2012 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix
# 2012 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix

The 2012 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor clay courts. It was the 35th edition of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, and was part of the Premier tournaments of the 2012 WTA Tour. It took place at the Porsche Arena in Stuttgart, Germany, from 23 April until 29 April 2012. Second-seeded Maria Sharapova won the singles title.

## Singles main draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - |
| BLR | Victoria Azarenka | 1 | 1 |
| RUS | Maria Sharapova | 2 | 2 |
| CZE | Petra Kvitová | 3 | 3 |
| POL | Agnieszka Radwańska | 4 | 4 |
| AUS | Samantha Stosur | 5 | 5 |
| DEN | Caroline Wozniacki | 6 | 6 |
| FRA | Marion Bartoli | 7 | 7 |
| CHN | Li Na | 8 | 8 |

* $^1$ Rankings are as of April 16, 2012

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw:

* Kristina Barrois
* Mona Barthel

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

* Gréta Arn
* Iveta Benešová
* Anna Chakvetadze
* Alizé Cornet

The following players received entry as lucky loser:

* Akgul Amanmuradova
* Kateryna Bondarenko

### Withdrawals

* Daniela Hantuchová
* Sabine Lisicki
* Flavia Pennetta (wrist injury)
* Vera Zvonareva

### Retirements

* Alizé Cornet (right shoulder injury)
* Jelena Janković (low back injury)
* Andrea Petkovic (right ankle injury)

## Doubles main draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| CZE | Květa Peschke | SLO | Katarina Srebotnik | 7 | 1 |
| IND | Sania Mirza | ITA | Flavia Pennetta | 24 | 2 |
| CHN | Peng Shuai | RUS | Elena Vesnina | 45 | 3 |
| RSA | Natalie Grandin | CZE | Vladimíra Uhlířová | 45 | 4 |
| CZE | Iveta Benešová | CZE | Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová | 52 | 5 |

* $^1$ Rankings are as of April 16, 2012

### Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

* Mona Barthel / Tatjana Malek
* Angelique Kerber / Andrea Petkovic
* Francesca Schiavone / Roberta Vinci

The following pair received entry as alternates:

* Chan Hao-ching / Rika Fujiwara

### Withdrawals

* Flavia Pennetta (wrist injury)

### Retirements

* Paola Suárez (low back injury)

## Finals

### Singles

Maria Sharapova deeated. Victoria Azarenka, 6–1, 6–4

* It was Sharapova's 1st title of the year and 25th of her career.

### Doubles

Iveta Benešová / Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová defeated. Julia Görges / Anna-Lena Grönefeld, 6–4, 7–5

