Indian Wells

The BNP Paribas Open (aka Indian Wells) began this week:

This is of course an ATP Masters 1000 tournament for the men and WTA Premier Mandatory for the women.

-Rafael Nadal and Vera Zvonareva are the defending champions.  What are the chances of Zvonareva defending those points?  This means she will likely fall further in the rankings.
-Andy Murray and Ana Ivanovic (good luck) will be defending finals points.
-Last year's semifinalists were Roger Federer, Andy Roddick, Victoria Azarenka, and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
-Players with quarterfinals to defend are Del Potro, Verdasco, Djokovic, and Ljubicic for the men; Safina, Wozniacki, Radwanska, and Bammer for the women.  Some of those are out with injury (Safina and Del Potro) so they will obviously not defend.

With the Williams sisters absent I think it is safe to say a Belgian or (Bela)Russian will win on the men's side.  Caroline, can you prove me wrong?
The men's side is a little up in the air due to quite a few injuries.

(This will be a typical tournament preview post, talking primarily about who has points to defend since this blog will be more results based than prediction based.)