Saturday was a very busy day at Indian Wells – the sold out day session, the overflow parking situation and the epic bathroom lines were just the start of it. It felt like the entire population of Tennis Landia was trying to get inside Stadium 2 to watch Andy Murray/Ross Hutchins vs. James Blake/Andy Roddick [...]

Photo by Krist at rogerfederer.com
Federer Fan (and self-diagnosed “Rogerholic”), Kathy Woodward contributed this piece on the now-famous “Genius at Work” banner that follows her man around the world. Enjoy!
An Ingenious Idea
by Kathy Woodward
“Shhh!!! Quiet! Genius at Work”, has requested hush and silence over Federer matches for four years now. The slogan was inspired by a [...]

I thought I was witnessing the most awkward part of Day Three at Indian Wells when Maria Sharapova went down 1-5 in the first set to Vera Dushevina on Stadium 2. The crowd was groaning and wincing as she hit serve after serve into the bottom of the net. But then I heard a collective [...]

“As of 3:00 pm today” Nikolay Davydenko will be representin’ for Dunlop. From the press release:
World No.6 Davydenko signs with Dunlop
March 12th 2010 – Dunlop are delighted to announce their new partnership with Russian tennis ace, Nikolay Davydenko for rackets, clothing and accessories. The partnership will also see Davydenko endorse Dunlop’s junior talent identification programme [...]

Okay – first of all, Rafael Nadal is not keeping the kinds of hours I’d expect of a Spaniard. Meaning, I totally missed it when he and Kim and Roger and Ana were all together on the practice courts on Thursday morning. I was still eating my breakfast! Thank goodness there are other crazed tennis [...]

We can’t get enough of the practice courts (and practice field) at Indian Wells. Gael Monfils, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Robin Soderling, Gilles Simon, the Spanish Armada, Justine Henin and Caroline Wozniacki worked on their strokes and their foot work on Thursday. Anna Chakvetadze looked on while Marcos Baghdatis, Juan Monaco, Gaston Gaudio et. al played a [...]

We snapped a couple shots of the always-elusive Roger Federer shirt change.
The photos in the gallery are from two separate Roger Federer practice sessions at Indian Wells on Thursday. The morning session (gray RF shirt) included Ivan Ljubicic. Justine Henin practiced next door. Roger glanced over to observe JuJu’s strokes a few times during his [...]

Novak Djokovic and Fernando Verdasco practiced together at Indian Wells on Thursday. Quick, someone call Calvin Klein! We have an impromptu boxer briefs spread in the making here. Enjoy:

Fritters and I made it out to Indian Wells for Day 1 action – at least the WTA main draw started today. Justine Henin was the only major star on the schedule today thanks to lame first round byes for every seed. Glad she made it through Magdalena Rybarikova, at least.
But who needs real, competitive [...]

What Ho! The Indian Wells Masters draw is out earlier than expected! (Click here)
With Rafael Nadal at No. 3, he and Roger Federer are suddenly the Williams Sisters of the ATP tour. Everyone’s first question when the draw comes out: are they on opposite sides of the draw?
They are.
Okay, moving on to the second question. [...]

Tennis Channel’s  live coverage of the 2010 Indian Wells BNP Paribas Open combined tournament starts on the evening of Friday, March 12 with the Hit for Haiti exhibition. Tune in to watch Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Martina Navratilova, Justine Henin, Steffi Graf, and Lindsay Davenport raise money for earthquake relief.

TENNIS TV [...]

HIT FOR HAITI INDIAN WELLS LIVE STREAMING:
Per the tournament’s press release Hit for Haiti “will be broadcast live in numerous countries around the world, and domestically on the Tennis Channel, beginning at 7:30 PM PST (on March 12). In addition, live web streaming will be available on bnpparibasopen.org, TennisTV.com, atpworldtour.com, sonyericssonwtatour.com, usta.com, tennis.com, espn360.com, and [...]