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These are the ATP rankings of the top twenty singles players, doubles players, and the top ten doubles teams on the ATP Tour, at the end of the 2011 ATP World Tour, [5] [6] [7] and at the current date of the 2012 season. [8] [9] [10] Players in gold background have qualified for the Year-End Championships. Rafael Nadal withdrew due to a knee ...
The final lasted 5 hours and 53 minutes, the longest match in Australian Open history and the longest major singles final of all time. [2] It is considered by many to be one of the greatest matches in tennis history. [3] [4] [5] This edition of the tournament saw the top four seeds advance to the semifinals.
The top eight players (or teams) with the most countable points accumulated in Grand Slam, ATP World Tour, and Davis Cup tournaments during the year qualify for the 2012 ATP World Tour Finals. Countable points include points earned in 2012, plus points earned at the 2011 Davis Cup final and the late-season 2011 Challengers played after the 2011 ...
The tennis competitions of the 2012 Summer Olympics were staged at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, from 29 July to 5 August 2012. [ 14 ] 172 tennis players competed in five events; singles and doubles for both men and women and for the first time since 1924 mixed doubles were officially included.
Qualification for the men's singles was primarily through the ATP ranking list of 11 June 2012. An additional restriction was that players had to have been available for two Davis Cup events between 2009 and 2012. Nations had been limited to four players in the event since the 2000 Games. There were 64 quota places available for men's singles.
(e.g. if a player played two matches in a semifinal but plays one the next year only that one missing match would be extracted from his points). [9] A player who is out of competition for 30 or more days, due to a verified injury, will not receive any penalty.
Victoria Azarenka won her first Grand Slam title, becoming the first Belarusian player to win a Grand Slam in singles, by defeating Maria Sharapova in the final. She also became the 21st player to be ranked World No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association on 30 January 2012 as a result of this win. It was Azarenka's 2nd title of the year and 10th ...
The ATP Tour is the modern top-level men's professional tennis circuit. It was introduced in 1990 and it's administered by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). All the records listed here are only for the players who played most of their careers on the ATP Tour and they're based on official ATP data. [1]