2012 Novak Djokovic tennis season

Yearly summary

Grand Slam performances

Australian Open

Main article: 2012 Australian Open

In the semi-final, Djokovic beat Andy Murray in five sets (7–5 in the 5th set) after 4 hours and 50 minutes, coming back from a two sets to one deficit and fending off break points at 5-all in the 5th set. In the final, Djokovic beat Rafael Nadal in five sets, coming from a break down in the final set to win 7–5. At 5 hours and 53 minutes, the match was the longest final in Open Era Grand Slam history, as well as the longest match in Australian Open history, surpassing the 5 hour and 14 minute 2009 semi-final between Nadal and Fernando Verdasco.

Roland Garros

Main article: 2012 French Open

Djokovic reached his maiden French Open final by defeating Roger Federer, reaching the final of all four majors consecutively. Djokovic had the chance to become the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four major titles at once, having won last year's Wimbledon and US Open titles as well as this year's Australian Open, but was beaten by Nadal in the final in four sets.

Wimbledon

Main article: 2012 Wimbledon Championships

Djokovic failed to defend his Wimbledon title, losing to Roger Federer in four sets in the semi-finals.

US Open

Main article: 2012 US Open (tennis)

At the US Open, Djokovic reached his third consecutive final by beating fourth-seeded David Ferrer in a match suspended a day due to rain. He then lost the final to Murray in five sets.

All matches

This table chronicles all the matches of Djokovic in 2012, including walkovers (W/O) which the ATP does not count as wins. They are marked ND for non-decision or no decision.

Singles matches

• Source

Doubles matches

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Exhibition matches

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Exhibitions

Mubadala World Tennis Championship

Tournament schedule

Singles schedule

• 2011 source
• 2012 source

Doubles schedule

• 2011 source
• 2012 source

Yearly records

Statistics

The table below summarizes the worldwide ranking of Novak Djokovic in different sectors of the game according to the RICOH ATP matchfacts .

Head-to-head matchups

Novak Djokovic has a record against the top 10, a record against the top 50 and an record against other players outside the top 50.

Ordered by number of wins (Bolded number marks a top 10 player at the time of match, Italic means top 50)

• FRA Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 5–0
• GBR Andy Murray 4–3
• CZE Tomáš Berdych 3–0
• ESP David Ferrer 3–0
• ITA Andreas Seppi 3–0
• ARG Juan Martín del Potro 3–1
• SUI Roger Federer 3–2
• FRA Richard Gasquet 2–0
• GER Tommy Haas 2–0
• AUS Lleyton Hewitt 2–0
• ITA Paolo Lorenzi 2–0
• GER Florian Mayer 2–0
• ARG Juan Mónaco 2–0
• AUS Bernard Tomic 2–0
• SRB Viktor Troicki 2–0
• SUI Stanislas Wawrinka 2–0
• SRB Janko Tipsarević 2–1
• RSA Kevin Anderson 1–0
• ESP Nicolás Almagro 1–0
• ESP Pablo Andújar 1–0
• CYP Marcos Baghdatis 1–0
• FRA Julien Benneteau 1–0
• ARG Carlos Berlocq 1–0
• GER Michael Berrer 1–0
• CRO Marin Čilić 1–0
• RUS Nikolay Davydenko 1–0
• FRA Nicolas Devilder 1–0
• BUL Grigor Dimitrov 1–0
• UKR Alexandr Dolgopolov 1–0
• BRA Rogério Dutra da Silva 1–0
• ESP Juan Carlos Ferrero 1–0
• ITA Fabio Fognini 1–0
• ESP Daniel Gimeno-Traver 1–0
• COL Santiago Giraldo 1–0
• KAZ Andrey Golubev 1–0
• NED Robin Haase 1–0
• USA Ryan Harrison 1–0
• SLO Blaž Kavčič 1–0
• ESP Feliciano López 1–0
• FRA Nicolas Mahut 1–0
• AUT Jürgen Melzer 1–0
• USA Andy Roddick 1–0
• UKR Sergiy Stakhovsky 1–0
• ITA Potito Starace 1–0
• GER Cedrik-Marcel Stebe 1–0
• CZE Radek Štěpánek 1–0
• USA Sam Querrey 1–1
• ESP Rafael Nadal 1–3
• USA John Isner 0–1

Finals

Singles: 11 (6–5)

Earnings

• Bold font denotes tournament win

Awards and nominations===-->

Awards and nominations

• Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year
• ATP Player of the Year
• ITF World Champion
• Best Male Tennis Player ESPY Award
• AIPS Europe Athletes of the Year
• US Open Series Champion
• Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year

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