# 2020 Italian Open (tennis)

The 2020 Italian Open (also known as the Rome Masters or the Internazionali BNL d'Italia for sponsorship reasons) was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.
Originally scheduled for 11–17 May 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was initially rescheduled to 20–26 September 2020, a week before the 2020 French Open. When the ATP schedule was later revised in August 2020, following the cancellation of this year's Mutua Madrid Open due to the resurgence of virus cases in Spain, organizers had to move the tournament earlier than planned by a week, and it is rescheduled to 14–21 September 2020. That leaves the dates were later placed for this year's Hamburg European Open (men) and Internationaux de Strasbourg (women). It was the 77th edition of the Italian Open and is classified as an ATP Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2020 ATP Tour and a Premier 5 event on the 2020 WTA Tour.

## Finals
### Men's singles

* Novak Djokovic defeated Diego Schwartzman 7–5, 6–3.
This was Djokovic's 81st ATP Tour singles title, and fourth of the year.

### Women's singles

* Simona Halep defeated Karolína Plíšková, 6–0, 2–1, ret.
This was Halep's 22nd WTA Tour singles title, and third of the year. With this victory, Halep extended her winning streak to 14 matches.

### Men's doubles

* Marcel Granollers / Horacio Zeballos defeated Jérémy Chardy / Fabrice Martin, 6–4, 5–7, [10–8].
This was Granollers' 21st ATP Tour doubles title, and third of the year, and was Zeballos' 16th ATP Tour doubles title, and third of the year. This was also their fourth doubles title together as a pair.

### Women's doubles

* Hsieh Su-wei / Barbora Strýcová defeated Anna-Lena Friedsam / Raluca Olaru, 6–2, 6–2
This was Hsieh's 28th WTA Tour doubles title, and fourth of the year, and was Strýcová's 31st WTA Tour doubles title, and fourth of the year. This was also their 9th doubles title together as a pair.

## Points and prize money
### Point distribution

| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Q | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Men's singles | 1000 | 600 | 360 | 180 | 90 | 45 | 10 | 25 | 16 | 8 | 0 |
| Men's doubles | 1000 | 600 | 360 | 180 | 90 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Women's singles | 900 | 585 | 350 | 190 | 105 | 60 | 1 | 30 | — | 20 | 1 |
| Women's doubles | 900 | 585 | 350 | 190 | 105 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |

### Prize money

| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Men's singles | €205,200 | €150,000 | €100,000 | €75,000 | €61,000 | €37,490 | €21,190 | €10,870 | €5,470 | €3,000 |
| Women's singles | €205,190 | €150,000 | €80,000 | €37,910 | €19,355 | €13,745 | €9,000 | — | €5,746 | €3,000 |
| Men's doubles | €58,860 | €49,000 | €39,000 | €30,000 | €20,990 | €11,140 | — | — | — | — |
| Women's doubles | €62,520 | €40,000 | €25,000 | €12,903 | €8,000 | €6,040 | — | — | — | — |

## ATP singles main-draw entrants
### Seeds

| Country | Player | Rank$^1$ | Seed |
| SRB | Novak Djokovic | 1 | 1 |
| ESP | Rafael Nadal | 2 | 2 |
| GRE | Stefanos Tsitsipas | 6 | 3 |
| ITA | Matteo Berrettini | 8 | 4 |
| FRA | Gaël Monfils | 9 | 5 |
| BEL | David Goffin | 10 | 6 |
| ITA | Fabio Fognini | 12 | 7 |
| ARG | Diego Schwartzman | 13 | 8 |
| RUS | Andrey Rublev | 14 | 9 |
| SUI | Stan Wawrinka | 15 | 10 |
| RUS | Karen Khachanov | 16 | 11 |
| CAN | Denis Shapovalov | 17 | 12 |
| CAN | Milos Raonic | 18 | 13 |
| CHI | Cristian Garín | 19 | 14 |
| BUL | Grigor Dimitrov | 20 | 15 |
| CAN | Félix Auger-Aliassime | 21 | 16 |
$^1$ Rankings are as of August 31, 2020.

### Other entrants

The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:
* Jannik Sinner
* Gianluca Mager
* Salvatore Caruso
* Stefano Travaglia
The following player used a protected ranking into the main singles draw:
* Kevin Anderson
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:
* Facundo Bagnis
* Marco Cecchinato
* Federico Coria
* Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
* Dominik Koepfer
* Pedro Martínez
* Lorenzo Musetti
* Tennys Sandgren
The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
* João Sousa

### Withdrawals
#### Before the tournament

* Roberto Bautista Agut → replaced by Yoshihito Nishioka
* John Isner → replaced by Marin Čilić
* Daniil Medvedev → replaced by Lorenzo Sonego
* Dominic Thiem → replaced by João Sousa
* Alexander Zverev → replaced by Alexander Bublik

## ATP doubles main-draw entrants
### Seeds

| Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank$^1$ | Seed |
| COL | Juan Sebastián Cabal | COL | Robert Farah | 3 | 1 |
| USA | Rajeev Ram | GBR | Joe Salisbury | 11 | 2 |
| POL | Łukasz Kubot | BRA | Marcelo Melo | 14 | 3 |
| ESP | Marcel Granollers | ARG | Horacio Zeballos | 19 | 4 |
| CRO | Ivan Dodig | SVK | Filip Polášek | 19 | 5 |
| GER | Kevin Krawietz | GER | Andreas Mies | 27 | 6 |
| RSA | Raven Klaasen | AUT | Oliver Marach | 35 | 7 |
| NED | Wesley Koolhof | CRO | Nikola Mektić | 38 | 8 |
* Rankings are as of August 31, 2020.

### Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
* Simone Bolelli / Fabio Fognini
* Gianluca Mager / Andreas Seppi
* Lorenzo Sonego / Andrea Vavassori
The following pair received entry using a protected ranking:
* Kevin Anderson / Jonathan Erlich

## WTA singles main-draw entrants
### Seeds

| Country | Player | Rank$^1$ | Seed |
| ROU | Simona Halep | 2 | 1 |
| CZE | Karolína Plíšková | 3 | 2 |
| USA | Sofia Kenin | 4 | 3 |
| UKR | Elina Svitolina | 5 | 4 |
| NED | Kiki Bertens | 7 | 5 |
| SUI | Belinda Bencic | 10 | 6 |
| GBR | Johanna Konta | 13 | 7 |
| CRO | Petra Martić | 15 | 8 |
| ESP | Garbiñe Muguruza | 16 | 9 |
| KAZ | Elena Rybakina | 17 | 10 |
| BEL | Elise Mertens | 18 | 11 |
| CZE | Markéta Vondroušová | 19 | 12 |
| USA | Alison Riske | 20 | 13 |
| EST | Anett Kontaveit | 21 | 14 |
| GER | Angelique Kerber | 23 | 15 |
| CRO | Donna Vekić | 24 | 16 |
$^1$ Rankings are as of August 31, 2020.

### Other entrants

The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:
* Elisabetta Cocciaretto
* Camila Giorgi
* Jasmine Paolini
* Venus Williams
* Vera Zvonareva
The following player received entry as a special exempt:
* Victoria Azarenka
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:
* Irina-Camelia Begu
* Anna Blinkova
* Aliona Bolsova
* Misaki Doi
* Kaja Juvan
* Daria Kasatkina
* Danka Kovinić
* Arantxa Rus

### Withdrawals
#### Before the tournament

* Bianca Andreescu → replaced by Jil Teichmann
* Ashleigh Barty → replaced by Anastasija Sevastova
* Jennifer Brady → replaced by Hsieh Su-wei
* Madison Keys → replaced by Caroline Garcia
* Petra Kvitová → replaced by Marie Bouzková
* Kristina Mladenovic → replaced by Ajla Tomljanović
* Karolína Muchová → replaced by Iga Świątek
* Naomi Osaka → replaced by Kateřina Siniaková
* Aryna Sabalenka → replaced by Rebecca Peterson
* Maria Sakkari → replaced by Coco Gauff
* Serena Williams → replaced by Bernarda Pera
* Zheng Saisai → replaced by Polona Hercog

## WTA doubles main-draw entrants
### Seeds

| Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank$^1$ | Seed |
| TPE | Hsieh Su-wei | CZE | Barbora Strýcová | 3 | 1 |
| HUN | Tímea Babos | CHN | Zhang Shuai | 26 | 2 |
| CAN | Gabriela Dabrowski | LAT | Jeļena Ostapenko | 26 | 3 |
| USA | Nicole Melichar | NED | Demi Schuurs | 28 | 4 |
| BEL | Elise Mertens | BEL | Kirsten Flipkens | 34 | 5 |
| RUS | Veronika Kudermetova | CZE | Kateřina Siniaková | 36 | 6 |
| JPN | Shuko Aoyama | JPN | Ena Shibahara | 48 | 7 |
| USA | Sofia Kenin | USA | Bethanie Mattek-Sands | 52 | 8 |
* Rankings are as of August 31, 2020.

### Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
* Elisabetta Cocciaretto / Martina Trevisan
* Giulia Gatto-Monticone / Jasmine Paolini
The following pair received entry using a protected ranking:
* Sharon Fichman / Vera Zvonareva
The following pair received entry as alternates:
* Coco Gauff / Christina McHale
* Magda Linette / Bernarda Pera

### Withdrawals
#### Before the tournament

* Elise Mertens
* Donna Vekić