ellesse announced last week they signed Monica Puig and Feliciano Lopez as brand ambassadors.
Other ellesse ambassadors include Elina Svitolina, Tommy Haas and Pat Cash.
In the past, tennis legends Chris Evert, Guillermo Vilas and Boris Becker rocked ellesse on and off the courts.
Read more on ellesse history here.
Check out the first part here with pictures of Berdych, Nadal, Ferrer, Wawrinka, Wozniacki and more!
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Federer first round match vs Lukas Lacko:
Mirka with twins 1 and 2:
Serena first round match vs Alizé Lim:
Martina Hingis, who’ll play the Legends tournament and who “coaches” Sabine Lisicki:
David Ferrer second practice session of the day, this time with Pico Monaco:
Garbine Muguruza vs Grace Min:
with doubles partner Radek Stepanek:
Photo credit: Marianne
Thanks a lot to Cindy for sharing photos and story of her stay at Indian Wells:
I went to the Indian Wells tournament with my sister-in-law. We had General Admission tickets for the first three days, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. We saw lots of players and some really good tennis.
An overview of part of the Indian Wells Tennis Garden taken from the top of Stadium 3. You are looking at Stadium 1 and the one shady place on the whole site…the treed lawn.
We spent all of our first day watching the practise courts. You can see how close you can get to the players! Here is Feliciano Lopez.
Fernando Verdasco, who was practising with Feliciano Lopez.
Pennetta was practising with Sara Errani:
Haas was practising with Grigor Dimitrov:
And here is Roger Federer! We had to sit in the adjacent practice court to see him! He gets a crowd! We had hoped to see Roger and Wawrinka play doubles but would have had to get to the stadium a couple of hours earlier.
Stefan Edberg, now Roger Federer’s coach:
Vasek Pospisil was practising with Feliciano Lopez in the afternoon.
Here are Richard Gasquet and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga having a rest in their practise:
Andy Murray was practising with Wawrinka:
Photos and text by Cindy
More Indian Wells pics:
Business as usual for Serena Williams, Novak Djokovic, David Ferrer and Tomas Berdych who cruise into the second round in straight sets.
The first Slam of the season is already over for 7-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams, defeated by Ekatarina Makarova. Is it time to retire for the 33 yr old?
Upset of the day: Luksika Kumkhum defeats Petra Kvitova
Last year she lost to Laura Robson in the second round, this year she was defeated by unknown 88-ranked Thai Luksika Kumkhum.
3 years ago, after her surprising Wimbledon victory, Petra Kvitova was seen as a future number one, who would challenge for Grand Slam titles, but she hasn’t so far lived up to expectations.
Seeds upsets:
Julia Goerges def Sara Errani (7), Jie Zheng def Roberta Vinci (12), Alison Riske def Elena Vesnina (23), Guillermo Garcia-Lopez def Tommy Haas (12)
Video highlights:
Tweet of the day: Ashleigh Barty
The young Aussie, ousted 6-2 6-1 by Serena, congratulates her opponent on Twitter. Refreshing.
Absolutely incredible! Serena is an absolute champion. An honour to play against her! Thanks everyone for the support. Love playing at home!
— Ash Barty (@ashbar96) January 13, 2014
Image of the day: L’Equipe
Stefan Edberg, Boris Becker and Ivan Lendl on the cover of L’Equipe, the French sports daily. Like in the good old days…
Matches to follow on Day 2:
Andreas Seppi (23) – Lleyton Hewitt
Rafael Nadal (1) – Bernard Tomic: can Tomic cause an upset like Mark Philippoussis when he beat Sampras in 1996?
