The 2012

Qatar Total Open The Qatar Ladies Open, currently sponsored by TotalEnergies and called the Qatar TotalEnergies Open, is a women's tennis tournament held in Doha, Qatar. Held since 2001, this WTA Tour event was a Tier I-tournament in 2008, and was played on outdoo ...

was a professional women's

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tournament played on

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. It was the 10th edition of the event. It took place at International Tennis and Squash complex in

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between 13 and 19 February 2012. It was upgraded from a Premier event to a Premier 5 event. Victoria Azarenka won the singles title.

Champions

Singles

Victoria Azarenka defeated Samantha Stosur, 6–1, 6–2 *It was Azarenka's 3rd title of the year and 11th of her career. It was her 1st Premier 5 title of her career and 6th total Premier title. It was her 3rd consecutive title and 17th consecutive match win.

Doubles

Liezel Huber / Lisa Raymond defeated Raquel Kops-Jones / Abigail Spears, 6–3, 6–1

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings as of February 6, 2012

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Fatma Al-Nabhani *

Ons Jabeur Ons Jabeur ( ar, أُنْس جَابِر, ʾUns Jābir, ; born 28 August 1994) is a Tunisian professional tennis player. She has a career high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of world No. 2 achieved on 27 June 2022. Jabeur is the curre ...

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The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Kateryna Bondarenko Kateryna Volodymyrivna Volodko (née Bondarenko; uk, Катерина Володимирівна Бондаренко; born 8 August 1986) is a tennis player from Ukraine. She was the doubles champion in 2008 at the Australian Open, partnering ...

Vera Dushevina Vera Yevgenyevna Dushevina ( rus, Вера Евгеньевна Душевина; born 6 October 1986) is a Russian former professional tennis player. She won one singles title and two doubles titles on the WTA Tour. As a junior, she won the ...

* Caroline Garcia * Anne Keothavong * Varvara Lepchenko * Urszula Radwańska * Virginie Razzano * Aleksandra Wozniak

Withdrawals

* Petra Kvitová * Andrea Petkovic (low back stress fracture)

Retirements

* Marion Bartoli (right calf injury) * Carla Suárez Navarro (right hip injury) * Vera Zvonareva (left hip injury)

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings are as of February 6, 2012

Other entrants

The following pair received wildcard into the doubles main draw: * Fatma Al-Nabhani /

Retirements

* Urszula Radwańska (upper respiratory injury)

External links

Official Website
{{2012 WTA Tour

Qatar Ladies Open 2012 in Qatari sport