page_title: Polona Hercog
section_title: 2012
hierarchical_section_title: Polona Hercog / Career summary / 2012
caption_attribution_description: Polona Hercog during her first round match with Kristyna Pliskova on Day 2 of Wimbledon 2012.
context_page_description: Polona Hercog is a Slovenian professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA rankings are No. 35 in singles and No. 56 in doubles. She has won five WTA Tour titles; three in singles and two in doubles. Hercog also enjoyed success on the ITF Women's Circuit, winning 14 singles and five doubles titles. She is the Slovenian No. 1 in women's tennis.
  Partnering with Jessica Moore, she won the 2008 French Open and Wimbledon Championships junior titles in the doubles competition.
context_section_description: Hercog began the year at the Brisbane International. She retired trailing 6–1, 4-1 in her first round match against seventh seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova due to a low back injury. Seeded third in qualifying at the Apia International Sydney, Hercog lost in the final round of qualifying to seventh seed Ekaterina Makarova. However, she received a lucky loser spot into the main draw. In the first round, Hercog lost to eighth seed Marion Bartoli. At the Australian Open, she lost in the first round to 22nd seed Julia Görges.
  After the Australian Open, Hercog represented Slovenia for Fed Cup against Japan. She lost both of her rubbers to Kimiko Date-Krumm and Ayumi Morita. Japan went on to defeat Slovenia 5-0. At the Open GDF Suez, Hercog lost in the first round to Chanelle Scheepers in straight sets. She suffered another first-round loss at the Qatar Total Open to Tsvetana Pironkova. Seeded 2nd for qualifying at the Dubai Tennis Championships, she lost in the final round of qualifying to Aleksandra Wozniak. Entering the main draw as a lucky loser, Hercog lost in the first round to world No. 21, Daniela Hantuchová. Ranked 38 at the BNP Paribas Open, she lost in the first round to wild card Jamie Hampton 0–6, 1–6. At the Sony Ericsson Open, Hercog got revenge on qualifier Jamie Hampton defeating her in the first round 6–1, 6–3. In the second, she lost to seventh seed Marion Bartoli.
  Hercog began her clay court season at the Family Circle Cup. Seeded 14th, she beat Kimiko Date-Krumm in the first round. In the second round, she defeated American Varvara Lepchenko. In the third round, Hercog upset third seed Marion Bartoli. In the quarterfinals, she upset 13th seed Nadia Petrova 6–1, 6–2 to reach the semifinals where she was crushed by ninth seed Lucie Šafářová 6–0, 6–0. Seeded 8th at the Barcelona Ladies Open, Hercog retired in her first round match against Sorana Cîrstea after losing the first set 4–6 due to dizziness. Seeded 9th at the Estoril Open, she defeated Tamira Paszek in the first round 6–0, 6–3. In the second round, Hercog retired trailing 6–4, 3-0 to Carla Suárez Navarro due to a right foot injury. Ranked 37 at the Mutua Madrid Open, Hercog lost in the first round to Shahar Pe'er 3–6, 5–7. At the French Open, she was defeated in the first round by Ayumi Morita.
  At the Wimbledon Championships, Hercog lost in the first round to qualifier Kristýna Plíšková.
  After Wimbledon, Hercog competed at the Internazionali Femminili di Palermo. Seeded 6th, she was upset in the first round by Irina-Camelia Begu. After Palmero, Hercog played at the Swedish Open where she was the defending champion. Hercog defeated Mathilde Johansson in the final. Representing Slovenia at the Summer Olympics, Hercog was defeated in the first round by María José Martínez Sánchez.
  She played one warm up tournament before the US Open. At the Texas Tennis Open. She faced Kiki Bertens in the first round, and won the first set 6–4 when Bertens retired due to a right abdominal injury. In the second round, she lost to third seed and eventual champion Roberta Vinci. At the US Open, Hercog was defeated in the first round by fifth seed Petra Kvitová.
  At the Korea Open, she lost in the first round to eighth seed Ekaterina Makarova. Seeded 11th for qualifying at the Toray Pan Pacific Open, Hercog lost in the first round of qualifying to wild card Kurumi Nara. She qualified for the China Open beating 17th seed Mathilde Johansson and Gréta Arn. In round one, Hercog led 5–7, 6–4, 3-0 before Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova retired due to a gastrointestinal illness. In the second round, she defeated Ekaterina Makarova in a very close match. In the third round, Hercog lost to second seed and eventual finalist Maria Sharapova. Her final tournament of the year was at the HP Open. She lost in the first round to eventual champion Heather Watson.
  Hercog ended the year ranked No. 80.
caption: Hercog at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships
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