{"id":1802129,"date":"2026-03-02T14:15:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1802129"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:15:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:15:35","slug":"indian-wells-open-seeds-sabalenka-no-1-gauff-leads-six-americans-youngsters-mboko-and-eala-on-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1802129","title":{"rendered":"Indian Wells Open seeds: Sabalenka No 1, Gauff leads six Americans, youngsters Mboko and Eala on list"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"ps-article-content rounded-lg lg:mt-5 lg:border lg:border-card lg:bg-card lg:shadow-primary\">\n<header>\n<h1 class=\"py-4 text-xl font-normal text-title sm:text-2xl\">Indian Wells Open seeds: Sabalenka No 1, Gauff leads six Americans, youngsters Mboko and Eala on list<\/h1>\n<div class=\"my-2 flex items-center justify-between\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center\">\n                        <a 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                      Left to right: Aryna Sabalenka, Mirra Andreeva and Victoria Mboko                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\">\n<p>World No 1 Aryna Sabalenka will have the best seat in the house for the Indian Wells Open as she will be the top seed while she could face either Elena Rybakina or Coco Gauff in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/aryna-sabalenka\">Sabalenka<\/a> will go into the first line of the draw sheet with world No 2 Iga Swiatek \u2013 who won the tournament in 2022 and 2024 \u2013 headlining the bottom half of the draw with Rybakina and Gauff the next two names on the list.<\/p>\n<p>There is no doubt that both Sabalenka and Swiatek will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/elena-rybakina-world-no-1-ranking-statement-aryna-sabalenka\">look to avoid Australian Open champion Rybakina<\/a> before the final, as the Kazakh star beat both en route to her title run at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n<p>Four-time Grand Slam winner Sabalenka was also the top seed last year, but she lost the final against teenager Mirra Andreeva while she was beaten by Rybakina in the 2024 final.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff is one of six Americans who are seeeded for their home WTA 1000 tournament in California as she is followed by Jessica Pegula and Amanda Anisimova while 2025 Australian Open champion Madison Keys will be seeded 15th, rising star Iva Jovic 18th and Emma Navarro 25th.<\/p>\n<h2>Indian Wells Open News<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/indian-wells-2026-aryna-sabalenka-elena-rybakina-prediction-martina-navratilova\">Sabalenka, Rybakina, Swiatek, Gauff? Martina Navratilova predicts Indian Wells winner<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/wta-indian-wells-2026-ranking-points-prize-money-breakdown\">WTA Indian Wells 2026: Prize money and ranking points revealed as Sabalenka, Swiatek, Rybakina, Gauff star<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/mirra-andreeva-indian-wells-title-prize-money\">Andreeva will defend her title from eighth place<\/a> with Elina Svitolina and Victoria Mboko completing the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>Mboko will make her debut at the WTA 1000 event, as a year ago she was still ranked outside the top 180 and competing at ITF level.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian finished runner-up to Karolina Muchova at the Qatar Open in mid February, but both then skipped the Dubai Tennis Championships with Mboko struggling with a leg injury while Muchova pulled out due to fatigue.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old Mboko, meanwhile, is one of five players under 20 who are seeded at Indian Wells, along with Andreeva, Jovic (aged 18), the 19th-seeded Maya Joint (29) and the 20-year-old Filipina star Alex Eala (31).<\/p>\n<p>Eala, who also didn\u2019t play in California last year as she failed to make the cut, is seeded for the first time at a WTA 1000 event for the first time in her career following her surge into the top 35 of the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Naomi Osaka, who won the title in 2018, is the other former champion who is seeded as she sits at No 15 while two-time runner-up Maria Sakkari completes the list at No 32.<\/p>\n<h2>WTA Indian Wells Top 32 Seeds<\/h2>\n<p>1. Aryna Sabalenka<br \/>\n2. Iga Swi\u0105tek<br \/>\n3. Elena Rybakina<br \/>\n4. Coco Gauff<br \/>\n5. Jessica Pegula<br \/>\n6. Amanda Anisimova<br \/>\n7. Jasmine Paolini<br \/>\n8. Mirra Andreeva<br \/>\n9. Elina Svitolina<br \/>\n10. Victoria Mboko<br \/>\n11. Ekaterina Alexandrova<br \/>\n12. Belinda Bencic<br \/>\n13. Karolina Muchova<br \/>\n14. Linda Noskova<br \/>\n15. Madison Keys<br \/>\n16. Naomi Osaka<br \/>\n17. Clara Tauson<br \/>\n18. Iva Jovic<br \/>\n19. Liudmila Samsonova<br \/>\n20. Emma Navarro<br \/>\n21. Diana Shnaider<br \/>\n22. Elise Mertens<br \/>\n23. Anna Kalinskaya<br \/>\n24. Zheng Qinwen<br \/>\n25. Emma Raducanu<br \/>\n26. Je\u013cena Ostapenko<br \/>\n27. Leylah Fernandez<br \/>\n28. Marta Kostyuk<br \/>\n29. Maya Joint<br \/>\n30. Wang Xinyu<br \/>\n31. Alexandra Eala<br \/>\n32. Maria Sakkari<\/p>\n<div class=\"kwizly-quiz kwizly-eEDrkX\" data-nosnippet=\"\" data-quiz-type=\"poll|mpu\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Wells Open seeds: Sabalenka No 1, Gauff leads six Americans, youngsters Mboko and Eala on list Shahida Jacobs 02 Mar 2026 2:15 PM Left to right: Aryna Sabalenka, Mirra Andreeva and Victoria Mboko World No 1 Aryna Sabalenka will have the best seat in the house for the Indian Wells Open as she will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-1802129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1802129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1802129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1802129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1802129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}