BNP PARIBAS OPENMARCH 6 – 17, 2019

WOMEN’S TENNIS ASSOCIATIONMATCH NOTES

INDIAN WELLS, CA, USA | MARCH 6 - 17, 2019 | USD $8,359,455 WTA PREMIER MANDATORY EVENT

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BNP PARIBAS OPEN - FINAL

[8] ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #8) vs. [WC] BIANCA ANDREESCU (CAN #60)

First meeting Andreescu is first wildcard to reach the Indian Wells final... Kerber appearing in first Premier Mandatory final of career... Andreescu the youngest finalist here since 2001... Kerber ended Bencic’s 12-match winning streak in SF

PLAYER IW W/L Y T D W/L

C A R E E R W/L

YTD PRIZE $ CAREER PRIZE $ YTD TITLES CAREER TITLES

[8] Angelique Kerber 18-9 12-4 607-315 290,118 27,446,959 0 12

[WC] Bianca Andreescu 6-0 27-3 116-46 135,021 350,909 0 0

PLAYER BEST IW RESULT LAST FINAL REACHED CAREER FINAL W/L

[8] Angelique Kerber F (1): 2019SF (2): 2012-13

2018 Wimbledon (WON) 12-16

[WC] Bianca Andreescu F (1): 2019 2019 Auckland (R-UP) 0-1

FINAL RECORDS

THE FINALISTS

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RECENT INDIAN WELLS FINALSYEAR CHAMPION FINALIST SCORE

2011 CAROLINE WOZNIACKI MARION BARTOLI 6-1 2-6 6-3

2012 VICTORIA AZARENKA MARIA SHARAPOVA 6-2 6-3

2013 MARIA SHARAPOVA CAROLINE WOZNIACKI 6-2 6-2

2014 FLAVIA PENNETTA AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA 6-2 6-1

2015 SIMONA HALEP JELENA JANKOVIC 2-6 7-5 6-4

2016 VICTORIA AZARENKA SERENA WILLIAMS 6-4 6-4

2017 ELENA VESNINA SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA 6-7(6) 7-5 6-4

2018 NAOMI OSAKA DARIA KASATKINA 6-3 6-2

WOMEN’S TENNIS ASSOCIATIONMATCH NOTES

Angelique Kerber is projected to move to No.4 by reach-ing the final, and will climb as high as No.2 if she wins the title.

Bianca Andreescu, who finished the 2018 season ranked No.178 and made her Top 100 debut just over a month ago, is projected break into the Top 50 at No.33, making her the highest-ranked teenager on tour. Should she lift the title then she will end the fortnight at No.24.

RANKINGS UPDATE OUT OF LEFTFIELDKerber is the first left-handed woman to reach the Indian Wells final since Monica Seles was crowned champion in 1992.

For all her career accomplishments, Kerber had never appeared in a WTA Premier Mandatory final prior to this fortnight. The closest the German had come were semi-final runs at Miami in 2016 and Indian Wells in 2012 and 2013.

ANGELIQUE KERBER CAREER FINALSTIER WIN-LOSS RECORD

GRAND SLAM 3-1

WTA FINALS 0-1

OLYMPICS 0-1

PREMIER MANDATORY -

PREMIER 5 0-4

PREMIER 7-5

INTERNATIONAL 2-4

THE COMPLETE SET

Both finalists have posted impressive numbers in their return games this fortnight.

Kerber, in particular, has enjoyed a marked upturn in fortune in this aspect of her game, breaking serve 29 times from 53 games (54.7%). By contrast, entering the tournament, she had won just 36.4% of her return games in 2019.

Eager not to be outdone, Andreescu has won 52.4% of her return games en route to the final, up on her pre-tour-nament number of 41.5%.

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AGE IS JUST A NUMBER Andreescu will be 18 years and 274 days old at the end of the tournament, making her the youngest woman to reach the final since a 17-year-old Kim Clijsters finished runner-up in 2001.

Should she lift the title, the Canadian will become the fourth-youngest champion in the tournament’s history:

YOUNGEST INDIAN WELLS CHAMPIONSPLAYER YEAR AGE

Martina Hingis 1998 17 yrs 166 days

Serena Williams 1999 17 yrs 169 days

Monica Seles 1992 18 yrs 90 days

Daniela Hantuchova 2002 18 yrs 327 days

Meanwhile, her opponent in the final Kerber is bidding to become the fourth-oldest woman to lift the Indian Wells title:

OLDEST INDIAN WELLS FINALISTSPLAYER YEAR AGE RESULT

Martina Navratilova 1991 34 yrs 163 days WON

Serena Williams 2016 34 yrs 176 days R-UP

Martina Navratilova 1990 33 yrs 137 days WON

Flavia Pennetta 2014 32 yrs 19 days WON

Svetlana Kuznetsova 2017 31 yrs 265 days R-UP

Angelique Kerber 2019 31 yrs 54 days ???

ON THIS DAY On March 16, 2007, the French Tennis Federation an-nounces that, following the lead of the other three majors, it will offer equal prize money to men and women starting from 2007 Roland Garros.

2Two left-handers have

won the Indian Wells ti-tle: Martina Navratilova

(1990-91) and Monica Seles (1992)

A LEGACY IN FULL BLOOM

BEST OF THE BEST

The gorgeous Indian Wells Tennis Garden sits on 54 acres of Coachella Valley desert. Surrounded by beauty, the Tennis Garden enjoys a backdrop of the snowcapped peaks of the

Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains

- INDIAN WELLS BY THE NUMBERS -

Stadium 1 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden is the third largest tennis stadium in the world with a capacity of 16,100 trailing only the O2 Arena in London and Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York City

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The BNP Paribas Open has been named Tournament of the Year by both the WTA and the ATP Tour for five years running

THE BIG HOUSE

BNP Paribas announced during the 2018 tournament that it was extending its sponsorship of the tournament five years through 2023 to become the longest-running title sponsor in the history of the tournament: 14 years

Prior to BNP Paribas coming on as title sponsor, the Indian Wells tennis event had 11 different title names dating back to its installment in 1989

The BNP Paribas Open saw 450,502 tennis fans come through the gates over the course of the 2018 event, up nearly 12,000 from 2017

FAN FAVORITE

In 2011 the BNP Paribas Open was the first tournament to offer the Hawkeye electronic line calling system on all nine of its match courts. The BNP Paribas Open is still the only tournament in the world to use Hawkeye for every main draw and qualifying match during the event

The Indian Wells Tennis Garden has many delicious food and drink options...35 to be exact!

FEED ME

Indian Wells Tennis Garden, designed by Rossetti Associates Architects, first opened in March 2000.

After the 2013 event, a massive expan-sion project began, the result of which was a brand new, permanent 8,000-seat Stadium 2

SITE UPGRADES

INDIAN WELLS - USA, CA | Mar 06 - Mar 17, 2019 | $9,035,428 | PREMIER MANDATORY

MATCH NOTES

[8] ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #8) vs. [WC] BIANCA ANDREESCU (CAN #60)

Head to Head: First meeting

ANGELIQUE KERBER 8 16

18-01-1988 (31) $290,118

$27,446,959

0 / 12 0 / 0

12-4 / 411-229 3-2 / 115-90 5-0 / 83-53

BIANCA ANDREESCU 60 15

16-06-2000 (18) $135,021 $350,909

0 / 0 0 / 0

6-0 16-3 / 19-8

4-3 / 5-6 3-3 / 5-3

18-9

14-3 / 16-6 12-4 / 272-149 1-1 / 33-20 3-0 / 3-0

WTA RANKING

PORSCHE RACE TO SHENZHEN LEADERBOARD

DATE OF BIRTH (AGE)

YTD PRIZE MONEY

CAREER PRIZE MONEY

SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER)

DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER)

INDIAN WELLS W-L (MD) *

YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) *

YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) *

YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) *

YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) *

YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) *

1-1 / 38-60 2-0 / 2-0 2-1 / 88-112 4-2 / 5-2

YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD & Q) *

YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD & Q) *

YTD / CAREER TOP 5 W-L (MD & Q) * 0-0 / 19-32 1-0 / 1-0

* Updated entering 2019 Indian Wells final

[8] ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #8)

SF: d. [23] BELINDA BENCIC (SUI #23) 6-4,6-2 (1h07)

QF: d. VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #36) 7-6(3),6-3 (1h36)

R16: d. [9] ARYNA SABALENKA (BLR #9) 6-1,4-6,6-4 (1h43)

R32: d. NATALIA VIKHLYANTSEVA (RUS #112) 3-6,6-1,6-3 (1h53)

R64: d. YULIA PUTINTSEVA (KAZ #47) 6-0,6-2 (1h03)

R128: BYE

ROAD TO THE FINAL

[WC] BIANCA ANDREESCU (CAN #60)

SF: d. [6] ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #6) 6-3,2-6,6-4 (2h12)

QF: d. [20] GARBIÑE MUGURUZA (ESP #20) 6-0,6-1 (0h52)

R16: d. [18] QIANG WANG (CHN #18) 7-5,6-2 (1h28)

R32: d. STEFANIE VOEGELE (SUI #109) 6-1,6-2 (0h56)

R64: d. [32] DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA (SVK #35) 6-2,6-2 (1h23)

R128: d. IRINA-CAMELIA BEGU (ROU #70) 6-7(3),6-3,6-3 (2h23)

Total games: 106 Won/lost: 68-38 Sets won/lost: 10-2 Total time on court: 7h22 Average time on court: 1h28 Average rank of opponent: 45

Total games: 122 Won/lost: 81-41 Sets won/lost: 12-2 Total time on court: 9h14 Average time on court: 1h32 Average rank of opponent: 43

INDIAN WELLS Tournament History "-Q" Qualifying match

ANGELIQUE KERBER

2018

L - DARIA KASATKINA (RUS #19) QF 6-0 6-2

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2017

L - ELENA VESNINA (RUS #15) R16 6-3 6-3

2016

L - DENISA ALLERTOVA (CZE #64) R2 7-5 7-5

2015

L - SLOANE STEPHENS (USA #42) R2 7-6(6) 6-2

2014

L - MARÍA-TERESA TORRÓ-FLOR (ESP #72) R2 2-6 7-6(5) 6-4

2013

L - CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #10) SF 2-6 6-4 7-5

2012

L - VICTORIA AZARENKA (BLR #1) SF 6-4 6-3

2011

L - LAURA POUS-TIO (ESP #88) R1 6-2 6-1

2009

L - JARMILA WOLFE (AUS #77) R1-Q 6-3 6-3

2008

L - MARION BARTOLI (FRA #10) R3 6-3 7-6(3)

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VSANGELIQUEKERBER

BIANCA ANDREESCU

INDIAN WELLS INDIAN WELLS• Making 10th main draw appearance at Indian Wells

(and 11th overall). Is through to final for first time• Previous best showings were SF runs in 2012 (l.

eventual champion Azarenka) and 2013 (l. eventual R-Up Wozniacki)

• Other notable results at BNP Paribas Open are mak-ing QF in 2018 (l. eventual R-Up Kasatkina), R16 in 2017 (l. eventual champion Vesnina) and 3r on event debut in 2008 (l. Bartoli). Fell in 2009 qualifying

• R16 run in 2017 saw her reclaim World No.1 ranking from S.Williams following Indian Wells after she was forced to withdraw w/left knee injury. She was last ranked No.1 in July 2017

• Last left-hander to win Indian Wells was Seles in 1992; last German to win here was Graf in 1996

• After 1r bye, struck 29 winners and just 12 unforced errors to ease past Putintseva in 2r

• Broke serve seven times to beat Russian qualifier Vikhlyantseva in 3r

• Came back from 1-4 down in third set to defeat No.9 Sabalenka in R16 and record first Top 10 win since beating No.4 Osaka at 2018 WTA Finals last Octo-ber. Fell to No.8 Kvitova at Sydney in her only other meeting with a Top 10 player this season

• Beat the only other woman over 30 left in the draw V.Williams in QF on Thursday

• In SF, hit 22 winners and only 16 unforced errors to end Bencic’s 12-match winning streak and reach first career Premier Mandatory final; had previously fallen in SF at Indian Wells (2012-13) and Miami (2016)

• Prior to this fortnight had not won more than three matches in a row since 2018 Wimbledon

• Faces No.60 Andreescu in final; last loss to player outside Top 50 came against No.61 Riske at 2018 Mallorca

• Is projected to move up to No.4 by reaching the final and No.2 with the title

SEASON• Coming off reaching R16 at Dubai (l. S.Hsieh)• Advanced to SF in Doha (l. eventual champion Mer-

tens) - 2r win over Kontaveit marked 600th career win across all levels (600-313 record)

• Won three consecutive tour-level matches for the first time since 2018 Wimbledon title run when reaching R16 at Australian Open (l. Collins). Defeated Haddad Maia in 2r for 100th Grand Slam match-win (one of eight active players to achieve the feat)

• Posted QF run in Sydney (as defending champion, l. eventual champion Kvitova) – first QF since Wimble-don title run last July

• Started off Australian swing by helping Germany fin-ish R-Up to Switzerland at Hopman Cup (posted 4-0 singles record – d. Barty, Bencic, Cornet, Muguruza)

• Making debut appearance at Indian Wells; first main draw debutante in Indian Wells to reach the final since S.Williams won title in 1999

• The last remaining of the eight wildcards that started the draw; is the first wildcard in the tournament’s his-tory to reach the final, bettering SF runs from Hingis in 2006 and S.Williams in 2015

• Contesting only eighth WTA main draw and first at a Premier Mandatory tournament

• Recovered from 3-1 down in the third set to beat Begu in 1r

• Eased past Cibulkova in 2r and Voegele in 3r, drop-ping a combined total of seven games

• In R16, upset No.18 Q.Wang, then committed only 12 unforced errors to dismiss No.20 Muguruza in QF

• Struck 36 winners to score second career Top 10 win over No.6 Svitolina in SF

• Now owns five career Top 20 wins (also No.13 Mlad-enovic at 2017 Washington DC and No.3 Wozniacki at 2019 Auckland)

• Has won 27 matches this season across all levels (ITF, WTA 125Ks, WTA qualifying, WTA main draw), more than any player in 2019

• Nine of these wins have been over Top 50 players; prior to this season, sole Top 50 win was against No.13 Mladenovic at 2017 Washington DC

• At 18, is the youngest woman to reach an Indian Wells final since Clijsters finished R-Up in 2001 (17 yrs, 283 days). Bidding to be youngest champion here since S.Williams won on 1999 (17 yrs 169 days)

• Faces Kerber today in second WTA final of career, having previously reached this stage at 2019 Auck-land (l. Goerges 2-6 7-5 6-1)

• Is the fifth unseeded woman to make Indian Wells final: also Byrne (R-Up - 1989), S.Williams (WON - 1999), Clijsters (WON -2005) and Osaka (WON - 2018)

• Finished 2018 ranked No.178, made her Top 100 debut after the Australian Open this year. Projected to rise to No.33 as a finalist and No.24 with the title

• Will earn a minimum of USD $686,000 by reaching fi-nal (career earnings stood at USD $350,909 entering the tournament)

• Made SF at Acapulco (l. Kenin); rose to career-high ranking of No.60 afterwards on March 4, 2019

• Won both singles rubbers (d. Rus and Hogenkamp) as Canada beat Netherlands 4-0 in Fed Cup to set up a World Group play-off with 2018 champions Czech Republic in April

• Won title at WTA 125K Series event at Newport Beach (d. Pegula in F)

SEASON

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BIANCA ANDREESCU

• Three-time Grand Slam champion, at 2016 Australian Open (d. S.Williams in F), 2016 US Open (d. Ka.Plis-kova in F) and 2018 Wimbledon (d. S.Williams in F)

• At 2016 Australian Open, became first Grand Slam champion to save match point en route to the title since Li at 2014 Australian Open (Kerber saved a match point in 1r win over Doi

• Won second Grand Slam singles title at US Open (d. Ka.Pliskova in F) and rose to World No.1

• Kerber hit only five unforced errors to beat S.Williams and lift third major at 2018 Wimbledon

• In 2016, finished R-Up at Wimbledon (l. S.Williams)• Best result at Roland Garros are QF runs in 2012 (l.

eventual R-Up Errani) and 2018 (l. eventual champi-on Halep)

GRAND SLAM HISTORY

• Won two titles in 2018, at Sydney (d. Barty in F) and third Grand Slam crown of career at Wimbledon (d. S.Williams in F), finishing the season ranked No.2

• Record in tour-level finals stands at 12-16 – her 28 finals is the joint-10th-most among active players

• Also in 2018, made SF at Australian Open (l. Halep in 3s, having had two match points), Dubai (l. even-tual champion Svitolina) and Eastbourne (l. eventual champion Wozniacki having had match point

• Ended 2017 on a ranking of No.21. Best results of season were R-Up finish at Monterrey and SFs at Tokyo [PPO] and Dubai

• Enjoyed an outstanding 2016 season, winning first Grand Slam titles of career at Australian Open (d. S.Williams in F) and US Open (d. Ka.Pliskova in F), finishing R-Up at Wimbledon (l. S.Williams in F) and rising to World No.1 in the WTA rankings. At 28, be-came oldest player to make her debut at World No.1

• Courtesy of her results in 2016, doubled her career prize money during season, passing $19 million mark; passed $20 million at 2017 Roland Garros, becoming 15th player to do so

• Finished 2016 year-end World No.1 ranking –be-came 12th WTA player to achieve the feat and sec-ond German woman to do so after Graf (eight times)

• Was voted WTA Player of the Year in 2016 by inter-national media and fans; also, ITF World Champion

• 2016 marked fifth successive Top 10 season finish. Was the WTA match win leader in 2016, going 63-18

• Made fourth appearance at WTA Finals in 2016, pro-gressing past round-robin for first time (l. Cibulkova in F); first German to reach final at the season-end-ing championships since Graf won title in 1996

• Reached first WTA final of career at 2010 Bogotá and won first title at 2012 Paris [Indoors]. Has won titles on all surfaces: hardcourt, grass and clay

SEASON CONT.CAREER MILESTONES

• Finished 2018 ranked No.178, winning fourth and fifth career ITF Circuit titles at $25k ITF/Florence-SC, USA and $25k ITF/Norman-OK,USA

• Fell in qualifying on at all four majors in 2018• Highlight of 2017 season was QF run at Washington

DC (l. Petkovic). As wildcard, defeated Giorgi and world No.13 Mladenovic in 2r to become first player born in 21st century to register at Top 20 win

• Also in 2017, made 2r at Quebec City and fell 1r at Wimbledon and Toronto

• Highlight of 2016 season was maiden ITF Circuit title at $25k ITF/Gatineau-CAN (d. Halbauer in F). Also won doubles at same tournament w/Robillard-Millette

• Career best win was over No.3 Wozniacki at 2019 Auckland

• Posted career-high ranking of No.60 on March 4, 2019

• Made professional debut by finishing R-Up at $25k ITF/Gatineau-CAN (l. Glatch in F)

• Owns five singles and three doubles titles on ITF Circuit

• Best Grand Slam result was 2r showing at 2019 Aus-tralian Open (as qualifier, d. Osuigwe, l. Sevastova)

• Only other main draw major appearance came as a qualifier at 2017 Wimbledon (l. Kucova)

• Also fell in qualifying at 2017 Roland Garros, 2017 US Open, 2018 Australian Open, 2018 Roland Gar-ros, 2018 Wimbledon and 2018 US Open

• Coached by Sylvain Bruneau• Born in Mississauga, Ontario, but moved to her

parents’ native country of Romania as a child and started playing tennis at age seven

• On her return to Canada, at 11 joined Tennis Cana-da’s U14 National Training Centre in Toronto for the 2011–2012 season

• Models her game on Simona Halep

• Qualified for Australian Open, going on to reach 2r for first time at a major (d. Osuigwe, l. Sevastova)

• Began season by coming through qualifying to finish R-Up at Auckland (d. Wozniacki, d. V.Williams, l. Goerges)

CAREER MILESTONES

GRAND SLAM HISTORY

PERSONAL

VSANGELIQUEKERBER

BIANCA ANDREESCU

• Currently working with former Australian Open finalist Rainer Schüttler, having ended partnership with Wim Fissette at the end of 2018

• Previously worked with Torben Beltz• In January 2017 was named in Forbes 30 Under 30

in Europe (in the entertainment category), alongside the likes of Gareth Bale and Luis Suárez

PERSONAL