It’s the night before the start of main draw play at the BNP Paribas Open, and the first two champions have already been crowned in Indian Wells.
Taylor Fritz and Elena Rybakina enjoyed an evening of mixed doubles on their way to lifting the Eisenhower Cup trophy for the second year in a row, defending their title in the short-format Tie Break Tens event and taking home a cool $200,000.
“I’m super happy,” Rybakina said. “Hopefully I can do the same thing in singles.”
“You know, I can’t really volley all that well, so it works out great,” Fritz said of his partnership with Rybakina. “She serves great and it makes my life really easy!”
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