page_title: 2012 ATP World Tour Finals
section_title: Singles
hierarchical_section_title: 2012 ATP World Tour Finals / Qualified players / Singles
caption_attribution_description: Roger Federer, Winner, Centre Court, Wimbledon 2012. (08/07/2012)
context_page_description: The 2012 ATP World Tour Finals was a tennis tournament that was played at the O₂ Arena in London, United Kingdom between 5 and 12 November 2012.
context_section_description: On 7 July, the first three qualifiers were announced during the Wimbledon tournament, they were Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, and Rafael Nadal.
  Roger Federer began his season at the Qatar Open as the defending champion but withdrew before his semifinal match. At the Australian Open he lost to Rafael Nadal in the semifinals. He then went on to win 16 matches in a row, beginning with the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament defeating Juan Martín del Potro in the final, and then back-to-back titles in Dubai Tennis Championships over Andy Murray and BNP Paribas Open over John Isner. His streak ended in the third round of the Sony Ericsson Open losing to Andy Roddick. He bounced back at the Mutua Madrid Open, winning the title over Tomáš Berdych. He then lost in the semifinals of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia and French Open to Novak Djokovic. In the grass season, he reached three finals, first at the Gerry Weber Open losing to Tommy Haas . He then won his 17th Slam at the Wimbledon defeating Murray in the final. In the Olympics, he scored his first singles medal, winning the silver, losing in the final to Murray. He then won his 6th title of the year at Western & Southern Open over Djokovic, not dropping a set or his serve during the entire tournament. In the final Slam of the year, at the US Open he fell in the quarter-finals for the first time in the tournament to Berdych. He then played the Swiss Indoors Basel as the defending champion but lost to Juan Martín del Potro in the final. Federer has qualified for his 11th Year-End Championship and is the defending champion.
  Novak Djokovic began the year by defending his Australian Open title after back-to-back five set wins over Andy Murray in the semifinal and Rafael Nadal in the final in 5 hours and 53 minutes, the longest Grand Slam singles final in the history of professional tennis. Djokovic then won his second title of the year at the Sony Ericsson Open without dropping and set and defeating Andy Murray in the final. In the European Clay season, he was able to reach 3 finals, losing each time to Nadal. He lost in the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, in the Internazionali BNL d'Italia, and in his first French Open final. At Wimbledon as the defending champion, he fell in the semifinals to Roger Federer . At the Olympics, the Serbian failed the medal after losing in the Bronze medal match to Juan Martín del Potro. In the US Open Series, he reached three consecutive finals. He first won in the Rogers Cup defeating Richard Gasquet in the final. He then lost to Federer in the final of the Western & Southern Open. In the US Open as the defending champion, he lost to Murray in the final after coming back from two sets down. He is the only one to reach at least the semifinals of each Slam of the year. At the Asian swing he made a sweep winning the China Open over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and the Shanghai Rolex Masters over Andy Murray, saving 5 match points in the second set. He has qualified for his sixth Year-End Championship.
  Rafael Nadal began his season at the Qatar Open losing to Gaël Monfils in the semifinals. He then reached the final of the Australian Open losing to Novak Djokovic. In the European clay season, Nadal started with back-to-back wins without dropping a set, winning the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters over Djokovic and the Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell over compatriot David Ferrer. At the Madrid Open, he lost to Fernando Verdasco for the first time, thus ending his 22 match winning streak in clay. He then won again back-to-back titles in the Internazionali BNL d'Italia winning and French Open winning in a rain delayed final he defeated Djokovic on both occasions. His French Open win meant he has won the most French Open titles in the Open Era. At Wimbledon, Nadal suffered a shock loss in the second round, the first time he has lost before the second round in a Slam since 2005 Wimbledon; he lost to 100th ranked Lukáš Rosol. Nadal then withdrew from the Olympics as the defending champion from 2008 Olympics, and the US Open Series due to a knee injury. This is Nadal's 8th time to
caption: Roger Federer wins his record 17th Grand Slam at Wimbledon
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