2012 Apia International Sydney

The 2012 Apia International Sydney was a joint ATP and WTA tennis tournament, that was played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 120th edition of the Apia International Sydney and was a part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2012 ATP World Tour, and of the WTA Premier tournaments of the 2012 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the NSW Tennis Centre in Sydney, Australia, from 8 to 15 January 2012. Due to rain, the men's singles and doubles finals had to be rescheduled from the evening of 14 January to the morning of 15 January, the day before the Australian Open was due to begin.[1] Jarkko Nieminen and Victoria Azarenka won the singles titles.

2012 Apia International Sydney
Date8–15 January
Edition120th
SurfaceHard / outdoor
LocationSydney, Australia
Champions
Men's singles
Finland Jarkko Nieminen
Women's singles
Belarus Victoria Azarenka
Men's doubles
United States Bob Bryan / United States Mike Bryan
Women's doubles
Czech Republic Květa Peschke / Slovenia Katarina Srebotnik

ATP singles main-draw entrants

Seeds
Country Player Rank1 Seed
 ARG Juan Martín del Potro[2] 11 1
 USA John Isner 18 2
 FRA Richard Gasquet 19 3
 ESP Feliciano López 20 4
 SRB Viktor Troicki 22 5
 GER Florian Mayer 23 6
 ESP Marcel Granollers 27 7
 CZE Radek Štěpánek 28 8
 RUS Alex Bogomolov Jr. 34 9

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  • 1 Rankings as of 26 December 2011.[3]

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

The following players received entry from a lucky loser spot:

Withdrawals

ATP doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds
Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
 USA Bob Bryan  USA Mike Bryan 2 1
 BLR Max Mirnyi  CAN Daniel Nestor 6 2
 POL Mariusz Fyrstenberg  POL Marcin Matkowski 28 3
 SWE Robert Lindstedt  ROU Horia Tecău 28 4
  • 1 Rankings are as of 26 December 2011

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

WTA singles main-draw entrants

Seeds
Country Player Rank1 Seed
 DEN Caroline Wozniacki[5] 1 1
 CZE Petra Kvitová[6] 2 2
 BLR Victoria Azarenka 3 3
 CHN Li Na 5 4
 AUS Samantha Stosur 6 5
 RUS Vera Zvonareva 7 6
 POL Agnieszka Radwańska 8 7
 FRA Marion Bartoli 9 8
  • 1 Rankings as of 26 December 2011

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

The following players received entry from a lucky loser spot:

Withdrawals

Retirements

WTA doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds
Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
 CZE Květa Peschke  SLO Katarina Srebotnik 4 1
 USA Liezel Huber  USA Lisa Raymond 5 2
 ARG Gisela Dulko  ITA Flavia Pennetta 17 3
 RUS Maria Kirilenko  RUS Nadia Petrova 20 4
  • 1 Rankings are as of 26 December 2011

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

The following pairs received entry as alternates:

Withdrawals

Finals

Men's singles
Main article: 2012 Apia International Sydney – Men's singles

Finland Jarkko Nieminen defeated France Julien Benneteau, 6–2, 7–5

  • It was Nieminen's 1st title of the year and 2nd title of his career.

Women's singles
Main article: 2012 Apia International Sydney – Women's singles

Belarus Victoria Azarenka defeated China Li Na, 6–2, 1–6, 6–3

  • It was Azarenka's 1st title of the year and 9th of her career. It was her 1st Premier-level title of the year and 3rd of her career.

Men's doubles
Main article: 2012 Apia International Sydney – Men's doubles

United States Bob Bryan / United States Mike Bryan defeated Australia Matthew Ebden / Finland Jarkko Nieminen, 6–1, 6–4

Women's doubles
Main article: 2012 Apia International Sydney – Women's doubles

Czech Republic Květa Peschke / Slovenia Katarina Srebotnik defeated United States Liezel Huber / United States Lisa Raymond, 6–1, 4–6, [13–11]

References
  1. Play cancelled; men’s final Sun. 10 am
  2. Apia International Sydney
  3. Stunning line-up set for Sydney
  4. Hewitt to play in Sydney
  5. Sydney set to welcome world No.1
  6. Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova heads to Sydney
  7. Sydney Wildcard for Dokić
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