Novak Djokovic is making a return to the BNP Paribas Open for the first time in five years as he seeks a record sixth title in the Southern California desert.
The World No.1 player Novak Djokovic, last participated in the Indian Wells Open in 2019, experiencing a third-round defeat.
Djokovic skipped the last four years of competition here due to his non-vaccination against COVID-19. The U.S. mandated vaccination for noncitizen visitors until last spring.
Djokovic won the BNP Paribas Open title winners in 2008, 2011, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
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The Three-time winner Rafael Nadal (2013,2009,2007) will return after missing his last year’s event because of injury. Because of injury he missed the Australian Open 2024 in January as well.
In this 2024 Indian Wells Open Tennis tournament combined ATP and WTA tours which is starts on March 3-17.
Women’s world top ranker Iga Swiatek will be back in this year tournament and she won the title in the year 2022 and she reached the semifinals last year.
BNP Paribas Open defending champions Carlos Alcaraz and Elena Rybakina will be return back.
Carlos Alcaraz, Who is ranked No.2 became the first man to win at Indian Wells tournament without dropping a single set since Roger Federer in 2017.
Someother men’s players also include in this tournament like Taylor Fritz, Daniil Medvedev, Alexander Zverev, Andrey Rublev and Andy Murray.
WTA top ranked players also participated which is include Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Qinwen Zheng, Naomi Osaka, Maria Sakkari, Ons Jabeur, Marketa Vondrousova and Karolina Muchova.
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