who won the 2012 snooker masters?
London
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 The 2012 Australian Open Men 's Singles final was the championship tennis match of the Men 's Singles tournament at the 2012 Australian Open . It pitted the world 's top two players , Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal , against each other in a Grand Slam tournament final for the fourth time ( out of seven ) and third consecutive time . Djokovic defeated Nadal in five sets to win the match . At five hours and fifty @-@ three minutes , it was the Major final match with the longest duration in history . During the trophy ceremony , both Nadal and Djokovic required chairs , as they were both so tired that they couldn 't stand . 

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 The dominance of the Big Four continued in 2012 . Each player won one Grand Slam tournament : Djokovic won in Australia , Nadal in France , Federer at Wimbledon and Murray ( who hired former world number 1 Ivan Lendl as his head coach earlier in the year ) with his first Grand Slam tournament title at the US Open . This win " cemented " Murray 's position – who also won gold in the Olympic Games – as a member of the Big Four : his end of season ranking of third was his best yet . Djokovic entered the season as world number 1 , and remained there until July 2012 , when he was overtaken by Federer , who reclaimed the top spot for the first time since June 2010 . Federer subsequently overtook Sampras ' record of 286 weeks at the top , and ultimately extended the record to 302 weeks . Federer relinquished his world No. 1 ranking on 5 November , Djokovic reclaiming the top spot and ending the year at the top of the rankings for the second consecutive year . Djokovic was the only player to make at least the semifinals in all four Grand Slam events , and was the losing finalist at the French and US Open . Both he and Federer won three Masters tournaments , seeing them dominate the season as a whole . Federer was also the silver medalist at the Olympics , where Djokovic finished fourth . Nadal , meanwhile , had his season cut short by an injury . Having won two clay court Masters tournaments and the French Open , he was eliminated in the second round at Wimbledon – his first defeat at such an early stage in a Grand Slam tournament since 2005 . He later revealed that he had been injured going into the tournament , and he did not compete for the rest of the season , but still ended the year as world No. 4 . 

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 The 2012 French Open Men 's Singles final was the championship tennis match of the Men 's Singles tournament at the 2012 French Open . It pitted the world 's top two players , Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal , against each other in a Grand Slam tournament final for the fifth time overall and fourth consecutive time . This match had historical proportions as Djokovic would have become the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to win all four Majors simultaneously , whereas Nadal was looking to break Björn Borg 's record of six French Open titles and equal Chris Evert 's record of seven French Open titles held by a man or woman . 

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 The 2012 Wimbledon Gentlemen 's Singles final was the championship tennis match of the Gentlemen 's Singles tournament at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships . It pitted world No. 3 Roger Federer against world No. 4 Andy Murray in a Major final for a third time . This final snapped a streak of four consecutive Major finals reached by Djokovic and Nadal . Nadal was ousted in the second round while Federer defeated Djokovic in the semi @-@ finals . In what was the most historic Major final of the year , Federer sought to win a record shattering seventeenth Major title and a record @-@ tying seventh Wimbledon to match his idol Pete Sampras . Both of these records are amongst the most prestigious in all of tennis . Murray on the other hand had become the first British man since Bunny Austin in 1938 to reach the Wimbledon final , and was attempting to become the first Briton to win any Major title since Fred Perry in 1936 . 
