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Beating The Book with Gill Alexander

Beating The Book: 2026 BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells Preview (Tennis' "Fifth Major")

Beating The Book with Gill Alexander

VSiN

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.7535 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Gill Alexander is joined by Drew Dinsick (Analyst for NBC Sports Edge & Deep Dive Podcast) & Zach Cohen (VSiN Senior Editor). They preview the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells from all betting angles, offering betting strategies and analysis for tennis's 5th major.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Check it out now.

0:06.0

Eating the book, Indian Wells, let's call it what it is, the BNP Paribha Open at Indian Wells,

0:12.1

tennis tournament, the de facto fifth major, if you will, of the tennis calendar.

0:16.9

Gil Alexander, live on Twitter.

0:19.3

Let me do the old retweet here on Twitter real quick, so we get folks on there.

0:23.1

And my guests, as always, on the tennis podcast on the beating the book feed, the co-host of the Deep Die podcast, which he does with his buddy Andy Militor.

0:32.3

And, of course, NBC Sports Bet the Edge, which he does with Jay Croucher.

0:35.4

You can follow him on Twitter.

0:37.8

Excuse me not on Twitter. Yeah, on Twitter at Whale underscore Kapper. Drew Densick, Drew, thanks for doing this, man. Appreciate it. Of course. Appreciate you inviting me. I always love talking tennis. Always, always love it, man. We've been doing this for him. Fifth slam. Some people think it's the Hall of Fame,

0:54.5

uh, uh,

0:56.1

250, but, uh, they've, they've retired that one, I think. So now it's Indian Wells. Now it's Indian Wells, which you, by the way, didn't Key Biscayne used to be the fifth major? And then keep us game went away and now this became the fifth major kind of sort of. I know. We always used to joke about the, you know, the Newport of Rhode Island,

1:11.3

you know, when they do the grass after Wimbledon and everybody's like,

1:14.0

why are they even doing this?

1:16.0

Like Stevie Johnson wins around.

1:18.0

Exactly.

1:18.5

Stevie Johnson.

1:19.1

We would always joke that was the fifth major.

1:20.9

But in reality, this is probably the most important of the Masters, I think.

1:24.4

And it's kind of the kickoff of the season, right? Like the Australian Open experience is, it's a little bit weird because you haven't really kind of seen everybody in their form, peak form yet. Uh-oh. Do we have a Drew fail right there off the time? In New Malsit is. There we go. Drew, we're seeing you. We're seeing you blurry. Hopefully we can get back.

1:45.2

Zach, you okay there?

1:46.4

You see him?

1:46.8

I'm good.

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