The 2010 BNP Paribas Open was a tennis tournament played at Indian Wells, California in March 2010.

Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California, United States from March 8 through March 21, 2010.

The year's tournament saw a couple of withdrawals; The women's side saw the draw without the top two rank players with World no.

2 Dinara Safina withdrawing with a recurring back problem and world no.

The men's side saw the withdrawals of Tommy Haas and Lleyton Hewitt due to hip surgeries.