The 2012 WTA Premier tournaments are 21 of the tennis tournaments on the 2012 WTA Tour. The WTA Tour is the elite tour for women's professional tennis. The WTA Premier tournaments rank below the Grand Slam events and above the WTA International tournaments. They are divided into three levels: Premier Mandatory (Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid and Beijing), Premier 5 (Doha, Rome, Canada, Cincinnati and Tokyo), and Premier (12 tournaments in Europe, United States and Australia).^[1]

Schedule

Premier

Week of	Tournament	Champions	Runners-up	Semifinalists	Quarterfinalists
2 January	2012 Brisbane International Brisbane, Australia	Kaia Kanepi 6–2, 6–1	Daniela Hantuchová	Kim Clijsters Francesca Schiavone	Iveta Benešová Serena Williams Jelena Janković Andrea Petkovic
		Nuria Llagostera Vives Arantxa Parra Santonja 7–6(7–2), 7–6(7–2)	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears
9 January	2012 Apia International Sydney Sydney, Australia	Victoria Azarenka 6–2, 1–6, 6–3	Li Na	Agnieszka Radwańska Petra Kvitová	Caroline Wozniacki Marion Bartoli Lucie Šafářová Daniela Hantuchová
		Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik 6–1, 4–6, [13–11]	Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond
6 February	Open GDF Suez Paris, France	Angelique Kerber 7–6(7–3), 5–7, 6–3	Marion Bartoli	Yanina Wickmayer Klára Zakopalová	Maria Sharapova Mona Barthel Julia Görges Roberta Vinci
		Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond 7–6(7–3), 6–1	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Petra Martić
20 February	Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships Dubai, UAE	Agnieszka Radwańska 7–5, 6–4	Julia Görges	Caroline Wozniacki Jelena Janković	Daniela Hantuchová Ana Ivanovic Samantha Stosur Sabine Lisicki
		Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond 6–2, 6–1	Sania Mirza Elena Vesnina
2 April	Family Circle Cup Charleston, USA	Serena Williams 6–0, 6–1	Lucie Šafářová	Polona Hercog Samantha Stosur	Nadia Petrova Vera Zvonareva Sabine Lisicki Venus Williams
		Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Lucie Šafářová 5–7, 6–4, [10–6]	Anabel Medina Garrigues Yaroslava Shvedova
23 April	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart, Germany	Maria Sharapova 6–1, 6–4	Victoria Azarenka	Agnieszka Radwańska Petra Kvitová	Mona Barthel Li Na Angelique Kerber Samantha Stosur
		Iveta Benešová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová 6–4, 7–5	Julia Görges Anna-Lena Grönefeld
21 May	Brussels Open Brussels, Belgium	Agnieszka Radwańska 7–5, 6–0	Simona Halep	Kaia Kanepi Sofia Arvidsson	Alison Van Uytvanck Tsvetana Pironkova Dominika Cibulková Urszula Radwańska
		Bethanie Mattek-Sands Sania Mirza 6–3, 6–2	Alicja Rosolska Zheng Jie
18 June	Aegon International Eastbourne, UK	Tamira Paszek 5–7, 6–3, 7–5	Angelique Kerber	Marion Bartoli Klára Zakopalová	Tsvetana Pironkova Lucie Šafářová Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Ekaterina Makarova
		Nuria Llagostera Vives María José Martínez Sánchez 6–4, ret.	Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond
9 July	Bank of the West Classic Stanford, USA	Serena Williams 7–5, 6–3	Coco Vandeweghe	Sorana Cîrstea Yanina Wickmayer	Chanelle Scheepers Dominika Cibulková Urszula Radwańska Marion Bartoli
		Marina Erakovic Heather Watson 7–5, 7–6(9–7)	Jarmila Gajdošová Vania King
16 July	Mercury Insurance Open San Diego, USA	Dominika Cibulková 6–1, 7–5	Marion Bartoli	Chan Yung-jan Nadia Petrova	Christina McHale Jelena Janković Varvara Lepchenko Urszula Radwańska
		Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears 6–2, 6–4	Vania King Nadia Petrova
20 August	New Haven Open at Yale New Haven, USA	Petra Kvitová 7–6(11–9), 7–5	Maria Kirilenko	Caroline Wozniacki Sara Errani	Olga Govortsova Dominika Cibulková Marion Bartoli Lucie Šafářová
		Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond 4–6, 6–0, [10–4]	Andrea Hlaváčková Lucie Hradecká
15 October	Kremlin Cup Moscow, Russia	Caroline Wozniacki 6–2, 4–6, 7–5	Samantha Stosur	Ana Ivanovic Sofia Arvidsson	Klára Zakopalová Vesna Dolonc Dominika Cibulková Maria Kirilenko
		Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina 6–3, 1–6, [10–8]	Maria Kirilenko Nadia Petrova

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