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Pacific Life Open

WEDNESDAY TO MARCH 16

* What: First Masters Series event of the year.

* Where: Indian Wells.

* Women: Begin Wednesday (qualifying begins today). Men: Begin March 10.

* Last year’s finals: Top-seed Lleyton Hewitt needs only 1 hour, 21 minutes to defeat No. 9-seeded Tim Henman, 6-1, 6-2, before an estimated crowd of 12,000; Eighteen-year-old Daniela Hantuchova downs Martina Hingis, 6-3, 6-4.

* Prize money: $2.45 million for men, $2.1 million for women.