Indian Wells Open
The Indian Wells Open (also known as the Indian Wells Masters and as the BNP Paribas Open for sponsorship reasons) is an annual professional tennis tournament held in Indian Wells, California, United States. It is played on outdoor hardcourts at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, and is held in March. The tournament is part of the ATP Masters 1000 events on the ATP Tour and part of the WTA 1000 events on the WTA Tour.
| Indian Wells Open | |||||||||
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| Founded | 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 (2023) | |||||||||
| Men's singles | Carlos Alcaraz | ||||||||
| Women's singles | Elena Rybakina | ||||||||
| Men's doubles | Rohan Bopanna Matthew Ebden | ||||||||
| Women's doubles | Barbora Krejčíková Kateřina Siniaková | ||||||||
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The tournament is the best-attended tennis tournament outside the four Grand Slam tournaments (475,372 in total attendance during the 2019 event); it is often called the "fifth Grand Slam" in reference to this. The Indian Wells Tennis Garden has the second-largest permanent tennis stadium in the world, behind the US Open's Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York. The Indian Wells Open is the premier tennis tournament in the Western United States and the second largest tennis tournament throughout the United States and the Americas (behind the US Open in the Eastern United States).
Preceding the Miami Open, it is the first event of the "Sunshine Double" — a series of two elite, consecutive hard court tournaments in the United States in early spring.
Between 1974 and 1976, it was a non-tour event and between 1977 and 1989 it was held as part of the Grand Prix Tennis Tour. 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.