The riddle of the court surface at Indian Wells has a deceptively simple answer: Players get out what they, and the weather, put in.

They are now focusing on renovating the baseball fields and the tennis courts. They are starting ... new lighting, and a new ...

Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week on court. This week, illness decimated the Mexican Open in Acapulco.