Play starts at 11am
STADIUM 1
After 2 ATP matches
Ekaterina MAKAROVA (RUS) / Elena VESNINA (RUS) [1] v HSIEH Su-Wei (TPE) / Barbora STRYCOVA (CZE)
MATCH POINTS
Makarova and Vesnina avenged their Australian Open final defeat when they beat Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic 6-4, 6-2 on Thursday.
Top seeds, the pair are yet to drop a set at Indian Wells 2018.
Hsieh and Strycova are unseeded at the BNP Paribas Open.
They beat third seeds Gabriela Dabrowski and Xu Yifan 7-6(2), 6-3, in their semifinal - and have already defeated Chan Hao-Ching and Chan Yung-Jan en route.
READ: Makarova, Vesnina to face Hsieh, Strycova for Indian Wells crown
