| Singles | |
|---|---|
| 2012 Open GDF Suez Nantes Atlantique | |
| Champion |  |
| Runner-up |  |
| Final score | 6–2, 6–3 |
Alison Riske was the defending champion but lost to Yulia Putintseva in the second round.
Alison Riske is an American professional tennis player. She has won one WTA title, six singles and one doubles title on the ITF tour. She reached the third round of the Australian Open in 2014, the third round at Wimbledon in 2013 and 2014 and the fourth round of the US Open in 2013. She reached her career high singles ranking of world number 36 on May 15, 2017 and she won her first WTA tour title on October 12, 2014, when she won the Tianjin Open.
Yulia Antonovna Putintseva is a Kazakh tennis player of Russian origin and descent. She achieved her highest WTA singles ranking of world No. 27 in February 2017 and is a two-time French Open quarterfinalist.
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Monica Niculescu won the title, defeating Putintseva in the final, 6–2, 6–3.
Monica Niculescu is a Romanian professional tennis player. She reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 28 in February 2012, and has three singles titles to her credit on the WTA Tour since she turned pro in May 2002, the last one coming at the end of 2016, at the BGL Luxembourg Open. Although she was a steady top 30 player for several years and enjoyed relative success in singles, she is also a doubles specialist, where she achieved a career-high ranking of no.11, in April 2018, after partnering with Grand Slam winner and Olympic medalist Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková at Indian Wells. Her biggest doubles result up to date is reaching her first grand slam doubles final at Wimbledon, in 2017, alongside Chan Hao-ching. She was also runner-up at three Premier Mandatory events: the 2015 Wuhan Open, with fellow Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu, the 2016 Rogers Cup, with current world no.1 Simona Halep, and the 2017 Cincinnati Open, partnering former world no.1 in doubles, Su-wei Hsieh.
