2010 Indian Wells Tennis Masters Live Online
The 2010 Indian Wells tennis event has just started. The WTA event is currently underway, while the ATP encounters have 2 more days until the debut.
The Indian Wells is as usual a Masters Series 1000 event in the ATP race and a Premier Mandatory event of the WTA tour. The Winners of this tournament will collect 1000 ATP/WTA points, this is half of the amount earned for winning a Grand Slam event.
This year’s defending title holders are Rafael Nadal for the Men’s tournament and Vera Zvonareva in the Women’s competition.
The Indian Wells WTA event has quite a big list with important names that retired from this year’s Indian Wells competition: Kateryna Bondarenko, Dinara Safina, Elena Vesnina, Serena Williams, Venus Williams. The main seed is Svetlana Kuznetsova followed by Caroline Wozniacki.
The Indian Wells ATP tournament has also a few big names which fail to start this year’s edition: Juan Martín del Potro (wrist injury), Fernando González (helping with aid in Chile), Tommy Haas (hip surgery), Lleyton Hewitt (hip surgery), Stanislas Wawrinka, Mikhail Youzhny. The top seed is Roger Federer followed by Novak Djokovic and last year’s winner, Rafael Nadal.
The schedule for the BNP Paribas Open event is March 8 – March 21 for both Men’s and Women’s competitions. The tournament is hosted by the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California. All tennis matches are played on outdoor hard courts.
BNP Paribas Open ATP Top 10 Seeds
1. Roger Federer (1)
2. Novak Djokovic (2)
3. Rafael Nadal (3)
4. Andy Murray (4)
5. Nikolay Davydenko (6)
6. Robin Söderling (7)
7. Andy Roddick (8)
8. Marin Čilić (9)
9. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (11)
10. Fernando Verdasco (12)
BNP Paribas Open ATP Winner
[20] I Ljubicic (CRO) 7-6(3)/7-6(5) [7] A Roddick (USA)
BNP Paribas Open WTA Top 10 Seeds
1. Svetlana Kuznetsova (3)
2. Caroline Wozniacki (4)
3. Victoria Azarenka (6)
4. Elena Dementieva (7)
5. Agnieszka Radwańska (8)
6. Jelena Janković (9)
7. Li Na (10)
8. Samantha Stosur (11)
9. Flavia Pennetta (12)
10. Maria Sharapova (13)
BNP Paribas Open WTA Winner
[6] J Jankovic (SRB) 6-2/6-4 [2] C Wozniacki (DEN)
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