# 2012 Sony Ericsson Open

The 2012 Sony Ericsson Open (also known as 2012 Miami Masters), a men's and women's tennis tournament, was held from March 19 to April 1, 2012. It was the 28th edition of the Miami Masters event and played on outdoor hard courts at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park in Miami, United States. The tournament was a part of 2012 ATP World Tour and 2012 WTA Tour, classified as ATP World Tour Masters 1000 and Premier Mandatory event respectively.

## Finals
### Men's singles

Novak Djokovic defeated Andy Murray, 6–1, 7–6$^{(7–4)}$
* It was Djokovic's 2nd title of the year and 30th of his career. It was his 3rd win in Miami, also winning in 2007 and 2011. It was his 1st Masters of the year and 11th of his career.

### Women's singles

Agnieszka Radwańska defeated Maria Sharapova, 7–5, 6–4
* It was Radwańska's 2nd title of the year and 9th of her career. It was her 2nd Premier Mandatory-level tournament of her career and 5th Premier overall. At this point in the season, Radwańska only lost 4 times, which were all at the hands of No. 1 seed Victoria Azarenka. She was 26-0 versus all other opponents through the Sony Ericsson Open.

### Men's doubles

Leander Paes / Radek Štěpánek defeated Max Mirnyi / Daniel Nestor 3–6, 6–1, [10–8]

### Women's doubles

Maria Kirilenko / Nadia Petrova defeated Sara Errani / Roberta Vinci, 7–6$^{(7–0)}$, 4–6, [10–4]

## Points and prize money
### Point distribution

| Stage | Men's singles | Men's doubles | Women's singles | Women's doubles |
| Champion | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 |
| Runner up | 600 | 600 | 700 | 700 |
| Semifinals | 360 | 360 | 450 | 450 |
| Quarterfinals | 180 | 180 | 250 | 250 |
| Round of 16 | 90 | 90 | 140 | 140 |
| Round of 32 | 45 | 45 | 80 | 80 |
| Round of 64 | 25 (10) | 0 | 50 | 0 |
| Round of 128 | 10 | – | 5 | – |
| Qualifier | 16 | – | 30 | – |
| Qualifying Finalist | 8 | – | 20 | – |
| Qualifying 1st round | 0 | – | 1 | – |

### Prize money

The total commitment prize money for this year's event was $4,828,050 each (WTA Tour and ATP World Tour).
| Stage | Men's singles | Men's doubles | Women's singles | Women's doubles |
| Champion | $659,775 | $216,190 | $712,000 | $241,010 |
| Runner up | $321,990 | $105,500 | $352,000 | $121,000 |
| Semifinals | $161,375 | $52,880 | $164,000 | $55,000 |
| Quarterfinals | $82,270 | $26,950 | $79,000 | $25,965 |
| Round of 16 | $43,370 | $14,210 | $39,000 | $12,750 |
| Round of 32 | $23,210 | $7,610 | $21,000 | $6,000 |
| Round of 64 | $12,530 | – | $12,725 | – |
| Round of 96 | $7,680 | – | $7,700 | – |

## Players
### Men's singles
#### Seeds

| Country | Player | Rank$^1$ | Seed |
| SRB | Novak Djokovic | 1 | 1 |
| ESP | Rafael Nadal | 2 | 2 |
| SUI | Roger Federer | 3 | 3 |
| GBR | Andy Murray | 4 | 4 |
| ESP | David Ferrer | 5 | 5 |
| FRA | Jo-Wilfried Tsonga | 6 | 6 |
| CZE | Tomáš Berdych | 7 | 7 |
| USA | Mardy Fish | 8 | 8 |
| SRB | Janko Tipsarević | 9 | 9 |
| USA | John Isner | 10 | 10 |
| ARG | Juan Martín del Potro | 11 | 11 |
| ESP | Nicolás Almagro | 12 | 12 |
| FRA | Gilles Simon | 13 | 13 |
| FRA | Gaël Monfils | 14 | 14 |
| ESP | Feliciano López | 15 | 15 |
| JPN | Kei Nishikori | 16 | 16 |
| FRA | Richard Gasquet | 17 | 17 |
| UKR | Alexandr Dolgopolov | 18 | 18 |
| GER | Florian Mayer | 19 | 19 |
| ESP | Fernando Verdasco | 20 | 20 |
| ARG | Juan Mónaco | 21 | 21 |
| AUT | Jürgen Melzer | 22 | 22 |
| CRO | Marin Čilić | 23 | 23 |
| ESP | Marcel Granollers | 24 | 24 |
| CZE | Radek Štěpánek | 25 | 25 |
| CAN | Milos Raonic | 26 | 26 |
| SRB | Viktor Troicki | 27 | 27 |
| RSA | Kevin Anderson | 28 | 28 |
| ARG | Juan Ignacio Chela | 32 | 29 |
| FRA | Julien Benneteau | 33 | 30 |
| USA | Andy Roddick | 34 | 31 |
| GER | Philipp Kohlschreiber | 35 | 32 |
* Rankings are as of March 19, 2012

#### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw:
* Fernando González
* Ryan Harrison
* Denis Kudla
* Jesse Levine
* Marinko Matosevic
The following players received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw:
* Benjamin Becker
* Tommy Haas
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
* Roberto Bautista Agut
* Simone Bolelli
* Sergei Bubka
* Arnaud Clément
* Frank Dancevic
* Guillermo García López
* David Goffin
* Björn Phau
* Rajeev Ram
* Édouard Roger-Vasselin
* Guillaume Rufin
* Antonio Veić
The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
* Tobias Kamke

#### Withdrawals

* Juan Carlos Ferrero → replaced by Matthew Ebden
* Fabio Fognini → replaced by Benjamin Becker
* Ivan Ljubičić → replaced by Grigor Dimitrov
* Rui Machado → replaced by Steve Darcis
* Albert Montañés → replaced by Flavio Cipolla
* Philipp Petzschner → replaced by Tobias Kamke
* Robin Söderling (mononucleosis) → replaced by Igor Kunitsyn
* Dmitry Tursunov → replaced by David Nalbandian
* Filippo Volandri → replaced by Sam Querrey
* Stanislas Wawrinka → replaced by Nicolas Mahut
* Mikhail Youzhny → replaced by Frederico Gil

#### Retirements

* Denis Istomin (illness)
* Yen-Hsun Lu (neck injury)
* Rafael Nadal (left knee injury)
* Milos Raonic (sprained right ankle)

### Men's doubles
#### Seeds

| Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank$^1$ | Seed |
| USA | Bob Bryan | USA | Mike Bryan | 2 | 1 |
| BLR | Max Mirnyi | CAN | Daniel Nestor | 6 | 2 |
| FRA | Michaël Llodra | SRB | Nenad Zimonjić | 11 | 3 |
| SWE | Robert Lindstedt | ROU | Horia Tecău | 17 | 4 |
| IND | Mahesh Bhupathi | IND | Rohan Bopanna | 20 | 5 |
| POL | Mariusz Fyrstenberg | POL | Marcin Matkowski | 25 | 6 |
| IND | Leander Paes | CZE | Radek Štěpánek | 27 | 7 |
| CZE | František Čermák | SVK | Filip Polášek | 40 | 8 |
* Rankings are as of March 19, 2012

#### Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
* James Blake / Ryan Harrison
* Paul Hanley / Bernard Tomic

#### Retirements

* Milos Raonic (ankle injury)

### Women's singles
#### Seeds

| Country | Player | Rank$^1$ | Seed |
| BLR | Victoria Azarenka | 1 | 1 |
| RUS | Maria Sharapova | 2 | 2 |
| CZE | Petra Kvitová | 3 | 3 |
| DEN | Caroline Wozniacki | 4 | 4 |
| POL | Agnieszka Radwańska | 5 | 5 |
| AUS | Samantha Stosur | 6 | 6 |
| FRA | Marion Bartoli | 7 | 7 |
| CHN | Li Na | 8 | 8 |
| RUS | Vera Zvonareva | 9 | 9 |
| USA | Serena Williams | 11 | 10 |
| ITA | Francesca Schiavone | 12 | 11 |
| GER | Sabine Lisicki | 13 | 14 |
| SRB | Jelena Janković | 14 | 13 |
| GER | Julia Görges | 15 | 14 |
| SRB | Ana Ivanovic | 16 | 15 |
| SVK | Dominika Cibulková | 17 | 16 |
| CHN | Peng Shuai | 18 | 17 |
| GER | Angelique Kerber | 19 | 18 |
| RUS | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | 20 | 19 |
| SVK | Daniela Hantuchová | 21 | 20 |
| ITA | Roberta Vinci | 22 | 21 |
| RUS | Maria Kirilenko | 23 | 22 |
| BEL | Yanina Wickmayer | 24 | 23 |
| ITA | Flavia Pennetta | 25 | 24 |
| ESP | Anabel Medina Garrigues | 26 | 25 |
| RUS | Svetlana Kuznetsova | 27 | 26 |
| CZE | Lucie Šafářová | 28 | 27 |
| ROU | Monica Niculescu | 29 | 28 |
| CZE | Petra Cetkovská | 30 | 29 |
| ITA | Sara Errani | 31 | 30 |
| EST | Kaia Kanepi | 32 | 31 |
| RUS | Nadia Petrova | 33 | 32 |
* Rankings are as of March 5, 2012

#### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw:
* Bojana Jovanovski
* Alisa Kleybanova
* Garbiñe Muguruza Blanco
* Olivia Rogowska
* Heather Watson
* Venus Williams
* Aleksandra Wozniak
* Zhang Shuai
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
* Eva Birnerová
* Kateryna Bondarenko
* Alizé Cornet
* Melinda Czink
* Misaki Doi
* Vera Dushevina
* Stéphanie Foretz Gacon
* Jamie Hampton
* Madison Keys
* Urszula Radwańska
* Valeria Savinykh
* Sloane Stephens

#### Withdrawals

* Anna Chakvetadze → replaced by Kimiko Date-Krumm
* Alexandra Dulgheru → replaced by Michaëlla Krajicek
* Rebecca Marino → replaced by Gréta Arn
* María José Martínez Sánchez → replaced by Eleni Daniilidou
* Bethanie Mattek-Sands → replaced by Lourdes Domínguez Lino
* Romina Oprandi → replaced by Sílvia Soler Espinosa
* Andrea Petkovic → replaced by Anna Tatishvili

#### Retirements

* Ayumi Morita (shoulder injury)
* Tamira Paszek (back injury)

### Women's doubles
#### Seeds

| Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank$^1$ | Seed |
| USA | Liezel Huber | USA | Lisa Raymond | 3 | 1 |
| CZE | Květa Peschke | SLO | Katarina Srebotnik | 6 | 2 |
| IND | Sania Mirza | RUS | Elena Vesnina | 15 | 3 |
| CZE | Andrea Hlaváčková | CZE | Lucie Hradecká | 21 | 4 |
| RUS | Maria Kirilenko | RUS | Nadia Petrova | 25 | 5 |
| ITA | Sara Errani | ITA | Roberta Vinci | 29 | 6 |
| KAZ | Yaroslava Shvedova | KAZ | Galina Voskoboeva | 37 | 7 |
| SVK | Daniela Hantuchová | POL | Agnieszka Radwańska | 37 | 8 |
* Rankings are as of March 5, 2012

#### Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
* Dominika Cibulková / Jelena Janković
* Gisela Dulko / Paola Suárez
* Anna-Lena Grönefeld / Petra Kvitová
* Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova / Lucie Šafářová