2012 Swedish Open – Women's singles

Polona Hercog successfully defended her title after defeating Mathilde Johansson in the final 0–6, 6–4, 7–5.

Seeds
• # 🇮🇹 Sara Errani (withdrew because of a shoulder injury)

• # 🇩🇪 Julia Görges (second round)

• # 🇪🇸 Anabel Medina Garrigues (second round)

• # 🇮🇹 Roberta Vinci (first round)

• # 🇷🇺 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (quarterfinals)

• # 🇨🇿 Klára Zakopalová (quarterfinals, retired)

• # 🇩🇪 Mona Barthel (semifinals)

• # 🇪🇸 Carla Suárez Navarro (first round)

Seeds
• # 🇪🇸 Lourdes Domínguez Lino (qualified)

• # 🇺🇿 Akgul Amanmuradova (second round)

• # 🇨🇴 Mariana Duque Mariño (qualified)

• # 🇩🇪 Tatjana Malek (second round)

• # 🇩🇪 Annika Beck (qualified)

• # 🇺🇸 Jill Craybas (qualifying competition, lucky loser)

• # 🇦🇺 Sacha Jones (qualifying competition)

• # 🇷🇺 Olga Puchkova (qualifying competition)

Qualifiers
• # 🇪🇸 Lourdes Domínguez Lino

• # 🇩🇪 Carina Witthöft

• # 🇨🇴 Mariana Duque Mariño

• # 🇩🇪 Annika Beck

Lucky loser

 * 1) 🇺🇸 Jill Craybas