This content was published 11 years ago. It may refer to a past edition of the Internazionali d’Italia.

The all-American match-up between Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Sloane Stephens is the pick of the first round qualifying ties as the Internazionali BNL d’Italia begins in earnest on Saturday.

The pair kick off the start of this year’s proceedings on the Supertennis Arena and are followed by an intriguing clash between Carla Suarez Navarro, the Spaniard, and Gisela Dulko, the Argentine who has reached the quarter-finals of the French Open in each of the last two years.

Home wildcard Nastassja Burnett takes on Swede Johanna Larsson, third up on Court 2.

In the men’s qualifying, German Philipp Petzschner takes on big-serving Croat Ivo Karlovic on Court 1. 

Players will need to win two qualifying matches to qualify for the main draw, which incidentally takes places at midday local time on Saturday.

ORDER OF PLAY – SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2012

SUPERTENNIS ARENA start 10:00 am
Qualifying – B Mattek-Sands (USA) vs S Stephens (USA) – WTA
Qualifying – C Suarez Navarro (ESP) vs G Dulko (ARG) – WTA
Qualifying – M Kukushkin (KAZ) vs F Cipolla (ITA) – ATP
Qualifying – S Bolelli (ITA) vs S Querrey (USA) – ATP
Qualifying – G Soeda (JPN) vs [WC] M Cecchinato (ITA) – ATP

COURT 1 start 10:00 am
Qualifying – P Petzschner (GER) vs I Karlovic (CRO) – ATP
Qualifying – [WC] G Naso (ITA) vs M Ebden (AUS) – ATP
Qualifying – [WC] M Viola (ITA) vs X Malisse (BEL) – ATP
Qualifying – S Giraldo (COL) vs E Gulbis (LAT) – ATP
Qualifying – A Ungur (ROU) vs A Montanes (ESP) – ATP

COURT 2 start 10:00 am
Qualifying – M Lucic (CRO) vs J Hampton (USA) – WTA
Qualifying – S Hsieh (TPE) vs [WC] A Virgili (ITA) – WTA
Qualifying – N Burnett (ITA) vs J Larsson (SWE) – WTA
Qualifying – P Parmentier (FRA) vs A Grymalska (ITA) – WTA

Not Before 4:00 PM
Qualifying – C Dentoni (ITA) vs V Lepchenko (USA) – WTA

COURT 3 start 10:00 am
Qualifying – K Chang (TPE) vs V Dushevina (RUS) – WTA
Qualifying – A Wozniak (CAN) vs A Kudryavtseva (RUS) – WTA
Qualifying – L Tsurenko (UKR) vs G Arn (HUN) – WTA
Qualifying – A Tatishvili (GEO) vs A Chakvetadze (RUS) – WTA

Not Before 4:00 PM
Qualifying – J Craybas (USA) vs O Govortsova (BLR) – WTA

COURT 4 start 10:00 am
Qualifying – A Falla (COL) vs G Garcia-Lopez (ESP) – ATP
Qualifying – A Ramos (ESP) vs D Gimeno-Traver (ESP) – ATP
Qualifying – R Haase (NED) vs S Stakhovsky (UKR) – ATP
Qualifying – [WC] E Burzi (ITA) vs I Andreev (RUS) – ATP
Qualifying – V Hanescu (ROU) vs R Harrison (USA) – ATP

COURT 6 start 10:00 am
Qualifying – K Bondarenko (UKR) vs A Rodionova (AUS) – WTA
Qualifying – P Ormaechea (ARG) vs M Johansson (FRA) – WTA
Qualifying – P Martic (CRO) vs A Hlavackova (CZE) – WTA
Qualifying – S Soler-Espinosa (ESP) vs L Dominguez Lino (ESP) – WTA

Not Before 5:30 PM
Qualifying – G Muller (LUX) vs V Pospisil (CAN) – ATP