The 2012
Ningbo Challenger
The Ningbo International Tennis Open is a tennis tournament held in Ningbo, China. The event was part of the WTA 125K series and is now part of the ATP Challenger Tour. It is played on outdoor hardcourt
A hardcourt (or hard court) is a surface ...
was a professional
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball c ...
tournament played on
hard court
A hardcourt (or hard court) is a surface or floor on which a sport is played, most usually in reference to tennis courts. It is typically made of rigid materials such as asphalt or concrete, and covered with acrylic resins to seal the surface ...
s. It was the second edition of the tournament (third for women) which was part of the
2012 ATP Challenger Tour
The ATP Challenger Tour was the secondary professional tennis circuit organized by the ATP. The 2012 ATP Challenger Tour calendar comprised 15 top tier Tretorn SERIE+ tournaments, and a total of 148 tournaments, with prize money ranging from $35, ...
and the
2012 ITF Women's Circuit The 2012 ITF Women's Circuit was the 2012 edition of the second-tier tour for women's professional tennis. The ITF Women's Circuit is organised by the International Tennis Federation and is a tier below the WTA Tour. The 2012 season consisted of 484 ...
. It took place in
Ningbo
Ningbo (; Ningbonese: ''gnin² poq⁷'' , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly romanized as Ningpo, is a major sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It comprises 6 urban districts, 2 sate ...
, China, on 10–16 September 2012.
ATP entrants
Seeds
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1 Rankings as of 27 August 2012
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
* Gao Xin
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Gong Maoxin
Gong Maoxin (; ; born August 24, 1987), is a professional male tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses ...
* Wang Chuhan
* Zhou Zhuo-Qing
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
* Jaan-Frederik Brunken
*
Jeong Suk-Young
Jeong Suk-young ( ko, 정석영; born 12 April 1993) is a South Korean tennis player.
Jeong has a career high ATP singles ranking of 270 achieved on 9 September 2013. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 466 achieved on 16 Septemb ...
* Wang Ruikai
* Yi Chu-huan
WTA entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings as of 27 August 2012
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
*
Han Xinyun
Han Xinyun (; ; born 30 May 1990), also known as Monica Han, is a Chinese professional tennis player.
Han has won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. She also has won nine singles and ...
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Tang Haochen
Tang Haochen (; ; born 21 February 1994) is a former tennis player from China.
Tang has won two singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 15 December 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 371. On 15 July 2013, s ...
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Xu Yifan
Xu Yifan (; ; born 8 August 1988) is a professional tennis player from China. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 148 in singles, on 13 July 2015. Since October 2018, she has specialized playing in doubles. On 13 January 2020, she peaked ...
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Wang Yafan
Wang Yafan (; ; born 30 April 1994) is a Chinese tennis player.
In her career, she has won one singles title and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as four doubles titles on WTA 125 tournaments, plus eleven singles and six doubles ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
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Liu Fangzhou
Liu Fangzhou (; ; born 12 December 1995) is a Chinese tennis player.
On 24 April 2017, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 127. On 16 June 2014, she peaked at No. 919 in the WTA doubles rankings.
Liu made her WTA Tour debut at t ...
*
Tetiana Luzhanska
Tetiana Luzhanska ( uk, Тетяна Лужанська; born 4 September 1984) is a Ukrainian-American former tennis player.
Luzhanska has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 131, achieved on 26 September 2011, and a highest WTA doubles ...
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Yang Zhaoxuan
Yang Zhaoxuan (; ; born 11 February 1995) is a Chinese professional tennis player.
Yang reached her best doubles ranking of world No. 11 in the WTA doubles rankings on 24 October 2022.
Yang has won six doubles titles on the WTA Tour and one W ...
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Zhou Yimiao
Zhou Yimiao, also spelled as Zhou Yi-Miao, (; ; born February 7, 1991) is a professional Chinese tennis player.
Zhou was born in Hubei
Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is pa ...
The following players received entry by a Special Ranking:
*
Zarina Diyas
Zarina Diyas ( kk, Зари́на Ди́ас; born 18 October 1993) is a Kazakh professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as No. 31 in the world by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Diyas has won one WTA singles title, at the ...
Champions
Men's singles
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Peter Gojowczyk
Peter Gojowczyk ( ; born 15 July 1989) is a German professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 39 in June 2018.
Tennis career 2014: Cracking the top 100
Gojowczyk began the year by reaching his first to ...
def.
Jeong Suk-Young
Jeong Suk-young ( ko, 정석영; born 12 April 1993) is a South Korean tennis player.
Jeong has a career high ATP singles ranking of 270 achieved on 9 September 2013. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 466 achieved on 16 Septemb ...
6–3, 6–1
Women's singles
*
Hsieh Su-wei
Hsieh Su-wei ( ;''Xiè 謝淑薇Shūwēi'' in Chinese mainland. Taiwanese Mandarin: ; in Standard Mandarin of Chinese mainland. born 4 January 1986) is an inactive Taiwanese professional tennis player. She has won three singles titles and 30 ...
def.
Zhang Shuai
Zhang Shuai (; ; born 21 January 1989) is a Chinese professional tennis player.
She is a two-time Grand Slam champion in women's doubles, having won the 2019 Australian Open and the 2021 US Open, both alongside Samantha Stosur. Zhang als ...
6–2, 6–2
Men's doubles
*
Sanchai Ratiwatana
Sanchai Ratiwatana ( th, สรรค์ชัย รติวัฒน์, ), nicknamed Tong (, ; born January 23, 1982 in Bangkok), is a professional tennis player from Thailand. He turned professional in 2004.
In 2007, Sanchai and his twin br ...
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Sonchat Ratiwatana
Sonchat Ratiwatana ( th, สนฉัตร รติวัฒน์, ), nicknamed Ton (, ; born January 23, 1982 in Bangkok) is a professional tennis player from Thailand. In 2007, Sonchat and his twin brother Sanchai Ratiwatana won their first ...
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Gong Maoxin
Gong Maoxin (; ; born August 24, 1987), is a professional male tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses ...
/
Zhang Ze
Zhang Ze (; ; born July 4, 1990), is a Chinese male tennis player.
Zhang's career highlights include reaching the quarterfinals of the 2012 China Open (defeating Richard Gasquet en route), playing the Australian Open main draw in two consec ...
6–4, 6–2
Women's doubles
*
Shuko Aoyama
is a Japanese tennis player.
Aoyama became a professional tennis player after graduating from Waseda University. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 182, on 9 February 2015, and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 4, ...
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Chang Kai-chen
Chang Kai-chen (; ; born January 13, 1991) is a Taiwanese former professional tennis player.
Career
Her father is Chang Chin-lai and mother is Jun Yu-mei; she has two older brothers, Yao-lun and Yao-chung (both play tennis). Born and raised ...
def.
Tetiana Luzhanska
Tetiana Luzhanska ( uk, Тетяна Лужанська; born 4 September 1984) is a Ukrainian-American former tennis player.
Luzhanska has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 131, achieved on 26 September 2011, and a highest WTA doubles ...
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Zheng Saisai
Zheng Saisai or Zheng Sai-Sai (; born February 5, 1994) is a Chinese tennis player. She won one WTA singles title (at the Premier level 2019 Silicon Valley Classic), five WTA doubles titles, and reached the final of the 2019 French Open in dou ...
6–2, 7–5
External links
2012 Ningbo Challenger at ITFtennis.com
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2012
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2012 ATP Challenger Tour
2012 ITF Women's Circuit
2012 in Chinese tennis