# 2012 HP Open > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/2012_HP_Open > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/2012_HP_Open.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_HP_Open > Source revision: 1327109559 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Women's tennis tournament Tennis tournament 2012 HP Open Date 8–14 October Edition 4th Category WTA International Draw 32S / 16D Prize money $220,000 Surface Hard / outdoor Location Osaka, Japan Venue Utsubo Tennis Center Champions Singles Heather Watson Doubles Raquel Kops-Jones / Abigail Spears ← 2011 · Japan Women's Open · 2013 → The **2012 HP Open** was a women's [tennis](/source/Tennis) tournament played on outdoor [hard courts](/source/Hard_court) sponsored by [Hewlett-Packard](/source/Hewlett-Packard). It was the fourth edition of the [HP Open](/source/HP_Open), and part of the [WTA International tournaments](/source/WTA_International_tournaments) of the [2012 WTA Tour](/source/2012_WTA_Tour). It was held at the [Utsubo Tennis Center](/source/Utsubo_Tennis_Center) in [Osaka](/source/Osaka), Japan, from October 8 through October 14, 2012. Unseeded [Heather Watson](/source/Heather_Watson) won the singles title. ## Finals Heather Watson ### Singles Main article: [2012 HP Open – Singles](/source/2012_HP_Open_%E2%80%93_Singles) - [Heather Watson](/source/Heather_Watson) defeated [Chang Kai-chen](/source/Chang_Kai-chen) 7–5, 5–7, 7–6(7–4) ### Doubles Main article: [2012 HP Open – Doubles](/source/2012_HP_Open_%E2%80%93_Doubles) - [Raquel Kops-Jones](/source/Raquel_Kops-Jones) / [Abigail Spears](/source/Abigail_Spears) defeated [Kimiko Date-Krumm](/source/Kimiko_Date-Krumm) / [Heather Watson](/source/Heather_Watson) 6–1, 6–4 ## Singles main-draw entrants ### Seeds Country Player Rank1 Seed AUS Samantha Stosur 9 1 CHN Zheng Jie 22 2 USA Christina McHale 30 3 ITA Francesca Schiavone 33 4 KAZ Yaroslava Shvedova 36 5 ESP Anabel Medina Garrigues 39 6 RSA Chanelle Scheepers 53 7 GBR Laura Robson 60 8 - Rankings are as of October 1, 2012 ### Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: - [Kurumi Nara](/source/Kurumi_Nara) - [Francesca Schiavone](/source/Francesca_Schiavone) - [Tamarine Tanasugarn](/source/Tamarine_Tanasugarn) The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: - [Nudnida Luangnam](/source/Nudnida_Luangnam) - [Olga Puchkova](/source/Olga_Puchkova) - [Luksika Kumkhum](/source/Luksika_Kumkhum) - [Zhou Yimiao](/source/Zhou_Yimiao) ### Withdrawals - [Tímea Babos](/source/T%C3%ADmea_Babos) - [Petra Cetkovská](/source/Petra_Cetkovsk%C3%A1) - [Melinda Czink](/source/Melinda_Czink) - [Marina Erakovic](/source/Marina_Erakovic) - [Olga Govortsova](/source/Olga_Govortsova) - [Michaëlla Krajicek](/source/Micha%C3%ABlla_Krajicek) - [Mandy Minella](/source/Mandy_Minella) - [Shahar Pe'er](/source/Shahar_Pe'er) - [Sloane Stephens](/source/Sloane_Stephens) - [CoCo Vandeweghe](/source/CoCo_Vandeweghe) - [Galina Voskoboeva](/source/Galina_Voskoboeva) - [Aleksandra Wozniak](/source/Aleksandra_Wozniak) ### Retirements - [Francesca Schiavone](/source/Francesca_Schiavone) (right wrist injury) ## Doubles main-draw entrants ### Seeds Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed USA Raquel Kops-Jones USA Abigail Spears 33 1 ESP Anabel Medina Garrigues CHN Zheng Jie 49 2 CRO Darija Jurak HUN Katalin Marosi 98 3 JPN Kimiko Date-Krumm GBR Heather Watson 149 4 - 1 Rankings are as of October 1, 2012 ### Other entrants The following pair received wildcard into the doubles main draw: - [Kurumi Nara](/source/Kurumi_Nara) / [Erika Sema](/source/Erika_Sema) ### Retirements - [Eleni Daniilidou](/source/Eleni_Daniilidou) (right hamstring strain) ## External links - [Official website](http://www.jw-open.jp) - [WTA tournament draws](https://wtafiles.blob.core.windows.net/pdf/draws/archive/2012/405.pdf) v t e Japan Women's Open tournaments 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 NH NH NH 2023 2024 2025 v t e 2012 WTA Tour « 2011 2013 » Grand Slam events Australian Open (S, D, X) French Open (S, D, X) Wimbledon (S, D, X) US Open (S, D, X) WTA Premier Mandatory tournaments Indian Wells (S, D) Miami (S, D) Madrid (S, D) Beijing (S, D) WTA Premier 5 tournaments Doha (S, D) Rome (S, D) Montreal (S, D) Cincinnati (S, D) Tokyo (S, D) WTA Premier tournaments Brisbane (S, D) Sydney (S, D) Paris (S, D) Dubai (S, D) Charleston (S, D) Stuttgart (S, D) Brussels (S, D) Eastbourne (S, D) Stanford (S, D) Carlsbad (S, D) New Haven (S, D) Moscow (S, D) WTA International tournaments Auckland (S, D) Hobart (S, D) Pattaya City (S, D) Bogotá (S, D) Memphis (S, D) Monterrey (S, D) Acapulco (S, D) Kuala Lumpur (S, D) Barcelona (S, D) Copenhagen (S, D) Fes (S, D) Budapest (S, D) Estoril (S, D) Strasbourg (S, D) Birmingham (S, D) 's-Hertogenbosch (S, D) Palermo (S, D) Båstad (S, D) Bad Gastein (S, D) Baku (S, D) Washington D.C. (S, D) Dallas (S, D) Tashkent (S, D) Quebec City (S, D) Seoul (S, D) Guangzhou (S, D) Linz (S, D) Osaka (S, D) Luxembourg City (S, D) Team events Fed Cup World Group I + World Group II WG I play-offs WG II play-offs Americas Asia/Oceania Europe/Africa Summer Olympic Games, London (S, D, X) WTA Championships, Istanbul (S, D) WTA Tournament of Champions, Sofia (S) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [2012 HP Open](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_HP_Open) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_HP_Open?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.