2012 New Haven Open at Yale
# 2012 New Haven Open at Yale

The 2012 New Haven Open at Yale (New Haven Open at Yale presented by First Niagara for sponsorship reasons) was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 44th edition of the New Haven Open at Yale, and was part of the Premier Series of the 2012 WTA Tour. It took place at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, from August 17 through August 25, 2012. It was the last event on the 2012 US Open Series before the 2012 US Open.

## Singles main-draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | Ranking* | Seed |
| - | - | - | - |
| POL | Agnieszka Radwańska | 3 | 1 |
| CZE | Petra Kvitová | 5 | 2 |
| DEN | Caroline Wozniacki | 8 | 3 |
| ITA | Sara Errani | 10 | 4 |
| FRA | Marion Bartoli | 11 | 5 |
| SVK | Dominika Cibulková | 13 | 6 |
| RUS | Maria Kirilenko | 14 | 7 |
| CZE | Lucie Šafářová | 19 | 8 |

* Seedings are based on the rankings of August 13, 2012

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

* Petra Kvitová
* Bethanie Mattek-Sands
* Laura Robson

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

* Tímea Babos
* Nicole Gibbs
* Alexa Glatch
* Olga Govortsova

The following players entry as lucky loser:

* Vera Dushevina
* Melanie Oudin

### Withdrawals

The following players withdrew from the singles main draw:

* Kaia Kanepi (achilles tendon injury)
* Christina McHale (gastrointestinal illness)
* Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
* Flavia Pennetta (wrist injury)
* Francesca Schiavone (gastrointestinal illness)

### Retirements

* Mona Barthel (gastrointestinal illness)
* Varvara Lepchenko (wrist injury)
* Agnieszka Radwańska (right shoulder injury)
* Caroline Wozniacki (right knee injury)

## Doubles main-draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| USA | Liezel Huber | USA | Lisa Raymond | 2 | 1 |
| CZE | Andrea Hlaváčková | CZE | Lucie Hradecká | 21 | 2 |
| SLO | Katarina Srebotnik | CHN | Zheng Jie | 38 | 3 |
| ESP | Nuria Llagostera Vives | ESP | María José Martínez Sánchez | 38 | 4 |

* $^1$ Rankings are as of August 13, 2012

### Other entrants

The following pair received wildcard into the doubles main draw:

* Tímea Babos / Sloane Stephens

The following pair received entry as alternates:

* Sílvia Soler Espinosa / Carla Suárez Navarro

### Withdrawals

* Paola Suárez (low back injury)

## Finals

### Singles

Petra Kvitová defeated Maria Kirilenko, $7–6^{(11–9)},$ 7–5

### Doubles

Liezel Huber / Lisa Raymond defeated Andrea Hlaváčková / Lucie Hradecká, 4–6, 6–0, [10–4]

