Jump to content

2012 Australian Open

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the tennis tournament. For the snooker tournament, see 2012 Australian Goldfields Open.

2012 Australian Open
Date16–29 January 2012
Edition100th
CategoryGrand Slam (ITF)
SurfaceHardcourt (Plexicushion)
LocationMelbourne, Australia
VenueMelbourne Park
Champions
Men's singles
Serbia Novak Djokovic
Women's singles
Belarus Victoria Azarenka
Men's doubles
India Leander Paes / Czech Republic Radek Štěpánek
Women's doubles
Russia Svetlana Kuznetsova / Russia Vera Zvonareva
Mixed doubles
United States Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Romania Horia Tecău
Wheelchair men's singles
Netherlands Maikel Scheffers
Wheelchair women's singles
Netherlands Esther Vergeer
Wheelchair quad singles
United Kingdom Peter Norfolk
Wheelchair men's doubles
Netherlands Ronald Vink / Netherlands Robin Ammerlaan
Wheelchair women's doubles
Netherlands Esther Vergeer / Netherlands Sharon Walraven
Wheelchair quad doubles
United Kingdom Andrew Lapthorne / United Kingdom Peter Norfolk
Boys' singles
Australia Luke Saville
Girls' singles
United States Taylor Townsend
Boys' doubles
United Kingdom Liam Broady / United Kingdom Joshua Ward-Hibbert
Girls' doubles
United States Gabrielle Andrews / United States Taylor Townsend
← 2011 · Australian Open · 2013 →

The 2012 Australian Open was a tennis tournament that took place in Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, from 16 to 29 January 2012. It was the 100th edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam event of the year. The tournament consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair players competed in singles and doubles tournaments.

Novak Djokovic successfully defended his title after he defeated Rafael Nadal in the longest grand slam final in history. The 2012 final passed the 2008 Wimbledon final for the record, finishing after 5 hours and 53 minutes of play. Kim Clijsters was the defending champion for the women's singles, but lost to Victoria Azarenka in the semifinals. Azarenka defeated Maria Sharapova for her first Grand Slam title; and over took Caroline Wozniacki as the number one ranked player on the WTA Tour. In the doubles Leander Paes and Radek Štěpánek won the title. Paes completed a career Grand Slam with the title while Štěpánek won his first Slam. On the women's side an all Russian duo of Svetlana Kuznetsova and Vera Zvonareva took the title. The mixed event was won by Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Horia Tecău.

Tournament

[edit]

The 2012 Australian Open took place in January 2012 at Melbourne Park. The men's singles was staged for the 100th time. There have been 59 different previous winners and the 100th staging of the event was marked by a special coin and the 2012 Champion received a special medallion. The tournament also marked 50 years since Rod Laver won his first Grand Slam.[1] For the first time Hawk-Eye ball tracking system was used on the Margaret Court Arena,[2] while Ken Fletcher was inducted into the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame.[3]

Points and prize money

[edit]

Point distribution

[edit]

Below is a series of tables for each of the competitions showing the ranking points on offer for each event.

Seniors points

[edit]
Stage Men's singles[4] Men's doubles[4] Women's singles[5] Women's doubles[5]
Champion 2000
Runner up 1200 1400
Semifinals 720 900
Quarterfinals 360 500
Round of 16 180 280
Round of 32 90 160
Round of 64 45 0 100 5
Round of 128 10 – 5 –
Qualifier 25 60
Qualifying 3rd round 16 50
Qualifying 2nd round 8 40
Qualifying 1st round 0 2

Junior points

[edit]
Stage[6][7] Boys singles Boys doubles Girls singles Girls doubles
Champion 250 180 250 180
Runner up 180 120 180 120
Semifinals 120 80 120 80
Quarterfinals 80 50 80 50
Round of 16 50 30 50 30
Round of 32 30 – 30 –
Qualifier who loses in first round 25 – 25 –
Qualifying final round 20 – 20 –

Wheelchair points

[edit]
Stage[8] Men's singles Men's doubles Women's singles Women's doubles Quad singles Quad doubles
Champion 800
Runner up 500 100
Semifinals/3rd 375 100 375 100 375 –
Quarterfinals/4th 100 – 100 – 100 –

Prize money

[edit]

The 2012 Australian Open was the richest Grand Slam tournament in history, with the singles champions pocketing 2.3 million dollars.[9] All prize money is in Australian dollars (AUD); doubles prize money is distributed per pair.

Day-by-day summaries

[edit]
Main article: 2012 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries

Events

[edit]

Seniors

[edit]

Men's singles

[edit]
Main article: 2012 Australian Open – Men's singles
See also: 2012 Australian Open – Men's singles final

Novak Djokovic was the defending champion[10] and won in the final 5–7, 6–4, 6–2, 6–7(5–7), 7–5 against Rafael Nadal entering the season as reigning world number 1 for the first time of his career. It was the longest match in the history of the Australian Open, and in fact, the longest ever singles final in the Open Era in Grand Slam history; clocked at 5 hours and 53 minutes and ending after midnight with Nadal memorable saying after the match "good morning."[11] It marked the fifth Grand Slam of Djokovic's career and his 3rd Australian Open. It also marked the first time that he had defended a Grand Slam title. After winning the 2012 Australian Open, Djokovic had an opportunity to become the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four Grand Slams at the same time, after winning the previous two in 2011. Nadal became the first player to lose in the final of three consecutive Grand Slams in the Open Era.[12]

Championship match result Serbia Novak Djokovic defeated Spain Rafael Nadal, 5–7, 6–4, 6–2, 6–7(5–7), 7–5

Women's singles

[edit]
Main article: 2012 Australian Open – Women's singles

Victoria Azarenka won her first Grand Slam title, becoming the first Belarusian player to win a Grand Slam in singles, by defeating Maria Sharapova in the final. She also became the 21st player to be ranked World No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association on 30 January 2012 as a result of this win. It was Azarenka's 2nd title of the year and 10th of her career.

Championship match result Belarus Victoria Azarenka defeated Russia Maria Sharapova, 6–3, 6–0

Men's doubles

[edit]
Main article: 2012 Australian Open – Men's doubles

India Leander Paes / Czech Republic Radek Štěpánek defeated United States Bob Bryan / United States Mike Bryan, 7–6(7–1), 6–2

Women's doubles

[edit]
Main article: 2012 Australian Open – Women's doubles

Russia Svetlana Kuznetsova / Russia Vera Zvonareva defeated Italy Sara Errani / Italy Roberta Vinci, 5–7, 6–4, 6–3

Mixed doubles

[edit]
Main article: 2012 Australian Open – Mixed doubles

United States Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Romania Horia Tecău defeated Russia Elena Vesnina / India Leander Paes, 6–3, 5–7, [10–3]

Juniors

[edit]

Boys' singles

[edit]
Main article: 2012 Australian Open – Boys' singles

Australia Luke Saville defeated Canada Filip Peliwo, 6–3, 5–7, 6–4

Girls' singles

[edit]
Main article: 2012 Australian Open – Girls' singles

United States Taylor Townsend defeated Russia Yulia Putintseva, 6–1, 3–6, 6–3

Boys' doubles

[edit]
Main article: 2012 Australian Open – Boys' doubles

United Kingdom Liam Broady / United Kingdom Joshua Ward-Hibbert defeated Czech Republic Adam Pavlásek / Croatia Filip Veger, 6–3, 6–2

Girls' doubles

[edit]
Main article: 2012 Australian Open – Girls' doubles

United States Gabrielle Andrews / United States Taylor Townsend defeated Russia Irina Khromacheva / Montenegro Danka Kovinić, 5–7, 7–5, [10–6]

Other events

[edit]

Wheelchair men's singles

[edit]
Main article: 2012 Australian Open – Wheelchair men's singles

Netherlands Maikel Scheffers defeated France Nicolas Peifer, 3–6, 7–6(7–2), 6–0

Wheelchair women's singles

[edit]
Main article: 2012 Australian Open – Wheelchair women's singles

Netherlands Esther Vergeer defeated Netherlands Aniek van Koot, 6–0, 6–0

Wheelchair quad singles

[edit]
Main article: 2012 Australian Open – Wheelchair quad singles

United Kingdom Peter Norfolk defeated United States David Wagner, 4–6, 6–4, 6–2

Wheelchair men's doubles

[edit]
Main article: 2012 Australian Open – Wheelchair men's doubles

Netherlands Ronald Vink / Netherlands Robin Ammerlaan defeated France Stéphane Houdet / France Nicolas Peifer, 6–2, 4–6, 6–1

Wheelchair women's doubles

[edit]
Main article: 2012 Australian Open – Wheelchair women's doubles

Netherlands Esther Vergeer / Netherlands Sharon Walraven defeated Netherlands Aniek van Koot / Netherlands Marjolein Buis, 4–6, 6–2, 6–4

Wheelchair quad doubles

[edit]
Main article: 2012 Australian Open – Wheelchair quad doubles

United Kingdom Andrew Lapthorne / United Kingdom Peter Norfolk defeated United States David Wagner / Israel Noam Gershony, 6–4, 6–2

Broadcast

[edit]

The host broadcaster of the event was the Seven Network which ran all day and night coverage on its primary channel and its digital channel 7Two from 11 am until the close of play around midnight Melbourne time. 2012 is the first year Seven has aired live primetime play across the entire country, switching coverage to 7Two for various live news and Today Tonight broadcasts in different time zones of Australia. Associated media partnership Yahoo!7 (co-owned by Seven and Yahoo!) saw more than 100 000 viewers check into live match coverage via the Fango mobile app,[13] with check-ins peaking during the Hewitt vs. Djokovic match in the Open's fourth round.

The event was also shown in Australia on Fox Sports which broadcast secondary matches live.

Singles players

[edit]

Men's singles

Women's singles

Singles seeds

[edit]

Seeds and Rankings are as of 9 January 2012 and Points are as of 16 January 2012.[14]

Men's singles

[edit]
Sd Rk[15] Player[16] Points[15]
Points
defending
 Points won New points Status
1 1 Serbia Novak Djokovic
13,630
2,000
2,000
13,630
 Champion, won in the final against Spain Rafael Nadal [2]
2 2 Spain Rafael Nadal
9,595
360
1,200
10,435
 Runner-up, Final lost to Serbia Novak Djokovic [1]
3 3 Switzerland Roger Federer
8,010
720
720
8,010
 Semifinals lost to Spain Rafael Nadal [2]
4 4 United Kingdom Andy Murray
7,380
1,200
720
6,900
 Semifinals lost to Serbia Novak Djokovic [1]
5 5 Spain David Ferrer
4,925
720
360
4,565
 Quarterfinals lost to Serbia Novak Djokovic [1]
6 6 France Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
4,335
90
180
4,425
 Fourth round lost to Japan Kei Nishikori [24]
7 7 Czech Republic Tomáš Berdych
3,700
360
360
3,700
 Quarterfinals lost to Spain Rafael Nadal [2]
8 8 United States Mardy Fish
2,965
45
45
2,965
 Second round lost to Colombia Alejandro Falla
9 9 Serbia Janko Tipsarević
2,655
45
90
2,700
 Third round lost to France Richard Gasquet [17]
10 10 Spain Nicolás Almagro
2,380
180
180
2,380
 Fourth round lost to Czech Republic Tomáš Berdych [7]
11 11 Argentina Juan Martín del Potro
2,315
45
360
2,630
 Quarterfinals lost to Switzerland Roger Federer [3]
12 12 France Gilles Simon
2,005
45
45
2,005
 Second round lost to France Julien Benneteau
13 14 Ukraine Alexandr Dolgopolov
2,030
360
90
1,760
 Third round lost to Australia Bernard Tomic
14 15 France Gaël Monfils
1,970
90
90
1,970
 Third round lost to Kazakhstan Mikhail Kukushkin
15 16 United States Andy Roddick
1,880
180
45
1,745
 Second round retired against Australia Lleyton Hewitt [WC]
16 17 United States John Isner
1,800
90
90
1,800
 Third round lost to Spain Feliciano López [18]
17 18 France Richard Gasquet
1,765
90
180
1,855
 Fourth round lost to Spain David Ferrer [5]
18 19 Spain Feliciano López
1,755
45
180
1,890
 Fourth round lost to Spain Rafael Nadal [2]
19 21 Serbia Viktor Troicki
1,595
90
45
1,550
 Second round lost to Kazakhstan Mikhail Kukushkin
20 22 Germany Florian Mayer
1,630
45
0
1,585
 withdrew due to hip strain[17]
21 23 Switzerland Stan Wawrinka
1,615
360
90
1,345
 Third round lost to Spain Nicolás Almagro [10]
22 24 Spain Fernando Verdasco
1,550
180
10
1,380
 First round lost to Australia Bernard Tomic
23 25 Canada Milos Raonic
1,460
205
90
1,345
 Third round lost to Australia Lleyton Hewitt [WC]
24 26 Japan Kei Nishikori
1,410
90
360
1,680
 Quarterfinals lost to United Kingdom Andy Murray [4]
25 27 Argentina Juan Mónaco
1,335
45
10
1,300
 First round lost to Germany Philipp Kohlschreiber
26 28 Spain Marcel Granollers
1,315
10
45
1,350
 Second round lost to Portugal Frederico Gil
27 29 Argentina Juan Ignacio Chela
1,270
10
90
1,350
 Third round lost to Spain David Ferrer [5]
28 30 Croatia Ivan Ljubičić
1,270
90
10
1,190
 First round lost to Slovakia Lukáš Lacko [Q]
29 31 Czech Republic Radek Štěpánek
1,230
45
10
1,195
 First round lost to France Nicolas Mahut
30 32 South Africa Kevin Anderson
1,190
10
90
1,270
 Third round lost to Czech Republic Tomáš Berdych [7]
31 33 Austria Jürgen Melzer
1,170
180
10
1,000
 First round lost to Croatia Ivo Karlović
32 34 Russia Alex Bogomolov Jr.
1,135
45
45
1,135
 Second round lost to France Michaël Llodra

Withdrawn players (men's singles)

[edit]
Rank Player Points
Points defending
 New points Withdrew due to
13 Sweden Robin Söderling
2,120
180
1,940
 mononucleosis[18]
20 Croatia Marin Čilić
1,665
180
1,485
 patella tendon injury[19]

Women's singles

[edit]
Sd Rk[15] Player[16] Points[15]
Points
defending
 Points won New points Status
1 1 Denmark Caroline Wozniacki
7,485
900
500
7,085
 Quarterfinals lost to Belgium Kim Clijsters [11]
2 2 Czech Republic Petra Kvitová
7,290
500
900
7,690
 Semifinals lost to Russia Maria Sharapova [4]
3 3 Belarus Victoria Azarenka
6,865
280
2,000
8,585
 Champion, won in the final against Russia Maria Sharapova [4]
4 4 Russia Maria Sharapova
6,440
280
1,400
7,560
 Runner-up, Final lost to Belarus Victoria Azarenka [3]
5 5 China Li Na
5,570
1,400
280
4,450
 Fourth round lost to Belgium Kim Clijsters [11]
6 6 Australia Samantha Stosur
5,585
160
5
5,430
 First round lost to Romania Sorana Cîrstea
7 7 Russia Vera Zvonareva
5,435
900
160
4,695
 Third round lost to Russia Ekaterina Makarova
8 8 Poland Agnieszka Radwańska
5,330
500
500
5,330
 Quarterfinals lost to Belarus Victoria Azarenka [3]
9 9 France Marion Bartoli
4,710
100
160
4,770
 Third round lost to China Zheng Jie
10 11 Italy Francesca Schiavone
4,040
500
100
3,640
 Second round lost to Italy Romina Oprandi
11 12 Belgium Kim Clijsters
3,041
2,000
900
1,941
 Semifinals lost to Belarus Victoria Azarenka [3]
12 13 United States Serena Williams
3,300
0
280
3,580
 Fourth round lost to Russia Ekaterina Makarova
13 14 Serbia Jelena Janković
3,115
100
280
3,295
 Fourth round lost to Denmark Caroline Wozniacki [1]
14 15 Germany Sabine Lisicki
2,903
(40)
280
3,143
 Fourth round lost to Russia Maria Sharapova [4]
15 16 Russia Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
2,795
160
100
2,735
 Second round lost to United States Vania King
16 17 China Peng Shuai
2,760
280
100
2,580
 Second round lost to Czech Republic Iveta Benešová
17 18 Slovakia Dominika Cibulková
2,695
160
100
2,635
 Second round lost to Hungary Gréta Arn
18 19 Russia Svetlana Kuznetsova
2,646
280
160
2,526
 Third round lost to Germany Sabine Lisicki [14]
19 20 Italy Flavia Pennetta
2,570
280
5
2,295
 First round lost to Russia Nina Bratchikova [Q]
20 21 Slovakia Daniela Hantuchová
2,295
5
160
2,450
 Third round lost to Belgium Kim Clijsters [11]
21 22 Serbia Ana Ivanovic
2,260
5
280
2,535
 Fourth round lost to Czech Republic Petra Kvitová [2]
22 23 Germany Julia Görges
2,225
160
280
2,345
 Fourth round lost to Poland Agnieszka Radwańska [8]
23 24 Italy Roberta Vinci
2,115
5
100
2,210
 Second round lost to China Zheng Jie
24 25 Czech Republic Lucie Šafářová
2,120
160
5
1,965
 First round lost to United States Christina McHale
25 26 Estonia Kaia Kanepi
2,049
100
100
2,049
 Second round lost to Russia Ekaterina Makarova
26 27 Spain Anabel Medina Garrigues
1,950
5
160
2,105
 Third round retired against China Li Na [5]
27 28 Russia Maria Kirilenko
1,930
100
160
1,990
 Third round retired against Czech Republic Petra Kvitová [2]
28 29 Belgium Yanina Wickmayer
2,050
100
5
1,955
 First round lost to Kazakhstan Galina Voskoboeva
29 30 Russia Nadia Petrova
1,765
160
100
1,705
 Second round lost to Italy Sara Errani
30 31 Germany Angelique Kerber
1,810
5
160
1,965
 Third round lost to Russia Maria Sharapova [4]
31 32 Romania Monica Niculescu
1,725
160
160
1,725
 Third round lost to Denmark Caroline Wozniacki [1]
32 33 Czech Republic Petra Cetkovská
1,666
(18)
100
1,748
 Second round lost to Germany Mona Barthel

Withdrawn players (women's singles)

[edit]
Rank Player Points
Points defending
 New points Withdrew due to
10 Germany Andrea Petkovic
4,500
500
4,000
 stress fracture[20]

Main draw wildcard entries

[edit]
Main article: 2012 Australian Open – Main draw wildcard entries

Mixed doubles

[edit]

Protected ranking

[edit]

Qualifying entries

[edit]

Withdrawals

[edit]

The following players were accepted directly into the main tournament, but withdrew with injuries.

Juniors

[edit]

Below is a list of the sixteen seeds for the boys and girls singles and the eight qualifiers for each event.

Singles seeds

[edit]

Wheelchair tennis

[edit]

The field consisted of top seven ranked players in the men's and women's singles, the three top three ranked players in the quad singles category and one wildcard was chosen for each draw.[21]

Singles seeds

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "And one makes 100". Australianopen.com. 4 October 2011. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
  2. ^ "Australian Open 2012 – Ready? Play!". Australianopen.com. 4 October 2011. Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
  3. ^ "Honouring the Great Fletch". Australianopen.com. 4 October 2011. Archived from the original on 14 January 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
  4. ^ a b "Rankings explained". atpworldtour.com. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
  5. ^ a b "WTA Tour rules" (PDF). wtatour.com. p. 210. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
  6. ^ "Juniors tournament grades". itftennis.com. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 25 January 2011.
  7. ^ "2011 ITF junior rules and regs" (PDF). itftennis.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2011.
  8. ^ "Wheelchair tennis rules and regs for 2011" (PDF). itftennis.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2011.
  9. ^ "Prize money". Australianopen.com. Archived from the original on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
  10. ^ Flory, Kate (30 January 2011). "Djokovic Captures Second Grand Slam Title; Murray Beaten at Third Attempt". atpworldtour.com. ATP Tour, Inc. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  11. ^ "Djokovic wins epic final". ABC Radio Grandstand. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 30 January 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
  12. ^ Passa, Dennis (28 January 2012). "Nadal won't be swayed by Djokovic breathing issues". sports.yahoo.com. Yahoo!. Archived from the original on 2 February 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
  13. ^ "Social media a key for Seven". Frost Global. 11 February 2012. Archived from the original on 14 June 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
  14. ^ "AO 2012 seedings announced". Australianopen.com. 9 January 2012. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
  15. ^ a b c d "WTA tour notes for week commencing 17 January 2011(PDF)" (PDF). wtatour.com. Retrieved 25 January 2011.[permanent dead link‍]
  16. ^ a b Tennis Australia (13 January 2011). "Seeds set for Australian Open 2011". australianopen.com. Archived from the original on 4 December 2011. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
  17. ^ "20th-seeded Mayer pulls out of Aussie". Fox Sports. Associated Press (AP). 15 January 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  18. ^ "Soderling won't play in Australian Open". TENNIS.com. Santa Monica, California, USA: Miller Sports Group LLC. 8 December 2011. Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
  19. ^ "Former champion Cilic ruled out of Chennai Open". indiatimes.com. Chennai, India: The Times Group. 13 December 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
  20. ^ "Petkovic out with back injury". Australianopen.com. 30 January 2011. Archived from the original on 2 October 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
  21. ^ "Australian Open entries announced". Beta.itftennis.com. 7 December 2011. Archived from the original on 7 June 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
  22. ^ "Wheelchair Men's Singles draw" (PDF). Australianopen.com. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
  23. ^ "Wheelchair Women's Singles draw" (PDF). Australianopen.com. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2012 Australian Open.
Preceded by Grand Slams Succeeded by
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2012_Australian_Open&oldid=1261999151"