Indian Wells 2012: Double Digits and Counting

Is it time to debut or get back? So maybe you are like us and the pilgrimage to the desert is an annual tradition (not exactly sure but it could be a dozen or more years for me now…) Or maybe you keep reading these articles every year and thinking: “Damn that sounds good, I should go there.” Or maybe you are somewhere in between those extremes. But if you were going to pick a year to debut–or to make your grand return–2012 would be as good as any and–depending on what happens with the actual tennis–maybe even better. (Stating the obvious, you never know about the tennis until it happens.) Remember, Larry Ellison, Oracle founder and world’s second richest man, owns this event now and that seems to mean every year has to be bigger and better–at least in his eyes. But, from what I’ve discerned, this year is truly bigger in a few ways–and I’ll have to say I agree that it is probably better as well. To me the event gets huge credibility for installing Hawk Eye instant replay on all match courts–the only tournament in the world that does. Not sure what that costs, but it’s…