Indian Wells Masters
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The Indian Wells Masters is an annual tennis tournament held in the small city of Indian Wells, California. The official sponsored name of the event is currently the Pacific Life Open.
The event is part of the ATP Masters Series on the men's tour and is a Tier 1 event on the women's tour. The event, held in March, is one of two tour events (beside Miami Masters) in which main draw play extends beyond 8 days. The women's main draw usually start on Wednesday with the final on Saturday the following week. Men's main draw start on Friday and the final is on Sunday the following week. Both singles main draws include 96 players. The 32 seeded players get a bye to the second round.
The tournament is played on hard courts and is the best attended tennis tournament outside the four Grand Slam tournaments, with over 250,000 visitors during the event.
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[edit] Location
Indian Wells lies in the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs area), about 115 miles east of central Los Angeles.
The tournament is played in the Indian Wells Tennis Garden (built in 2000) which has 20 tennis courts, including the 16,100-seat main stadium and two smaller stadiums.
[edit] History
The event has previously been titled the Newsweek Champions Cup, the Pilot Pen Classic and the Congoleum Classic. The women's tournament was also previously called the Evert Cup (in honor of Chris Evert).
Originally the women's tournament was held a week before the men's event. In 1996 the championship became one of the few fully combined events on both the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tours.
It has also recently become one of the largest events on both tours, with 96 top professional players entered in both the men's and women's main draws.
[edit] Past results
[edit] Men’s Singles
[edit] Women’s Singles
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| 2007 |  Daniela Hantuchová |
 Svetlana Kuznetsova |
6-3, 6-4 |
| 2006 | Maria Sharapova |
Elena Dementieva |
6-1, 6-2 |
| 2005 |  Kim Clijsters |
 Lindsay Davenport |
6-4, 4-6, 6-2 |
| 2004 | Justine Henin |
Lindsay Davenport |
6-1, 6-4 |
| 2003 | Kim Clijsters |
Lindsay Davenport |
6-4, 7-5 |
| 2002 | Daniela Hantuchová |
 Martina Hingis |
6-3, 6-4 |
| 2001 | Serena Williams |
Kim Clijsters |
4-6, 6-4, 6-2 |
| 2000 | Lindsay Davenport |
Martina Hingis |
4-6, 6-4, 6-0 |
| 1999 | Serena Williams |
 Steffi Graf |
6-3, 3-6, 7-5 |
| 1998 | Martina Hingis |
Lindsay Davenport |
6-3, 6-4 |
| 1997 | Lindsay Davenport |
 Irina Spirlea |
6-2, 6-1 |
| 1996 | Steffi Graf |
 Conchita Martinez |
7-6, 7-6 |
| 1995 | Mary Joe Fernandez |
 Natasha Zvereva |
6-4, 6-3 |
| 1994 | Steffi Graf |
 Amanda Coetzer |
6-0, 6-4 |
| 1993 | Mary Joe Fernandez |
 Amanda Coetzer |
3-6, 6-1, 7-6 |
| 1992 |  Monica Seles |
Conchita Martinez |
6-3, 6-1 |
| 1991 | Martina Navratilova |
Monica Seles |
6-2, 7-6 |
| 1990 | Martina Navratilova |
 Helena Sukova |
6-2, 5-7, 6-1 |
| 1989 |  Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere |
 Jenny Byrne |
6-4, 6-1 |
[edit] Doubles champions
[edit] External links
| ATP Masters Series Tournaments |  |
| Indian Wells | Miami | Monte Carlo | Rome | Hamburg | Montreal/Toronto | Cincinnati | Madrid | Paris |
| WTA Tier I Tournaments |
| Tokyo | Indian Wells | Miami | Charleston | Berlin | Rome | San Diego | Montreal/Toronto | Moscow | Zürich |
