Indian Wells 2025 is the first ATP Masters1000 event of this tennis season. The BNP Paribas Open will take place from March 5 to 16, 2025. The Indian Wells broadcast will be available live daily on Sky.
Who will win the Indian Wells Masters 2025?
Here you can find all the information about this year’s Indian Wells Masters tournament: TV and streaming coverage, schedule, participants and favorites as well as the tournament winner betting odds.
Date & Schedule: When is the Indian Wells 2025 Masters?
The Indian Wells tournament is the first of the nine Masters tournaments on the ATP calendar. The tournament, which has existed since 1974, is traditionally held at the beginning of March.
It is played in the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, which comprises 29 hard courts. The Center Court can accommodate 16,100 spectators, making it the second largest permanent tennis facility in the world after Flushing Meadows in New York.
The Indian Wells Masters 2025 will take place from March 5 to 16. A women’s tournament will also take place alongside the men’s Masters event during this period.
ATP Indian Wells 2025: Date & Broadcast
Qualifying will take place from March 2 (Sunday) to March 4 (Tuesday), before the main round starts on Wednesday, March 5 on the Indian Wells 2025 schedule. The top 32 of the seeding list will not enter the tournament until round 2.
The respective rounds up to the quarter-finals will be played until March 13. The women’s semi-finals are scheduled for March 14 (Thursday), while the men’s semi-finals will take place one day later on Friday, March 15.
On Sunday, March 16, the finals are on the Indian Wells 2025 schedule, with the women’s final first, followed by the men’s final.
ATP Indian Wells 2025 broadcast live on TV and stream
Pay TV channel Sky is providing coverage of the Indian Wells Masters 2025, reporting live from the Californian desert every day.
On the first four days, the broadcast will start at 20:00 German time. On the fifth, sixth and seventh days, the Indian Wells 2025 broadcast on Sky will start at 19:00.
The men’s quarter-finals (from 13.3.) will then follow at different times in the evening from 19:00 and at night from 2:00 German time. On Friday (14.3.) Sky will show the two women’s semi-finals. The two matches in the men’s semi-finals will begin on March 15 at 21:00 and 23:00 CET respectively.
The men’s final on March 16 will take place at 23:00 German time. Before that, the women’s final will also be broadcast live on Sky.
Indian Wells 2025 participants: seeding list & favorites with betting odds
The ATP Masters Indian Wells 2025 will feature the entire world elite – almost: World number one Jannik Sinner is missing, he is serving his strange doping ban.
Sinner’s absence means that Alexander Zverev, currently number 2 in the ATP world rankings, is number 1 on the Indian Wells 2025 seeding list. World No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz is seeded at No. 2.
Who will win the Indian Wells Masters 2025?
Alexander Zverev and Carlos Alcaraz are among the favorites for Indian Wells 2025 based on their world rankings. However, both have not exactly been in top form recently.
Zverev lost his opening match in Acapulco against US teenager Learner Tien and also previously failed to reach the quarter-finals of the ATP500 tournament in Rio. Alcaraz, on the other hand, last played at the ATP500 tournament in Doha and only reached the quarter-finals there.
But: Alcaraz obviously feels very comfortable in the Californian desert – he won the tournament both last year and in 2023.
Djokovic, Medvedev & Co.: The other title contenders
After the top duo of Zverev and Alcaraz, the list of Indian Wells 2025 participants and favorites to win the tournament is quite long.
According to the current positions in the ATP world rankings, Taylor Fritz (USA/world no. 4), Caspar Ruud (NOR/ATP no. 5) and Russia’s Daniil Medvedev, ranked sixth in the world and last year’s finalist, also have a good chance of winning the tournament.
Novak Djokovic is only ranked 7th in the world.
The Serbian former champion has already won five times in Indian Wells and is therefore, together with Roger Federer, the record winner of this tournament. If he wins the title this year, he would be the sole number 1 on the leaderboard.
In the Indian Wells 2025 betting and odds of the bookmakers with a German license, Djokovic is not among the favourites in the run-up to the tournament. There is also a question mark over his form. He has only played one tournament since he had to retire from both Australian Opens in the semi-finals due to injury. In Doha, however, he had to retire again at the start.
Holger Rune could also be back on the Indian Wells 2025 schedule for a little longer. The Dane reached the quarter-finals last year.
Alex de Minaur (AUS), Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) and Andrey Rublev (RUS) are three other favorites to win the tournament.
The Americans should also not be underestimated at the first Masters tournament of the year. Tommy Paul (ATP No. 10) reached the semi-finals last year, while Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe are also always good for a run in the late stages of the tournament – especially in front of a home crowd.
Indian Wells prize money 2025 & world ranking points
The total prize money of the Masters1000 tournament in Indian Wells this year amounts to 8,995,555 US dollars.
In addition to a trophy, the tournament winner will also receive 1,262,220 US dollars in prize money and 1000 world ranking points. The finalist can console himself with 662,360 US dollars and 650 points for his ATP ranking.
The two semi-finalists will be rewarded with 400 world ranking points and prize money of $354,850. The quarter-final brings 200 points for the ATP ranking and $ 202,000 to the bank account.
The Masters tournament, which features 96 players in the main event, rewards everyone from the 1st round onwards. Each player receives 10 points and $ 25,375 for participating in the main event. 37,650 dollars and 30 ATP world ranking points are awarded for reaching the second round
