The 2012 BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy was a

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 20th edition of the

BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy The Romanian Open (also known as the BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy) was a professional men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the ATP Tour. It was held annually in Bucharest, Romania ...

tournament, and was part of the

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of the

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. It was held in

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

, Romania, 23 April until 29 April 2012. It was the first edition of the tournament to be played in spring after 19 years, when it was played in autumn. First-seeded

Gilles Simon Gilles Simon (; born 27 December 1984) is a French former professional tennis player. He had a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 6 attained on 5 January 2009. He turned professional in 2002 and won 14 singles titles on the ATP Tour. ...

won the singles title.

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of April 16, 2012

Other entrants

The following players received

wildcard Wild card most commonly refers to: * Wild card (cards), a playing card that substitutes for any other card in card games * Wild card (sports), a tournament or playoff place awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal pla ...

s into the singles main draw: *

Marius Copil Marius Copil (born 17 October 1990) is a Romanian professional tennis player playing on the ATP World Tour and ATP Challenger Tour. He is a member of the Romanian Davis Cup team. Copil is known for his extremely fast, powerful, and consiste ...

Victor Crivoi Victor Crivoi (born 25 May 1982) is a Romanian former tennis player. His career high ranking is No. 75, achieved on 17 August 2009. In 2005, he played in the International Tennis Federation's Professional Circuit and won seven titles. As a result ...

Gabriel Moraru Gabriel Moraru (born 27 January 1982) is a retired Romanian tennis player and currently a tennis coach. Since 2017 he is the coach of fellow Romanian Ana Bogdan. On 25 July 2005 he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 234 whilst h ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Attila Balázs Attila Balázs (; born September 27, 1988) is a Hungarian professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ATP ranking of No. 76 achieved on 2 March 2020. He is a seven time Hungarian National Tennis Champion; after Béla von Kehrling ...

Daniel Brands Daniel Brands (born 17 July 1987) is a German retired professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking was world No. 51, achieved in August 2013. Professional career 2008 Brands began 2008 ranked No. 220. After a few unimpressive tou ...

* Guillaume Rufin *

Jürgen Zopp Jürgen Zopp (born 29 March 1988) is a retired professional Estonian tennis player. He is Estonia's all-time highest ranked male tennis player with a career-high singles ranking of World No. 71 in 2012. Career Zopp started playing tennis at t ...

The following players received entry as lucky loser: *

Érik Chvojka Érik Chvojka (born October 26, 1986) is a Canadian former professional tennis player. Chvojka's first ATP World Tour main-draw singles appearance was a close three-set loss in the first round of the 2011 Rogers Cup to world No. 21 Alexandr Do ...

Withdrawals

The following players withdrew from the singles main draw: *

Julien Benneteau Julien Henry Guy Benneteau-Desgrois (; born 20 December 1981) is a French retired professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is ATP world no. 25, which he reached in November 2014. He formerly resided in Boulogne-Billancourt and ...

(elbow fracture) *

Jürgen Melzer Jürgen Melzer (born 22 May 1981) is an Austrian former professional tennis player. Melzer reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 in April 2011, and a doubles ranking of world No. 6 in September 2010. He has a younger brother, Gera ...

(ankle injury) *

Philipp Petzschner Philipp Petzschner (born 24 March 1984) is a retired German professional tennis player. He was known for his hard-hitting forehand and bursts of speed around the court. He reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 9, which he achieved in ...

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of April 16, 2012

Other entrants

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

Alexander Waske Alexander Waske (born 31 March 1975) is a retired tennis player from Germany. Waske was ranked as high as world No. 16 in doubles, winning four titles. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 89 in June 2006. In 2010, Waske a ...

Andrei Dăescu Andrei Dăescu (born 28 August 1988) is a Romanian professional tennis player playing on the ITF Men's Circuit and the ATP Challenger Tour and current member of the Romania Davis Cup Team. On February 27, 2012, he reached his highest ATP singles ...

Florin Mergea Florin Mergea (; born 26 January 1985) is a Romanian tennis player and a doubles specialist. He has reached the final of the ATP World Tour Finals in 2015 and won an ATP Masters title at the Mutua Madrid Open earlier that year. He achieved a c ...

The following pair received entry as alternates: *

Martin Emmrich Martin Emmrich (born 17 December 1984) is a German retired professional tennis player who specialized in doubles, participating primarily in the ATP World Tour. On 12 October 2009, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 604 whilst his h ...

/ Andreas Siljeström

Withdrawals

(ankle injury)

Finals

Singles

defeated

Fabio Fognini Fabio Fognini (; born 24 May 1987) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ranking of world No. 9 achieved on 15 July 2019. He is currently ranked (July 2022) in 64th place by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ...

, 6–4, 6–3 *It was Simon's 1st title of the year and 10th of his career. It was his 3rd win in Bucharest, after 2007 and 2008.

Doubles

Robert Lindstedt Robert Lindstedt (born 19 March 1977) is a Swedish former professional tennis player who specialized in doubles. He turned professional in 1998, and reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 3 in May 2013. Lindstedt won his first Grand ...

Horia Tecău Horia Tecău (; born January 19, 1985) is a Romanian former professional tennis player who specialised in doubles. He is a three-time Grand Slam champion, having won the 2015 Wimbledon Championships and 2017 US Open alongside Jean-Julien Roje ...

defeated

Jérémy Chardy Jérémy Chardy (; born 12 February 1987) is a French inactive professional tennis player. He has won one ATP Tour singles title, in Stuttgart in 2009. His best Grand Slam performance in singles was reaching the quarterfinals of the 2013 Austral ...

Łukasz Kubot Łukasz Kubot (; born 16 May 1982) is a Polish professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles. He is a two-time Grand Slam champion in doubles, having won the 2014 Australian Open with Robert Lindstedt, as well as the 2017 W ...

, 7–6^(7–2), 6–3

References

External links

Official website
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