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Nao Hibino, who will get a lot of balls in play, is the first-round opponent for Venus Williams as the qualifying is complete at the BNP Paribas Open.

For Naomi Osaka, an epic and incongruous matchup against Sara Errani, who is at the polar opposite of the Haitian-Japanese-American in every conceivable way.

Wild card Emma Raducanu gets another qualifier, the big-hitting Spaniard Rebeka Masarova.

(Indian Wells is 3 hours behind ET)

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BNP Paribas Open
Location: Indian Wells, Calif.
Category: WTA Tour 1000
Surface: Outdoor Hard
Dates: March 6-17, 2024
Prize money: $9,258,030
Draws: S96 / D32

Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Final results
Qualifying, final round

(1st-round opponents in brackets)

Upsets 

[14] Erika Andreeva (RUS) def [8] Kayla Day (USA) 61 36 63 (Danielle Collins)

[23] Hailey Baptiste (USA) def [11] Clara Tauson (DEN) 76 (2) 76 (3) ([Q] Robin Montgomery)

Liv Hovde (USA) def. [10] Harriet Dart (GBR) 62 63 (Lesia Tsurenko)

Nuria Parrizas Dias (ESP) def [5] Nadia Podoroska (ARG) 75 67 (4) 63 ([WC] McCartney Kessler)

Seeds advancing

[2] Bernarda Pera (USA) def. [16] Camila Osorio (COL) 62 36 61 ([PR] Daria Saville)

[3] Nao Hibino (JPN) def. Hsieh Su-Wei (TPE) 26 61 62 ([WC] Venus Williams)

[4] Taylor Townsend (USA) def. [WC] Clervie Ngounoue (USA) 36 61 62 (Magda Linette)

[9] Sara Errani (ITA) def. [17] Arina Rodionova (AUS) 64 60 ([PR] Naomi Osaka)

[15] Rebeka Masarova (ESP) def. Linda Fruhvirtova (CZE) 61 75 ([WC] Emma Raducanu)

Other results

Mai Hontama (JPN) def. Claire Liu (USA) 61 57 63 ([PR] Zhang Shuai)

Robin Montgomery (USA) def. Storm Hunter (AUS) 36 63 64 ([Q] Hailey Baptiste)

Rebeka Sramkova (SVK) def. Jessika Ponchet (FRA) 26 62 76 (5) (Wang Yafan)

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