2012 WTA Premier tournaments

The 2012 WTA Premier tournaments are 21 of the tennis tournaments on the 2012 WTA Tour. The WTA Tour is the elite tour for women's professional tennis. The WTA Premier tournaments rank below the Grand Slam events and above the WTA International tournaments. They are divided into three levels: Premier Mandatory (Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid and Beijing), Premier 5 (Doha, Rome, Canada, Cincinnati and Tokyo), and Premier (12 tournaments in Europe, United States and Australia).^[1]

Schedule

Premier

Week of	Tournament	Champions	Runners-up	Semifinalists	Quarterfinalists
2 January	2012 Brisbane International Brisbane, Australia	Kaia Kanepi 6–2, 6–1	Daniela Hantuchová	Kim Clijsters Francesca Schiavone	Iveta Benešová Serena Williams Jelena Janković Andrea Petkovic
2 January	2012 Brisbane International Brisbane, Australia	Nuria Llagostera Vives Arantxa Parra Santonja 7–6^(7–2), 7–6^(7–2)	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears	Kim Clijsters Francesca Schiavone
9 January	2012 Apia International Sydney Sydney, Australia	Victoria Azarenka 6–2, 1–6, 6–3	Li Na	Agnieszka Radwańska Petra Kvitová	Caroline Wozniacki Marion Bartoli Lucie Šafářová Daniela Hantuchová
9 January	2012 Apia International Sydney Sydney, Australia	Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik 6–1, 4–6, [13–11]	Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond	Agnieszka Radwańska Petra Kvitová
6 February	Open GDF Suez Paris, France	Angelique Kerber 7–6^(7–3), 5–7, 6–3	Marion Bartoli	Yanina Wickmayer Klára Zakopalová	Maria Sharapova Mona Barthel Julia Görges Roberta Vinci
6 February	Open GDF Suez Paris, France	Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond 7–6^(7–3), 6–1	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Petra Martić	Yanina Wickmayer Klára Zakopalová	Maria Sharapova Mona Barthel Julia Görges Roberta Vinci
20 February	Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships Dubai, UAE	Agnieszka Radwańska 7–5, 6–4	Julia Görges	Caroline Wozniacki Jelena Janković	Daniela Hantuchová Ana Ivanovic Samantha Stosur Sabine Lisicki
20 February	Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships Dubai, UAE	Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond 6–2, 6–1	Sania Mirza Elena Vesnina	Caroline Wozniacki Jelena Janković
2 April	Family Circle Cup Charleston, USA	Serena Williams 6–0, 6–1	Lucie Šafářová	Polona Hercog Samantha Stosur	Nadia Petrova Vera Zvonareva Sabine Lisicki Venus Williams
2 April	Family Circle Cup Charleston, USA	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Lucie Šafářová 5–7, 6–4, [10–6]	Anabel Medina Garrigues Yaroslava Shvedova	Polona Hercog Samantha Stosur	Nadia Petrova Vera Zvonareva Sabine Lisicki Venus Williams
23 April	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart, Germany	Maria Sharapova 6–1, 6–4	Victoria Azarenka	Agnieszka Radwańska Petra Kvitová	Mona Barthel Li Na Angelique Kerber Samantha Stosur
23 April	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart, Germany	Iveta Benešová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová 6–4, 7–5	Julia Görges Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Agnieszka Radwańska Petra Kvitová	Mona Barthel Li Na Angelique Kerber Samantha Stosur
21 May	Brussels Open Brussels, Belgium	Agnieszka Radwańska 7–5, 6–0	Simona Halep	Kaia Kanepi Sofia Arvidsson	Alison Van Uytvanck Tsvetana Pironkova Dominika Cibulková Urszula Radwańska
21 May	Brussels Open Brussels, Belgium	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Sania Mirza 6–3, 6–2	Alicja Rosolska Zheng Jie	Kaia Kanepi Sofia Arvidsson
18 June	Aegon International Eastbourne, UK	Tamira Paszek 5–7, 6–3, 7–5	Angelique Kerber	Marion Bartoli Klára Zakopalová	Tsvetana Pironkova Lucie Šafářová Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Ekaterina Makarova
18 June	Aegon International Eastbourne, UK	Nuria Llagostera Vives María José Martínez Sánchez 6–4, ret.	Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond	Marion Bartoli Klára Zakopalová
9 July	Bank of the West Classic Stanford, USA	Serena Williams 7–5, 6–3	Coco Vandeweghe	Sorana Cîrstea Yanina Wickmayer	Chanelle Scheepers Dominika Cibulková Urszula Radwańska Marion Bartoli
9 July	Bank of the West Classic Stanford, USA	Marina Erakovic Heather Watson 7–5, 7–6^(9–7)	Jarmila Gajdošová Vania King	Sorana Cîrstea Yanina Wickmayer
16 July	Mercury Insurance Open San Diego, USA	Dominika Cibulková 6–1, 7–5	Marion Bartoli	Chan Yung-jan Nadia Petrova	Christina McHale Jelena Janković Varvara Lepchenko Urszula Radwańska
16 July	Mercury Insurance Open San Diego, USA	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears 6–2, 6–4	Vania King Nadia Petrova	Chan Yung-jan Nadia Petrova
20 August	New Haven Open at Yale New Haven, USA	Petra Kvitová 7–6^(11–9), 7–5	Maria Kirilenko	Caroline Wozniacki Sara Errani	Olga Govortsova Dominika Cibulková Marion Bartoli Lucie Šafářová
20 August	New Haven Open at Yale New Haven, USA	Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond 4–6, 6–0, [10–4]	Andrea Hlaváčková Lucie Hradecká	Caroline Wozniacki Sara Errani
15 October	Kremlin Cup Moscow, Russia	Caroline Wozniacki 6–2, 4–6, 7–5	Samantha Stosur	Ana Ivanovic Sofia Arvidsson	Klára Zakopalová Vesna Dolonc Dominika Cibulková Maria Kirilenko
15 October	Kremlin Cup Moscow, Russia	Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina 6–3, 1–6, [10–8]	Maria Kirilenko Nadia Petrova	Ana Ivanovic Sofia Arvidsson

References

^ "2012 WTA calendar" (PDF). wtatennis.com. WTA Tour, Inc. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-27. Retrieved 2011-10-09.

[WTACalendar2012-1] "2012 WTA calendar" (PDF). wtatennis.com. WTA Tour, Inc. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-27. Retrieved 2011-10-09.

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