Day 8 at the BNP Paribas Open will feature a predominantly ATP schedule with 8 men's matches and only two women's matches.
Even so, the programme promises to be epic with all of the top men's seeds in action such as Medvedev, Tsitsipas and Zverev. As every day it will start at 20:00 CET and the first match of the day will be between Aslan Karatsev and Hubert Hurkacz. They last played a week ago in San Diego with Karatsev winning that match.
At the same time, we will get another match and it will be Ruud vs Schwartzman. Neither play calls hard their favourite surface but both should be able to play well enough on the very slow courts in
Indian Wells. A place in the quarters is on the line so the stakes are high. After that, we will see Medvedev take on Dimitrov and the Russian has a clear advantage.
Another interesting one will be between
Cameron Norrie and
Tommy Paul.
Taylor Fritz and Jannik Sinner will follow after that with Basilashvili and Khachanov not long after them. The Night session will feature two very interesting matches as De Minaur takes on
Stefanos Tsitsipas. The final match of the day is a blockbuster between Monfils and Zverev.
On the WTA side, we only have two matches and the first will be played in the afternoon while the second one will be played during the night session. First we have Azarenka take on Pegula in conditions that should suit the American more, especially if she plays consistently. At 03:00 we will get Rogers against Ostapenko which should be rather interesting as well.
2021 Indian Wells Day 8 Schedule of Play:
*All times displayed are Central European Times (CET)
ATP - Day
20:00 Karatsev A. (Rus) - Hurkacz H. (Pol)
20:00 Schwartzman D. (Arg) - Ruud C. (Nor)
21:30 Medvedev D. (Rus) - Dimitrov G. (Bul)
21:30 Paul T. (Usa) - Norrie C. (Gbr)
23:00 Fritz T. (Usa) - Sinner J. (Ita)
23:30 Basilashvili N. (Geo) - Khachanov K. (Rus)
ATP - Night
03:00 De Minaur A. (Aus) - Tsitsipas S. (Gre)
04:30 Monfils G. (Fra) - Zverev A. (Ger)
WTA - Day
00:00 Azarenka V. (Blr) - Pegula J. (Usa)
WTA - Night
03:00 Rogers S. (Usa) - Ostapenko J. (Lat)