One of the great tournaments of the ATP circuit is here. This is the Masters 1,000 of Indian Wells 2022 , which will start in the next few days and a great cast of tennis players will meet on the Californian fast courts to try to lift the title on March 20, the date on which the grand final is held. with which Cameron Norrie dreams to revalidate his championship or his opponents to dethrone him and be the new king in California.
Rafa Nadal will participate in the tournament and with his skill he will try to win his fourth tournament on the courts of the Indian Wells Tennis Garden . The man from Manaco won it in 2007, 2009 and 2013 and his objective, although it will be difficult, is to equal Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic , who have won this championship five times, being the tennis players who have achieved it the most times.
Dates and calendar of the Masters 1,000 of Indian Wells 2022
The Masters 1,000 of Indian Wells 2022 starts on March 7 with the first rounds in which none of the top ranked in the ATP ranking will participate. The tournament will conclude on Sunday, March 20, so we will have two exciting weeks ahead of us with the best players on the hard courts of this prestigious championship.
Between Tuesday the 15th and Wednesday the 16th, the round of 16 and quarter-finals of this tournament will be held, in which Rafa Nadal will be after the great start to the year he has had. On Friday the 18th the semifinals will take place before the Masters 1,000 of Indian Wells 2022 closes on Sunday March 20 with the grand final.
Who plays Indian Wells 2022
The Masters 1,000 of Indian Wells 2022 will host the cream of world tennis. The great absences will be those of Roger Federer and Kei Nishikori. Of the rest, practically all will be. Rafa Nadal will participate to continue that streak with which he has started the year that has led him to win the Australian Open, in Acapulco and Melbourne . Nor will ATP number one Daniil Medvedev fail.
Novak Djokovic has signed up, so it doesn’t look like the soap opera in Australia will be repeated. Alexander Zverev or Stefanos Tsitsipas will try to surprise by winning the Masters 1,000 in Indian Wells 2022. The cast is completed by other high-level tennis players such as Matteo Berrettini, Andrey Rublev, the current champion Cameron Norrie, Diego Schwartzman, Dominic Thiem, Fognini or Andy Murray , who was given the wild card.
As for the Spanish representation, Carlos Alcaraz is one of the men to take into account. Pablo Carreño, Roberto Bautista, Pablo Andújar, Alejandro Davidovic, Albert Ramos and Pedro Martínez also promise to wage war.
Who won Indian Wells 2021
Cameron Norrie , who came into Indian Wells 2021 ranked 26th in the ATP rankings, was the winner. The British eliminated tennis players like Roberto Bautista, Tommy Paul or Tennys Sandgren in the first rounds. In the quarterfinals he was the executioner of Peque Schwartzman and in the semifinals he took on the Russian Grigor Dimitrov . In the final he beat Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili two sets to one.
Where is Indian Wells 2022 being played?
As its name indicates, this tournament will be played in Indian Wells , a city near Palm Springs located in California , in the Coachella Valley. The venue where the tennis players will try to become champions is on the hard courts of the Indian Wells Tennis Garden . It was built in the year 2000 and the main track has a capacity for just over 16,000 spectators.
How much money does Indian Wells dole out?
The organizers of Indian Wells 2022 have already announced the amount of prize money that will be distributed in this edition, both in the male and female modalities, both being the same figure. In total there will be more than eight million dollars at stake, more specifically, 8,584,054 dollars, for the tennis players and as many for the tennis players.
Why is it called Indian Wells?
Indian Wells is a city in the United States located in the state of California. It is located in the Coachella Valley, a desert area of the state where there are a multitude of golf courses and residences for people with high purchasing power that has gradually become an expensive tourist destination, but with many activities that do during the days the visitor is in the area.
The tournament was founded by a former US -born tennis player , Charlie Pasarell . Its first edition was held in Arizona , but later it took its fixed location in California . Although this state has hosted the tournament every year since 1976, the location within that territory has been changing. Since 2000 it has been located in the Indian Wells Tennis Garden , the complex that has become the venue for this prestigious tournament which, despite being a Masters 1,000 , is considered one of the greats on the calendar.
The current owner of this tournament is Larry Ellison , logically, a billionaire. This businessman born in The Bronx, New York , has helped Indian Wells continue to grow each year and none of the tennis players want to miss this appointment.
