# 2012 Korea Open > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/2012_Korea_Open > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/2012_Korea_Open.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Korea_Open > Source revision: 1248453242 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Tennis tournament 2012 Korea Open Date 17–23 September Edition 9th Category WTA International Draw 32S / 16D Prize money $500,000 Surface Hard / outdoor Location Seoul, South Korea Venue Seoul Olympic Park Tennis Center Champions Singles Caroline Wozniacki Doubles Raquel Kops-Jones / Abigail Spears ← 2011 · Korea Open · 2013 → The **2012 Korea Open** was a women's professional [tennis](/source/Tennis) tournament played on [hard courts](/source/Hardcourt). It was the ninth edition of the tournament which was part of the [WTA International](/source/WTA_International_tournaments) category of the [2012 WTA Tour](/source/2012_WTA_Tour). It took place at the [Seoul Olympic Park Tennis Center](/source/Seoul_Olympic_Park_Tennis_Center) in [Seoul](/source/Seoul), South Korea between 17 September and 23 September 2012. First-seeded [Caroline Wozniacki](/source/Caroline_Wozniacki) won the singles title. ## Finals ### Singles Main article: [2012 Korea Open – Singles](/source/2012_Korea_Open_%E2%80%93_Singles) [Caroline Wozniacki](/source/Caroline_Wozniacki) defeated [Kaia Kanepi](/source/Kaia_Kanepi) 6–1, 6–0 - It was Wozniacki's first singles title of the year, ending a 13-month drought. It was also her 19th [career title](/source/Caroline_Wozniacki_career_statistics). ### Doubles Main article: [2012 Korea Open – Doubles](/source/2012_Korea_Open_%E2%80%93_Doubles) [Raquel Kops-Jones](/source/Raquel_Kops-Jones) / [Abigail Spears](/source/Abigail_Spears) defeated [Akgul Amanmuradova](/source/Akgul_Amanmuradova) / [Vania King](/source/Vania_King) 2–6, 6–2, [10–8] ## Singles main-draw entrants ### Seeds Country Player Rank1 Seed DEN Caroline Wozniacki 11 1 RUS Maria Kirilenko 14 2 EST Kaia Kanepi 16 3 RUS Nadia Petrova 18 4 GER Julia Görges 21 5 USA Varvara Lepchenko 22 6 CZE Klára Zakopalová 28 7 RUS Ekaterina Makarova 29 8 - 1 Rankings are as of September 10, 2012 ### Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: - [Hong Hyun-hui](/source/Hong_Hyun-hui) - [Lee So-ra](/source/Lee_So-ra_(tennis)) - [Han Sung-hee](/source/Han_Sung-hee) The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: - [Eleni Daniilidou](/source/Eleni_Daniilidou) - [Caroline Garcia](/source/Caroline_Garcia) - [Jamie Hampton](/source/Jamie_Hampton) - [Sesil Karatantcheva](/source/Sesil_Karatantcheva) ### Withdrawals - [Ksenia Pervak](/source/Ksenia_Pervak) - [Sloane Stephens](/source/Sloane_Stephens) ### Retirements - [Maria Kirilenko](/source/Maria_Kirilenko) (back injury) - [Nadia Petrova](/source/Nadia_Petrova) (back injury) ## Doubles main-draw entrants ### Seeds Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed USA Raquel Kops-Jones USA Abigail Spears 41 1 IND Sania Mirza ESP Anabel Medina Garrigues 44 2 RSA Natalie Grandin CZE Vladimíra Uhlířová 61 3 RUS Vera Dushevina POL Alicja Rosolska 95 4 - 1 Rankings are as of September 10, 2012 ### Other entrants The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: - [Choi Ji-hee](/source/Choi_Ji-hee) / [Jun Nam-yeon](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jun_Nam-yeon&action=edit&redlink=1) - [Han Sung-hee](/source/Han_Sung-hee) / [Lee So-ra](/source/Lee_So-ra_(tennis)) ## External links - [Official website](https://web.archive.org/web/20120919054304/http://kdbkoreaopen.com/english/) - [WTA tournament draws](https://wtafiles.blob.core.windows.net/pdf/draws/archive/2012/1024.pdf) v t e Seoul tournaments 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 NH 2021 2022 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 Korea Open](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Korea_Open) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Korea_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.