Masters d\' Indian Wells

The Masters d' Indian Wells is a tournament of Tennis of ATP Tour created in 1987 taking the continuation of the Tournoi of Quinta (1981 - 1986). There exists since 1989 a female tournament of WTA in parallel: to see Open of Indian Wells.

This tournament which disputes in outside on hard surface named successively “Newsweek Champions Cup”, “Pile PEN Classic”, “Congoleum Classic” and today “Pacific Life Open”, sponsoring obliges. The usual name of the tournament remains however “Tennis Masters Series Indian Wells” ( Indian Wells TMS ) in English, as it is in particular the case on the official site of the ATP.

At the time of the first three editions (1987 - 1989), the tournament is a stage of the Grand Prix ATP . Since the installation of the Masters Series in 1990, the tournament belongs to this category of test.

The final is played in three gaining sets, except in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2007 (2 gaining sets).

The most titrated champions

Michael Chang, Roger Federer: 3 titles.
Boris Becker, Jim Courier, Pete Sampras, Lleyton Hewitt: 2 titles.

Premiums and points ATP

Simple prize list

Double prize list

1987 . Guy Forget France and Yannick Noah France
1988. Guy Forget France and Boris Becker
1989. Swiss Jakob Hlasek and Boris Becker
1990. Guy Forget France and Boris Becker
1991. Jim Courier the United States and Javier Sanchez Spain
1992. Steve DeVries the United States and Daniel Macpherson Australia
1993. Guy Forget France and Henri Leconte France
1994. Grant Connell Canada and Patrick Galbraith the United States
1995. Tommy Ho the United States and Brett Steven
1996. Mark Woodforde Australia and Todd Woodbridge Australia
1997. Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor Canada
1998. Jonas Bjorkman Sweden and Patrick Rafter Australia
1999. Wayne Black and Sandon Stolle Australia
2000. Alex O' Brien the United States and Jared Micrometer caliper the United States
2001. Wayne Ferreira South Africa and Ievgueni Kafelnikov Russia
2002. Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor Canada
2003. Wayne Ferreira South Africa and Ievgueni Kafelnikov Russia
2004. Arnaud Clément France and Sebastien Grosjean France
2005. Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor Canada
2006. Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor Canada
2007. Martin Prejudice and Leander Paes India

External bonds

Official site of the tournament
Official site Masters-series
Site of the ATP

Satellite sight of Indian Wells Gardens Tennis on Wikimapia

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