2012 ITF Women's Circuit – Suzhou

2012 ITF Women's Circuit – Suzhou
Date	8–14 October
Edition	1st
Location	Suzhou, China
Champions
Singles
	Hsieh Su-wei
Doubles
	Timea Bacsinszky / Caroline Garcia

Last updated March 04, 2019

The 2012 ITF Women's Circuit – Suzhou was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2012 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Suzhou, China, on 8–14 October 2012.

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.

The 2012 ITF Women's Circuit was the 2012 edition of the second tier tour for women's professional tennis. The ITF Women's Circuit is organised by the International Tennis Federation and is a tier below the WTA Tour. The 2012 season consisted of 484 events in 63 countries with prize money ranging from $10,000 up to $100,000.

Suzhou formerly romanized as Suchow is a prefecture-level city in northern Anhui province. It borders the prefectural cities of Huaibei and Bengbu to the southwest and south respectively, the provinces of Jiangsu to the east, Shandong to the north, and Henan to the northwest.

WTA entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank¹	Seed
TPE	Hsieh Su-wei	38	1
CHN	Peng Shuai	49	2
CRO	Donna Vekić	120	3
CHN	Zhang Shuai	143	4
CHN	Zheng Saisai	146	5
CHN	Duan Yingying	154	6
FRA	Caroline Garcia	165	7
TUR	Çağla Büyükakçay	184	8

¹ Rankings as of 1 October 2012

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Champions

Singles

Hsieh Su-wei def. Duan Yingying 6–2, 6–2

Doubles

Timea Bacsinszky / Caroline Garcia def. Yang Zhaoxuan / Zhao Yijing 7–5, 6–3

Timea Bacsinszky is a Swiss professional tennis player who has won four singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour. A former top-10 player, Bacsinszky reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 9 on 16 May 2016. She had her breakthrough year in singles in 2015, winning a career-best 15 consecutive matches spanning two titles, and then reaching the semifinals of the French Open, the first time she advanced past the third round of a Major. She also reached her first Premier Mandatory final at the China Open and became the first Swiss female tennis player to be ranked in the top 10 since Martina Hingis in 2007. She once again reached the semifinals of the French Open in 2017. She also reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon in 2015, and of the French Open in 2016.

Caroline Garcia is a French professional tennis player. She has won six singles and six doubles titles on the WTA tour, one singles and one doubles title on the WTA 125K series, and as one singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 10 September 2018, she reached her best WTA singles ranking of world No. 4, and on 24 October 2016 she peaked at No. 2 in the doubles rankings, tied with fellow Frenchwoman Kristina Mladenovic.

Yang Zhaoxuan is a Chinese professional tennis player.

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