2019 in the United States, with the Miami Open \u2014 held later in March \u2014 the second leg.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s tournament will conclude on 15 March with the women\u2019s and men\u2019s singles finals.<\/p>\n
Six players have pulled out of the women\u2019s singles event in Indian Wells \u2014 all of whom would have been unseeded.<\/p>\n
Lois Boisson is the highest-ranked woman to withdraw, while two-time major singles champion Barbora Krejcikova is the most decorated.<\/p>\n
Sabalenka, Rybakina, Swiatek, Gauff? Martina Navratilova predicts Indian Wells winner<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Indian Wells Open seeds: Carlos Alcaraz No 1, three players stuck in Dubai among seeds<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n Nine players have withdrawn from the men\u2019s singles event, two of whom would have been seeded: Holger Rune and Tallon Griekspoor.<\/p>\n There is serious doubt over Daniil Medvedev, Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev participating in Indian Wells. Medvedev, Khachanov and Rublev are currently projected to be seeded 11th, 16th and 17th at the Masters event.<\/p>\n The Russian trio all competed at the Dubai Championships last week, and they are still stuck in the United Arab Emirates\u2019 capital amid conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n The UAE closed its airspace on Saturday, and the situation would need to change swiftly for Medvedev, Rublev and Khachanov to leave on flights to travel to the United States.<\/p>\n It seems likely that the trio may be forced to withdraw from Indian Wells, although they all remain on the entry list as things stand.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Daniil Medvedev gives \u2018unusual\u2019 update as he is unable to leave Dubai due to conflict<\/a> The post Indian Wells Open withdrawal list: 15 players out as Medvedev, Rublev, Khachanov could follow<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Main draw action at the 2026 Indian Wells Open will get underway on Wednesday 4 March, and 15 players have already withdrawn across both singles events. Indian Wells is the first ATP 1000 event of the season and the third WTA 1000 after tournaments in Doha and Dubai in February. The combined ATP\/WTA tournament, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}ATP Indian Wells withdrawal list<\/h2>\n
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Trio of seeded ATP stars could withdraw<\/h2>\n
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