title: 2012 Samarkand Challenger
text: # 2012 Samarkand Challenger
  
  The 2012 Samarkand Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 16th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2012 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Samarkand, Uzbekistan between 6 and 12 August 2012.
  
  ## Singles main draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | RUS | Igor Kunitsyn | 143 | 1 |
  | KAZ | Andrey Golubev | 157 | 2 |
  | SRB | Dušan Lajović | 169 | 3 |
  | SVK | Kamil Čapkovič | 220 | 4 |
  | UZB | Farrukh Dustov | 235 | 5 |
  | UKR | Ivan Sergeyev | 237 | 6 |
  | AUS | Brydan Klein | 241 | 7 |
  | SVK | Andrej Martin | 260 | 8 |
  
  * $^1$ Rankings are as of August 1, 2012.
  
  ### Other entrants
  
  The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  
  * Sarvar Ikramov
  * Temur Ismailov
  * Sergey Shipilov
  * Vaja Uzakov
  
  The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  
  * N.Sriram Balaji
  * Jaan-Frederik Brunken
  * Adrian Sikora
  * Dzmitry Zhyrmont
  
  ## Champions
  
  ### Singles
  
  * Dušan Lajović def. Farrukh Dustov, 6–3, 6–2
  
  ### Doubles
  
  * Oleksandr Nedovyesov / Ivan Sergeyev def. Divij Sharan / Vishnu Vardhan, 6–4, $7–6^{(7–1)}$
  