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| 2012 Brisbane International | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | 1–8 January | |||
| Edition | 4th | |||
| Surface | Hard / outdoors | |||
| Location | Brisbane, Australia | |||
| Venue | Queensland Tennis Centre | |||
| Champions | ||||
| Men's singles | ||||
 Andy Murray | ||||
| Women's singles | ||||
 Kaia Kanepi | ||||
| Men's doubles | ||||
 Max Mirnyi / Daniel Nestor | ||||
| Women's doubles | ||||
 Nuria Llagostera Vives /Arantxa Parra Santonja | ||||
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The2012 Brisbane International was a joint2012 ATP World Tour and2012 WTA Tourtennis tournament, played on outdoorhard courts inBrisbane,Queensland. Because of its ongoing success, the WTA decided in 2011 to upgrade the event to a Premier event. It was the 4th edition of the tournament and took place at theQueensland Tennis Centre inTennyson. It was held from 1 to 8 January 2012 and was part of the Australian Open Series in preparation for the first Grand Slam of the year.Andy Murray andKaia Kanepi won the singles titles.
| Country | Player | Rank | Seed |
|---|---|---|---|
| GBR | Andy Murray | 4 | 1 |
 FRA | Gilles Simon | 12 | 2 |
 UKR | Alexandr Dolgopolov | 15 | 3 |
 GER | Florian Mayer | 23 | 4 |
 JPN | Kei Nishikori | 25 | 5 |
 CZE | Radek Štěpánek | 28 | 6 |
 AUT | Jürgen Melzer | 33 | 7 |
 AUS | Bernard Tomic | 42 | 8 |
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
The following players received entry from thequalifying draw:
Kevin Anderson (knee injury)
James Blake (personal reasons)Tommy Haas (calf injury)Donald Young (personal reasons)Florian Mayer (groin injury)| Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLR | Max Mirnyi | CAN | Daniel Nestor | 4 | 1 |
| AUT | Jürgen Melzer | GER | Philipp Petzschner | 12 | 2 |
 SWE | Robert Lindstedt |  ROU | Horia Tecău | 14 | 3 |
 PAK | Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi |  CUR | Jean-Julien Rojer | 16 | 4 |
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
Tommy Haas (calf injury)| Country | Player | Rank | Seed |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUS | Samantha Stosur | 6 | 1 |
| GER | Andrea Petkovic | 10 | 2 |
 ITA | Francesca Schiavone | 11 | 3 |
| USA | Serena Williams | 12 | 4 |
 BEL | Kim Clijsters | 13 | 5 |
 SRB | Jelena Janković | 14 | 6 |
 RUS | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | 16 | 7 |
 SVK | Dominika Cibulková | 18 | 8 |
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Maria Sharapova (ankle injury)Kim Clijsters (left hip injury)
Polona Hercog (low back injury)
Ksenia Pervak (migraine)Serena Williams (left ankle sprain)| Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RSA | Natalie Grandin | CZE | Vladimíra Uhlířová | 47 | 1 |
| CZE | Iveta Benešová | CZE | Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová | 51 | 2 |
 TPE | Hsieh Su-wei | KAZ | Galina Voskoboeva | 66 | 3 |
| ESP | Nuria Llagostera Vives | ESP | Arantxa Parra Santonja | 66 | 4 |
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
The following pair received entry as alternates:
Polona Hercog (low back injury)Andy Murray defeatedAlexandr Dolgopolov, 6–1, 6–3
Kaia Kanepi defeatedDaniela Hantuchová, 6–2, 6–1
Max Mirnyi /Daniel Nestor defeatedJürgen Melzer /Philipp Petzschner, 6–1, 6–2
Nuria Llagostera Vives /Arantxa Parra Santonja defeatedRaquel Kops-Jones /Abigail Spears,7–6(7–2), 7–6(7–2)
The 2012 Brisbane International was, for the first time, broadcast live and in full to most states in Australia on digital channel7Two. In previous years, the event was broadcast only on certain days and often on significant delay onChannel Seven.
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