Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, on the comeback trail seven months after giving birth to a son, was ousted in the first round at Indian Wells on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) by France's 70th-ranked Varvara Gracheva.

Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, on the comeback trail seven months after giving birth to a son, was ousted in the first round at Indian Wells on Wednesday by France's 70th-ranked Varvara Gracheva.

The 34-year-old is on the comeback trail seven months after giving birth to her son. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Naomi Osaka says her Indian Wells first-round exit is "a little bump in the road" after the former champion loses to Camila Osorio.

Former champion Naomi Osaka was sent packing from Indian Wells after a 6-4 6-4 first-round defeat by Colombia's Camila Osorio on Wednesday. The Japanese four-time Grand Slam champion never looked comfortable against Osorio's dynamic shotmaking and piled up the unforced errors on a cool evening in the California desert.

Naomi Osaka's roller-coaster season continued with a first-round loss at Indian Wells on Wednesday that left the four-time Grand Slam winner apologizing on social media.Osaka, who won her first WTA title at Indian Wells in 2018,