2012 Australian Open – Boys' singles

Jiří Veselý was the defending champion, but he was ineligible to compete this year. World number one, Luke Saville of Australia led the field. The Aussie junior tennis player headed up the top ten seeds which included Thiago Monteiro, 2011 Wimbledon junior finalist Liam Broady, Kaichi Uchida, Frederico Ferreira Silva, Andrew Harris, Kyle Edmund, Stefano Napolitano, Nikola Milojević and Adam Pavlásek.

Boys' singles
2012 Australian Open
Final
ChampionAustralia Luke Saville
Runner-upCanada Filip Peliwo
Score6–3, 5–7, 6–4
Events
Singles men women boys girls
Doubles men women mixed boys girls
WC Singles men women quad
WC Doubles men women quad
Legends men women mixed
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The start of the 2012 Australian Open saw all the seeds apart from Monteiro, Cagnina and Farren made it to the second round. The biggest upset of the first round was Brazilian Thiago Monteiro losing to Australian wild card Jack Schipanski. Julien Cagnina lost to French Mathias Bourgue and American Connor Farren went to French Laurent Lokoli. The second round witnessed all the seeds go through except Broady lost to Robin Staněk, Napolitano to Joshua Ward-Hibbert and Kyrgios to Marek Routa. The third round is also where the seeds meet for the first time. Kimmer Coppejans and Hossam exited to higher seeds. Seventh seeded Edmund defeated eleventh seeded Coppejans and No. 1 seeded Saville defeated sixteenth seeded Hossam. The biggest upset of the third round was tenth seeded Pavlásek defeating fifth seeded Silva and sixth seeded Harris losing to American qualifier Mackenzie McDonald. Milojevic lost to Joshua Ward-Hibbert and Pöllänen to Staněk. The quarter finals saw Saville end Edmund's run and Pavlásek end Uchida's run successfully making their way into the semifinals. The semifinals witnessed Saville taking out Pavlásek while Filip Peliwo overcame McDonald. In the final, Luke Saville defeated Filip Peliwo to claim his first Junior Boys' Singles Australian Open title and second grand slam title of his career.

Seeds

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  1.   Luke Saville (champion)
  2.   Thiago Monteiro (first round)
  3.   Liam Broady (second round)
  4.   Kaichi Uchida (quarterfinals)
  5.   Frederico Ferreira Silva (third round)
  6.   Andrew Harris (third round)
  7.   Kyle Edmund (quarterfinals)
  8.   Stefano Napolitano (second round)
  9.   Nikola Milojević (third round)
  10.   Adam Pavlásek (semifinals)
  11.   Kimmer Coppejans (third round)
  12.   Julien Cagnina (first round)
  13.   Nick Kyrgios (second round)
  14.   Connor Farren (first round)
  15.   Herkko Pöllänen (third round)
  16.   Karim Hossam (third round)

Draw

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Finals

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Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
               
1   Luke Saville 7 7  
7   Kyle Edmund 5 5  
1   Luke Saville 6 6  
10   Adam Pavlásek 3 4  
4   Kaichi Uchida 3 3  
10   Adam Pavlásek 6 6  
1   Luke Saville 6 5 6
    Filip Peliwo 3 7 4
Q   Mackenzie McDonald 0 6 6
    Robin Staněk 6 4 2
Q   Mackenzie McDonald 4 4  
    Filip Peliwo 6 6  
    Joshua Ward-Hibbert 3 2  
    Filip Peliwo 6 6  

Top half

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Section 1

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First round Second round Third round Quarterfinal
1   Luke Saville 6 6  
    Or Ram-Harel 1 1   1   L Saville 6 3 6
    Lucas Pouille 6 6       L Pouille 3 6 4
    Jannis Kahlke 2 2   1   L Saville 6 6  
SE   Alexander Babanine 3 1   16   K Hossam 2 2  
Q   Pedro Dumont 6 6   Q   P Dumont 5 69  
Q   Takashi Saito 2 2   16   K Hossam 7 711  
16   Karim Hossam 6 6   1   L Saville 7 7  
11   Kimmer Coppejans 7 6   7   K Edmund 5 5  
WC   Thanasi Kokkinakis 5 2   11   K Coppejans 4 6 6
    Borna Ćorić 6 77       B Ćorić 6 2 0
    Markos Kalovelonis 4 63   11   K Coppejans 67 1  
WC   Daniel Guccione 4 6 6 7   K Edmund 79 6  
    Pol Toledo Bagué 6 0 8     P Toledo Bagué 6 1 1
SE   Alexandre Favrot 6 4 1 7   K Edmund 4 6 6
7   Kyle Edmund 4 6 6

Section 2

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First round Second round Third round Quarterfinal
4   Kaichi Uchida 7 77  
Q   Pietro Licciardi 5 64   4   K Uchida 6 710  
    Daniel Masur 0 68       L Bambridge 4 68  
    Luke Bambridge 6 710   4   K Uchida 6 6  
    Ștefan Vinți 3 66       L Lokoli 3 3  
WC   Bradley Mousley 6 78   WC   B Mousley 6 4 4
    Laurent Lokoli 6 6       L Lokoli 0 6 6
14   Connor Farren 2 3   4   K Uchida 3 3  
10   Adam Pavlásek 4 6 6 10   A Pavlásek 6 6  
LL   Ho Chih-jen 6 4 2 10   A Pavlásek 77 6  
    James Frawley 1 2       P Krstin 65 1  
    Peđa Krstin 6 6   10   A Pavlásek 6 6  
    Evgeny Karlovskiy 6 712   5   FF Silva 3 2  
    Mikael Torpegaard 1 610       E Karlovskiy 3 4  
WC   Li Tu 4 4   5   FF Silva 6 6  
5   Frederico Ferreira Silva 6 6  

Bottom half

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Section 3

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First round Second round Third round Quarterfinal
6   Andrew Harris 6 3 6
    Filip Veger 2 6 4 6   A Harris 6 6  
    Wayne Montgomery 65 7 6     W Montgomery 4 2  
    Bar Tzuf Botzer 77 5 1 6   A Harris 2 3  
    Temur Ismailov 1 62 Q   M McDonald 6 6  
Q   Mackenzie McDonald 6 77   Q   M McDonald 6 6
    Mathias Bourgue 6 3 6     M Bourgue 2 1  
12   Julien Cagnina 4 6 3 Q   M McDonald 0 6 6
15   Herkko Pöllänen 6 6       R Staněk 6 4 2
    Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul 3 3   15   H Pöllänen 3 7 7
    Patrik Fabian 3 4   WC   C O'Connell 6 5 5
WC   Christopher O'Connell 6 6   15   H Pöllänen 1 2  
    Robin Staněk 7 6       R Staněk 6 6  
WC   Jordan Thompson 5 0       R Staněk 6 6  
Q   Matteo Donati 5 3   3   L Broady 4 1  
3   Liam Broady 7 6  

Section 4

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First round Second round Third round Quarterfinal
8   Stefano Napolitano 6 6  
Q   Trey Strobel 4 3   8   S Napolitano 3 4  
    Joshua Ward-Hibbert 6 6       J Ward-Hibbert 6 6  
WC   Matthew Tanza 1 2       J Ward-Hibbert 6 6  
Q   Arjun Kadhe 4 64   9   N Milojević 3 2  
    Quentin Halys 6 77       Q Halys 3 6 3
    Jay Andrijic 2 0   9   N Milojević 6 2 6
9   Nikola Milojević 6 6       J Ward-Hibbert 3 2  
13   Nick Kyrgios 6 6       F Peliwo 6 6  
    Kim Jae-hwan 1 2   13   N Kyrgios 67 4  
    Kevin Kaczynski 6 5 0     M Routa 79 6  
    Marek Routa 2 7 6     M Routa 6 3 3
    Filip Peliwo 3 6 6     F Peliwo 4 6 6
Q   Ken Onishi 6 1 4     F Peliwo 6 6  
WC   Jack Schipanski 2 6 6 WC   J Schipanski 2 4  
2   Thiago Monteiro 6 3 4

References

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