Daniil Medvedev and Learner Tien produced one of the most riveting ATP head-to-head rivalries of 2025. But at this year's BNP Paribas Open, the ATP stars will be on the same side of the net when they team up alongside many other top-ranked players competing in the doubles event.

The men's and women's doubles fields pack plenty of star power. Top 10 singles stars Alex de Minaur, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Alexander Bublik are in the field. Jannik Sinner, Alexander Zverev and Ben Shelton have entered, but need wild cards to make the draw as their team rankings are not high enough for them to gain direct acceptance.

On the women's side, singles World No. 8 Jasmine Paolini, No. 12 Ekaterina Alexandrova, No. 14 Linda Noskova, No. 21 Diana Shnaider and No. 22 Elise Mertens will compete with her Australian Open champion partner Shuai Zhang.

Medvedev, a back-to-back singles finalist in 2023-24 and a semi-finalist last year in Tennis Paradise, has played doubles in the desert just once before, falling to the Bryan brothers in 2019 playing with Karen Khachanov. In 2025 the former World No. 1 played just one doubles match, teaming with Andrey Rublev in Halle. 

Tien leads their singles head-to-head 3-1. The SoCal native stunned Medvedev in a fifth-set tie-break at the 2025 Australian Open and claimed a straight-sets win in their Melbourne Park rematch in January.

World No. 6 Alex de Minaur will join forces with veteran countryman John Peers, while World No. 7 Felix Auger-Aliassime is partnering American Sebastian Korda.

Other interesting pairings include cousins Valentin Vacherot and Arthur Rinderknech, who faced off in the Shanghai singles final last October and Karen Khachanov teaming with Andrey Rublev.

Former World No. 1 Jannik Sinner is another singles star who intends to pull double duty in the desert. He has entered with big-serving American Reilly Opelka. Outside the entry cut, the pair will hope a wild card falls their way. Sinner played just one doubles match last year.

Sinner has played just three doubles matches at ATP Masters 1000 level, all in 2022. he lost all those matches, including his Indian Wells outing with Sebastian Korda.

Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos, Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool, Marcelo Arevalo and Mate Pavic and Christian Harrison and Neal Skupski will spearhead the charge of the doubles specialists.

In the women’s doubles draw, newly minted Australian Open champions Elise Mertens and Shuai Zhang will compete, as will the runners-up from Melbourne, Anna Danilina and Aleksandra Krunic.

In two Czech-USA partnerships, Katerina Siniakova will team with Taylor Townsend (the pair reached the semifinals last year) and Barbora Krejcikova and Caty McNally will join forces. Sara Errani, a winner of 36 doubles titles, will play with countrywoman Jasmine Paolini.

Linda Noskova and Diana Shnaider will look to carry their recent singles form onto the doubles court when they team up. Ekaterina Alexandrova, who won the Abu Dhabi doubles title with Maya Joint in February, will look to continue her doubles form with Sofia Kenin.

Last year’s champions Asia Muhammad and Demi Schuurs will try their fortunes with different partners this year. Muhammad will team with Erin Routliffe and Schuurs will partner Ellen Perez.