BMW Malaysia Open 2012

BMW Malaysia Open 2012
date	February 24, 2012 - March 4, 2012
Edition	7th
navigation	2011  ◄  2012  ►  2013
WTA tour
venue	Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Tournament number	1041
category	WTA International
Tournament type	Free place tournament
Game surface	Hard court
draw	32E / 31Q / 16D
Prize money	US $ 220,000
Last year's winner (individual)	Jelena Dokic
Last year's winner (double)	Dinara Safina Galina Voskoboyeva
Winner (singles)	Hsieh Su-wei
Winner (doubles)	Chang Kai-chen Chuang Chia-jung
Tournament supervisor	Pam Whytcross
Last direct assumption	Olivia Rogowska (168)
Player representatives	Jelena Dokic
As of May 10, 2013

The BMW Malaysia Open 2012 is a hard court tennis tournament for women in Kuala Lumpur . As a tournament in the International category, it is part of the WTA Tour 2012 . The tournament will take place from February 24th to March 4th, 2012. In the same week, the Abierto Mexicano Telcel will take place in Acapulco as the international tournament of the WTA Tour 2012 .

Both singles and doubles titles went to Taiwanese tennis players in 2012. In the singles, the unset qualifier Hsieh Su-wei won against the fifth seeded Croatian Petra Martić in three sets with 2: 6, 7: 5, Martić gave up with a score of 4: 1 in the third set. This is the first title win in singles on the WTA Tour for the Taiwanese, who so far could only celebrate successes in doubles on the tour. In doubles, the Taiwanese duo Chang Kai-chen and Chuang Chia-jung prevailed against the Taiwanese-Japanese pairing Chan Hao-ching and Rika Fujiwara in two sets with 7: 5, 6: 4.

qualification

Four qualifying places were played, which entitle them to participate in the main draw of the tournament.

→ Main article : BMW Malaysia Open 2012 / qualification

singles

Seeding list

No. Player Round reached 01.  Agnieszka Radwańska Quarter finals 02.  Jelena Janković Semifinals 03.  Peng Shuai Quarter finals 04th  Jarmila Gajdošová Round of 16

No. Player Round reached 05.  Petra Martić final 06th  Ayumi Morita Quarter finals 07th  Jelena Dokic Round of 16 08th.  Anne Keothavong 1 round

Explanation of symbols

Q = qualifier WC = wildcard LL = Lucky Loser ITF = qualified via ITF ranking

ALT = replacement (alternate) PR = Protected Ranking SE = Special Exempt

r = retired d = disqualification where = walkover

Results

First round

Round of 16

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

1

A. Radwańska

6th

6th

A. Amanmuradova

2

4th

1

A. Radwańska

6th

6th

Q

K. Plíšková

6th

6th

Q

K. Plíšková

4th

4th

K.-c. Chang

3

2

1

A. Radwańska

C. Dellacqua

6th

6th

Q

S.-w. Hsieh

w.

O.

B. Jovanovski

0

2

C. Dellacqua

1

5

Q

S.-w. Hsieh

6th

7th

Q

S.-w. Hsieh

6th

7th

8th

A. Keothavong

4th

5

Q

S.-w. Hsieh

6th

4th

6th

4th

J. Gajdošová

1

7th

7th

E. Daniilidou

0

6th

1

K. Woerl

6th

6 2

5

4th

J. Gajdošová

4th

0

E. Daniilidou

6th

1

6th

E. Daniilidou

6th

6th

S. Mirza

2

6th

4th

E. Daniilidou

O. Rogowska

6th

6th

O. Rogowska

E. Kostova

4th

0

O. Rogowska

3

6th

7th

K. Mladenovic

3

1

7th

J. Dokic

6th

4th

6 2

7th

J. Dokic

6th

6th

Q

S.-w. Hsieh

2

7th

4th

5

P. Martić

4th

6th

7th

5

P. Martić

6th

5

1r

E. Sema

6th

4th

5

5

P. Martić

6th

3

6th

K. Nara

6th

6th

K. Nara

2

6th

0

N. Lertcheewakarn

4th

3

5

P. Martić

4th

7th

6th

Q

K. Plíšková

6th

6th

3

S. Peng

6th

6 3

4th

I. Brémond

0

2

Q

K. Plíšková

6th

1

4th

Y. Meusburger

1

6th

2

3

S. Peng

2

6th

6th

3

S. Peng

6th

4th

6th

5

P. Martić

6th

A. Morita

6th

6th

2

J. Janković

Q

N. Luangnam

4th

0

6th

A. Morita

7th

6th

WC

O. Putschkowa

6th

1

2

M. Doi

6 6

2

M. Doi

4th

6th

6th

6th

A. Morita

J. Craybas

6th

1

6th

2

J. Janković

Where

Y. Sema

4th

6th

4th

J. Craybas

2

0

C. Garcia

6 7

6th

6 2

2

J. Janković

6th

6th

2

J. Janković

7th

4th

7th

Double

Seeding list

No. pairing Round reached 01.  Casey Dellacqua Jarmila Gajdošová   Semifinals 02.  Petra Martić Kristina Mladenovic   1 round 03.  Chan Hao-ching Rika Fujiwara   final 04th  Shuko Aoyama Chan Chin-wei   1 round

Explanation of symbols

Q = qualifier WC = wildcard LL = Lucky Loser ITF = qualified via ITF ranking

ALT = replacement (alternate) PR = Protected Ranking SE = Special Exempt

r = retired d = disqualification where = walkover

Results

First round

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

1

C. Dellacqua J. Gajdošová

6th

3

[11]

I. Brémond S. Zheng

1

6th

[9]

1

C. Dellacqua J. Gajdošová

6th

6th

E. Sema K. Worle

3

6th

[6]

J. Bowina A. Keothavong

2

4th

J. Bowina A. Keothavong

6th

1

[10]

1

C. Dellacqua J. Gajdošová

4th

0

4th

S. Aoyama C.-w. Chan

6th

2

[8th]

K.-c. Chang C.-j. Chuang

6th

6th

K.-c. Chang C.-j. Chuang

3

6th

[10]

K.-c. Chang C.-j. Chuang

6th

6th

D. Jeflea O. Rogowska

6th

5

[5]

Y. Sema V. Wongteanchai

2

4th

Y. Sema V. Wongteanchai

3

6th

[10]

K.-c. Chang C.-j. Chuang

7th

6th

WC

E. Kostova A. Kremer

1

2

3

H.-c. Chan R. Fujiwara

5

4th

E. Bogdan N. Lertcheewakarn

6th

6th

E. Bogdan N. Lertcheewakarn

4th

1

WC

S.-w. Hsieh S.-y. Hsieh

4th

6th

[8th]

3

H.-c. Chan R. Fujiwara

6th

6th

3

H.-c. Chan R. Fujiwara

6th

2

[10]

3

H.-c. Chan R. Fujiwara

5

6th

[11]

W.-h. Hsu J. Lu

1

3

K. Plíšková K. Plíšková

7th

2

[9]

W.-t. Liu Y. Xu

6th

6th

W.-t. Liu Y. Xu

5

3

K. Plíšková K. Plíšková

6th

6th

K. Plíšková K. Plíšková

7th

6th

2

P. Martić K. Mladenovic

4th

3

Web links

• BMW Malaysia Open 2012 (English) on the ITF homepage
• BMW Malaysia Open 2012 as PDF (English) on the WTA homepage
• Tournament schedule single as PDF (English) on the WTA homepage
• Tournament schedule doubles as PDF (English) on the WTA homepage