2022 BNP Paribas Open – Men's singles

Taylor Fritz defeated Rafael Nadal in the final, 6–3, 7–6(7–5) to win the men's singles title at the 2022 Indian Wells Masters. It was his first Masters 1000 title and second career title overall. Fritz became the first American to win the title since Andre Agassi in 2001, and ended Nadal's 20-match winning streak, dating back to the 2022 Melbourne Open.

Cameron Norrie was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Carlos Alcaraz, who became the youngest Indian Wells semifinalist since Agassi in 1988.

This was the first ATP Tour tournament since the international governing bodies of tennis (WTA, ATP, ITF, Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, US Open) allowed players from Russia and Belarus to continue to participate in tennis events on Tour and at the majors, but not under the name or flag of Russia or Belarus until further notice, due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Daniil Medvedev and Novak Djokovic were in contention for the world No. 1 singles ranking. Despite his withdrawal from the tournament, Djokovic reclaimed the ranking after Medvedev lost to Gaël Monfils in the third round.

With his third-round win, Nadal became the first player to win 400 Masters matches.

Seeds
All seeds received a bye into the second round. • Daniil Medvedev (third round)

• 🇷🇸 Novak Djokovic (withdrew due to travel restrictions)

• 🇩🇪 Alexander Zverev (second round)

• 🇪🇸 Rafael Nadal (final)

• Stefanos Tsitsipas (third round)

• 🇮🇹 Matteo Berrettini (fourth round)

•  Andrey Rublev (semifinals)

• 🇳🇴 Casper Ruud (third round)

• 🇨🇦 Félix Auger-Aliassime (second round)

• 🇮🇹 Jannik Sinner (fourth round, withdrew due to illness)

• 🇵🇱 Hubert Hurkacz (fourth round)

• 🇬🇧 Cameron Norrie (quarterfinals)

• 🇨🇦 Denis Shapovalov (third round)

• 🇦🇷 Diego Schwartzman (third round)

• 🇪🇸 Roberto Bautista Agut (third round)

• 🇪🇸 Pablo Carreño Busta (second round)

• 🇺🇸 Reilly Opelka (fourth round)

•  Nikoloz Basilashvili (third round)

• 🇪🇸 Carlos Alcaraz (semifinals)

• 🇺🇸 Taylor Fritz (champion)

• 🇮🇹 Lorenzo Sonego (second round)

•  Aslan Karatsev (second round)

• 🇺🇸 John Isner (fourth round)

•  Marin Čilić (second round)

•  Karen Khachanov (second round)

• 🇫🇷 Gaël Monfils (fourth round)

• 🇬🇧 Dan Evans (third round)

• 🇺🇸 Frances Tiafoe (third round)

• 🇦🇺 Alex de Minaur (fourth round)

•  Lloyd Harris (third round)

• 🇰🇿 Alexander Bublik (third round)

• 🇦🇷 Federico Delbonis (second round)

• 🇧🇬 Grigor Dimitrov (quarterfinals)

Finals


Seeded players
The following are the seeded players, based on ATP rankings as of March 7, 2022. Rank and points before are as of March 7, 2022.

As a result of pandemic-related adjustments to the ranking system and changes to the ATP Tour calendar in 2021, ranking points after the tournament (as of March 21, 2022) will be calculated as follows:


 * Points from tournaments held during the weeks of March 8 and March 15, 2021 (Doha, Marseille, Santiago, Dubai and Acapulco) will be dropped at the end of the tournament and replaced by points from the 2022 Indian Wells tournament.
 * Players who are not defending points from the tournaments listed above will have their 19th best result replaced by their points from the 2022 tournament.
 * Points from the 2021 tournament will not drop until October 17, 2022 (52 weeks after the 2021 tournament) and are accordingly not reflected in this table.
 * The other half of the remaining points from the 2019 tournament will be dropped on March 21, 2022, around three years after the end of the 2019 tournament.

† This column shows either (a) the player's ranking points dropping on March 14 or March 21, 2022, or (b) his 19th best result (shown in brackets). Only ranking points counting towards the player's ranking as of March 7, 2022, are reflected in the column.

‡ The player is defending points from a 2019 ATP Challenger Tour tournament (Phoenix)

Withdrawn players
The following player would have been seeded, but withdrew before the tournament began.

Wildcards
• 🇺🇸 Steve Johnson

• 🇦🇺 Nick Kyrgios

• 🇬🇧 Andy Murray

• 🇺🇸 Sam Querrey

• 🇺🇸 Jack Sock

Source:

Protected ranking
• Aljaž Bedene

•  Borna Ćorić

•  Pablo Cuevas

Qualifiers
• 🇬🇧 Liam Broady

• 🇯🇵 Taro Daniel

• 🇺🇸 Christopher Eubanks

• 🇩🇪 Philipp Kohlschreiber

• 🇦🇺 Thanasi Kokkinakis

• 🇰🇿 Mikhail Kukushkin

• 🇨🇿 Tomáš Macháč

• 🇪🇸 Jaume Munar

• Holger Rune

• 🇺🇸 Tennys Sandgren

• 🇨🇳 Shang Juncheng

• 🇺🇸 J. J. Wolf

Lucky losers
• 🇦🇺 John Millman

• João Sousa

Withdrawals
• 🇷🇸 Novak Djokovic → replaced by João Sousa

• 🇦🇺 James Duckworth → replaced by 🇦🇷 Juan Manuel Cerúndolo

•  Roger Federer → replaced by 🇦🇷 Facundo Bagnis

•  Cristian Garín → replaced by 🇵🇱 Kamil Majchrzak

• 🇧🇾 Ilya Ivashka → replaced by 🇦🇺 John Millman

• 🇮🇹 Gianluca Mager → replaced by 🇩🇪 Oscar Otte

• 🇸🇰 Alex Molčan → replaced by 🇦🇺 Jordan Thompson

• 🇯🇵 Kei Nishikori → replaced by 🇫🇷 Richard Gasquet

• 🇪🇸 Albert Ramos Viñolas → replaced by 🇩🇪 Daniel Altmaier

• 🇦🇹 Dominic Thiem → replaced by  Henri Laaksonen

• 🇫🇷 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga → replaced by 🇪🇸 Roberto Carballés Baena

• 🇸🇪 Mikael Ymer → replaced by 🇺🇸 Brandon Nakashima

Seeds
• 🇦🇺 John Millman (qualifying competition, lucky loser)

• João Sousa (qualifying competition, lucky loser)

•  Holger Rune (qualified)

•  Kevin Anderson (first round)

• 🇮🇹 Marco Cecchinato (first round)

• 🇯🇵 Yoshihito Nishioka (qualifying competition)

• 🇦🇺 Thanasi Kokkinakis (qualified)

• 🇪🇸 Jaume Munar (qualified)

• 🇦🇷 Francisco Cerúndolo (first round)

• 🇺🇸 Denis Kudla (qualifying competition)

• 🇨🇴 Daniel Elahi Galán (qualifying competition)

• 🇯🇵 Taro Daniel (qualified)

• 🇪🇸 Feliciano López (first round)

•  Radu Albot (first round)

• 🇺🇸 Stefan Kozlov (qualifying competition)

• 🇮🇹 Andreas Seppi (first round)

• 🇬🇧 Liam Broady (qualified)

• 🇦🇺 Aleksandar Vukic (qualifying competition)

• 🇩🇪 Mats Moraing (qualifying competition, retired)

• 🇨🇦 Vasek Pospisil (qualifying competition)

• 🇸🇪 Elias Ymer (first round)

• 🇩🇪 Philipp Kohlschreiber (qualified)

• 🇪🇨 Emilio Gómez (first round)

• 🇺🇸 Bjorn Fratangelo (first round)

Qualifiers
• 🇺🇸 Tennys Sandgren

• 🇺🇸 Christopher Eubanks

•  Holger Rune

• 🇬🇧 Liam Broady

• 🇨🇿 Tomáš Macháč

• 🇰🇿 Mikhail Kukushkin

• 🇦🇺 Thanasi Kokkinakis

• 🇪🇸 Jaume Munar

• 🇨🇳 Shang Juncheng

• 🇩🇪 Philipp Kohlschreiber

• 🇺🇸 J. J. Wolf

• 🇯🇵 Taro Daniel

Lucky losers
• João Sousa

• 🇦🇺 John Millman