INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — A year after a self-inflicted storm swept up this desert oasis, the dust has settled at the BNP Paribas Open.
On the morning of last year’s finals, the tournament director, Raymond Moore, remarked on the debt of gratitude that he believed female players owed male players, whose “coattails,” he said, they were riding.
“They are very, very lucky,” Moore said. “If I was a lady player, I’d go down every night on my knees and thank God that Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal were born, because they have carried this sport.