2012 Italian Open (tennis)
2012 Italian Open | |
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Date | 14 – 21 May |
Edition | 69th |
Category | World Tour Masters 1000 Premier 5 |
Surface | Clay / Outdoor |
Location | Rome, Italy |
Venue | Foro Italico |
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Women's singles | |
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The 2012 Italian Open[1][2][3][4][5] (also known as the 2012 Rome Masters[6][7][8][9] and sponsored title 2012 Internazionali BNL d'Italia) was a tennis tournament, being played on outdoor clay courts at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. It was the 69th edition of the Italian Open and was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2012 ATP World Tour and a Premier 5 event on the 2012 WTA Tour. It took place from 14 to 21 May 2012, because rain delayed the Men's final to Monday.[10]
Points and prize money
[edit]Point distribution
[edit]Stage | Men's singles[11] | Men's doubles[11] | Women's singles[12] | Women's doubles[12] |
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Champion | 1000 | 900 | ||
Runner up | 600 | 620 | ||
Semifinals | 360 | 395 | ||
Quarterfinals | 180 | 225 | ||
Round of 16 | 90 | 125 | ||
Round of 32 | 45 | 10 | 70 | 1 |
Round of 64 | 10 | – | 1 | – |
Qualifier | 25 | 30 | ||
Qualifying Finalist | 16 | 20 | ||
Qualifying 1st round | 0 | 1 |
Prize money
[edit]Stage | Men's singles[13] | Men's doubles[13] | Women's singles[13] | Women's doubles[13] |
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Champion | €460,260 | €142,500 | $385,000 | $110,000 |
Runner up | €225,680 | €69,780 | $192,000 | $55,000 |
Semifinals | €113,580 | €35,000 | $95,100 | $27,525 |
Quarterfinals | €57,755 | €17,970 | $44,250 | $13,850 |
Round of 16 | €30,000 | €9,290 | $22,000 | $7,000 |
Round of 32 | €15,810 | €4,900 | $11,300 | $3,500 |
Round of 64 | €8,535 | – | $5,800 | – |
Final round qualifying | €1,965 | $3,200 | ||
First round qualifying | €1,000 | $1,650 |
ATP singles main draw entrants
[edit]Seeds
[edit]Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
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Novak Djokovic | 1 | 1 |
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Roger Federer | 2 | 3 |
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Rafael Nadal | 3 | 2 |
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Andy Murray | 4 | 4 |
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Jo-Wilfried Tsonga | 5 | 5 |
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David Ferrer | 6 | 6 |
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Tomáš Berdych | 7 | 7 |
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Janko Tipsarević | 8 | 8 |
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John Isner | 10 | 9 |
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Juan Martín del Potro | 11 | 10 |
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Gilles Simon | 12 | 11 |
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Nicolás Almagro | 13 | 12 |
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Gaël Monfils | 14 | 13 |
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Juan Mónaco | 15 | 14 |
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Feliciano López | 16 | 15 |
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Richard Gasquet | 18 | 16 |
- Rankings are as of 15 May 2012
Other entrants
[edit]The following players received wildcards into the main draw:
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Guillermo García-López
Santiago Giraldo
Robin Haase
Blaž Kavčič
Sam Querrey
Albert Ramos
Adrian Ungur
Withdrawals
[edit]Mardy Fish
Kei Nishikori (stomach injury)[15]
Robin Söderling (mononucleosis)[16]
Retirements
[edit]ATP doubles main draw entrants
[edit]Seeds
[edit]Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
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Max Mirnyi | ![]() |
Daniel Nestor | 6 | 1 |
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Bob Bryan | ![]() |
Mike Bryan | 6 | 2 |
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Michaël Llodra | ![]() |
Nenad Zimonjić | 11 | 3 |
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Robert Lindstedt | ![]() |
Horia Tecău | 17 | 4 |
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Leander Paes | ![]() |
Marcin Matkowski | 20 | 5 |
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Mariusz Fyrstenberg | ![]() |
Radek Štěpánek | 20 | 6 |
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Mahesh Bhupathi | ![]() |
Rohan Bopanna | 27 | 7 |
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Alexander Peya | ![]() |
Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi | 32 | 8 |
- Rankings are as of 15 May 2012
Other entrants
[edit]The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
Retirements
[edit]WTA singles main draw entrants
[edit]Seeds
[edit]Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
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Victoria Azarenka | 1 | 1 |
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Maria Sharapova | 2 | 2 |
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Agnieszka Radwańska | 3 | 3 |
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Petra Kvitová | 4 | 4 |
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Samantha Stosur | 5 | 5 |
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Caroline Wozniacki | 6 | 6 |
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Marion Bartoli | 7 | 7 |
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Li Na | 8 | 8 |
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Serena Williams | 9 | 9 |
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Francesca Schiavone | 11 | 10 |
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Sabine Lisicki | 13 | 11 |
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Angelique Kerber | 14 | 12 |
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Ana Ivanovic | 15 | 13 |
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Dominika Cibulková | 16 | 14 |
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Jelena Janković | 18 | 15 |
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Maria Kirilenko | 19 | 16 |
- Rankings are as of 7 May 2012
Other entrants
[edit]The following players received wildcards into the main draw:
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Anna Chakvetadze
Olga Govortsova
Andrea Hlaváčková
Mirjana Lučić
Anastasia Rodionova
Silvia Soler Espinosa
Sloane Stephens
Aleksandra Wozniak
Withdrawals
[edit]Mona Barthel
Daniela Hantuchová (foot injury)[17]
Kaia Kanepi (foot injury)[17]
Andrea Petkovic (ankle injury)[18]
Vera Zvonareva
WTA doubles main draw entrants
[edit]Seeds
[edit]Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
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Liezel Huber | ![]() |
Lisa Raymond | 2 | 1 |
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Květa Peschke | ![]() |
Katarina Srebotnik | 7 | 2 |
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Sara Errani | ![]() |
Roberta Vinci | 25 | 3 |
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Andrea Hlaváčková | ![]() |
Anastasia Rodionova | 26 | 4 |
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Maria Kirilenko | ![]() |
Nadia Petrova | 27 | 5 |
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Julia Görges | ![]() |
Vania King | 37 | 6 |
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Natalie Grandin | ![]() |
Vladimíra Uhlířová | 45 | 7 |
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Raquel Kops-Jones | ![]() |
Abigail Spears | 48 | 8 |
- 1 Rankings are as of 7 May 2012
Other entrants
[edit]The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
The following pair received entry as alternates:
Withdrawals
[edit]Andrea Hlaváčková (right thigh injury)
Retirements
[edit]Janette Husárová (low back injury)
Flavia Pennetta (right wrist injury)
Peng Shuai (left hand injury)
Finals
[edit]Men's singles
[edit]Rafael Nadal defeated
Novak Djokovic, 7–5, 6–3[1]
Women's singles
[edit]Maria Sharapova defeated
Li Na, 4–6, 6–4, 7–6(7–5)[2]
Men's doubles
[edit]Marcel Granollers /
Marc López defeated
Łukasz Kubot /
Janko Tipsarević, 6–3, 6–2
Women's doubles
[edit]Sara Errani /
Roberta Vinci defeated
Ekaterina Makarova /
Elena Vesnina, 6–2, 7–5
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- ^ a b "Rankings explained". atpworldtour.com. Archived from the original on 10 January 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
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- ^ a b c d "Prize Money BNP Paribas Open 2012". bnpparibasopen.com. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
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- ^ "Nishikori a doubt for French Open". Archived from the original on 2 January 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2012.
- ^ Internazionali BNL d'Italia (13 April 2012). "Entry list Internazionali BNL d'Italia Out Soderling, entra Young" [Entry list Internazionali BNL d'Italia Söderling Out, Young enters]. federtennis.it (in Italian). Rome, Italy: Italian Tennis Federation. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
- ^ a b "WTA KANEPI OUT AND HANTUCHOVA". Archived from the original on 12 May 2012. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
- ^ Andrea Petkovic out three months with ankle injury