2012 Dubai Tennis Championships

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2012 Dubai Tennis Championships
Date 27 February ? 3 March (men)
20 ? 25 February (women) [1]
Edition 20th (men) / 12th (women)
Category ATP World Tour 500
WTA Premier event
Surface Hard / outdoor
Location Dubai , United Arab Emirates
Venue Aviation Club Tennis Centre
Champions
Men's singles
Switzerland Roger Federer
Women's singles
Poland Agnieszka Radwa?ska
Men's doubles
India Mahesh Bhupathi / India Rohan Bopanna
Women's doubles
United States Liezel Huber / United States Lisa Raymond
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The 2012 Dubai Tennis Championships (also known as the 2012 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for sponsorship reasons) was a 500 event on the 2012 ATP World Tour and a Premier event on the 2012 WTA Tour . Both of the events took place at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre in Dubai , United Arab Emirates . The women's tournament took place from February 20 to February 25, 2012, while the men's tournament took place from 27 February to 3 March 2012. Roger Federer and Agnieszka Radwa?ska won the singles titles.

Finals [ edit ]

Men's singles [ edit ]

Switzerland Roger Federer defeated United Kingdom Andy Murray , 7?5, 6?4

  • It was Federer's 2nd title of the year and 72nd of his career. It was his 5th win at Dubai, also winning in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2007.

Women's singles [ edit ]

Poland Agnieszka Radwa?ska defeated Germany Julia Gorges , 7?5, 6?4

  • It was Radwa?ska's 1st title of the year and 8th of her career. It was her 2nd Premier-level tournament of her career and 4th Premier overall.

Men's doubles [ edit ]

India Mahesh Bhupathi / India Rohan Bopanna defeated Poland Mariusz Fyrstenberg / Poland Marcin Matkowski , 6?4, 3?6, [10?5]

Women's doubles [ edit ]

United States Liezel Huber / United States Lisa Raymond defeated India Sania Mirza / Russia Elena Vesnina , 6?2, 6?1

ATP singles main draw entrants [ edit ]

Seeds [ edit ]

Country Player Rank 1 Seed
  SRB Novak Djokovic 1 1
   SUI Roger Federer 3 2
  GBR Andy Murray 4 3
  FRA Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6 4
  CZE Toma? Berdych 7 5
  USA Mardy Fish 8 6
  SRB Janko Tipsarevi? 9 7
  ARG Juan Martin del Potro 10 8
  • 1 Rankings as of February 20, 2012

Other entrants [ edit ]

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Retirements [ edit ]

ATP doubles main draw entrants [ edit ]

Seeds [ edit ]

Country Player Country Player Rank 1 Seed
  FRA Michael Llodra   SRB Nenad Zimonji? 11 1
  SWE Robert Lindstedt   ROU Horia Tec?u 17 2
  POL Mariusz Fyrstenberg   POL Marcin Matkowski 24 3
  IND Mahesh Bhupathi   IND Rohan Bopanna 26 4
  • 1 Rankings are as of February 20, 2012

Other entrants [ edit ]

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

WTA singles main draw entrants [ edit ]

Seeds [ edit ]

Country Player Rank 1 Seed
  BLR Victoria Azarenka 1 1
  CZE Petra Kvitova 3 2
  DEN Caroline Wozniacki 4 3
  AUS Samantha Stosur 5 4
  POL Agnieszka Radwa?ska 6 5
  FRA Marion Bartoli 7 6
  ITA Francesca Schiavone 11 7
  SRB Jelena Jankovi? 13 8
  GER Sabine Lisicki 14 9
  • 1 Rankings as of February 13, 2012

Other entrants [ edit ]

The following players received wildcards into the main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

The following players received entry as lucky loser:

Withdrawals [ edit ]

Retirements [ edit ]

ATP doubles main draw entrants [ edit ]

Seeds [ edit ]

Country Player Country Player Rank 1 Seed
  USA Liezel Huber   USA Lisa Raymond 3 1
  IND Sania Mirza   RUS Elena Vesnina 15 2
  SVK Daniela Hantuchova   POL Agnieszka Radwa?ska 37 3
  ESP Nuria Llagostera Vives   AUS Anastasia Rodionova 50 4
  • 1 Rankings are as of February 13, 2012

Other entrants [ edit ]

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

Retirements [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]