Seeds • Seedings are based on the rankings of August 13, 2012
Other entrants The following players received
wildcards into the singles main draw: •
Petra Kvitová •
Bethanie Mattek-Sands •
Laura Robson The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: •
Tímea Babos •
Nicole Gibbs •
Alexa Glatch •
Olga Govortsova The following players entry as lucky loser: •
Vera Dushevina •
Melanie Oudin Withdrawals The following players withdrew from the singles main draw: •
Kaia Kanepi (achilles tendon injury) •
Christina McHale (gastrointestinal illness) •
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova •
Flavia Pennetta (wrist injury) •
Francesca Schiavone (gastrointestinal illness)
Retirements •
Mona Barthel (gastrointestinal illness) •
Varvara Lepchenko (wrist injury) •
Agnieszka Radwańska (right shoulder injury) •
Caroline Wozniacki (right knee injury) ==Doubles main-draw entrants==