# 2012 Italian Open (tennis)

The 2012 Italian Open (also known as the 2012 Rome Masters 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.

## Points and prize money
### Point distribution

| Stage | Men's singles | Men's doubles | Women's singles | Women's doubles |
| Champion | 1000 | 1000 | 900 | 900 |
| Runner up | 600 | 600 | 620 | 620 |
| Semifinals | 360 | 360 | 395 | 395 |
| Quarterfinals | 180 | 180 | 225 | 225 |
| Round of 16 | 90 | 90 | 125 | 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

| Stage | Men's singles | Men's doubles | Women's singles | Women's doubles |
| 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
### Seeds

| Country | Player | Rank$^1$ | 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

The following players received wildcards into the main draw:
* Fabio Fognini
* Paolo Lorenzi
* Potito Starace
* Filippo Volandri
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

* Mardy Fish
* Kei Nishikori (stomach injury)
* Robin Söderling (mononucleosis)

### Retirements

* Alexandr Dolgopolov

## ATP doubles main draw entrants
### Seeds

| Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank$^1$ | 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

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
* Flavio Cipolla / Paolo Lorenzi
* Gianluca Naso / Filippo Volandri

### Retirements

* Pablo Andújar

## WTA singles main draw entrants
### Seeds

| Country | Player | Rank$^1$ | 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

The following players received wildcards into the main draw:
* Alberta Brianti
* Karin Knapp
* Venus Williams
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

* Mona Barthel
* Daniela Hantuchová (foot injury)
* Kaia Kanepi (foot injury)
* Andrea Petkovic (ankle injury)
* Vera Zvonareva

## WTA doubles main draw entrants
### Seeds

| Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank$^1$ | 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

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
* Nastassja Burnett / Alexa Virgili
* Maria Elena Camerin / Karin Knapp
The following pair received entry as alternates:
* Jill Craybas / Sloane Stephens

### Withdrawals

* Andrea Hlaváčková (right thigh injury)

### Retirements

* Janette Husárová (low back injury)
* Flavia Pennetta (right wrist injury)
* Peng Shuai (left hand injury)

## Finals
### Men's singles

* Rafael Nadal defeated Novak Djokovic, 7–5, 6–3

### Women's singles

* Maria Sharapova defeated Li Na, 4–6, 6–4, 7–6$^{(7–5)}$

### Men's doubles

* Marcel Granollers / Marc López defeated Łukasz Kubot / Janko Tipsarević, 6–3, 6–2

### Women's doubles

* Sara Errani / Roberta Vinci defeated Ekaterina Makarova / Elena Vesnina, 6–2, 7–5