2012 Barcelona Ladies Open

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2012 Barcelona Ladies Open
Date 9-15 April
Edition 6th
Category WTA International tournaments
Surface Clay / Outdoor
Location Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Champions
Singles
Flag of Italy.svg Sara Errani
Doubles
Flag of Italy.svg Sara Errani / Flag of Italy.svg Roberta Vinci
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The 2012 Barcelona Ladies Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 6th edition of the Barcelona Ladies Open, and an International-level tournament on the 2012 WTA Tour. It took place at the Centre Municipal Tennis Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain between April 9 and 15, 2012. Sara Errani won the singles title.

Barcelona Ladies Open tennis tournament at Barcelona

The Barcelona Ladies Open was a tennis tournament for women held in Barcelona in Catalonia (Spain) and was played on outdoor clay courts. It was an International-level tournament on the WTA Tour with total prize money of $220,000.

Tennis ball sport with racket and net

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played 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 covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to maneuver the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball will not gain a point, while the opposite player will.

Clay court type of tennis court

A clay court is one of many different types of tennis court. Clay courts are made of crushed shale, stone, brick, or other unbound mineral aggregates. The French Open uses clay courts, making it unique among the Grand Slam tournaments. Clay courts are more common in Continental Europe and Latin America than in North America, Asia or Britain. Two main types exist: red clay, the more common variety, and green clay, also known as "rubico", which is a harder surface. Although less expensive to construct than other types of tennis courts, the maintenance costs of clay are high as the surface must be rolled to preserve flatness.

Contents

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Rank1 Seed
Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Francesca Schiavone 121
Flag of Germany.svg  GER Julia Görges 152
Flag of Slovakia.svg  SVK Dominika Cibulková 183
Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Roberta Vinci 194
Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Flavia Pennetta 245
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  CZE Petra Cetkovská 286
Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Sara Errani 317
Flag of Slovenia.svg  SLO Polona Hercog 378

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw:

A wild card is a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that fails to qualify in the normal way, for example by having a high ranking or winning a qualifying stage. In some events, wild cards are chosen freely by the organizers. Other events have fixed rules. Some North American professional sports leagues compare the records of teams which did not qualify directly by winning a division or conference.

Arantxa Parra Santonja Spanish tennis player

Arantxa Parra Santonja is a professional Spanish tennis player. She turned pro in 2000.

Flavia Pennetta Italian tennis player

Flavia Pennetta is a retired Italian professional tennis player and Grand Slam-champion in both singles and doubles. She became Italy's first top-ten female singles player on 17 August 2009 and the first Italian to be ranked world No. 1 in doubles on 28 February 2011. She became a Grand Slam singles champion, winning the US Open in 2015 by defeating her childhood friend Roberta Vinci in the first all-Italian Grand Slam final.

Francesca Schiavone Italian tennis player

Francesca Schiavone is a former Italian tennis player who turned professional in 1998. She won the 2010 French Open singles title, becoming the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam event in singles. She was also runner-up at the 2011 French Open. Her career-high ranking is world No. 4, achieved on 31 January 2011. To date, Schiavone is the last one-handed-backhand player to win a Grand Slam title on the women's tour.

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Yuliya Beygelzimer Ukrainian tennis player

Yuliya Markovna Beygelzimer is a retired professional female tennis player from Ukraine.

Annalisa Bona is a professional Italian tennis player. On April 9, 2012, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 240 whilst her best doubles ranking was 761 on August 1, 2011. In April 2012 she reached her first WTA main draw at the Barcelona Ladies Open.

Aravane Rezaï French-Iranian tennis player

Aravane Rezaï is a former Iranian–French tennis player. She defeated many top players on the WTA Tour, such as Justine Henin, Venus Williams, Victoria Azarenka, Maria Sharapova, Dinara Safina, Francesca Schiavone, Caroline Wozniacki, Marion Bartoli, Flavia Pennetta, Jelena Janković and Ai Sugiyama. Her career-high ranking was No. 15, achieved on 11 October 2010.

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

Withdrawals

Elena Baltacha British tennis player

Elena Sergeevna Baltacha was a Ukrainian-born British professional tennis player. Being a four-time winner of the AEGON Awards, she was also a long-term British No. 1, a position she held intermittently from 2002 to 2012. However, as a result of her absence from competition due to knee surgery, she dropped down the world rankings and at the time of her retirement on 18 November 2013, she was ranked as the world No. 221 and British No. 6. Her career high ranking of World No. 49 was achieved in September 2010.

María José Martínez Sánchez Spanish tennis player

María José Martínez Sánchez is a Spanish professional tennis player. In singles, she has won five WTA singles titles, her biggest being a Premier 5 title at the 2010 Italian Open where she defeated two former World No. 1's, Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic, en route to the title. As a junior, she won the Orange Bowl and French Open. She reached her career high ranking in singles of World No. 19 on 10 May 2010.

Retirements

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Sara Errani Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Roberta Vinci 251
Flag of Spain.svg  ESP Nuria Llagostera Vives Flag of Spain.svg  ESP Arantxa Parra Santonja 412
Flag of Belarus.svg  BLR Olga Govortsova Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  CZE Vladimíra Uhlířová 823
Flag of Russia.svg  RUS Nina Bratchikova Flag of Croatia.svg  CRO Darija Jurak 1374

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

Estrella Cabeza Candela Spanish female tennis player

Estrella Cabeza Candela is a Spanish professional tennis player.

Inés Ferrer Suárez is a professional Spanish tennis player.

Carla Suárez Navarro Spanish tennis player

Carla Suárez Navarro is a Spanish professional tennis player. She began playing for Spain in the 2008 Fed Cup. On February 29, 2016, she reached her career high ranking of world No. 6.

Champions

Singles

Doubles

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