Buy Tickets Official Website.Ģ days agoI didnt look at you. Get all the latest WTA BNP Paribas Open 2021 live Tennis scores results and more. Just click on the category name in the left menu and select your tournament. Leylah Fernandez scores first win at a WTA 1000 at Indian Wells. Tennis - Indian Wells - 2021 - Detailed results Choice of a season. ATP Indian Wells 2021 scores service is real-time updating live. Venus Williams ended her boycott by competing in 2016.Oct 6 - Buy. Neither Venus nor Serena played the tournament until 2015, when Serena Williams played in the tournament, ending her 14-year boycott of the event. The following month at the Ericsson Open, Richard Williams, Serena and Venus's father, claimed racial slurs were directed at him while in the stands. Williams won the tournament and was subsequently booed during the awards ceremony. Amid speculation of match fixing, the crowd for the final loudly booed Serena when she came out to play the final and continued to boo her intermittently through the entire match, even to the point of cheering unforced errors and double faults. The two were scheduled to play in the 2001 semifinal but Venus withdrew due to an injury. Venus and Serena Williams refused to play the Indian Wells tournament from 2001 to 2014 despite threats of financial sanctions and ranking point penalties. įurther information: Williams sisters § Boycott of the Indian Wells Masters
The revamping of the tennis center also included a "Pro Purple" interior court color created specifically for the ATP Masters Series and first used at Indian Wells, citing the purple color being 180 degrees and exactly opposite the yellow of the ball.
After the 2013 BNP Paribas Open the Indian Wells Tennis Garden started an expansion and upgrade of its facilities that includes a new 8,000 seat Stadium 2. The tournament is played in the Indian Wells Tennis Garden (built in 2000) which has 29 tennis courts, including the 16,100-seat main stadium, which is the second largest tennis-specific stadium in the world.
Indian Wells lies in the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs area), about 125 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. It has the second- largest permanent tennis stadium in the world, behind New York City's Arthur Ashe Stadium. The tournament is played on hardcourt and is the best-attended tennis tournament outside the four Grand Slam tournaments, it is often called the "fifth Grand Slam".
Both singles main draws include 96 players in a 128-player grid, with the 32 seeded players getting a bye (a free pass) to the second round. Both finals are held on Sunday of the following week. The women's main draw usually starts on Wednesday and the men's main draw starts on Thursday. The event is one of two tour events (along with the Miami Open), other than the Majors, in which main draw play extends beyond eight days. It took the place of the Philadelphia Indoor event as the first Super Series event of the year. The tournament is a Masters 1000 event on the men's tour and is a WTA 1000 event on the women's tour.īetween 19 it was non-tour event and between 19 it was a secondary tournament of the Grand Prix Tennis Tour but in 1987 it was upgraded to be part of the Grand Prix Super Series, the series of nine tournaments just below the four majors and the year-end finals in importance. The current tournament director is former world No. The current owner is Larry Ellison, executive chairman and co-founder of Oracle. The Indian Wells Masters, also known as the Indian Wells Open and BNP Paribas Open is an annual tennis tournament usually held in early- and mid-March at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California, United States. Annual tennis tournament held in California, United States Indian Wells Masters