A star-studded women’s doubles draw, replete with Grand Slam champions and gold medal winning duos alike, kicks off on Thursday at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Here are five noteworthy teams to be on the lookout for.

Desirae Krawczyk and Danielle Collins 

Fans who can’t get enough of “The Danimal” will want to make sure they check out the American on the doubles court with compatriot Desirae Krawczyk this week in Tennis Paradise. Danielle Collins and Krawczyk have history together, winning the Charleston title in 2023 and reaching the semifinals at Wimbledon in 2022. Last year they took the court with USA emblazoned on their backs at the Paris Olympics, reaching the Round of 16. 

Krawczyk, a Palm Desert, California native, is a former World No. 7 doubles player with 12 titles under her belt. 

Collins and Krawczyk will face fourth-seeded Jelena Ostapenko and Ellen Perez in round one. 

Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend 

One of the best new pairings in women’s doubles will feature as top seed this week. That would be World No. 1 and ten-time major doubles champion Katerina Siniakova, and her new wingwoman, World No. 2 Taylor Townsend. 

The pair enter Indian Wells fresh off their second major doubles titles as a team, won at the 2025 Australian Open. Siniakova, who won her lone BNP Paribas Open doubles title in 2023 with Barbora Krejcikova, and Townsend, have won two of the last three majors and will enter as the team to beat.

Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider 

Don’t sleep on Olympic silver medalists Mirra Andreeva and Diana Schnaider. The pair played for the gold medal in Paris last summer, and put up a brave fight before falling to Italy’s Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini in a championship tiebreak. This dynamic duo has won 13 of their last 16 matches, including a title at Brisbane and a trip to the Australian Open semifinals. 

They will face 2023 runner-ups Beatriz Haddad Maia and Laura Siegemund in the opening round. 

Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini 

Andreeva and Shnaider’s vanquishers at the Olympics, third-seeded Errani and Paolini, have developed incredible on-court chemistry over the last year. They made history for Italy last summer, becoming the first-ever tennis players to take home Olympic gold for their country. More recently they’ve won 1000-level titles in Beijing last year, and Doha last month.

Su-wei Hsieh and Shuai Zhang

If it’s personality and an imaginative game based on chicanery and old-school slice-and-dice you seek, come check out a true original and an ageless wonder by the name of Su-wei Hsieh. The former World No. 1, who turned 39 in January, is a seven-time major doubles champion that boasts 35 career doubles titles. Paired with Belgian Elise Mertens last year, the inimitable Hsieh won her fourth BNP Paribas Open doubles crown.  

Shuai Zhang, a two-time major champion, is a former World No. 2.