The 2012
Tunis Open
The Tunis Open is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour. It is held annually at the Tennis Club de Tunis in Tunis, Tunisia, sinc ...
was a professional
tennis
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tournament played on
clay court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Clay courts are made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate depending on the tournament.
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s. It was the seventh edition of the tournament 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
Tretorn SERIE+ tour. It took place in
Tunis
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between April 30 and May 6, 2012.
ATP entrants
Seeds
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1 Rankings are as of April 23, 2012.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
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Haithem Abid
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Marcel Granollers
Marcel Granollers Pujol (; ; born 12 April 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 19 in July 2012, and his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 4 in February 2013. Granollers h ...
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Skander Mansouri
Skander Mansouri (born 23 July 1995) is a Tunisian tennis player.
Mansouri has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 238 achieved on 12 December 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 187 achieved on 17 July ...
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Lamine Ouahab
Lamine Ouahab (Arabic: الأمين وهاب ''al-ʼAmīn Wahhāb'') (born 22 December 1984) is a Moroccan professional tennis player.
Career
Juniors
As a junior, Ouahab reached as high as No. 4 in singles in January 2002 (and No. 18 in doub ...
The following players received entry as a special exempt into the singles main draw:
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Mirza Bašić
Mirza Bašić (; born 12 July 1991) is a Bosnian professional tennis player. He has won one ATP singles title and is a member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Davis Cup team.
Bašić reached his first Grand Slam tournament after qualifying for t ...
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Vincent Millot
Vincent Millot (; born 30 January 1986, in Montpellier, France) is a French former professional tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players eac ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
* Antonio Comporto
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Riccardo Ghedin
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Gianluca Naso
Gianluca Naso (born 6 January 1987) is an Italian retired professional tennis player. He won three doubles titles on ATP Challenger Tour in Genoa and Todi (both in 2008). Both times his partner was Walter Trusendi. And in 2013 at Meknes wi ...
* Laurent Rochette
Champions
Singles
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Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo
Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo (; born 6 January 1978 in Alicante, Spain) is a former professional male tennis player from Spain. His career-high ATP singles ranking is world No. 50, achieved on 2 October 2006. His favourite surface is clay, where h ...
def.
Jérémy Chardy, 6–1, 6–4
Doubles
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Jerzy Janowicz
Jerzy Filip Janowicz Jr. (; born 13 November 1990) is a Polish professional tennis player. Janowicz is best known for becoming the first Polish man to reach a major semifinal at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships.
Noted for his very powerful serv ...
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Jürgen Zopp
Jürgen Zopp (born 29 March 1988) is a retired professional Estonian tennis player. He is Estonia's all-time highest ranked male tennis player with a career-high singles ranking of World No. 71 in 2012.
Career
Zopp started playing tennis at t ...
def.
Nicholas Monroe /
Simon Stadler
Simon Stadler (; born 20 July 1983 in Heidelberg, West Germany) is a German retired professional left-handed tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 140 in February 2009 and his career-high doubles ranking of world ...
, 7–6
(7–1), 6–3
External links
Official Website
{{2012 ATP Challenger Tour
Tunis Open
The Tunis Open is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour. It is held annually at the Tennis Club de Tunis in Tunis, Tunisia, sinc ...
Tunis Open