title: 2012 Qatar Total Open
text: # 2012 Qatar Total Open
  
  The 2012 Qatar Total Open was a professional women's tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 10th edition of the event. It took place at International Tennis and Squash complex in Doha, Qatar between 13 and 19 February 2012. It was upgraded from a Premier event to a Premier 5 event. Victoria Azarenka won the singles title.
  
  ## Champions
  
  ### Singles
  
  Victoria Azarenka defeated Samantha Stosur, 6–1, 6–2
  
  * It was Azarenka's 3rd title of the year and 11th of her career. It was her 1st Premier 5 title of her career and 6th total Premier title. It was her 3rd consecutive title and 17th consecutive match win.
  
  ### Doubles
  
  Liezel Huber / Lisa Raymond defeated Raquel Kops-Jones / Abigail Spears, 6–3, 6–1
  
  ## Singles main-draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | BLR | Victoria Azarenka | 1 | 1 |
  | DEN | Caroline Wozniacki | 4 | 2 |
  | AUS | Samantha Stosur | 5 | 3 |
  | POL | Agnieszka Radwańska | 6 | 4 |
  | FRA | Marion Bartoli | 7 | 5 |
  | RUS | Vera Zvonareva | 8 | 6 |
  | ITA | Francesca Schiavone | 11 | 7 |
  | SRB | Jelena Janković | 13 | 8 |
  | GER | Sabine Lisicki | 14 | 9 |
  | RUS | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | 15 | 10 |
  | SVK | Dominika Cibulková | 16 | 11 |
  | CHN | Peng Shuai | 17 | 12 |
  | SRB | Ana Ivanovic | 18 | 13 |
  | RUS | Svetlana Kuznetsova | 19 | 14 |
  | SVK | Daniela Hantuchová | 20 | 15 |
  | GER | Julia Görges | 21 | 16 |
  
  * $^1$ Rankings as of February 6, 2012
  
  ### Other entrants
  
  The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  
  * Fatma Al-Nabhani
  * Ons Jabeur
  * Nadia Lalami
  
  The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  
  * Kateryna Bondarenko
  * Vera Dushevina
  * Caroline Garcia
  * Anne Keothavong
  * Varvara Lepchenko
  * Urszula Radwańska
  * Virginie Razzano
  * Aleksandra Wozniak
  
  ### Withdrawals
  
  * Petra Kvitová
  * Andrea Petkovic (low back stress fracture)
  
  ### Retirements
  
  * Marion Bartoli (right calf injury)
  * Carla Suárez Navarro (right hip injury)
  * Vera Zvonareva (left hip injury)
  
  ## Doubles main-draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | USA | Liezel Huber | USA | Lisa Raymond | 3 | 1 |
  | IND | Sania Mirza | RUS | Elena Vesnina | 15 | 2 |
  | SVK | Daniela Hantuchová | POL | Agnieszka Radwańska | 37 | 3 |
  | RUS | Maria Kirilenko | GER | Sabine Lisicki | 55 | 4 |
  | ESP | Nuria Llagostera Vives | AUS | Anastasia Rodionova | 57 | 5 |
  | RSA | Natalie Grandin | CZE | Vladimíra Uhlířová | 59 | 6 |
  | GER | Julia Görges | CHN | Zheng Jie | 64 | 7 |
  | CZE | Iveta Benešová | CZE | Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová | 66 | 8 |
  
  * $^1$ Rankings are as of February 6, 2012
  
  ### Other entrants
  
  The following pair received wildcard into the doubles main draw:
  
  * Fatma Al-Nabhani / Ons Jabeur
  
  ### Retirements
  
  * Urszula Radwańska (upper respiratory injury)
  