2025 Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Rome, Italy - Masters 1000

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DATE: May 6 -18, 2025
SURFACE: Clay
TOTAL COMMITMENT: $5,509,771
FIELD SIZE: 96
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Alexander Zverev

Seeds:

1.Jannik Sinner
2. Alexander Zverev
3. Carlos Alcaraz
4. Taylor Fritz
5. Jack Draper
6. Casper Ruud
7. Alex de Minaur
8. Lorenzo Musetti
9. Holger Rune
10. Daniil Medvedev
11. Tommy Paul
12. Ben Shelton
13. Arthur Fils
14. Grigor Dimitrov
15. Frances Tiafoe
16. Andrey Rublev
17. Francisco Cerundolo
18. Stefanos Tsitsipas
19. Tomas Machac
20. Jakub Mensik
21. Ugo Humbert
22. Sebastian Korda
23. Karen Khachanov
24. Alexei Popyrin
25. Alejandro Davidovich-Fokina
26. Felix Auger-Aliassime
27. Denis Shapovalov
28. Brandon Nakashima
29. Matteo Berrettini
30. Hubert Hurkacz
31. Alex Michelsen
32. Sebastian Baez

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The Tournament:

The Italian Open, originally called the Italian International Championships, is a tennis tournament held in Rome, Italy. It is one of the most important clay tennis tournaments in the world with the men's competition being an ATP Tour Masters 1000 event on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tour, and the women's competition technically being a WTA 1000 event on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tour. The two events were combined in 2011. The tournament is played on clay courts, currently during the second week of May. The event is also known as the "Rome Masters" for male edition, as well as sponsored name "Internazionali BNL d'Italia". Rafael Nadal has won the men's singles title a record ten times.

About Rome:

Rome is the capital city of Italy. It is also the capital of the Lazio region, the centre of the Metropolitan City of Rome, and a special comune named Comune di Roma Capitale. With 2,860,009 residents in 1,285 km2 (496.1 sq mi), Rome is the country's most populated comune and the third most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. The Metropolitan City of Rome, with a population of 4,355,725 residents, is the most populous metropolitan city in Italy. Its metropolitan area is the third-most populous within Italy. Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber. Vatican City (the smallest country in the world) is an independent country inside the city boundaries of Rome, the only existing example of a country within a city. Rome is often referred to as the City of Seven Hills due to its geographic location, and also as the "Eternal City". Rome is generally considered to be the "cradle of Western civilization and Christian culture", and the centre of the Catholic Church.

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BTW,
Nicolas Jarry last years runner up to Zverev has not withdrawn, in Rome, after I did further research, I was suspicious, when his replacement was named Juanito Jarry, and could not find any information on him, also Mrzz who follows a lot of smaller clay tournaments also confirmed he didnt know of a player Juanito Jarry
Whoever put up the format of withdrawals and who is in and out was a joke, for people ( like myself and also tennis journalists) who use the format for this usually correct format for tournaments
The withdrawals are as I posted before,
Monfils, Nishikori and Djokovic
 
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Rome draw is out
Sinner and Alcaraz are on opposite halves
Alcaraz is in Zverev half.
I am hoping we have a separate post for Rome Masters instead of using the General News
Anyway for the time being I have done the projected QFs
Sinner (1) vs Ruud (6)
Zverev (2) vs Musetti (8)
Alcaraz (3) vs Draper (5)
Fritz (4) vs de Minaur (7)

Mrrz,
We do have a potential Fonseca v Rublev in round 2
Watching a practice video of Fonseca practicing with Dimitrov in Rome, he seemed to be in good spirits smiling a lot.
 
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BTW,
Nicolas Jarry last years runner up to Zverev has not withdrawn, in Rome, after I did further research, I was suspicious, when his replacement was named Juanito Jarry, and could not find any information on him, also Mrzz who follows a lot of smaller clay tournaments also confirmed he didnt know of a player Juanito Jarry
Whoever put up the format of withdrawals and who is in and out was a joke, for people ( like myself and also tennis journalists) who use the format for this usually correct format for tournaments
The withdrawals are as I posted before,
Monfils, Nishikori and Djokovic
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Rome Update:
OUT: Bergs, Bonzi, Struff
IN: 3 Lucky Losers
( after the Jarry incident I have checked and confirmed that all 3 players did withdraw)
de Jong LL will play against Shevchenko
Norrie LL will play against O'Connell
Carreno Busta LL will play against Ugo Carabelli
 
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