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The Indian Wells Masters (also known as the Indian Wells Open and branded as the BNP Paribas Open for sponsorship reasons) is an annual professional tennis tournament played on hardcourt at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California, United States. The tournament is an ATP Masters 1000 event on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour and a WTA 1000 event on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. It is normally held in March for two weeks as the first event of the "Sunshine Double", a term given to the Indian Wells and Miami Open tournaments held consecutively in the same month. Since 2009, the tournament has been owned by Oracle co-founder and executive chairman Larry Ellison. Former world No. 2 Tommy Haas was named tournament director in 2016.
Indian Wells Masters | |||||||||
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Tournament information | |||||||||
Founded | 1974; 50 years ago (1974) | ||||||||
Location | Tucson, Arizona (1974–75) Rancho Mirage, California (1976–80) La Quinta, California (1981–86) Indian Wells, California (1987–current) | ||||||||
Venue | Indian Wells Tennis Garden | ||||||||
Surface | Hard (Plexipave) - outdoors | ||||||||
Website | bnpparibasopen.com | ||||||||
Current champions (2021) | |||||||||
Men's singles | Cameron Norrie | ||||||||
Women's singles | Paula Badosa | ||||||||
Men's doubles | John Peers Filip Polášek | ||||||||
Women's doubles | Hsieh Su-wei Elise Mertens | ||||||||
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Between 1974 and 1976, it was a non-tour event; from 1977 to 1986, it was a secondary tournament of the Grand Prix Tennis Tour. But in 1987, it was upgraded to replace the U.S. Pro Indoor, the indoor tournament held in Philadelphia, and become the first Super Series event of the year's Grand Prix Super Series, the series of nine tournaments categorized below the four Grand Slam (Major) tournaments and the year-end tour finals in importance.
The Indian Wells Masters is one of two tour events (along with the Miami Open), other than the Majors, in which main draw play extends beyond eight days. The women's main draw starts on Wednesday and the men's main draw starts on Thursday. Both finals are held on the Sunday of the following week. Both singles main draws include 96 players in a 128-player grid, with the 32 seeded players getting a bye to the second round.
The tournament is the best-attended tennis tournament outside of the four Grand Slam tournaments, leading the event to earn the nickname as the "fifth Grand Slam" or "Grand Slam of the West". The main stadium, Stadium 1, is the second-largest permanent tennis stadium in the world, behind the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York City.