2012 Blossom Cup – Doubles

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Doubles
2012 Blossom Cup
Champions Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chan Hao-ching
Flag of Japan.svg Rika Fujiwara
Runners-up Flag of Japan.svg Kimiko Date-Krumm
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhang Shuai
Final score4–6, 6–4, [10–7]
Events
Singles Doubles
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Liu Wanting and Sun Shengnan were the defending champions and seeded third, but lost in the semifinals to Chan Hao-ching and Rika Fujiwara.

Contents

Second seeds Chan Hao-ching and Rika Fujiwara won the title, they defeated the first seeds Kimiko Date-Krumm and Zhang Shuai in the final 4–6, 6–4, [10–7].

Seeds

  1. Flag of Japan.svg Kimiko Date-Krumm / Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhang Shuai (final)
  2. Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chan Hao-ching / Flag of Japan.svg Rika Fujiwara (champions)
  3. Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Liu Wanting / Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Sun Shengnan (semifinals)
  4. Flag of the United States.svg Tetiana Luzhanska / Flag of Germany.svg Kathrin Wörle (quarterfinals)

Draw

Key

Draw

First round Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
1 Flag of Japan.svg K Date-Krumm
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg S Zhang
66 
  Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Y Chen
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg X Han
1 1  1 Flag of Japan.svg K Date-Krumm
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg S Zhang
66 
  Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg C Liang
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg J-J Lu
7777   Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg C Liang
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg J-J Lu
4 4  
  Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg S-y Kao
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Y Zhao
6163 1 Flag of Japan.svg K Date-Krumm
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg S Zhang
66 
4 Flag of the United States.svg T Luzhanska
Flag of Germany.svg K Wörle
66   Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg C-w Chan
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg W-h Hsu
4 1  
  Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Y Duan
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Y Xu
4 2  4 Flag of the United States.svg T Luzhanska
Flag of Germany.svg K Wörle
63 [9]
  Flag of South Korea.svg S-j Kim
Flag of Japan.svg Y Sema
5 4    Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg C-w Chan
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg W-h Hsu
3 6[11]
  Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg C-w Chan
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg W-h Hsu
76 1 Flag of Japan.svg K Date-Krumm
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg S Zhang
64 [7]
  Flag of Hungary.svg T Babos
Flag of Israel.svg J Glushko
1 78[11]2 Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg H-c Chan
Flag of Japan.svg R Fujiwara
4 6[10]
WC Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg JX Lu
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Jia Lu
666[9]   Flag of Hungary.svg T Babos
Flag of Israel.svg J Glushko
5 6[5]
  Flag of Romania.svg M Gojnea
Flag of Slovakia.svg R Tabak
4 6[8] 3 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg W Liu
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg S Sun
74 [10]
3 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg W Liu
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg S Sun
62 [10]3 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg W Liu
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg S Sun
64 [6]
  Flag of Georgia.svg O Kalashnikova
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg E Webley-Smith
76 2 Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg H-c Chan
Flag of Japan.svg R Fujiwara
2 6[10]
WC Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Z Yang
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg K Zhang
5 4    Flag of Georgia.svg O Kalashnikova
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg E Webley-Smith
1 3  
WC Flag of Indonesia.svg Y Basuki
Flag of Hong Kong.svg L Zhang
2 3  2 Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg H-c Chan
Flag of Japan.svg R Fujiwara
66 
2 Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg H-c Chan
Flag of Japan.svg R Fujiwara
66 

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