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If Monday’s slate at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells doesn’t have tennis fans salivating, nothing else will. It’s so loaded, in fact, that favorites like Coco Gauff and Taylor Fritz will have their matches on the Stadium 2 court.
In action on Monday aside from Gauff and Fritz, attractive matchups include Aryna Sabalenka vs. Emma Raducanu and Naomi Osaka vs. Elise Mertens. You can see Tommy Paul, Casper Ruud and Holger Rune and that’s all just the day session.
The night kicks off with Novak Djokovic at 6 p.m. and includes Daniil Medvedev, Elina Svitolina, Maria Sakkari and a high-octane All-American doubles match pitting Gauff and Jessica Pegula against local Palm Desert grad Desirae Krawczyk and her partner Caroline Dolehide. Fun day!
Here’s the order of play:
Stadium 1
11 a.m.: Lorenzo Musetti vs. Holger Rune
Not before 1 p.m.: Emma Raducanu vs. Aryna Sabalenka
Followed by: Naomi Osaka vs. Elise Mertens
6 p.m.: Novak Djokovic vs. Luca Nardi
Followed by: Elina Svitolina vs. Emma Navarro
Stadium 2
11 a.m.: Lucia Bronzetti vs. Coco Gauff
Not before 1 p.m.: Tommy Paul vs. Ugo Humbert
Followed by: Taylor Fritz vs. Sebastian Baez
6 p.m.: Caroline Garcia vs. Maria Sakkari
Followed by: Daniil Medvedev vs. Sebastian Korda
Stadium 3
11 a.m.: Cameron Norrie vs. Gael Monfils
Followed by: Casper Ruud vs. Arthur Fils
Followed by: Adrian Mannarino vs. Grigor Dimitrov
Followed by: Coco Gauff/Jessica Pegula vs. Caroline Dolehide/Desirae Krawczyk
Followed by: TBA vs. Marcelo Arévalo/Mate Pavic
Stadium 4
11 a.m.: Yue Yuan vs. Caroline Dolehide
Not before 12:30 p.m.: Sloane Stephens vs. Daria Kasatkina
Followed by: Anna Blinkova vs. Diane Parry
Followed by: R. Seggerman/Patrik Trhac vs. Wesley Koolhof/Nikola Mektić
Followed by: TBD vs. Gabriela Dabrowski/Erin Routliffe
Stadium 5
11 a.m.: Shuko Aoyama/Aleksandra Krunić vs. Lyudmyla Kichenok/Jeļena Ostapenko
Followed by: Simone Bolelli/Andrea Vavassori vs. Jamie Murray/Michael Venus
Followed by: TBD vs. Nicolas Mahut/Édouard Roger-Vasselin
Followed by: Lorenzo Musetti/John Peers vs. Nathaniel Lammons/Jackson Withrow
Followed by: Ulrikke Eikeri/Guo Hanyu vs. Demi Schuurs/Luisa Stefani
Stadium 6
11 a.m.: Marie Bouzková/Sara Sorribes Tormo vs. Storm Hunter/Kateřina Siniaková
Not before 12:30 p.m.: Jannik Sinner/Lorenzo Sonego vs. Marcel Granollers/Horacio Zeballos
Followed by: Marcelo Melo/Alexander Zverev vs. Ivan Dodig/Austin Krajicek
Followed by: Beatriz Haddad Maia/Taylor Townsend vs. Eri Hozumi/Makoto Ninomiya
Followed by: TBD vs. Lloyd Glasspool/Jean-Julien Rojer
![Novak Djokovic returns against Aleksandar Vukic at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells Tennis Garden, California, on March 9, 2024.](http://sportsnewshistory.com/wp-content/plugins/a3-lazy-load/assets/images/lazy_placeholder.gif)
This article originally appeared on Palm Springs Desert Sun: BNP Paribas Open: Monday order has Novak Djokovic, Coco Gauff, Naomi Osaka, Taylor Fritz