Seeds • 1 Seedings are based on the rankings of August 13, 2012
Other entrants The following players received
wildcards into the singles main draw •
Jarmila Gajdošová •
Bojana Jovanovski •
Yanina Wickmayer The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: •
Eugenie Bouchard •
Casey Dellacqua •
Mirjana Lučić •
Pauline Parmentier The following player entry as lucky loser: •
Emily Webley-Smith Withdrawals •
Angelique Kerber (left shoulder injury) •
Sabine Lisicki (left abdominal sprain) •
Monica Niculescu (hand injury) •
Ksenia Pervak •
Urszula Radwańska Retirements •
Kiki Bertens (right abdominal injury) •
Peng Shuai (right shoulder injury) ==Doubles main-draw entrants==