Milos Raonic, Kei Nishikori, Ryan Harrison, Bernard Tomic, Coco Vandeweghe, and Christina McHale were granted wild cards into the main draws, tournament director Steve Simon said. Veterans James Blake, Vania King, Jill Craybas and Sania Mirza were also given wild cards into the main draws.
Joining Vandeweghe and McHale on the women's side will be young Americans Lauren Davis, and Sloane Stephens. There is one remaining women's wild card to be granted.
Qualifying draw wild cards were given to four men, including 1999 BNP Paribas Open champion Mark Philippoussis, who is attempting a comeback; American Ryan Sweeting; Steve Johnson, the No. 1 singles and doubles player at USC; and Greg Ouellette, a former SEC player of the year at Florida with three titles on the ITF circuit.
Former top 30 German star Sabine Lisicki, three young Americans, Madison Keys, Madison Brengle and Maria Sanchez, and rising Puerto Rican junior Monica Puig, were granted wild cards into the women's qualifying draw.
There are two more qualifying draw wild cards to be distributed and will be given to the men's and women's winner of the BNP Paribas Open Pre-Qualifier, which begins tomorrow in Indian Wells and runs through March 6. Between the men and women, the Pre-Qualifier had a record 145 entries.
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