2011 Indian Wells semi finalist Juan Martin DEL POTRO defeated Roger Federer in 5 sets in the 2009 US Open men's final. Del Potro is gunning for World No.1. He has made the semis or better at 5 of his past 7 tournaments.
The 2012 Indian Wells Open men’s main draw singles 1st round matches will begin on Thursday 8 March at 11am local time in California in the USA. Indian Wells is one of only nine ATP Tour Masters 1000 category tournaments each year and has 96 players vying for this prestigious title, the maximum of ATP ranking points i.e. 1,000 and $1,000,000 US dollars in prize money for the winner.
Indian Wells has a 128-draw divided up between 96 players: 12 Qualifiers (Q), 5 Wild Cards (WC), 79 Direct Acceptances and 32 BYES. The Top 32 ranked players amongst the 79 Direct Acceptances become the seeds and ALL have a BYE in the 1st round. The 32 seeds were ranked from World No.1 (Novak DJOKOVIC) through to No.33 (Julien BENNETEAU).
The last direct acceptance into the main draw was Matthias BACHINGER from Germany who was ranked No.89 at the entry deadline date, which means Indian Wells is showcasing 79 of the Top 89 players in the world with only No.29 Robin Soderling unable to play due to injury from the seeded players.
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The draw for the seeded players IF they all win through to the 3rd round is:
- Novak DJOKOVIC (1) v (29) Kevin ANDERSON
- Florian MAYER (18) v (16) Richard GASQUET
- Nicolas ALMAGRO (12) v (17) Kei NISHIKORI
- Andy RODDICK (30) v (7) Tomas BERDYCH
- Andy MURRAY (4) v (25) Viktor TROICKI
- Stanislas WAWRINKA (23) v (13) Gilles SIMON
- John ISNER (11) v (22) Juan MONACO
- Julien BENNETEAU (32) v (8) Mardy FISH
The seeded match ups for the bottom half of the draw are:
- David FERRER (5) v (31) Juan Ignacio CHELA
- Fernando VERDASCO (19) v (9) Juan Martin DEL POTRO
- Gael MONFILS (14) v (20) Jurgen MELZER
- Milos RAONIC (27) v (3) Roger FEDERER
- Jo-Wilfried TSONGA (6) v (28) Radek STEPANEK
- Marin CILIC (24) v (10) Janko TIPSAREVIC
- Feliciano LOPEZ (15) v (21) Alexandr DOLGOPOLOV
- Marcel GRANOLLERS (26) v (2) Rafael NADAL
The 2012 Indian Wells Men’s singles draw is:
- Novak DJOKOVIC (1) v BYE
- Andrey GOLUBEV (Q) v (Q) Rik DE VOEST
- Matthias BACHINGER v Philipp KOHLSCHREIBER
- BYE v (29) Kevin ANDERSON
- Florian MAYER (18) v BYE
- Robin HAASE v Pablo ANDUJAR
- Albert RAMOS v (WC) Jesse LEVINE
- BYE v (16) Richard GASQUET
- Nicolas ALMAGRO (12) v BYE
- Tim SMYCZEK (Q) v (WC) Sam QUERREY
- Santiago GIRALDO v (WC) Jack SOCK
- BYE v (17) Kei NISHIKORI
- Andy RODDICK (30) v BYE
- Ivo KARLOVIC v Lukasz KUBOT
- Alex BOGOMOLOV JR. v Sergiy STAKHOVSKY
- BYE v (7) Tomas BERDYCH
- Andy MURRAY (4) v BYE
- Guillermo GARCIA-LOPEZ v Rui MACHADO
- Flavio CIPOLLA v Ryan HARRISON
- BYE v (25) Viktor TROICKI
- Stanislas WAWRINKA (23) v BYE
- Paolo LORENZI (Q) v (WC) Robby GINEPRI
- Amir DELIC (Q) v Dudi SELA
- BYE v (13) Gilles SIMON
- John ISNER (11) v BYE
- Federico GIL (LL) v (Q) Rhyne WILLIAMS
- Vasek POSPISIL (Q) v Nicolas MAHUT
- BYE v (22) Juan MONACO
- Julien BENNETEAU (32) v BYE
- Matthew EBDEN (Q) v Igor KUNITSYN
- Andreas SEPPI v Olivier ROCHUS
- BYE v (8) Mardy FISH
The bottom half of the draw is:
- David FERRER (5) v BYE
- Ivan DODIG v Grigor DIMITROV
- LU Yen-Hsun v Denis ISTOMIN
- BYE v (31) Juan Ignacio CHELA
- Fernando VERDASCO (19) v BYE
- Cedrik-Marcel STEBE v Ryan SWEETING
- Marinko MATOSEVIC (Q) v (Q) Ruben BEMELMANS
- BYE v (14) Gael MONFILS
- Nicolas ALMAGRO (12) v BYE
- Nikolay DAVYDENKO v (Q) Sergei BUBKA
- Lukas ROSOL v Thomaz BELLUCCI
- BYE v (20) Jurgen MELZER
- Milos RAONIC (27) v BYE
- Carlos BERLOCQ v Benoit PAIRE
- (TURSUNOV out) Tobias KAMKE (LL) v (WC) Denis KUDLA
- BYE v (3) Roger FEDERER
- Jo-Wilfried TSONGA (6) v BYE
- Michael LLODRA v Ernests GULBIS
- Xavier MALISSE v (Q) Bobby REYNOLDS
- BYE v (28) Radek STEPANEK
- Marin CILIC (24) v BYE
- Potito STARACE v David NALBANDIAN
- Bernard TOMIC v Gilles MULLER
- BYE v (10) Janko TIPSAREVIC
- Feliciano LOPEZ (15) v BYE
- Jeremy CHARDY v Marcos BAGHDATIS
- Donald YOUNG v Steve DARCIS
- BYE v (21) Alexandr DOLGOPOLOV
- Marcel GRANOLLERS (26) v BYE
- Jarkko NIEMINEN v Tommy HAAS
- Alejandro FALLA v Leonardo MAYER
- BYE v (2) Rafael NADAL
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