2012 Mercury Insurance Open
Date	July 16–22
Edition	32nd
Category	WTA Premier
Surface	Hard
Location	Carlsbad, California, United States
Champions
Singles
Dominika Cibulková
Doubles
Raquel Kops-Jones / Abigail Spears
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The 2012 Mercury Insurance Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 3rd edition of the Southern California Open since the tournament left the tour in 2007. It was classified as one of the WTA Premier tournaments of the 2012 WTA Tour. It took place in Carlsbad, California, United States from July 16 to 22.^[1]

Finals

Singles

• Dominika Cibulková defeated Marion Bartoli, 6–1, 7–5

Doubles

• Raquel Kops-Jones / Abigail Spears defeated Vania King / Nadia Petrova, 6–2, 6–4

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
FRA	Marion Bartoli	10	1
SVK	Dominika Cibulková	15	2
SRB	Jelena Janković	20	3
RUS	Nadia Petrova	21	4
USA	Christina McHale	28	5
SVK	Daniela Hantuchová	33	6
BEL	Yanina Wickmayer	37	7
RSA	Chanelle Scheepers	42	8

• ¹ Rankings are as of July 9, 2012^[2]

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

• Lauren Davis
• Nicole Gibbs
• Daniela Hantuchová
• CoCo Vandeweghe

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Chan Yung-jan
• Alexa Glatch
• Sesil Karatantcheva
• Michelle Larcher de Brito

The following players received entry as lucky loser:

• Melanie Oudin

Withdrawals

• Sorana Cîrstea (right adductor strain)
• Angelique Kerber (low back injury)
• Svetlana Kuznetsova (right knee injury)
• Sabine Lisicki (abdominal Injury)
• Monica Niculescu (left hand injury)
• Tamira Paszek (left thigh injury)

Retirements

• Yanina Wickmayer (low-back injury)

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
USA	Liezel Huber	USA	Lisa Raymond	2	1
USA	Vania King	RUS	Nadia Petrova	19	2
USA	Raquel Kops-Jones	USA	Abigail Spears	39	3
RSA	Natalie Grandin	CZE	Vladimíra Uhlířová	47	4

• ¹ Rankings are as of July 9, 2012

Other entrants

The following pair received wildcard into the doubles main draw:

• Mirjana Lučić / CoCo Vandeweghe