Internazionali BNL d'Italia 2012 / Men

ATP World Tour
Internazionali BNL d'Italia 2012

date	May 13, 2012 - May 20, 2012
Edition	69
navigation	2011 ◄ 2012 ► 2013
venue	Rome Italy Italy
Tournament number	416
category	Masters 1000
Tournament type	Free place tournament
Game surface	sand
draw	56E / 28Q / 24D
Prize money	€ 2,950,475
Website	Official website

Last year's winner (individual)	Serbia Novak Đoković
Last year's winner (double)	United States John Isner Sam Querrey United States

Winner (singles)	Spain Rafael Nadal
Winner (doubles)	Spain Marcel Granollers Marc López Spain

Tournament director	Sergio Palmieri
Tournament supervisor	Tom Barnes Marc Darby Thomas Karlberg
Last direct assumption	Poland Łukasz Kubot (51)

As of January 31, 2014

The Internazionali BNL d'Italia 2012 was a tennis tournament that took place from May 13th to May 21st, 2012 in Rome . It was part of the ATP World Tour 2012 and was played on clay court. This season it was the fifth of nine tournaments in the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 category .

Defending champion in singles was Novak Đoković . In the final, which had to be postponed by a day due to rain, he met Rafael Nadal as in the previous year , but this time had to admit defeat in two sets. Nadal won the title at this tournament for the sixth time after 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010. In the current season it was his third tournament win and after Monte Carlo his second Masters title, which means that he is again the sole record holder in this category with a total of 21 Masters titles. In his career, Nadal has now won a total of 49 ATP tournaments, 35 of them on clay court. The biggest surprise of the tournament was the Italian crowd favorite Andreas Seppi , who reached the quarter-finals of this largest Italian tournament for the first time by triumphing over the better placed John Isner and Stanislas Wawrinka .

In doubles, John Isner and Sam Querrey went to defend their title, but they were eliminated in the first round. In the final, Marcel Granollers and Marc López won in straight sets against Łukasz Kubot and Janko Tipsarević and thus secured their first joint title. For Granollers it was the seventh ATP title of his career and the first from the Masters category, for López it was also the seventh ATP title, but already the third Masters title.

The field of participants in the single competition consisted of 56 players, that of the doubles competition consisted of 24 pairs. The eight top seeded players in singles or pairings in doubles each got a bye into the second round.

qualification

The qualification took place from May 11th to May 12th, 2012. Four qualifying places were played, which entitle them to participate in the main draw of the tournament.

The following players had passed the qualification and played in the main field of the tournament:

Qualifiers
Netherlands Robin Haase	United States Sam Querrey
Colombia Santiago Giraldo	Romania Adrian Ungur
Spain Guillermo García-López	Slovenia Blaž Kavčič
Spain Albert Ramos

singles

Seeding list

No.	player	Round reached
01.	Serbia Novak Đoković	final
02.	Spain Rafael Nadal	victory
03.	Switzerland Roger Federer	Semifinals
04th	United Kingdom Andy Murray	Round of 16
05.	France Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	Quarter finals
06th	Spain David Ferrer	Semifinals
07th	Czech Republic Tomáš Berdych	Quarter finals
08th.	Serbia Janko Tipsarevic	2nd round

No.	player	Round reached
09.	United States John Isner	2nd round
10.	Argentina Juan Martín del Potro	Round of 16
11.	France Gilles Simon	Round of 16
12.	Spain Nicolás Almagro	Round of 16
13.	France Gaël Monfils	2nd round
14th	Argentina Juan Mónaco	Round of 16
15th	Spain Feliciano López	1 round
16.	France Richard Gasquet	Quarter finals

Explanation of symbols

Q = qualifier
WC = wildcard
LL = Lucky Loser
ITF = qualified via ITF ranking

ALT = replacement (alternate)
PR = Protected Ranking
SE = Special Exempt

r = retired
d = disqualification
where = walkover

Results

Semi-finals, finals

Semifinals

final

1

Serbia Novak Đoković

6th

7th

3

Roger Federer

2

6 ⁴

1

Novak Đoković

5

3

2

Spain Rafael Nadal

7th

6th

6th

David Ferrer

6 ⁶

0

2

Spain Rafael Nadal

7th

6th

Upper half

Upper half 1

First round

Second round

Round of 16

Quarter finals

1

Serbia N. Đoković

6th

Australia B. Tomic

4th

6th

B. Tomic

3

Q

S. Giraldo

6th

2

4th

1

Serbia N. Đoković

4th

6th

Czech Republic R. Štěpánek

2

6th

14th

J. Mónaco

6th

2

3

JI Chela

6th

0

3

R. Štěpánek

4th

2

Q

A. Ungur

2

14th

Argentina J. Mónaco

6th

14th

Argentina J. Mónaco

6th

1

Serbia N. Đoković

7th

6th

10

Argentina JM del Potro

7th

3

6th

5

J.-W. Tsonga

5

1

OLD

M. Llodra

5

6th

4th

10

Argentina JM del Potro

6th

OLD

T. Bellucci

2

6th

3

M. Juschny

4th

2

Russia M. Juschny

6th

3

6th

10

JM del Potro

4th

1

Serbia V. Troicki

4th

6th

5

France J.-W. Tsonga

6th

WC

F. Volandri

6th

4th

3

V. Troicki

3

2

5

France J.-W. Tsonga

6th

Upper half 2

First round

Second round

Round of 16

Quarter finals

3

Switzerland R. Federer

6th

Q

B. Kavčič

1

3

C. Berlocq

3

4th

Argentina C. Berlocq

6th

3

Switzerland R. Federer

6th

5

6th

K. Anderson

4th

5

OLD

JC Ferrero

2

7th

1

OLD

Spain JC Ferrero

6th

7th

OLD

Spain JC Ferrero

7th

6th

A. Bogomolov junior

4th

1

13

G. Monfils

5

3

13

France G. Monfils

6th

3

Switzerland R. Federer

6th

9

United States J. Isner

2

7th

6th

A. Seppi

1

2

P. Kohlschreiber

6th

6 ³

2

9

J. Isner

6th

6 ⁵

5

Italy A. Seppi

6th

3

6th

Italy A. Seppi

2

7th

D. Istomin

4th

6th

3

Italy A. Seppi

6 ¹

7th

Switzerland S. Wawrinka

6th

4th

7th

S. Wawrinka

7th

6 ⁶

Q

R. Haase

1

6th

5

Switzerland S. Wawrinka

6th

8th

J. Tipsarevic

3

1

Bottom half

Lower half 1

First round

Second round

Round of 16

Quarter finals

6th

Spain D. Ferrer

6th

7th

Spain F. Verdasco

6th

F. Verdasco

3

6 ³

O. Dolhopolov

0

r

6th

Spain D. Ferrer

6th

7th

Q

Spain G. García-López

6th

11

G. Simon

0

6 ⁵

P. Andújar

4th

1

Q

G. García-López

4th

6th

4th

OLD

D. Young

2

5

11

France G. Simon

6th

2

6th

11

France G. Simon

6th

7th

6th

Spain D. Ferrer

7th

6th

16

France R. Gasquet

6th

7th

16

R. Gasquet

6 ⁴

3

J. Melzer

1

6 ⁶

16

France R. Gasquet

6th

N. Dawydenko

3

6th

3

WC

P. Lorenzi

3

2

WC

Italy P. Lorenzi

6th

2

6th

16

France R. Gasquet

6 ¹

6th

Q

A. Ramos

3

4th

A. Murray

7th

3

2

OLD

Argentina D. Nalbandian

6th

OLD

D. Nalbandian

1

6th

5

4th

United Kingdom A. Murray

6th

4th

7th

Lower half 2

First round

Second round

Round of 16

Quarter finals

7th

Czech Republic T. Berdych

6th

OLD

Poland Ł. Kubot

6th

5

6th

OLD

Ł. Kubot

4th

1

WC

P. Starace

3

7th

2

7th

Czech Republic T. Berdych

7th

6th

Q

United States S. Querrey

7th

5

6th

12

N. Almagro

6 ³

3

OLD

J. Nieminen

6 ⁴

7th

4th

Q

S. Querrey

5

2

M. Čilić

2

6th

0

12

Spain N. Almagro

7th

6th

12

Spain N. Almagro

6th

3

6th

7th

T. Berdych

4th

5

15th

F. López

4th

2

Spain R. Nadal

6th

7th

Spain M. Granollers

6th

Spain M. Granollers

6th

WC

Italy F. Fognini

6th

WC

F. Fognini

3

4th

M. Baghdatis

2

M. Granollers

1

M. Raonic

6 ⁵

4th

2

Spain R. Nadal

6th

Germany F. Mayer

7th

6th

F. Mayer

1

5

2

Spain R. Nadal

6th

7th

Double

Seeding list

No.	pairing	Round reached
01.	Belarus Max Mirny Daniel Nestor Canada	Quarter finals
02.	United States Bob Bryan Mike Bryan United States	Quarter finals
03.	France Michaël Llodra Nenad Zimonjić Serbia	Quarter finals
04th	Sweden Robert Lindstedt Horia Tecau Romania	Semifinals

No.	pairing	Round reached
05.	India Leander Paes Radek Štěpánek Czech Republic	Round of 16
06th	Poland Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski Poland	Quarter finals
07th	India Mahesh Bhupathi Rohan Bopanna India	Semifinals
08th.	Austria Alexander Peya Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi Pakistan	Round of 16