Tuesday, 14 March 2023

2023 IW Week 2 Predictions - Women's

The Indian Wells tournament is one of the biggest of the year outside of the Grand Slams, so I'm here with a look at how the 2nd week of the Women's bracket will turn out. After the jump, I present a table with percentages for all 16 players remaining.

Indian Wells logo, © BNP Paribas Open


But before the full table, some highlights I want to pick out.
  • Of the 4 favourites for the title, 3 of them are still in. Ons Jabeur lost in round 3 to Marketa Vondrousova.
  • The players with the easiest and hardest overall draws, Daria Kasatkina and Danielle Collins, are both out. Kasatkina has the easiest overall draw before losing to Varvara Gracheva, while Collins has the hardest overall draw and lost in round 1 to Dalma Galfi. The player with the easiest round 1 match, Katie Swan, lost her match against Cristina Bucsa; and the player with the hardest round 1 match, Yulia Putintseva, lost her match to Karolina Muchova.
  • Iga Swiatek is still the favourite to win the title, as she has a 39.73% chance of winning the tournament, Aryna Sabalenka is 2nd favourite with 10.03%, Jessica Pegula 3rd with 9.33% and Coco Gauff 4th with 8.06%.
  • Overall, Elena Rybakina now has the easiest draw here, as she is 1.63 percentage points more likely to take the title than a player of her ranking would expect. On the other hand, Barbora Krejcikova now has the toughest overall draw, as she is 2.62 percentage points less likely to win the tournament than what her ranking would suggest. Rybakina and Krejcikova also have the easiest and toughest round 4 matches, they are 20.22 and 27.79 percentage points more/less likely to win their next match than expected.
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# Name ELO R4 % R5 % R6 % R7 %
1 Iga Swiatek 1964 88.41% 70.30% 55.32% 39.73%
2 Emma Raducanu 1611 11.59% 4.09% 1.37% 0.35%
3 Sorana Cirstea 1608 28.78% 4.55% 1.50% 0.38%
4 Caroline Garcia 1765 71.22% 21.05% 11.47% 5.18%
5 Marketa Vondrousova 1729 53.13% 26.75% 7.94% 3.19%
6 Karolina Muchova 1708 46.87% 22.21% 6.08% 2.27%
7 Elena Rybakina 1773 76.80% 44.28% 15.29% 7.07%
8 Varvara Gracheva 1565 23.20% 6.77% 1.03% 0.22%
9 Maria Sakkari 1755 55.33% 24.47% 10.43% 3.77%
10 Karolina Pliskova 1718 44.67% 17.46% 6.57% 2.09%
11 Petra Kvitova 1743 37.85% 19.14% 7.82% 2.71%
12 Jessica Pegula 1829 62.15% 38.93% 20.61% 9.33%
13 Coco Gauff 1800 78.27% 36.19% 19.37% 8.06%
14 Rebecca Peterson 1577 21.73% 4.20% 1.03% 0.19%
15 Barbora Krejcikova 1800 43.42% 24.40% 13.07% 5.44%
16 Aryna Sabalenka 1846 56.58% 35.21% 21.11% 10.03%