2012 Aberto de São Paulo
# 2012 Aberto de São Paulo

The 2012 Aberto de São Paulo was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the twelfth edition of the tournament which is part of the 2012 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in São Paulo, Brazil between 2 and 8 January 2011.

## Singles main-draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - |
| ARG | Horacio Zeballos | 109 | 1 |
| BRA | Rogério Dutra da Silva | 124 | 2 |
| BRA | Júlio Silva | 153 | 3 |
| ARG | Federico Delbonis | 166 | 4 |
| POR | Gastão Elias | 172 | 5 |
| BRA | Caio Zampieri | 253 | 6 |
| COL | Eduardo Struvay | 254 | 7 |
| ARG | Juan Pablo Brzezicki | 262 | 8 |

* $^1$ Rankings are as of December 26, 2012.

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

* Henrique Cunha
* Daniel Dutra da Silva
* Leonardo Kirche
* Thiago Monteiro

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

* Augusto Laranja
* Jose Pereira
* Bruno Sant'anna
* Maximiliano Estévez

## Champions

### Singles

Thiago Alves def. Gastão Elias, $7–6^{(7–5)},$ $7–6^{(7–1)}$

### Doubles

Fernando Romboli / Júlio Silva def. Jozef Kovalík / José Pereira, 7–5, 6–2

