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275-8484 Matt@Mvtpr.Com NOVAK DJOKOVIC, RAFAEL NADAL, ANDY MURRAY and OTHER TOP-RANKED SINGLES PLAYERS JOIN the WORLD NO Contact: Matt Van Tuinen MVT PR (773) 275-8484 [email protected] NOVAK DJOKOVIC, RAFAEL NADAL, ANDY MURRAY AND OTHER TOP-RANKED SINGLES PLAYERS JOIN THE WORLD NO. 1 RANKED BRYAN BROTHERS AND OTHER TALENTED DOUBLES TEAMS IN BNP PARIBAS OPEN DOUBLES DRAW Bryan Brothers Looking To Win First BNP Paribas Open Title; 2009 BNP Paribas Open Doubles Champions Mardy Fish and Andy Roddick Team Up; Alexandr Dolgopolov and Xavier Malisse Set To Defend Their Crown INDIAN WELLS, Calif., Feb. 28, 2012 – Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and other top-ranked singles players will join the World No. 1 Bryan Brothers and other talented doubles teams in the BNP Paribas Open men’s doubles draw, it was announced today by Steve Simon, tournament director. The tournament will be held March 5-18 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, and the men’s doubles draw will begin on Sunday, March 11. Djokovic, the defending BNP Paribas Open men’s singles champion and World No. 1, will once again partner with fellow Serbian Viktor Troicki. The team reached the quarterfinals of the doubles draw last year. World No. 2 Rafael Nadal will pair with Marc Lopez again and together they captured the 2010 BNP Paribas Open doubles title, but fell last year in the semifinal. World No. 4 Andy Murray and his brother Jamie will team up as well again, and seek to improve upon their quarterfinal run in 2011. Other top-ten singles players who will compete in the doubles draw include No. 6 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, partnering with countryman Julien Benneteau, and No. 8 Mardy Fish, partnering with fellow American and former World No.1 Andy Roddick. Fish and Roddick have won two doubles titles together including the 2009 BNP Paribas Open. Competing alongside these singles stars will be perennial doubles powerhouses such as World No. 1 ranked Bob and Mike Bryan, Max Mirnyi and Daniel Nestor and Michael Llodra and Nenad Zimonjic. The Bryan Brothers are the most successful doubles team of all time, owning 76 titles and finishing as the No. 1 team in the world seven of the last nine years. However, the BNP Paribas Open title has eluded the American duo from Southern California, but they hope to change that as the tournament’s top-seeded team. Mirnyi and Nestor teamed up to win four titles in 2011 including the French Open. Combined, they have won a total of 118 titles dating back to when Nestor won his first in 1994. Llodra and Zimonjic also won four titles as a team last year and have won a total of 67 in their combined careers. Within those top three teams, however, Nestor is the only one to have won the doubles title at the BNP Paribas Open, doing so three times in 2002, 2005 and 2006. The tandem of Alexandr Dolgopolov and Xavier Malisse will seek to defend their 2011 BNP Paribas Open title and will no doubt produce some exciting tennis. Entering into the draw at the last minute last year, and playing together for the first time, the ponytailed duo won all of their matches in third set super tie-breaks, and by no more than three points. “We are very pleased with the strength of the BNP Paribas Open men’s doubles draw,” said Simon. “Fans certainly have followed these matches with a great deal of interest and excitement as they love seeing the top singles players compete against each other in doubles as well as against the marquee doubles teams.” Other notable teams in this year’s draw include 2012 Australian Open champions Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek, Gael Monfils and Philipp Kohlschreiber, Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna and Kei Nishikori and Juan Monaco. Eight more teams will receive on-site direct entry and two will be granted wild cards. The men’s doubles final will be held on Saturday, March 17 following the men’s semifinals and the women’s doubles final. -more- BNP Paribas Open – Doubles Field p. 2 About the BNP Paribas Open The BNP Paribas Open is the largest ATP World Tour and WTA combined two-week event in the world, offers more than $11,000,000 in prize money, and is the only event to provide the Hawkeye line challenge system on all match courts. In 2011, more than 350,000 people attended the event. Visit www.bnpparibasopen.com to purchase tickets online and view the calendar of events, listing of main draw singles players, schedule of matches and more. Indian Wells Tennis Garden Box Office, 800-999-1585 or 760-200-8000, 78-200 Miles Avenue, Indian Wells, CA, 92210. About BNP Paribas BNP Paribas (www.bnpparibas.com) is one of the best rated banks in the world*. The Group has a presence in more than 80 countries and more than 200,000 employees, including more than 160,000 in Europe. It ranks highly in its three core activities: Retail Banking, Investment Solutions and Corporate & Investment Banking. In Europe, the Group has four domestic markets (Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg) and BNP Paribas Personal Finance is the leader in consumer lending. BNP Paribas is rolling out its integrated retail banking model across the Europe-Mediterranean zone and boasts a large network in the western part of the United States. In its Corporate & Investment Banking and Investment Solutions activities, BNP Paribas also enjoys top positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas and solid and fast-growing businesses in Asia. *Rated AA- by Standard & Poor's. About BNP Paribas and Tennis Long-standing partner to the sport of tennis since 1973, BNP Paribas is actively involved in the game at both local and international level, and in club, schools and social tennis as well as professional events. BNP Paribas has gradually become the number one sponsor in world tennis: official sponsor of Roland Garros since 1973 and sponsor of five ATP Masters 1000 events - the BNP Paribas Masters since 1986, Monte Carlo Masters since 2005, Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome since 2006, BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells since 2009 and the Shanghai Masters since 2010. The Group is also title sponsor of the Davis Cup by BNP Paribas since 2001 and the Fed Cup by BNP Paribas since 2005, as well as being actively involved in many other international competitions including the Bank of the West Classic in California, the Grand Prix Hassan II in Casablanca, the Open 13 in Marseille and the BNP Paribas Showdown in New York. BNP Paribas is also an official partner of International Wheelchair Tennis, such as the “BNP Paribas World Team Cup”. Through its support for more than 20 national tennis associations, 2000 clubs, 550 amateur tournaments, plus schools and social programmes around the world, BNP Paribas helps to promote tennis and encourage widespread participation in the game. The Group's commitment to social values is reflected in the sports sponsorships it has undertaken in numerous projects, including Yannick Noah's ‘Fête le Mur’ Association and the tennis Téléthon in France, the Oberer Tennis Camp in Switzerland and the BNP Paribas ‘Taste of Tennis’ in the United States. As part of its creative sports sponsorship policy, BNP Paribas is launching a website “wearetennis.com” entirely dedicated to tennis news. The Group’s new sponsorship slogan ‘We are tennis’ underlines the fact that BNP Paribas promotes tennis for all, at all levels. ### .
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