There could have been two Canadians in the qualifying but Genie Bouchard, with her injury-protected ranking of No. Read also: Indian Wells provides Canadians a launch pad 30 Denis Shapovalov received direct main-draw entry. 49 Leylah Annie Fernandez (she lost her points this week from winning in Monterrey a year ago), No. With just 76 main draw entries in the 96-player events, only No. Locals tend to downplay this cool passage, with one television weather person euphemistically using the word “mild” to describe the conditions of this current cold wave.Īlmost as rare as these climatic times has been a year like this one without any Canadians in the BNP Paribas Open qualifying. And the daytime mercury will not climb above 80 F (26 C) until Sunday. This week in Indian Wells there will be no daily high temperatures above 78 F (25 C) with night-time lows sub 50 F (10 C). But there has been a climate turn toward chilly of late. The Palm Springs/Indian Wells desert area is no Sahara with camels and endless vistas of sand dunes – actually it’s more just simple sagebrush and palm trees. Last month it snowed (and hailed) in the Coachella Valley for the first time in 39 years.
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