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2012 Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and Memphis International

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2012 Regions Morgan Keegan Championships
and Memphis International
DateFebruary 17–26
Edition37th (men) / 27th (women)
CategoryATP World Tour 500
WTA International
SurfaceHard
LocationMemphis, Tennessee, US
VenueRacquet Club of Memphis
Champions
Men's singles
Austria Jürgen Melzer
Women's singles
Sweden Sofia Arvidsson
Men's doubles
Belarus Max Mirnyi / Canada Daniel Nestor
Women's doubles
Czech Republic Andrea Hlaváčková / Czech Republic Lucie Hradecká
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The 2012 Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Memphis International was an ATP World Tour and WTA Tour event held at the hardcourts of the Racquet Club of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee, US. It was the 37th edition of the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the 27th edition of the Memphis WTA International Event. The Regions Morgan Keegan Championships was part of the ATP World Tour 500 series on the 2012 ATP World Tour, and the Cellular South Cup was an International-level tournament on the 2012 WTA Tour. The event took place from February 17 to February 26, 2012. Jürgen Melzer and Sofia Arvidsson won the singles titles.

ATP singles main draw entrants

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Seeds

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Country Player Rank1 Seeds
 USA John Isner 14 1
 USA Andy Roddick 17 2
 CZE Radek Štěpánek 29 3
 CAN Milos Raonic 32 4
 RUS Alex Bogomolov, Jr. 33 5
 FRA Julien Benneteau 34 6
 RSA Kevin Anderson 35 7
 AUS Bernard Tomic 36 8
  • 1 Rankings as of February 13, 2012

Other entrants

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The following players received wildcards into the main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

ATP doubles main draw entrants

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Seeds

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Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
 BLR Max Mirnyi  CAN Daniel Nestor 6 1
 AUT Jürgen Melzer  GER Philipp Petzschner 30 2
 CZE František Čermák  SVK Filip Polášek 41 3
 MEX Santiago González  GER Christopher Kas 42 4
  • 1 Rankings are as of February 13, 2012

Other entrants

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The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

WTA singles main draw entrants

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Seeds

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Country Player Rank1 Seeds
 RUS Nadia Petrova 32 1
 KAZ Ksenia Pervak 44 2
 CZE Lucie Hradecká 52 3
 NZL Marina Erakovic 58 4
 FRA Pauline Parmentier 59 5
 GBR Elena Baltacha 61 6
 SWE Johanna Larsson 62 7
 SVK Magdalena Rybáriková 65 8
  • 1 Rankings as of February 13, 2012

Other entrants

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The following players received wildcards into the main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

WTA doubles main draw entrants

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Seeds

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Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
 CZE Andrea Hlaváčková  CZE Lucie Hradecká 21 1
 RUS Vera Dushevina  BLR Olga Govortsova 105 2
 LAT Līga Dekmeijere  RUS Nadia Petrova 106 3
 NED Michaëlla Krajicek  GEO Anna Tatishvili 163 4
  • 1 Rankings are as of February 13, 2012

Other entrants

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The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

The following pair received entry as alternates:

Withdrawals

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Retirements

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Finals

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Men's singles

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Austria Jürgen Melzer defeated Canada Milos Raonic, 7–5, 7–6(4)

Women's singles

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Sweden Sofia Arvidsson defeated New Zealand Marina Erakovic, 6–3, 6–4

  • This was Arvidsson's second WTA title, with her first title won at the same event six years ago.

Men's doubles

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Belarus Max Mirnyi / Canada Daniel Nestor defeated Croatia Ivan Dodig / Brazil Marcelo Melo, 4–6, 7–5, [10–7]

Women's doubles

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Czech Republic Andrea Hlaváčková / Czech Republic Lucie Hradecká defeated Russia Vera Dushevina / Belarus Olga Govortsova, 6–3, 6–4

Sources

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