2012 Penza Cup Explained

The 2012 Penza Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2012 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Penza, Russia between 16 and 22 July 2012.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank^1	Seed
Russian Federation	Alexander Kudryavtsev	168	1
Russian Federation	Evgeny Donskoy	190	2
Russian Federation	Konstantin Kravchuk	207	3
India	Yuki Bhambri	220	4
Slovakia	Kamil Čapkovič	225	5
Ukraine	Denys Molchanov	268	6
Russian Federation	Evgeny Kirillov	281	7
Russian Federation	Andrey Kumantsov	326	8

• ¹ Rankings are as of July 9, 2012.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

• Ilya Chkoniya
• Aslan Karatsev
• Anton Manegin
• Alexey Tumakov

The following players received entry as an alternate into the singles main draw:

• Victor Baluda
• Mikhail Fufygin

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Mikhail Biryukov
• Evgeny Karlovskiy
• Richard Muzaev
• Anton Zaitsev

Champions

Singles

See main article: 2012 Penza Cup – Singles.

• Illya Marchenko def. Evgeny Donskoy, 7–5, 6–3

Doubles

See main article: 2012 Penza Cup – Doubles.

• Konstantin Kravchuk / Nikolaus Moser def. Yuki Bhambri / Divij Sharan, 6–7^(5–7), 6–3, [10–7]