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2012 Gerry Weber Open – Singles

tennis tournament event

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ33106 ↗
Source-derived summary

Philipp Kohlschreiber was the defending champion but lost to Tommy Haas in the semifinals.

Haas went on to win the title after defeating five-time champion Roger Federer in the final 7–6(7–5), 6–4.

Seeds

The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “2012 Gerry Weber Open – Singles” as tennis tournament event. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Gerry, Weber and Singles.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current 44-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Gerry, Weber and Singles providing the first useful test.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q33106. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “2012 Gerry Weber Open – Singles” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.