2012 WTA Premier tournaments explained

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			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
9 January	2012 Apia International Sydney Sydney, Australia	Victoria Azarenka 6–2, 1–6, 6–3			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
6 February	Open GDF Suez Paris, France	Angelique Kerber 7–6^(7–3), 5–7, 6–3			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		Maria Sharapova Mona Barthel Julia Görges Roberta Vinci
20 February	Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships Dubai, UAE	Agnieszka Radwańska 7–5, 6–4			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
2 April	Family Circle Cup Charleston, USA	Serena Williams 6–0, 6–1			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		Nadia Petrova Vera Zvonareva Sabine Lisicki Venus Williams
23 April	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart, Germany	Maria Sharapova 6–1, 6–4			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		Mona Barthel Li Na Angelique Kerber Samantha Stosur
21 May	Brussels Open Brussels, Belgium	Agnieszka Radwańska 7–5, 6–0			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
18 June	Aegon International Eastbourne, UK	Tamira Paszek 5–7, 6–3, 7–5			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
9 July	Bank of the West Classic Stanford, USA	Serena Williams 7–5, 6–3			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
16 July	Mercury Insurance Open San Diego, USA	Dominika Cibulková 6–1, 7–5		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			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
15 October	Kremlin Cup Moscow, Russia	Caroline Wozniacki 6–2, 4–6, 7–5			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

Notes and References

Web site: 2012 WTA calendar . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111027054835/http://www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/Archive/AboutTheTour/TourCalendar_2012.pdf . 2011-10-27 . 2011-10-09 . wtatennis.com . WTA Tour, Inc..