The best-attended tennis tournament outside the majors, played across two March weeks in the California desert.
Eine Veranstaltungsseite informiert darüber, wann die Veranstaltung stattfindet (mit Angabe der Datumssicherheit), warum sie relevant ist, wie sich die Woche um sie herum anfühlt, wann die Anreise und Abreise sinnvoll ist, wo Teilnehmer übernachten, wie der Zugang funktioniert und welche Veranstaltungen im Circuit davor und danach folgen.
The BNP Paribas Open occupies a purpose-built site in the Coachella Valley, twenty minutes east of Palm Springs. The Indian Wells Tennis Garden opened in 2000 with twenty-nine courts and a main stadium seating 16,100, the second largest tennis arena anywhere; a second 8,000-seat stadium followed in 2014. Larry Ellison bought the tournament in 2009 and has spent continuously on it since.
It is a combined ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 played over twelve days with 96-player singles draws, so the field is deeper and the schedule longer than at any event outside the majors. The organizer reported 493,440 admissions in 2024. Grounds access covers a large share of the tennis, practice sessions are open, and heat, wind and the need for a car are the only real constraints.
01Warum es relevant ist
Indian Wells is where the tour's spring reset happens, four weeks after the Australian Open and immediately before Miami, and the combined draw makes it the year's first full gathering of both tours in one place. In our reading it is the best-run tournament in professional tennis and the least socially consequential of the big ones, and both facts come from the same source, an owner spending on the event itself rather than on the week around it.
02Die Woche darum
The Coachella Valley in early March is at the peak of its winter season, which means the tournament arrives into a place already full: the golf courses are at their busiest, Palm Springs is between Modernism Week in February and the music festivals in April, and the resort corridor from Palm Desert to La Quinta is running at capacity.
03Anreisezeitpunkt
The first Wednesday to Friday is the strongest stretch: both draws are still wide, sixteen courts are running, and a grounds ticket buys a full day of top-hundred tennis.
04Unterkunft
The resort corridor along Highway 111 through Indian Wells, Palm Desert and La Quinta is the natural base, with the nearest hotels a few minutes from the gates and shuttle services during the tournament.
05Zugang und Hospitality
The organizer sells grounds passes for the early rounds, which admit the holder to the outside courts and the practice areas, and separate day and night session tickets for Stadium 1, with Stadium 2 included in some ticket types and sold separately in others.
06Wo das gesellschaftliche Geschehen stattfindet
On site, the public gathering points are the plaza between the two stadiums, the food and wine concessions along the main walkway, and the practice courts, all of which are open to grounds-pass holders.
07Anreise
08Praktische Hinweise
09Geschichte
The tournament dates to 1976 and spent its early years moving around the Southwest, at Tucson, Rancho Mirage and La Quinta, before settling in Indian Wells in 1987 under its founders, the former players Charlie Pasarell and Raymond Moore.
10Wer ist dort
Southern Californian weekend visitors, the Coachella Valley's winter residents, the American tennis industry in full, sponsor and corporate guests entertained on site and at the valley's golf clubs, and a modest international contingent that mostly belongs to the tour itself.
Was sonst noch stattfindet
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Der Circuit setzt sich fort
Teil von: International Tennis Circuit
Bisher erfasste Termine
| Ausgabe | Daten | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 2027 | BestätigtThe tournament's own ticketing page gives 28 February to 14 March 2027 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. That span includes the qualifying and pre-tournament days at the front of the fortnight; main-draw play begins in the first days of March. | |
| 2026 | AbgeschlossenThe 52nd men's and 37th women's edition, played 4 to 15 March 2026 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, with 96-player singles draws on both tours and a published purse of USD 9,415,725 per tour. A mixed doubles event was contested alongside the singles and doubles. |
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Quellen
- Indian Wells Masters, Wikipedia encyclopedia aufgerufen 6 September 2026
- 2026 BNP Paribas Open, Wikipedia encyclopedia aufgerufen 6 September 2026
- BNP Paribas Open - Tickets, BNP Paribas Open official aufgerufen 6 September 2026