Indian Wells 2014

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To jest chyba nawet nieuniknione jak Wawrince odpadnie Oeiras (raczej nie zorganizują) i finał Madrytu.

[Jacuszyn]

STAY CONNECTED WITH THE OFFICIAL APP AND FREE WI-FI ACCESS ONSITE

The BNP Paribas Open, the most-attended ATP World Tour and WTA tennis tournament in the world to be held March 3-16, 2014 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, has launched an app for iPhone and Android and will offer free Wi-Fi throughout the site during the event, it was announced today by Steve Simon, tournament director.

The app, now available in the respective app stores, will offer features such as live streaming of up to four broadcast courts (only on-site); promotional notifications; live stats of all matches; match and practice court schedules; a “find your seat” feature for both Stadium 1 and the new Stadium 2; a site map to help fans find food, shopping and more at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden; photos and videos showing on-court action and exclusive footage; and news, blogs and social media content.

The tournament will also offer free Wi-Fi throughout the site during the tournament, enabling patrons to reliably utilize the app, stream match action, and capture and share content via social media. Two mobile device charging stations have also been installed, with one under each shade structure in the Tennis Garden Village.

"The BNP Paribas Open app is going to enhance the fan experience on-site and beyond,” said Simon. “We recognize that by providing site-wide, reliable and free Wi-Fi we can deliver a way for people to consume the event through their mobile devices, and also share that experience through social media channels to friends, family and more.”

In addition, BNP Paribas Open Radio will return to provide fans from across the globe the opportunity to listen to live play-by-play commentary of Stadium Court matches from Wednesday, March 5 through the finals on Sunday, March 16 at www.bnpparibasopen.com. The service, which will also be part of the app, will be brought to fans by the BBC commentary team of Russell Fuller, Philip Studd, Nick Lester and Gigi Salmon. Colorful match analysis will be provided by Mary Pierce, Mark Woodforde, Jimmy Arias, Corina Morariu, and more.

Live streaming powered by TennisTV.com, the official live streaming website of the ATP World Tour and WTA, starts Thursday, March 6 and fans will be able to see live and on demand coverage of over 100 matches from the BNP Paribas Open in HD, including on mobile devices and tablets through the TennisTV apps for iPad, iPhone and Android. In addition, the tournament will be available on ESPN3, ESPN's live multi-screen sports network, a 24/7 destination that delivers thousands of global sports events annually via WatchESPN.

http://www.bnpparibasopen.com/News/Tenn ... ected.aspx

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Montanes też się wycofał, a także kilku graczy z listy rezerwowej. Na dzień dzisiejszy z ALT do MD wchodzą: Gabaszwili, Becker, Stachowski, Vesely, Gołubiew, Falla, Bogomołow i Smyczek. Kolejni na liście to Young (WC to MD), Russell, Klahn, Niedowiesow i Sock (WC to MD).

[Art]

http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis ... -2014.aspx

$70 Million Expansion – A new addition to the Indian Wells Tennis Garden is the 8,000-seat Stadium 2, which took 10 months and 10 days to complete and features three restaurants: Piero's PizzaVino, The Chop House and Nobu.

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STADIUM 2 AND THE SITE EXPANSION
Indian Wells, U.S.A.

Spoiler:

Less than a year after some of the best tennis players in the world helped break ground on the Stadium 2 and site expansion project, they’ll return to a completely finished Indian Wells Tennis Garden – and a brand new BNP Paribas Open.

“What’s really hit me is the entire site has been transformed,” said IWTG CEO Raymond Moore, a former owner and managing partner of the tournament. “It’s completely different from anything that’s been here for 15 years. I don’t want to be negative of the site before, but it always had this feeling of being unfinished. Now it’s finished.”

Finished – and glimmering – to put it simply. The new Stadium 2 seats 8,000 fans, bringing the Garden’s seating capacity to 41,485, a 17% increase from 2013. Tournament officials expect a whopping 420,000 fans to stream through the gates this year, up from a record-setting 382,227 a year ago.

“It’s not the brick and mortar, it’s the experience that goes with it,” said tournament director Steve Simon. “And the elements that have to go with it to enhance the brick and mortar. It’s the whole package that makes it special.”

While the numbers are staggering – the new stadium also has three permanent restaurants inside of it – the fan experience has been elevated, as Simon noted. Wi-Fi is now offered throughout the site, some 400-plus Date Palm trees were added, 16 acres of new turf and a new 19,000 square-foot shade structure.

“I think when people walk in they are just going to be blown away,” Simon said. “It’s an entirely new venue.”

That is abundantly apparent at the East Entry, the newly-created gate where fans get a glimpse of Stadium 2 before entering a bank of the smaller, yet appealing stadiums to their left. It’s all lined with some of the 17,905 shrubs brought in to help keep “garden” a meaningful part of the Indian Wells Tennis Garden name.

“The impact this will have on people will be fun to watch,” Simon added. “I don’t think they have any idea the magnitude of what’s been going on.”

It has been quite well known that Nobu Indian Wells, the famous Japanese restaurant, Chop House, award-winning steaks and chops and Piero’s PizzaVino, with its Neapolitan pies, would be a part of the expansion, adding world-class food to the world-class tennis.

Inside the intimate Stadium 2, general admission ticket holders have an abundance of opportunity to see world-class tennis up-close as some of the 3,000 lower-bowl seats are available to them. Up above, fans experience seamless sight lines and breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains, as well.

After ground was broken on site last year with the help of tournament owner Larry Ellison and former champions Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Ana Ivanovic, Victoria Azarenka and Novak Djokovic, crews from Watkins Landmark Construction worked for 10 months building and readying the new site and expansion pieces.

“This is a landmark, a monument in the desert,” said Jody Watkins, the company’s founder. “I think everyone treated it as such. A lot of people did not treat this as punch-the-clock and go to work. There is an artistic element to the work the subcontract people have done on this project. There’s a pride of work that every single person exudes.”

Some of that pride was used on the 28,300 linear feet (or 5.35 miles) of quarry tile used on the perimeter walls of Stadium 2.

The aesthetic is apparent, but the masterminds behind the project, including Keisker & Wiggle Architects, were thinking beyond that.

“The things we would want to design in, it was always, ‘What is the guest experience going to be? What is the player experience going to be?’ ” said Gary Wiggle, the stadium architect.

In this instance, bigger really does mean better.

“We want to make sure we grow right so we’re not diminishing the experience people are having because we’re packing it so full that it’s no fun being here,” Simon concluded. “A lot of what was built in here was infrastructure, so with more people, you can still have the same experience.”

And perhaps even a better one.

http://www.bnpparibasopen.com/News/Tenn ... nsion.aspx

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Zielony i czerwony kolor zdominował listę kwalifikacji. Bezpośrednio do QMD załapał się Kokkinakis, a listę ALT otwiera w tej chwili 810. w rankingu Sasza Zverev. Do tego Kozlov z dzikusem.

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Indian Wells - drabinka kwalifikacji

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[1] Somdev Devvarman (IND) vs Daniel Munoz-De La Nava (ESP)
Greg Ouellette (USA) vs [15] Jimmy Wang (TPE)

[2] Dusan Lajovic (SRB) vs Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS)
Mischa Zverev (GER) vs [19] Ruben Bemelmans (BEL)

[3] David Goffin (BEL) vs James McGee (IRL)
Daniel Kosakowski (USA) vs [16] Thiemo de Bakker (NED)

[4] Stephane Robert (FRA) vs [WC] Marcos Giron (USA)
[WC] Clay Thompson (USA) vs [23] Bobby Reynolds (USA)

[5] Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) vs Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP)
[PR] Robert Kendrick (USA) vs [24] Rik De Voest (RSA)

[6] Dominic Thiem (AUT) vs Matt Reid (AUS)
[WC] Nicolas Meister (USA) vs [20] Illya Marchenko (UKR)

[7] Guido Pella (ARG) vs Daniel Garza (MEX)
Steven Diez (CAN) vs [14] Peter Polansky (CAN)

[8] Evgeny Donskoy (RUS) vs Jesse Witten (USA)
[WC] Stefan Kozlov (USA) vs [22] Samuel Groth (AUS)

[9] Jan Hajek (CZE) vs Robby Ginepri (USA)
Austin Krajicek (USA) vs [17] Damir Dzumhur (BIH)

[10] Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) vs [WC] Raymond Sarmiento (USA)
Theodoros Angelinos (GRE) vs [18] James Ward (GBR)

[11] Alex Kuznetsov (USA) vs Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX)
Taro Daniel (JPN) vs [21] Guilherme Clezar (BRA)

[12] Wayne Odesnik (USA) vs John-Patrick Smith (AUS)
Daniel Cox (GBR) vs [13] Andrej Martin (SVK)

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Jeżeli Kokkinakis nawiąże do formy z Australii, to nawet Lajović jest w zasięgu. W przypadku Kozlova z kolei, trudno jest mówić o łatwym bądź trudnym losowaniu - on cały czas gra przede wszystkim o zebranie cennego doświadczenia.

[6] Dominic Thiem (AUT) vs Matt Reid (AUS)
[WC] Nicolas Meister (USA) vs [20] Illya Marchenko (UKR)

Thiem ma obowiązek zrobić z tego MD.


Jeszcze jedna informacja odnośnie MD:
Almagro OUT

Losowanie MD już dziś.

[Bizon]

O której to losowanko?

[Rroggerr]

Spotkanie Grotha z Kozlovem musi wyglądać niepoważnie. Ale generalnie to fajny przeciwnik, żeby się pokazać.

[sheva]

O której to losowanko?

O północy.

[Mario]

Jak rozumiem Del Potro ma zamiar grać?

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Owszem.

[Mario]

W sumie najlepiej ćwiczyć slajsa w warunkach meczowych.

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Live thread na mtf:
http://www.menstennisforums.com/showthread.php?t=417425

[Mario]

Nadal z Wawrinką, Djoko z Berdychem.

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A Roger?

[Mario]

Jeszcze nie wiem.

Rafał z Murrayem w 1/4.

[sheva]

Potencjalne ćwierćfinały: Nadal-Murray, Wawrinka-Federer, Gasquet-Berdych, del Potro-Djokovic.

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Rafał z Murrayem w 1/4.

28 miechów nie grali ze sobą, ale na ten moment bez historii się to zapowiada.