2012 Korea Open
# 2012 Korea Open

The 2012 Korea Open was a women's professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the ninth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2012 WTA Tour. It took place in Seoul, South Korea between 17 and 23 September 2012.

## Singles main-draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - |
| DEN | Caroline Wozniacki | 11 | 1 |
| RUS | Maria Kirilenko | 14 | 2 |
| EST | Kaia Kanepi | 16 | 3 |
| RUS | Nadia Petrova | 18 | 4 |
| GER | Julia Görges | 21 | 5 |
| USA | Varvara Lepchenko | 22 | 6 |
| CZE | Klára Zakopalová | 28 | 7 |
| RUS | Ekaterina Makarova | 29 | 8 |

* $^1$ Rankings are as of September 10, 2012

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

* Hong Hyun-hui
* Lee So-ra
* Han Sung-hee

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

* Eleni Daniilidou
* Caroline Garcia
* Jamie Hampton
* Sesil Karatantcheva

### Withdrawals

* Ksenia Pervak
* Sloane Stephens

### Retirements

* Maria Kirilenko (back injury)
* Nadia Petrova (back injury)

## Doubles main-draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| USA | Raquel Kops-Jones | USA | Abigail Spears | 41 | 1 |
| IND | Sania Mirza | ESP | Anabel Medina Garrigues | 44 | 2 |
| RSA | Natalie Grandin | CZE | Vladimíra Uhlířová | 61 | 3 |
| RUS | Vera Dushevina | POL | Alicja Rosolska | 95 | 4 |

* $^1$ Rankings are as of September 10, 2012

### Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

* Choi Ji-hee / Jun Nam-yeon
* Han Sung-hee / Lee So-ra

## Finals

### Singles

* Caroline Wozniacki defeated Kaia Kanepi 6–1, 6–0

This was Wozniacki's first title of the season which ended a 13-month drought. It was also her 19th career title.

### Doubles

* Raquel Kops-Jones / Abigail Spears defeated Akgul Amanmuradova / Vania King 2–6, 6–2, [10–8]
