The 2012 Aircel Chennai Open was a

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tournament, played on outdoor

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s. It was the 17th edition of the only ATP tournament taking place in India and took place at the

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, India. It was held from 2 to 8 January 2012.

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was the defending singles champion coming into the tournament but was knocked out in the quarterfinals. Former champion

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was originally in the field as the 4th seed before pulling out with a patellar tendon injury. Finally, fourth seed

Milos Raonic Milos Raonic (; sr, Милош Раонић, Miloš Raonić, ; born December 27, 1990) is a Canadian inactive professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professio ...

from Canada defeated world no. 9 and top seeded

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Janko Tipsarević Janko Tipsarević ( sr-cyr, Јанко Типсаревић, ; born 22 June 1984) is a Serbian former tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 8, achieved on 2 April 2012. In his career, he won 4 ATP World Tour titles, one AT ...

to win only his second ATP title. Raonic became the first player since

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in 2008 to win an ATP title without losing a serve. The doubles title went to the

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-Serb pair of

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and

after they defeated the Israeli pair of

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and

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ATP singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings as of 26 December 2011

Other entrants

The following players have been announced as part of the singles main draw: Wild Cards *

Yuki Bhambri Yuki Bhambri (born 4 July 1992) is an Indian professional tennis player. He is a former junior no. 1 and winner of the 2009 Australian Open Junior Championship. He is the first Indian to win the junior Australian Open title and the fourth Ind ...

David Goffin David Goffin (; born 7 December 1990) is a Belgian professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 7. He is currently the Belgian No. 1, and the first Belgian man to be ranked in the top 10. Goffin has won six ATP titles ...

Vishnu Vardhan Vishnu Vardhan (born 27 July 1987), also known as J. Vishnuvardhan, is a professional tennis player from India. He won bronze medal in men's doubles at 2010 Asian games in Guangzhou, China. He paired-up with and Sania Mirza for mixed doubles an ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Yūichi Sugita is a Japanese tennis player. He has won one ATP singles title, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 36 on 9 October 2017. Career Juniors As a junior Sugita compiled a win–loss record of 34–19 (and 26–18 in doubles), ...

Go Soeda is a former professional Japanese tennis player. He started playing tennis at the age of four and turned professional in April 2003. He has won 18 singles titles on the ATP Challenger Tour, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of w ...

Thiemo de Bakker Thiemo Carsten Jannick de Bakker (born 19 September 1988) is a Dutch professional tennis player. Considered a top prospect of his generation as a junior, he also made an impressive breakthrough as a young pro, reaching a career-high ranking in ...

Vasek Pospisil Vasek Pospisil ( ; cs, Vašek Pospíšil, ; known in born June 23, 1990) is a Canadian professional tennis player. Pospisil has a career-high world singles ranking of No. 25, and No. 4 in doubles. Along with partner Jack Sock, he won the 2014 ...

The following player received entry as

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: *

Édouard Roger-Vasselin Édouard Roger-Vasselin (; born 28 November 1983) is a French professional tennis player who primarily specialises in doubles. He won his first Grand Slam title at the 2014 French Open, winning the men's doubles partnering Julien Benneteau, a ...

Withdrawals

(patellar tendon injury) *

Robin Haase Robin Haase (; born 6 April 1987) is a Dutch professional tennis player. He reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 33 in July 2012, and has won two singles titles, at the Austrian Open in both 2011 and 2012. Haase also reache ...

(injury) *

Somdev Devvarman Somdev Kishore Devvarman (born 13 February 1985) is a former professional Indian tennis player. He hit the headlines for being the only collegiate player to have made three consecutive finals at the NCAA, winning back-to-back finals ...

(right shoulder injury)

Retirements

Steve Darcis Steve Darcis (, born 13 March 1984) is a Belgian retired professional tennis player. In his career, he won two ATP titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 38 on 22 May 2017. Personal life Steve Darcis was born in Liège t ...

(right shoulder injury)

ATP doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of 26 December 2011

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: *

Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash Mohit Mayur Jakaprakash (born 14 September 1993) is an Indian tennis player. Jayaprakash has a career high ATP singles ranking of 577 achieved on 1 February 2016. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 460 achieved on 23 May 2016. ...

Ramkumar Ramanathan Ramanathan Ramkumar (born 8 November 1994) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as No. 111 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in July 2018, and in doubles at No. 58 ac ...

* Sriram Balaji /

Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (born 20 October 1988) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ranking of No. 64 achieved on 18 March 2019. He won the doubles title with Rohan Bopanna at the 2017 Chennai Open, in a historic final ...

The following pair received entry as alternates: *

Withdrawals

(right shoulder injury)

Finals

Singles

defeated

, 6–7^(4–7), 7–6^(7–4), 7–6^(7–4)

Doubles

defeated

, 6–4, 6–4

References

External links

Official website
{{2012 ATP World Tour

Aircel Chennai Open The Maharashtra Open (known as Tata Open Maharashtra for sponsorship reasons) is a professional men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Pune, India. It is part of the ATP Tour 250 series on the ATP Tour. The inaugural event w ...

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