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2012 Italian Open (tennis)

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2012 Italian Open
Date14–21 May
Edition69th
CategoryWorld Tour Masters 1000
Premier 5
SurfaceClay / outdoor
LocationRome, Italy
VenueForo Italico
Champions
Men's singles
Spain Rafael Nadal[1]
Women's singles
Russia Maria Sharapova[2]
Men's doubles
Spain Marcel Granollers / Spain Marc López[3]
Women's doubles
Italy Sara Errani / Italy Roberta Vinci
← 2011 · Italian Open · 2013 →

The 2012 Italian Open[4][2][5][6][7] (also known as the 2012 Rome Masters[8][9][10][11] 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.[12]

Points and prize money

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Point distribution

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Stage Men's singles[13] Men's doubles[13] Women's singles[14] Women's doubles[14]
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

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Stage Men's singles[15] Men's doubles[15] Women's singles[15] Women's doubles[15]
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

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Seeds

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Country Player Rank1 Seed
 SRB Novak Djokovic 1 1
  SUI Roger Federer 2 3
 ESP Rafael Nadal 3 2
 GBR Andy Murray 4 4
 FRA Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 5 5
 ESP David Ferrer 6 6
 CZE Tomáš Berdych 7 7
 SRB Janko Tipsarević 8 8
 USA John Isner 10 9
 ARG Juan Martín del Potro 11 10
 FRA Gilles Simon 12 11
 ESP Nicolás Almagro 13 12
 FRA Gaël Monfils 14 13
 ARG Juan Mónaco 15 14
 ESP Feliciano López 16 15
 FRA Richard Gasquet 18 16
  • Rankings are as of 15 May 2012

Other entrants

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The following players received wildcards into the main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Withdrawals

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Retirements

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ATP doubles main draw entrants

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Seeds

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Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
 BLR Max Mirnyi  CAN Daniel Nestor 6 1
 USA Bob Bryan  USA Mike Bryan 6 2
 FRA Michaël Llodra  SRB Nenad Zimonjić 11 3
 SWE Robert Lindstedt  ROU Horia Tecău 17 4
 IND Leander Paes  CZE Marcin Matkowski 20 5
 POL Mariusz Fyrstenberg  POL Radek Štěpánek 20 6
 IND Mahesh Bhupathi  IND Rohan Bopanna 27 7
 AUT Alexander Peya  PAK Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi 32 8
  • Rankings are as of 15 May 2012

Other entrants

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The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

Retirements

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WTA singles main draw entrants

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Seeds

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Country Player Rank1 Seed
 BLR Victoria Azarenka 1 1
 RUS Maria Sharapova 2 2
 POL Agnieszka Radwańska 3 3
 CZE Petra Kvitová 4 4
 AUS Samantha Stosur 5 5
 DEN Caroline Wozniacki 6 6
 FRA Marion Bartoli 7 7
 CHN Li Na 8 8
 USA Serena Williams 9 9
 ITA Francesca Schiavone 11 10
 GER Sabine Lisicki 13 11
 GER Angelique Kerber 14 12
 SRB Ana Ivanovic 15 13
 SVK Dominika Cibulková 16 14
 SRB Jelena Janković 18 15
 RUS Maria Kirilenko 19 16
  • Rankings are as of 7 May 2012

Other entrants

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The following players received wildcards into the main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Withdrawals

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WTA doubles main draw entrants

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Seeds

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Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
 USA Liezel Huber  USA Lisa Raymond 2 1
 CZE Květa Peschke  SLO Katarina Srebotnik 7 2
 ITA Sara Errani  ITA Roberta Vinci 25 3
 CZE Andrea Hlaváčková  AUS Anastasia Rodionova 26 4
 RUS Maria Kirilenko  RUS Nadia Petrova 27 5
 GER Julia Görges  USA Vania King 37 6
 RSA Natalie Grandin  CZE Vladimíra Uhlířová 45 7
 USA Raquel Kops-Jones  USA Abigail Spears 48 8
  • 1 Rankings are as of 7 May 2012

Other entrants

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The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

The following pair received entry as alternates:

Withdrawals

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Retirements

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Finals

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Men's singles

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Main article: 2012 Italian Open – Men's singles

Women's singles

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Main article: 2012 Italian Open – Women's singles

Men's doubles

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Main article: 2012 Italian Open – Men's doubles

Women's doubles

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Main article: 2012 Italian Open – Women's doubles

References

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  3. ^ "2012 Rome – Men's doubles draw". Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
  4. ^ a b "Rafael Nadal beats Novak Djokovic to win Italian Open". BBC Sport. 21 May 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  5. ^ "Sharapova lifts trophy in rainy Rome". CNN. 20 May 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  6. ^ "Sharapova, Li reach Italian Open final". Sports Illustrated. 19 May 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  7. ^ "Petra Kvitova and Maria Sharapova Advance in Italian Open". The New York Times. 15 May 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  8. ^ "Rome Masters final rained off". Eurosport. 21 May 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  9. ^ "French Open: Maria Sharapova & Serena Williams are back on song". BBC Sport. 24 May 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  10. ^ "Second Rome win for Sharapova". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Agence France-Presse. 21 May 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  11. ^ "Maria Sharapova storms back to take Rome Masters title in thriller". The Independent. 20 May 2012. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  12. ^ "Nadal and Djokovic must wait until Monday" (Press release). Italian Open. Archived from the original on 23 May 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
  13. ^ a b "Rankings explained". atpworldtour.com. Archived from the original on 10 January 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
  14. ^ a b "WTA Tour rules" (PDF). wtatour.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
  15. ^ a b c d "Prize Money BNP Paribas Open 2012". bnpparibasopen.com. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  16. ^ a b c d e f g "Assegnate le wild card per il Main Draw" (Press release). Italian Open. 8 May 2012. Archived from the original on 12 May 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  17. ^ "Nishikori a doubt for French Open". Archived from the original on 2 January 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2012.
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ a b "WTA KANEPI OUT AND HANTUCHOVA". Archived from the original on 12 May 2012. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
  20. ^ Andrea Petkovic out three months with ankle injury
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