SCHEDULE and PREVIEW | 2024 Indian Wells Open Day One featuring Angelique KERBER, Andy MURRAY, Mirra ANDREEVA and Venus WILLIAMS

Day One is here at the 2024 Indian Wells Open (BNP Paribas Open) for sponsorship reasons and the schedule after the conclusion of qualifying is fully confirmed with a myriad of top names involved.

Among those include Andy Murray, Angelique Kerber, Venus Williams, Caroline Wozniacki, Paula Badosa and Mirra Andreeva as Tennis Paradise begins for another year. Many of the other top names will not play until towards the end of the week with the first round forming the opening few days, our preview looks at the main matches to watch and the leading talking points.

With two sessions, the action begins at around 7pm CET on Wednesday evening and the Night Session begins at 2am meaning that the matches have been picked accordingly for those markets. Angelique Kerber as a result begins proceedings. Still a big draw despite not having the results yet on her comeback, the German will kick off against Petra Martic. She is followed by a home hero in Christopher Eubanks who after his run at Wimbledon established new fame in the States, but has yet to back that up. He faces Brandon Nakashima.

Then likely a match that will go long knowing this player, Andy Murray will be the last action before the night shift against former top ranked star, David Goffin. While the Night Session sees two Americans involved as Venus Williams will make yet another tennis return at the age of 43. Her wildcard has been criticised by some despite Venus being a tennis legend and also huge in the States, but it is perhaps her age and the next crop not being given them that has rubbed people up the wrong way. Albeit Caroline Wozniacki and Emma Raducanu were also dubbed 'pensioners' when they are far from being close to their twilight especially in the latter, so opinions are opinions. She faces Nao Hibino before J.J Wolf faces Thiago Seyboth Wild.

Perhaps some of the games on Stadium 2 though will be more must watch with Mirra Andreeva, the 16-year-old tennis prodigy starting her campaign against Katie Volynets second on Stadium 2. Caroline Wozniacki who is a three-time finalist also kicks off her campaign against Lin Zhu in back to back shouts for Game of the Day.

Paula Badosa also appears against Ashlyn Krueger, but upset watch will be there with the American being a capable talent and the Spaniard lucky to even be in the tournament due to recent injury woes. She is for sure not 100% and last left the court in tears. She is last up so will likely head towards the morning in Spain when they are waking up. Others on further courts include San Diego champion, Katie Boulter as well as recent Doha standout, Jakub Mensik. Not without some of the stars not being involved early doors, Day One still provides some must-watch action from The Garden.

11 a.m.: Angelique Kerber vs. Petra Martic

Followed by: Christopher Eubanks vs. Brandon Nakashima

Followed by: Andy Murray vs. David Goffin

Not before 6 p.m.: Venus Williams vs. Nao Hibino

Followed by: J.J. Wolf vs. Thiago Seyboth Wild

11 a.m.: Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Marcos Giron

Followed by: Mirra Andreeva vs. Katie Volynets

Not before 2 p.m.: Caroline Wozniacki vs. Lin Zhu

6 p.m.: Borna Coric vs. Sebastian Ofner

Followed by: Paula Badosa vs. Ashlyn Krueger

11 a.m.: Sara Sorribes Tormo vs. Marie Bouzkova

Not before 1 p.m.: Camila Giorgi vs. Katie Boulter

Followed by: Erika Andreeva vs. Danielle Collins

Not before 6 p.m.: Jordan Thompson vs. Juncheng Shang

Followed by: Jakub Menšík vs. Seongchan Hong

11 a.m.: Christopher O'Connell vs. Jack Draper

Followed by: Luca Van Assche vs. Matteo Arnaldi

Followed by: Dusan Lajovic vs. Emil Ruusuvuori

Followed by: Robin Montgomery vs. Hailey Baptiste

Followed by: Taylor Townsend vs. Magda Linette

Followed by at noon: Alexander Shevchenko vs. Dominik Koepfer

Followed by: Fabian Marozsan vs. Alexei Popyrin

Followed by: Constant Lestienne vs. Denis Kudla

11 a.m.: Tatjana Maria vs. Arantxa Rus

Followed by: Bernarda Pera vs. Daria Saville

Followed by: McCartney Kessler vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz

Followed by at noon: Yannick Hanfmann vs. Pedro Cachin

Followed by: Taro Daniel vs. Daniel Elahi Galan

Followed by: Lucas Pouille vs. Daniel Altmaier

11 a.m.: Rebecca Sramkova vs. Yafan Wang

Followed by: Mai Hontama vs. Shuai Zhang

Followed by: Tamara Korpatsch vs. Yulia Putintseva