[Big Al]

Draw Size: S-96 D-32 Surface: Hard Prize Money: $ 3,645,000

Tennis Fans Flock To Indian Wells
The BNP Paribas Open, the first of nine ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events, showcases the best men's and women's players at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. In 2009, the Coachella Valley welcomed a record 332,498 people to the 12-day tournament, eclipsing the mark set the previous year when it became the first tournament outside of the Grand Slams to pass the 300,000 mark.

Official Site:
http://secure-us.imr...aribasopen.org/
Singles Draw and Results:
http://secure-us.imr...010/404/mds.pdf
Daily Order of Play:
http://secure-us.imr...2010/404/op.pdf

Nadal Eyes Third Title In Desert
Rafael Nadal recaptured the BNP Paribas Open title after posting an overwhelming 6-1, 6-2 victory over Andy Murray in Indian Wells last year. Nadal has won 15 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles, placing him just one behind Roger Federer and two behind all-time leader Andre Agassi.

World No. 1 Roger Federer has a 29-6 tournament record, winning three titles in 2004 (d. Henman), 2005 (d. Hewitt) and 2006 (d. Blake).

Novak Djokovic finished runner-up to Rafael Nadal in 2007 and beat Mardy Fish for the 2008 title. He has a 14-3 tournament record.

In 2009, World No. 3 Andy Murray joined Tim Henman (2002, 2004) and Greg Rusedski (1998) as British runners-up at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event.

This post has been edited by Big Al: 11 March 2010 - 09:46 PM

[Big Al]

Looks like Del Potro isnt playing due to his wrist injury still bothering him ,and Gonzalez has understandably pulled out to assist earthquake efforts .

This post has been edited by Big Al: 09 March 2010 - 11:48 PM

[fah51]

Results Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Men's Qualifying Singles - First Round

B Reynolds (USA) d D Istomin (UZB) 64 31 ret.
M Matosevic (AUS) d I Marchenko (UKR) 67(0) 64 76(4)
R Schuettler (GER) d A Bogomolov Jr. (USA) 64 63
D Brands (GER) d K Im (KOR) 62 62
Y Lu (TPE) d [WC] R Borvanov (USA) 63 64
R Mello (BRA) d D Norman (BEL) 63 61
B Phau (GER) d [WC] J de Armas (VEN) 62 76(4)
V Millot (FRA) d C Ball (AUS) 64 63
S Devvarman (IND) d A Kuznetsov (USA) 64 36 60
T Smyczek (USA) d D Brown (JAM) 61 61
K Kim (USA) d B Evans (USA) 60 61
K Anderson (RSA) d S Grosjean (FRA) 63 76(5)
T Alves (BRA) d [WC] V Spadea (USA) 61 67(4) 60
S Koubek (AUT) d S de Chaunac (FRA) 63 63
N Lindahl (AUS) d R Kendrick (USA) 26 64 64
L Cook (USA) d M Yani (USA) 63 64
D Young (USA) d L Gregorc (SLO) 75 64
R Sweeting (USA) d R de Voest (RSA) 64 62
R Delgado (PAR) d M Mcclune (USA) 64 63
[WC] F Krajinovic (SRB) d G Gaudio (ARG) 67(2) 75 75
D Kindlmann (GER) d I Klec (SVK) 76(4) 61
B Dabul (ARG) d P Amritraj (IND) 62 64
G Lapentti (ECU) d S Gonzalez (MEX) 75 75
J Witten (USA) d [WC] B Battistone (USA) 36 62 64

[Big Al]

Federer Faces Challenging Road To Final
Indian Wells, U.S.A.
by Staff
09.03.2010

World No. 1 Roger Federer may need to get through a pair of Andy’s – World No. 4 Andy Murray and World No. 8 Andy Roddick – to reach the final at the BNP Paribas Open, the first of nine prestigious ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tennis tournaments this season. The Swiss is seeded to meet top American Roddick in the quarter-finals and 2009 finalist Murray in the semis
Federer is looking to reach the Indian Wells final for the first time since 2006, when he won his third straight BNP Paribas Open title. He fell just shy the past two years, bowing out in the semi-finals. He will open against the winner between Victor Hanescu and Juan Ignacio Chela, and could face No. 27 seed Marcos Baghdatis in the third round.
Roddick, a three-time Indian Wells semi-finalist, may also need to work hard for a spot in the quarter-finals, with No. 12 seed Gael Monfils, Frenchman Richard Gasquet and Argentine David Nalbandian all potential opponents in the fourth round.
Meanwhile, British No. 1 Murray could come up against 13th-seeded Spaniard David Ferrer or 2006 finalist James Blake in the fourth round. Ferrer enters Indian Wells riding a 7-match winning streak, and has won 11 of his past 12 matches. In the quarter-finals, Murray could meet Sweden’s Robin Soderling or Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, both past Grand Slam finalists.
Defending champion Rafael Nadal, who also won the Indian Wells title in 2007, could come up against Russian Nikolay Davydenko in his quarter-final match. Davydenko has won their past three meetings, including this past January in the final of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open, to take the 5-4 lead in the lifetime series.
World No. 3 Nadal will play a qualifier in his second-round opening match, and could meet one of two Americans – No. 15 seed John Isner or No. 17 seed Sam Querrey – in the fourth round. Isner and Querrey have each won a hard-court title this season, Isner in Auckland and Querrey in Memphis.
Davydenko, the No. 5 seed, plays either 2009 ATP Comeback Player of the Year Marco Chiudinelli or recent Delray Beach titlist Ernests Gulbis in his opener. He could meet No. 10 seed Fernando Verdasco or No. 19 seed Tomas Berdych in the quarter-finals.
In the bottom quarter of the draw, the 2008 Indian Wells finalists – Novak Djokovic and Mardy Fish – could clash in the second round. Fish, who upset three Top 10 players during his run to the final, will face German Michael Berrer in the first round.
Croatian Marin Cilic, the ATP match wins leader this season with an 18-2 mark, is seeded to meet Djokovic in the quarter-finals. But in-form Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero, the No. 11 seed, could challenge the World No. 9 in the fourth round. The 30-year-old Ferrer won 14 of 15 matches during the Latin American clay-court swing.

[Tenez]

I thought Davydenko was injured and not playing.

I voted Djoko to win the whole thing. Federer will concentrate on Miami.....or the other way around. ...but I think he will not want to force it too much after his lung infection and might put more effort on the East coast.

[Duggietoo]

Really looking forward to this event - lot of question marks around the top players.

[Tenez]

I don;t like those events as you know Duggi. First they make us believe it is over 10 days or 2 weeks when frankly, teh juicy part is 5 days. secondly, players will concentrate on one of the two (w/Miami) and will try to minimise the damamge on the other. Thirdly, I like natural surfaces clay and grass, more and more.

[Duggietoo]

Tenez, on 10 March 2010 - 02:08 PM, said:

I don;t like those events as you know Duggi. First they make us believe it is over 10 days or 2 weeks when frankly, teh juicy part is 5 days. secondly, players will concentrate on one of the two (w/Miami) and will try to minimise the damamge on the other. Thirdly, I like natural surfaces clay and grass, more and more.

Do you mean the final stages of each ?

I enjoy hardcourt more than clay and if you blink you'll likely miss grass altogether - though it is my favourite too

[Duchess]

Should be an interesting tournament......

[liam_valid]

seeded 1/4s

Fed vs Roddick
Murray vs Soderling
Davydenko vs Nadal
Cilic vs Djokovic