2012 US Open (tennis)

2012 US Open
Date	August 27 – September 10
Edition	132nd
Category	Grand Slam (ITF)
Surface	Hardcourt
Location	New York City, U.S.
Venue	USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center
Champions
Men's singles
Andy Murray
Women's singles
Serena Williams
Men's doubles
Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan
Women's doubles
Sara Errani / Roberta Vinci
Mixed doubles
Ekaterina Makarova / Bruno Soares
Boys' singles
Filip Peliwo
Girls' singles
Samantha Crawford
Boys' doubles
Kyle Edmund / Frederico Ferreira Silva
Girls' doubles
Gabrielle Andrews / Taylor Townsend
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The 2012 US Open was a tennis tournament played on the outdoor hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Park, of Queens, New York City, United States. It was played from August 27 to September 10.^[1] As a result of adverse weather conditions on September 8, which included a full evacuation of the National Tennis Center because of an upcoming tornado, another day was added to the schedule for the fifth straight year,^[2] with the women's final postponed to the afternoon of Sunday, September 9 rather than the previous evening, the men's semi-final between Novak Djokovic and David Ferrer suspended on September 8 and completed on September 9, and the men's final postponed to the afternoon of Monday, September 10.

Djokovic and Samantha Stosur were the defending men's and women's singles champions, respectively. Both were unsuccessful in their title defenses; Stosur being narrowly defeated by World No. 1 Victoria Azarenka in the quarter-finals, and Djokovic defeated in the final by Andy Murray. Murray became the first British man since Fred Perry in 1936 to win a Grand Slam singles title, and the first man to win both the US Open and the Olympic men's singles gold medal in the same year.^[3] In the women's draw, Serena Williams won her fourth US Open title, and first since 2008, by defeating Victoria Azarenka in the final.

• 2010 champion and 2011 finalist Rafael Nadal withdrew from the tournament because of a knee injury.^[4][5]
• 2010 finalist Vera Zvonareva also withdrew from the tournament due to illness.
• Two former World No. 1s and US Open champions ended their careers after this year's US Open. Three-time women's champion Kim Clijsters suffered her first defeat at Flushing Meadows since losing the 2003 final to her compatriot and rival Justine Henin, when she was defeated in the second round by Laura Robson. This loss marked the end of Clijsters' singles career. American Andy Roddick, who won in 2003, retired from professional tennis with his loss against 2009 champion Juan Martín del Potro in the fourth round.
• Robson followed up her upset of Clijsters with a third round victory against Li Na, making the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time, and this was also the first British woman to reach the fourth round in any Grand Slam since Samantha Smith did so in 1998 Wimbledon.
• On September 3, John Isner and Philipp Kohlschreiber finished play at 2:26 am, tying the 1993 Mats Wilander/Mikael Pernfors record for the latest-ever finish to a matchday at the tournament.^[6]
• Serena Williams won 23 consecutive games from 4–4 in the first set against Ekaterina Makarova in the third round through to 3–0 in the first set against Ana Ivanovic in the quarter-finals.
• After 17 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments without a quarter-final appearance, Ivanovic reached that stage for the first time since winning the 2008 French Open.^[7]
• Ivanovic, Marion Bartoli and Roberta Vinci all advanced to the US Open quarter-finals for the first time. For Vinci, this was her first Grand Slam quarter-final, eleven years and 31 Grand Slam tournaments after debuting at the 2001 US Open.^[8]
• Maria Sharapova returned to the semi-finals for the first time since 2006, and Sara Errani advanced to her first ever US Open semi-final.
• Serena Williams advanced to her second straight US Open final, and her sixth overall. She defeated Victoria Azarenka in the first three-set final to be decided since 1995.^{[citation needed]}
• In the men's draw, Tomáš Berdych advanced to his first US Open quarter-final by virtue of his three-set win against Nicolás Almagro in the fourth round. He then advanced to the semi-finals after upsetting five-time US Open champion Roger Federer in the quarter-finals.
  • With Federer's defeat, this meant that for the first time since the 2004 French Open, neither Federer nor Nadal featured in a Grand Slam semi-final.^[9]
• With their victory in the men's doubles final, Bob and Mike Bryan took sole possession of the Open-era record for most Grand Slam men's doubles titles. Their 12th Grand Slam title took them past The Woodies (Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde). The win was also their fourth at the US Open, tying the Open-era record of Bob Lutz and Stan Smith.^[10]
• The women's final between Victoria Azarenka and Serena Williams was postponed to Sunday, due to inclement weather, for the fourth time in five years.^{[citation needed]}
• The second men's semi-final between David Ferrer and Novak Djokovic was also postponed to Sunday, also due to inclement weather, with the men's final to be played on Monday for the fifth year in a row.^{[citation needed]}
• Andy Murray became the first British winner of a Grand Slam singles title since 1977, and the first British man to do so since 1936, by defeating the defending champion Djokovic in the final. Lasting 4:54, it was the equal-longest US Open final by duration in history, and the equal-second longest Grand Slam final in the Open Era, only behind the 2012 Australian Open final.^[11]
• For the first time since 2003, the four Grand Slam Men's Singles titles were won by different players.^{[citation needed]}

Below is a series of tables for each of the competitions showing the ranking points on offer for each event.

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2012 Olympus US Open Series Finish[12]
2012 US Open Finish	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Round of 128	Awardees
1st place	$1,000,000	$500,000	$250,000	$125,000	$70,000	$40,000	$25,000	$15,000	Novak Djokovic	$500,000
									Petra Kvitová	$70,000
2nd place	$500,000	$250,000	$125,000	$62,500	$35,000	$20,000	$12,500	$7,500	John Isner	$20,000
									Li Na	$20,000
3rd place	$250,000	$125,000	$62,500	$31,250	$17,500	$10,000	$6,250	$3,750	Sam Querrey	$10,000
									Dominika Cibulková	$10,000

Men's singles

Champion		Runner-up
Andy Murray [3]		Novak Djokovic [2]
Semifinals out
Tomáš Berdych [6]		David Ferrer [4]
Quarterfinals out
Roger Federer [1]	Marin Čilić [12]	Janko Tipsarević [8]	Juan Martín del Potro [7]
4th round out
Mardy Fish [23]	Nicolás Almagro [11]	Milos Raonic [15]	Martin Kližan
Philipp Kohlschreiber [19]	Richard Gasquet [13]	Andy Roddick [20]	Stanislas Wawrinka [18]
3rd round out
Fernando Verdasco [25]	Gilles Simon [16]	Jack Sock (WC)	Sam Querrey [27]
Feliciano López [30]	James Blake (WC)	Kei Nishikori [17]	Jérémy Chardy [32]
Grega Žemlja (Q)	John Isner [9]	Steve Johnson (Q)	Lleyton Hewitt (WC)
Leonardo Mayer	Fabio Fognini	Alexandr Dolgopolov [14]	Julien Benneteau [31]
2nd round out
Björn Phau	Albert Ramos Viñolas	Nikolay Davydenko	Wang Yeu-tzuoo (Q)
Philipp Petzschner	Flavio Cipolla	Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	Jürgen Zopp
Ivan Dodig	Pablo Andújar	Marcel Granollers [24]	Paul-Henri Mathieu (PR)
Daniel Brands (Q)	Tim Smyczek (Q)	Matthew Ebden	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [5]
Brian Baker	Cedrik-Marcel Stebe	Benoît Paire	Jarkko Nieminen
Bradley Klahn (Q)	Ernests Gulbis	Gilles Müller	Igor Sijsling (Q)
Ryan Harrison	Tommy Robredo (PR)	Bernard Tomic	Guillermo García López
Marcos Baghdatis	Steve Darcis	Dennis Novikov (WC)	Rogério Dutra da Silva
1st round out
Donald Young	Maxime Authom (Q)	Robby Ginepri (WC)	Rui Machado
Go Soeda	Guido Pella (Q)	Ivo Karlović	Michael Russell
Radek Štěpánek	Nicolas Mahut	Blaž Kavčič	Florian Mayer [22]
Lu Yen-hsun	Somdev Devvarman (PR)	Denis Istomin	David Goffin
Alex Bogomolov Jr.	Hiroki Moriya (Q)	Thomaz Bellucci	Robin Haase
Denis Kudla (WC)	Lukáš Lacko	Igor Andreev	Santiago Giraldo
Marinko Matosevic	Adrian Ungur	Bobby Reynolds (Q)	Guido Andreozzi (Q)
Filippo Volandri	Tatsuma Ito	Alejandro Falla	Karol Beck (Q)
Guillaume Rufin (WC)	Jan Hájek	Ricardo Mello (Q)	Viktor Troicki [29]
Michaël Llodra	Grigor Dimitrov	Mikhail Kukushkin	Xavier Malisse
Albert Montañés	Jürgen Melzer	Rajeev Ram	Tommy Haas [21]
Mikhail Youzhny [28]	Tobias Kamke	Daniel Gimeno Traver	Kevin Anderson
Florent Serra (LL)	Benjamin Becker	Łukasz Kubot	Andreas Seppi [26]
Rhyne Williams (Q)	Carlos Berlocq	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	Juan Mónaco [10]
Jesse Levine	Matthias Bachinger (Q)	Malek Jaziri	Sergiy Stakhovsky
Olivier Rochus	Jerzy Janowicz	Teymuraz Gabashvili (Q)	Paolo Lorenzi

Women's singles

Champion		Runner-up
Serena Williams [4]		Victoria Azarenka [1]
Semifinals out
Maria Sharapova [3]		Sara Errani [10]
Quarterfinals out
Samantha Stosur [7]	Marion Bartoli [11]	Ana Ivanovic [12]	Roberta Vinci [20]
4th round out
Anna Tatishvili	Laura Robson	Nadia Petrova [19]	Petra Kvitová [5]
Tsvetana Pironkova	Andrea Hlaváčková	Angelique Kerber [6]	Agnieszka Radwańska [2]
3rd round out
Zheng Jie [28]	Mandy Minella	Li Na [9]	Varvara Lepchenko [31]
Mallory Burdette (WC)	Lucie Šafářová [15]	Kristina Mladenovic (WC)	Pauline Parmentier
Sílvia Soler Espinosa	Sloane Stephens	Maria Kirilenko [14]	Ekaterina Makarova
Olga Govortsova	Olga Puchkova (Q)	Dominika Cibulková [13]	Jelena Janković [30]
2nd round out
Kirsten Flipkens (Q)	Magdaléna Rybáriková (Q)	Kristýna Plíšková (Q)	Sorana Cîrstea
Casey Dellacqua	Kim Clijsters [23]	Anastasia Rodionova (Q)	Edina Gallovits-Hall (Q)
Lourdes Domínguez Lino	Lucie Hradecká	Simona Halep	Aleksandra Wozniak
Romina Oprandi	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova [17]	Yanina Wickmayer [25]	Alizé Cornet
Irina-Camelia Begu	Ayumi Morita	Tatjana Malek (Q)	Sofia Arvidsson
Gréta Arn	Galina Voskoboeva	Elena Vesnina	María José Martínez Sánchez
Venus Williams	Johanna Konta (Q)	Kiki Bertens	Vera Dushevina
Bojana Jovanovski	Yaroslava Shvedova	Lara Arruabarrena Vecino (Q)	Carla Suárez Navarro
1st round out
Alexandra Panova	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	Hsieh Su-wei	Virginie Razzano
Julia Görges [18]	Olivia Rogowska (WC)	Stéphanie Foretz Gacon	Sabine Lisicki [16]
Heather Watson	Lesia Tsurenko (Q)	Samantha Crawford	Victoria Duval (WC)
Mathilde Johansson	Julia Cohen (WC)	Stefanie Vögele (Q)	Petra Martić
Melinda Czink	Sesil Karatantcheva	Timea Bacsinszky (PR)	Anabel Medina Garrigues [27]
Jarmila Gajdošová	Iveta Benešová	Alexandra Cadanțu	Melanie Oudin (WC)
Jamie Hampton	Andrea Petkovic	Marina Erakovic	Daniela Hantuchová
Julia Glushko (Q)	Michaëlla Krajicek	Nicole Gibbs (WC)	Polona Hercog
Caroline Wozniacki [8]	Alla Kudryavtseva (Q)	Camila Giorgi	Monica Niculescu [26]
Francesca Schiavone [22]	Akgul Amanmuradova	Kimiko Date-Krumm	Elina Svitolina (Q)
Chanelle Scheepers	Ágnes Szávay (PR)	Arantxa Rus	Klára Zakopalová [24]
Peng Shuai [32]	Eleni Daniilidou (LL)	Mirjana Lučić	CoCo Vandeweghe
Anne Keothavong	Bethanie Mattek-Sands (WC)	Tímea Babos	Tamira Paszek [29]
Christina McHale [21]	Irina Falconi	Nastassja Burnett (Q)	Garbiñe Muguruza
Johanna Larsson	Mona Barthel	Vania King	Urszula Radwańska
Kateryna Bondarenko	Shahar Pe'er	Ksenia Pervak	Nina Bratchikova

Andy Murray defeated Novak Djokovic, 7–6^(12–10), 7–5, 2–6, 3–6, 6–2

• It was Murray's 1st career Grand Slam singles title.

Serena Williams defeated Victoria Azarenka, 6–2, 2–6, 7–5

• It was Williams' 15th career Grand Slam singles title and her 4th at the US Open.

Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan defeated Leander Paes / Radek Štěpánek, 6–3, 6–4

• It was Bob and Mike's 12th career Grand Slam doubles title and their 4th at the US Open.

Sara Errani / Roberta Vinci defeated Andrea Hlaváčková / Lucie Hradecká, 6–4, 6–2

• It was Errani's 2nd career Grand Slam doubles title and her 1st at the US Open.

• It was Vinci's 2nd career Grand Slam doubles title and her 1st at the US Open.

Ekaterina Makarova / Bruno Soares defeated Květa Peschke / Marcin Matkowski, 6–7^(8–10), 6–1, [12–10]

• It was Makarova's 1st career Grand Slam mixed doubles title.

• It was Soares' 1st career Grand Slam mixed doubles title.

Filip Peliwo defeated Liam Broady, 6–2, 2–6, 7–5

Samantha Crawford defeated Anett Kontaveit, 7–5, 6–3

Kyle Edmund / Frederico Ferreira Silva defeated Nick Kyrgios / Jordan Thompson, 5–7, 6–4, [10–6]

Gabrielle Andrews / Taylor Townsend defeated Belinda Bencic / Petra Uberalová, 6–3, 6–4

This year there was no wheelchair competition due to a calendar conflict with the Paralympic Games in London. Wheelchair competition returned in 2013.^[13]

The following are the seeded players and notable players who withdrew from the event. Seedings based on ATP and WTA rankings are as of August 20, 2012. Rankings and points as before August 27, 2012.

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Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Roger Federer	12,165	720	360	11,805	Quarterfinals lost to Tomáš Berdych [6]
2	2	Novak Djokovic	11,270	2,000	1,200	10,470	Runner-up, lost to Andy Murray [3]
3	4	Andy Murray	7,290	720	2,000	8,570	Champion, defeated Novak Djokovic [2]
4	5	David Ferrer	5,375	180	720	5,915	Semifinals lost to Novak Djokovic [2]
5	6	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	4,835	360	45	4,530	Second round lost to Martin Kližan
6	7	Tomáš Berdych	4,200	90	720	4,830	Semifinals lost to Andy Murray [3]
7	8	Juan Martín del Potro	3,620	90	360	3,890	Quarterfinals lost to Novak Djokovic [2]
8	9	Janko Tipsarević	3,285	360	360	3,285	Quarterfinals lost to David Ferrer [4]
9	10	John Isner	2,880	360	90	2,610	Third round lost to Philipp Kohlschreiber [19]
10	11	Juan Mónaco	2,735	180	10	2,565	First round lost to Guillermo García López
11	12	Nicolás Almagro	2,305	10	180	2,475	Fourth round lost to Tomáš Berdych [6]
12	13	Marin Čilić	2,185	90	360	2,455	Quarterfinals lost to Andy Murray [3]
13	14	Richard Gasquet	2,030	45	180	2,165	Fourth round lost to David Ferrer [4]
14	15	Alexandr Dolgopolov	1,905	180	90	1,815	Third round lost Stan Wawrinka [18]
15	16	Milos Raonic	1,900	0	180	2,080	Fourth round lost to Andy Murray [3]
16	17	Gilles Simon	1,890	180	90	1,800	Third round lost to Mardy Fish [23]
17	18	Kei Nishikori	1,790	10	90	1,870	Third round lost to Marin Čilić [12]
18	19	Stan Wawrinka	1,730	45	180	1,865	Fourth round lost to Novak Djokovic [2]
19	20	Philipp Kohlschreiber	1,685	10	180	1,855	Fourth round lost to Janko Tipsarević [8]
20	22	Andy Roddick	1,600	360	180	1,420	Fourth round lost to Juan Martín del Potro [7]
21	21	Tommy Haas	1,633	90	10	1,553	First round lost to Ernests Gulbis
22	23	Florian Mayer	1,580	90	10	1,500	First round retired against Jack Sock [WC]
23	25	Mardy Fish	1,535	180	180	1,535	Fourth round withdrew for health reasons
24	24	Marcel Granollers	1,555	90	45	1,510	Second round lost to James Blake [WC]
25	26	Fernando Verdasco	1,525	90	90	1,525	Third round lost to Roger Federer [1]
26	27	Andreas Seppi	1,390	10	10	1,390	First round lost to Tommy Robredo [PR]
27	28	Sam Querrey	1,350	0	90	1,440	Third round lost to Tomáš Berdych [6]
28	29	Mikhail Youzhny	1,290	10	10	1,290	First round lost to Gilles Müller
29	30	Viktor Troicki	1,255	10	10	1,255	First round lost to Cedrik-Marcel Stebe
30	31	Feliciano López	1,220	90	90	1,220	Third round lost to Andy Murray [3]
31	35	Julien Benneteau	1,075	90	90	1,075	Third round lost to Novak Djokovic [2]
32	32	Jérémy Chardy	1,168	0	90	1,258	Third round lost to Martin Kližan

The following player would have been seeded, but he withdrew from the event.

Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points after	Reason
3	Rafael Nadal	8,715	1,200	7,515	Knee tendinitis[15]

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Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Victoria Azarenka	9,025	160	1,400	10,265	Runner-up, lost to Serena Williams [4]
2	2	Agnieszka Radwańska	8,115	100	280	8,295	Fourth round lost to Roberta Vinci [20]
3	3	Maria Sharapova	7,695	160	900	8,435	Semifinals lost to Victoria Azarenka [1]
4	4	Serena Williams	7,300	1,400	2,000	7,900	Champion, defeated Victoria Azarenka [1]
5	5	Petra Kvitová	6,415	5	280	6,690	Fourth round lost to Marion Bartoli [11]
6	6	Angelique Kerber	5,705	900	280	5,085	Fourth round lost to Sara Errani [10]
7	7	Samantha Stosur	5,700	2,000	500	4,200	Quarterfinals lost to Victoria Azarenka [1]
8	9	Caroline Wozniacki	4,335	900	5	3,440	First round lost to Irina-Camelia Begu
9	8	Li Na	4,371	5	160	4,526	Third round lost to Laura Robson
10	10	Sara Errani	3,860	5	900	4,755	Semifinals lost to Serena Williams [4]
11	11	Marion Bartoli	3,400	100	500	3,800	Quarterfinals lost to Maria Sharapova [3]
12	13	Ana Ivanovic	2,980	280	500	3,200	Quarterfinals lost to Serena Williams [4]
13	14	Dominika Cibulková	2,945	100	160	3,005	Third round lost to Roberta Vinci [20]
14	12	Maria Kirilenko	3,055	280	160	2,935	Third round lost to Andrea Hlaváčková
15	17	Lucie Šafářová	2,210	160	160	2,210	Third round lost to Nadia Petrova [19]
16	23	Sabine Lisicki	1,863	280	5	1,588	First round lost to Sorana Cîrstea
17	20	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	2,075	500	100	1,675	Second round lost to Kristina Mladenovic [WC]
18	21	Julia Görges	1,970	160	5	1,815	First round lost to Kristýna Plíšková [Q]
19	22	Nadia Petrova	1,885	160	280	2,005	Fourth round lost to Maria Sharapova [3]
20	19	Roberta Vinci	2,085	160	500	2,425	Quarterfinals lost to Sara Errani [10]
21	24	Christina McHale	1,780	160	5	1,625	First round lost to Kiki Bertens
22	26	Francesca Schiavone	1,716	280	5	1,441	First round lost to Sloane Stephens
23	25	Kim Clijsters	1,765	0	100	1,865	Second round lost to Laura Robson
24	30	Klára Zakopalová	1,670	5	5	1,670	First round lost to Andrea Hlaváčková
25	29	Yanina Wickmayer	1,675	100	100	1,675	Second round lost to Pauline Parmentier
26	33	Monica Niculescu	1,581	280	5	1,306	First round lost to Ayumi Morita
27	36	Anabel Medina Garrigues	1,540	160	5	1,385	First round lost to Lucie Hradecká
28	28	Zheng Jie	1,676	100	160	1,736	Third round lost to Victoria Azarenka [1]
29	31	Tamira Paszek	1,603	5	5	1,603	First round lost to Olga Govortsova
30	27	Jelena Janković	1,681	160	160	1,681	Third round lost to Agnieszka Radwańska [2]
31	32	Varvara Lepchenko	1,600	5	160	1,755	Third round lost to Samantha Stosur [7]
32	34	Peng Shuai	1,580	280	5	1,305	First round lost to Elena Vesnina

The following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.

Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points after	Reason
15	Kaia Kanepi	2,514	100	2,414	Achilles tendon injury[15]
16	Vera Zvonareva	2,375	500	1,875	Viral illness[15]
18	Flavia Pennetta	2,190	500	1,690	Right wrist injury[15]
49	Petra Cetkovská	1,315	100	1,215	Right ankle injury

Below are the lists of the wild card awardees entering in the main draws.

1. Samantha Crawford / Mitchell Krueger
2. Irina Falconi / Steve Johnson
3. Varvara Lepchenko / Donald Young
4. Nicole Melichar / Brian Battistone
5. Grace Min / Bradley Klahn
6. Melanie Oudin / Jack Sock
7. Sloane Stephens / Rajeev Ram

The following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:

The following players were accepted directly into the main tournament, but withdrew with injuries or personal reasons.

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