| Date: | March 7–20 |
| Edition: | 38th (ATP) / 23rd (WTA) |
| Prize Money: | $3,645,000 |
| Category: | World Tour Masters 1000 (ATP) Premier Mandatory (WTA) |
| Surface: | Hard / outdoor |
| Location: | Indian Wells, California, US |
| Venue: | Indian Wells Tennis Garden |
| Champms: |  Novak Djokovic[1] |
| Champws: | Caroline Wozniacki |
| Champmd: |  Alexandr Dolgopolov /  Xavier Malisse[2] |
| Champwd: |  Sania Mirza /  Elena Vesnina |
| Main Name: | Indian Wells Open |
The 2011 BNP Paribas Open was a tennis tournament played at Indian Wells, California in the United States. It was the 38th edition of the men's event (23rd for the women), known as the Indian Wells Open, and was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2011 ATP World Tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the 2011 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California, United States from March 7 through March 20, 2011.
The 2011 BNP Paribas Open took place at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden from 7 to 20 March 2011. It was the 36th edition of the event. The tournament was jointly run by the Tennis Ventures Llc and was part of the 2011 ATP World Tour and the 2011 WTA Tour.[3] On the ATP tour it was the first of the seasons Masters 1000 events;[4] on the women's tour it was the season's first of four Premier Mandatory events. The tournament was conducted on eight outdoor Plexipave IW courts.[5] [6] This has been given a medium–slow court speed.[7] [8]
See main article: 2011 BNP Paribas Open – Men's singles. The semifinals were a repeat of the 2009 US Open semis. It was also the first time since 1995 that all four players to reach this stage were Grand Slam champions. En route to the semifinal stage Djokovic broke the record of his Final opponent Nadal for the fewest games lost in the history of Indian Wells Masters as well as in the masters series based on four matches. He lost only 12 games to Golubev, Gulbis, Troicki, Gasquet respectively while Nadal lost 13 in the 2010 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters. In Indian Wells Stefan Edberg held the previous record with 17 lost games while reaching the 1990 final.[9] The results of the matches were a reverse of the US Open as Djokovic and Nadal won.[10]
Championship match result
Novak Djokovic defeated 
Rafael Nadal, 4–6, 6–3, 6–2
See main article: 2011 BNP Paribas Open – Women's singles. Before their quarter final match, Azarenka and Wozniacki led the crowd in a spontaneous tribute to the people of Japan, leading a period of silence as they came out on court with a Japanese flag. The players wrote on the flag a message for Japan; 'Our Thoughts Are With You.' The match itself only lasted three games as Azaerenka had to retire with a hip injury.[11]
In the semifinals Bartoli created history as she became the first French woman to reach the final in Indian Wells. Bartoli reached the final losing just four games against Wickmayer.[12] In the other half of the draw Wozniacki was equally dominant losing three games to Sharapova.[13]
Championship match result
Caroline Wozniacki defeated 
Marion Bartoli, 6–1, 2–6, 6–3
See main article: 2011 BNP Paribas Open – Men's doubles.
Championship match result
Alexandr Dolgopolov / Xavier Malisse defeated Roger Federer / Stanislas Wawrinka, 6–4, 6–7(5), [10–7][14]
See main article: 2011 BNP Paribas Open – Women's doubles.
In the first round all the seeds made it safely through apart from second seeds Peschke and Srebotnik, who lost 10–5 in a match tiebreaker. To make it worse, Srebotnik took a hit to the eye leaving her with impaired vision for the rest of the match.[15] While King and Shevdova won their first match back as a pairing and Bethanie Mattek–Sands pulled off a spectacular 'tweener' for a winner. The second round saw the World Number Ones, Dulko and Pennetta, exit the tournament.[16] Also exiting in the second round was the Chang and Zheng;[17] and number seven seeds Benesova and Strycova, who lost to Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina.[18]
The quarterfinals witnessed Hantuchová and Radwańska losing just one game against the reigning Wimbledon and US Open champions, while the third seeds Huber and Petrova exited in straight sets to Mettek–Sands and Shaughnessy.[19] Azarenka and Kirilenko were responsible for sending home the wild card team of Jankovic and Pavlyuchenkova in straight sets.[20] Mirza and Vesnina lost just four games against Hantuchová and Radwańska in the semifinals, whilst Mattek–Sands and Shaughnessy received a walkover against Azarenka and Kirilenko, due to a hip injury sustained by Azarenka.[21] In the final Mirza and Vesnina lost just five games to win the title without dropping a set throughout the tournament.[22]
Championship match result
Sania Mirza / Elena Vesnina defeated 
Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Meghann Shaughnessy, 6–0, 7–5[22]
The 2011 BNP Paribas Open was the first tournament to have hawkeye technology used on more than three courts. Many tournaments before have had the technology on their show courts (usually only three courts at the Grand Slams) but the Indian Wells Tennis Garden had hawkeye on all eight of its courts.[23]
| Stage | Men's singles[24] | Men's doubles | Women's singles[25] | Women's doubles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champion | 1000 | |||
| Runner up | 600 | 700 | ||
| Semifinals | 360 | 450 | ||
| Quarterfinals | 180 | 250 | ||
| Round of 16 | 90 | 140 | ||
| Round of 32 | 45 | 10 | 80 | 5 |
| Round of 64 | 25 (10) | – | 50 (5) | – |
| Round of 128 | 10 | 5 | ||
| Qualifier | 16 | 30 | ||
| Qualifying finalist | 8 | 20 | ||
| Qualifying 1st round | 1 | |||
All money is in US dollars
| width=150 | Stage | width=120 | Men's singles[26] | width=120 | Men's doubles | width=120 | Women's singles | width=120 | Women's doubles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champion | $611,000 | $200,200 | $700,000 | $237,000 | |||||
| Runner up | $298,200 | $97,700 | $350,000 | $118,500 | |||||
| Semifinals | $149,450 | $49,970 | $150,000 | $51,000 | |||||
| Quarterfinals | $76,195 | $24,960 | $64,700 | $22,000 | |||||
| Round of 16 | $40,160 | $13,160 | $32,000 | $11,500 | |||||
| Round of 32 | $21,495 | $7,040 | $18,740 | $4,000 | |||||
| Round of 64 | $11,605 | – | $11,500 | – | |||||
| Round of 96 | $7,115 | $7,050 | |||||||
| Final round qualifying | $2,120 | $2,100 | |||||||
| First round qualifying | $1,085 | $1,050 |
| Athlete | Nationality | Ranking* | Seeding | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |||
| 2 | 2 | |||
| Novak Djokovic | 3 | 3 | ||
| 4 | 4 | |||
| 5 | 5 | |||
| 6 | 6 | |||
| Tomáš Berdych | 7 | 7 | ||
| Andy Roddick | 8 | 8 | ||
| Fernando Verdasco | 9 | 9 | ||
| 10 | 10 | |||
| Nicolás Almagro | 12 | 11 | ||
| 14 | 12 | |||
| 15 | 13 | |||
| 16 | 14 | |||
| 17 | 15 | |||
| Viktor Troicki | Serbia | 18 | 16 | |
| 20 | 17 | |||
| Richard Gasquet | France | 21 | 18 | |
| 22 | 19 | |||
| 23 | 20 | |||
| Sam Querrey | 24 | 21 | ||
| Guillermo García-López | Spain | 25 | 22 | |
| 26 | 23 | |||
| 27 | 24 | |||
| Tommy Robredo | 28 | 25 | ||
| 29 | 26 | |||
| 30 | 27 | |||
| 31 | 28 | |||
| Juan Ignacio Chela | 32 | 29 | ||
| John Isner | 33 | 30 | ||
| Ernests Gulbis |  Latvia | 34 | 31 | |
| Philipp Kohlschreiber |  Germany | 35 | 32 |
The following players received wildcards into the main draw:
The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw:
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
See main article: 2011 BNP Paribas Open – Men's singles qualifying.
Alex Bogomolov Jr.[30] Rohan Bopanna[30]
Flavio Cipolla[30] Somdev Devvarman[30]
Matthew Ebden[30] Chris Guccione[30] Marinko Matosevic[30] Michael Russell[30] Tim Smyczek[30] Ryan Sweeting[30] Donald Young[30]
Carlos Berlocq → replaced by Rainer Schüttler Juan Carlos Ferrero → replaced by Teymuraz Gabashvili
Kei Nishikori Gaël Monfils (wrist) → replaced by Illya Marchenko David Nalbandian (torn hamstring & hernia) → replaced by 
Marsel İlhan Sergiy Stakhovsky → replaced by Björn Phau Mikhail Youzhny (back) → replaced by Mischa Zverev| Athlete | Nationality | Ranking* | Seeding |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caroline Wozniacki |  Denmark | 1 | 1 |
| Kim Clijsters | Belgium | 2 | 2 |
| Vera Zvonareva | 3 | 3 | |
| Australia | 4 | 4 | |
| Francesca Schiavone | Italy | 5 | 5 |
| Serbia | 6 | 6 | |
 China | 7 | 7 | |
| 9 | 8 | ||
 Poland | 10 | 9 | |
| Shahar Pe'er |  Israel | 12 | 10 |
| Svetlana Kuznetsova | 13 | 11 | |
| Petra Kvitová |  Czech Republic | 14 | 12 |
| Flavia Pennetta | Italy | 15 | 13 |
| Kaia Kanepi |  Estonia | 16 | 14 |
| France | 17 | 15 | |
| 18 | 16 | ||
| Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | 19 | 17 | |
| Nadia Petrova | 20 | 18 | |
| Ana Ivanovic | Serbia | 21 | 19 |
| Aravane Rezaï | France | 22 | 20 |
| Andrea Petkovic | Germany | 23 | 21 |
| Alisa Kleybanova | 24 | 22 | |
| Yanina Wickmayer | Belgium | 25 | 23 |
| Maria Kirilenko | 26 | 24 | |
| Dominika Cibulková |  Slovakia | 27 | 25 |
| Daniela Hantuchová | Slovakia | 28 | 26 |
| Alexandra Dulgheru |  Romania | 29 | 27 |
| María José Martínez Sánchez | Spain | 30 | 28 |
| Jarmila Groth | Australia | 31 | 29 |
| Tsvetana Pironkova |  Bulgaria | 32 | 30 |
| Klára Zakopalová | Czech Republic | 33 | 31 |
| Julia Görges | Germany | 34 | 32 |
| Lucie Šafářová | Czech Republic | 35 | |
| Peng Shuai | China | 36--> |
The following players received wildcards into the main draw:
Jill Craybas[29] Lauren Davis[29] Vania King[29] Christina McHale[29] Sania Mirza[29] Alison Riske[29] Sloane Stephens[29] Coco Vandeweghe[29]The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw:
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Sorana Cîrstea[32] Alizé Cornet[32] Misaki Doi[32] Kirsten Flipkens[32] Jamie Hampton[32] Lucie Hradecká[32] Nuria Llagostera Vives[32]
Rebecca Marino[32] Monica Niculescu[32]
Tamira Paszek[32] Laura Pous Tió[32] Zhang Shuai[32] Alona Bondarenko → replaced by Kristina Barrois Justine Henin (retired from tennis) → replaced by Renata Voráčová Carla Suárez Navarro → replaced by Zuzana Ondrášková
Tamarine Tanasugarn → replaced by Anabel Medina Garrigues Serena Williams (foot & continue to boycott event since 2001) → replaced by Simona Halep Venus Williams (stomach muscle & continue to boycott event since 2001) → replaced by Edina Gallovits-Hall