BNP Paribas Open Saturday schedule features Alcaraz and Djokovic

If you are the lucky owner of a Saturday day session ticket at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells consider yourself lucky. It’s another stacked day of action including some of the game’s biggest stars.

Back-to-back, starting at 1 p.m. on Stadium 1 you can see Novak Djokovic and then Carlos Alcaraz. Not bad. Other men in action Saturday include Taylor Fritz and defending champion Jack Draper.

Also on the court Saturday will be Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev and Karen Khachanov, who finally arrived Wednesday after a harrowing five days stuck in Dubai. Rublev and Khachanov were supposed to play Friday but were given an extra day to regroup.

On the women’s side, speaking of defending champions, you can see Mirra Andreeva in action as well as World No. 2 Iga Swiatek and Australian Open champ Elena Rybakina. We’ll even throw in Americans Jessica Pegula, Madison Keys and Emma Navarro.

Here is the full slate:

Saturday Order of Play, BNP Paribas Open tennis schedule

Stadium 1

• 11 a.m.: Hailey Baptiste vs. Elena Rybakina
• Not before 1 p.m.: Novak Djokovic vs. Kamil Majchrzak
• Followed by: Carlos Alcaraz vs. Grigor Dimitrov
• 6 p.m.:  Jessica Pegula vs. Donna Vekic
• Followed by: Daniil Medvedev vs Alejandro Tabilo

Stadium 2

• 11 a.m.: Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Jack Draper
• Followed by.: Kayla Day vs. Iga Swiatek
• Followed by: Mirra Andreeva vs. Solana Sierra
• 6 p.m.:  Jacob Fearnley vs. Taylor Fritz
• Followed by: Laura Siegemund vs. Elina Svitolina

Stadium 3

• 11 a.m.: Alexander Shevchenko vs. Casper Ruud
• Followed by: Karen Khachanov vs. Joao Fonseca
• Followed by: Sebastian Korda vs. Alex De Minaur
• Followed by:  Madison Keys vs. Diane Parry
• Followed by: Marta Kostyuk vs. Taylor Townsend

Stadium 4

• 11 a.m.: Maria Sakkari vs. Lilli Tagger
• Followed by: Sonay Kartal vs. Emma Navarro
• Followed by: Katerina Siniakova vs. Leylah Fernandez
• Not before 3 p.m.:  Alexander Bublik vs. Vit Kopriva
• Followed by: Ugo Humbert vs. Alex Michelsen

Stadium 5

• 11 a.m.: Francisco Cerundolo vs. Benjamin Bonzi
• Followed by: Valentin Vacherot vs. Nuno Borges
• Not before 2 p.m.: Juan Manuel Cerundolo vs. Arthur Rinderknech
• Followed by: Rinky Hijikata vs. Luciano Darderi

Stadium 6

• 11 a.m.: Aleksander Kovacevic vs. Corentin Moutet
• Followed by: Andrew Rublev vs. Gabriel Diallo
• Followed by: Cam Norrie vs. Mackenzie McDonald
• Followed by: Eala-Jovic vs. Baptiste-Ostapenko
• Followed by: Sebastian Baez vs. Jiri Lehecka

Stadium 7

• 11 a.m.: Storm Hunter vs. Belinda Bencic
• Followed by: Katie Volynets vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Followed by: Hunter-Joint vs. Perez-Schuurs
• Followed by: Elise Mertens vs. Cristina Bucsa

Stadium 9

• 11 a.m.: Karolina Muchova vs Anna Bondar
• Followed by: Ludmila Samsonova vs. Ashlyn Krueger
• Followed by: Antonia Ruzic vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Followed by: Neel-Stearns vs. Kato-Stollar
• Followed by: Eikeri-Jiang vs. Dabrowski-Stefani

This article originally appeared on Palm Springs Desert Sun: BNP Paribas Open Saturday schedule in Indian Wells with Alcaraz, Djokovic