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2012 Brasil Open
2012 Brasil Open
Date	February 13–19
Edition	12th
Category	ATP World Tour 250
Surface	Clay / outdoor
Location	São Paulo, Brazil
Champions
Singles
	Nicolás Almagro
Doubles
	Eric Butorac / Bruno Soares

The 2012 Brasil Open was a tennis tournament played on indoor clay courts. It was the 12th edition of the event known as the Brasil Open, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2012 ATP World Tour. It took place from February 13 through February 19, 2012, in São Paulo, Brazil for the first time, since the previous tournaments were held in Costa do Sauípe, Brazil. The competition was also moved from an outdoor event to indoors and was played at the Complexo Desportivo Constâncio Vaz Guimarães.^[1]

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank	Seed
ESP	Nicolás Almagro	11	1
FRA	Gilles Simon	12	2
ESP	Fernando Verdasco	26	3
BRA	Thomaz Bellucci	38	4
ARG	Carlos Berlocq	44	5
ESP	Juan Carlos Ferrero	48	6
ESP	Albert Montañés	52	7
ESP	Albert Ramos	66	8

Seeds are based on Rankings as of February 6, 2012.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Withdrawals

Juan Ignacio Chela (personal reasons)
Tommy Robredo (adductor injury)

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank¹	Seed
USA	Eric Butorac	BRA	Bruno Soares	47	1
ITA	Daniele Bracciali	ITA	Potito Starace	92	2
COL	Juan Sebastián Cabal	COL	Robert Farah	97	3
SVK	Michal Mertiňák	BRA	André Sá	114	4