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The 2012 Citi Open (known as such for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 44th edition (for the men) and the 2nd edition (for the women) of the event known that year as the Citi Open (previously known on the men's tour as the Legg Mason Tennis Classic), and was part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2012 ATP World Tour, and of the WTA International tournaments of the 2012 WTA Tour. It took place at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center in Washington, D.C., United States, from July 29 to August 5, 2012, running concurrently with the tennis event at the London Summer Olympics.
2012 Citi Open | |
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Date | July 29 – August 5 |
Edition | 44th (men) / 2nd (women) |
Category | ATP World Tour 500 (men) WTA International (women) |
Surface | Hard / outdoor |
Location | Washington, D.C., United States |
Champions | |
Men's singles | |
Alexandr Dolgopolov[1] | |
Women's singles | |
Magdaléna Rybáriková | |
Men's doubles | |
Treat Conrad Huey / Dominic Inglot | |
Women's doubles | |
Shuko Aoyama / Chang Kai-chen |
The following players were seeded in the main singles draw, following the ATP rankings of July 23, 2012:[4]
Country | Player | Ranking | Seeds |
---|---|---|---|
USA | Mardy Fish | 13 | 1 |
UKR | Alexandr Dolgopolov | 17 | 2 |
RSA | Kevin Anderson | 33 | 3 |
GER | Tommy Haas | 35 | 4 |
ESP | Pablo Andújar | 37 | 5 |
FRA | Jérémy Chardy | 46 | 6 |
FRA | Benoît Paire | 50 | 7 |
USA | Sam Querrey | 57 | 8 |
The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:
Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
MEX | Santiago González | USA | Scott Lipsky | 65 | 1 |
COL | Robert Farah | PAK | Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi | 73 | 2 |
USA | Eric Butorac | AUS | Paul Hanley | 78 | 3 |
CZE | František Čermák | AUT | Julian Knowle | 78 | 4 |
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
The following pair received entry as alternates:
The following players were seeded in the main singles draw, following the WTA rankings of July 23, 2012:[6]
Country | Player | Ranking | Seeds |
---|---|---|---|
RUS | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | 28 | 1 |
RSA | Chanelle Scheepers | 42 | 2 |
USA | Sloane Stephens | 52 | 3 |
USA | Vania King | 56 | 4 |
CZE | Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová | 60 | 5 |
CZE | Iveta Benešová | 61 | 6 |
USA | CoCo Vandeweghe | 70 | 7 |
BLR | Olga Govortsova | 81 | 8 |
The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:
Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BLR | Olga Govortsova | RUS | Alla Kudryavtseva | 105 | 1 |
CZE | Karolína Plíšková | CZE | Kristýna Plíšková | 193 | 2 |
USA | Lindsay Lee-Waters | USA | Megan Moulton-Levy | 194 | 3 |
GRE | Eleni Daniilidou | ITA | Karin Knapp | 293 | 4 |
The following pair received wildcard into the doubles main draw:
Alexandr Dolgopolov defeated Tommy Haas, 6–7(7–9), 6–4, 6–1
Magdaléna Rybáriková defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 6–1, 6–1
Treat Conrad Huey / Dominic Inglot defeated Kevin Anderson / Sam Querrey, 7–6(9–7), 6–7(9–11), [10–5]
Shuko Aoyama / Chang Kai-chen defeated Irina Falconi / Chanelle Scheepers, 7–5, 6–2
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