 So it's official now that Novak Djokovic will not be playing at Indian Wells this year. True to his word, he's withdrawn from Indian Wells before the draw comes out. That's what he was saying he would do just so that he doesn't mess up the draw being the number one seed and having everything have to be reshuffled. Let's go have a look at what Indian Wells had to say about his withdrawal. This is coming from Indian Wells Twitter. World number one Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from the 2023 BNP Paribas Open. With his withdrawal, Nicholas Basilashvili moved into the field. This is also coming from Tennis Channel over on Twitter. They tweeted out Novak Djokovic has chosen not to receive a COVID-19 vaccine and the US government has chosen not to relax its policy against unvaccinated individuals from entering the country. The world number one will not play Indian Wells. So there you have it, Novak Djokovic not playing Indian Wells and he said that he was going to pull out before the draw came out. Draw comes out tomorrow so it's good to see that he's a man of his word and he's not going to play and not going to mess up the draw at least and wait for this I guess exemption. Now we don't know anything about whether or not he got declined the exemption or whether or not he just ran out of time because he hasn't pulled out of Miami. Miami's coming up after Indian Wells and there's no word whether or not he's playing Miami or not so maybe he just ran out of time and they're still waiting to get approved to play in America or get into America but Novak Djokovic won't be playing in Indian Wells which means that we're going to be missing both Nadal and Djokovic going into the first Masters 1000 for the year. Let me know down in the comments below. Who's going to win Indian Wells now that Djokovic is out of the tournament of course Taylor Fritz is the defending champion, Daniel Medvedev is in great form but we won't be seeing Novak Djokovic at Indian Wells will we see him in Miami though?