2011 Wimbledon Championships

 

The 125th edition of the tournament saw two new courts opened. A new showcourt, Court No. 3, and a new Court No. 4 opened on the first day of the championships. Court No. 3 was opened by The Duke of Kent, President of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, who unveiled a plaque marking the occasion.^[2] A total of 19 courts were used for competition play and a further 22 for practice. The capacity of the grounds was thus increased by 1,000 to 38,500.^[3][4]

On a commercial front, Sony became a sponsor of the championships for the first time, while Jacob's Creek and Lavazza replaced Blossom Hill and Nescafe as official wine and coffee of the tournament.^[5] Qualifying for all events took place at the Bank of England Sports Ground, Roehampton.^[4] The grass was of the Perennial Ryegrass type and cut to 8mm.^[6]

The 2011 championships were the 125th to be held since 1877, excluding the years 1915–1918 and 1940–1945, when the event was not held due to the two world wars. To mark the occasion a number of special events and activities occurred. Blue Peter broadcast a special programme looking at the championships, past, present and future, which was screened on the second Monday of the tournament. Four 30-minute documentaries charting the history of the championships were commissioned. A new exhibition known as the queue was held in the All England Club's Museum celebrating the people who queue each year for tickets to the championship.^[7] In addition, a range of licensed merchandise featuring the "125" logo was released; the ball boy and ball girl uniforms had this logo. The shoes provided by Fila had the words "125 years" and the logo printed on them. The balls provided by Slazenger also had "125 years" stamped onto them, and a special can design was used. Lanson champagne, which is served on the grounds, had "125 years" stamped on the bottle. Finally, to celebrate the anniversary there was a community art project in which participants were asked to "interpret" an unstrung wooden tennis racket "in a medium of their choosing".^[8]

HSBC held a series of polls on the Wimbledon website to find the 10 greatest things about the championships. The polls consisted of anything from greatest character to best final.^[9] In addition the bank also teamed up with the Sports Technology Institute at Loughborough University; to predict how tennis would develop over the next 25 years up to 2036; the 150th Wimbledon and 100 years since Fred Perry, the last British male winner of the championships, won.^[10]

Below are the tables with the point distribution for each discipline of the tournament.^{[11][12][13][14][15]}

The total prize money for 2011 championships was £14,600,000. The winner of the men's and women's singles title earned £1,100,000.^[16][17][18]

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Gentlemen's singles

Champion		Runner-up
Novak Djokovic [2]		Rafael Nadal [1]
Semifinals out
Andy Murray [4]		Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [12]
Quarterfinals out
Mardy Fish [10]	Feliciano López	Roger Federer [3]	Bernard Tomic (Q)
4th round out
Juan Martín del Potro [24]	Tomáš Berdych [6]	Richard Gasquet [17]	Łukasz Kubot (Q)
David Ferrer [7]	Mikhail Youzhny [18]	Xavier Malisse	Michaël Llodra [19]
3rd round out
Gilles Müller (WC)	Gilles Simon [15]	Robin Haase	Alex Bogomolov Jr.
Ivan Ljubičić	Simone Bolelli (LL)	Gaël Monfils [9]	Andy Roddick [8]
Karol Beck (Q)	Fernando González (PR)	Nicolás Almagro [16]	David Nalbandian [28]
Robin Söderling [5]	Jürgen Melzer [11]	Lu Yen-hsun	Marcos Baghdatis [32]
2nd round out
Ryan Sweeting	Milos Raonic [31]	Olivier Rochus	Dudi Sela (WC)
Denis Istomin	Fernando Verdasco [21]	Juan Ignacio Chela [25]	Julien Benneteau
Tobias Kamke	Sergiy Stakhovsky	Igor Kunitsyn	Stan Wawrinka [14]
Grega Žemlja (LL)	Ivo Karlović (PR)	Rainer Schüttler	Victor Hănescu
Ryan Harrison (LL)	Guillermo García López [26]	Rik de Voest (Q)	Grigor Dimitrov
John Isner	Somdev Devvarman	Andreas Haider-Maurer	Adrian Mannarino
Lleyton Hewitt	Igor Andreev	Florian Mayer [20]	Dmitry Tursunov
Viktor Troicki [13]	Ricardo Mello	Andreas Seppi	Kevin Anderson
1st round out
Michael Russell	Pablo Andújar	Tommy Haas (PR)	Marc Gicquel (LL)
Flavio Cipolla (Q)	Kenny de Schepper (Q)	Frederico Gil	Édouard Roger-Vasselin (Q)
Marcel Granollers	Philipp Kohlschreiber	Pere Riba	Radek Štěpánek
Marinko Matosevic (Q)	Donald Young	Ruben Bemelmans (Q)	Filippo Volandri
Daniel Gimeno Traver	Blaž Kavčič	Daniel Cox (WC)	Marin Čilić [27]
Santiago Giraldo	Igor Sijsling (Q)	Martin Fischer (Q)	Potito Starace
Matthias Bachinger	Lukáš Lacko (Q)	Arnaud Clément (WC)	Janko Tipsarević [23]
Thomaz Bellucci [30]	Michael Berrer	Jaroslav Pospíšil	Andreas Beck (Q)
Benoît Paire	Ivan Dodig	Carlos Berlocq	Andrey Golubev
Alexandr Dolgopolov [22]	Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (Q)	Go Soeda (Q)
Jarkko Nieminen	Nicolas Mahut	Denis Gremelmayr	Juan Mónaco
Julian Reister	Florent Serra	Conor Niland (Q)	Mikhail Kukushkin
Philipp Petzschner	Kei Nishikori	Teymuraz Gabashvili	Nikolay Davydenko [29]
Dan Evans (WC)	Mischa Zverev	Ernests Gulbis	Alejandro Falla (WC)
Máximo González	Tommy Robredo	Frank Dancevic (Q)	James Ward (WC)
James Blake	Albert Montañés	Illya Marchenko	Jérémy Chardy

Ladies' singles

Champion		Runner-up
Petra Kvitová [8]		Maria Sharapova [5]
Semifinals out
Sabine Lisicki (WC)		Victoria Azarenka [4]
Quarterfinals out
Dominika Cibulková [24]	Marion Bartoli [9]	Tamira Paszek	Tsvetana Pironkova [32]
4th round out
Caroline Wozniacki [1]	Peng Shuai [20]	Petra Cetkovská	Serena Williams [7]
Ksenia Pervak	Nadia Petrova	Yanina Wickmayer [19]	Venus Williams [23]
3rd round out
Jarmila Gajdošová [27]	Julia Görges [16]	Melinda Czink (PR)	Klára Zakopalová
Misaki Doi (Q)	Ana Ivanovic [18]	Flavia Pennetta [21]	Maria Kirilenko [26]
Francesca Schiavone [6]	Andrea Petkovic [13]	Kateryna Bondarenko	Daniela Hantuchová [25]
Roberta Vinci [29]	Svetlana Kuznetsova [12]	María José Martínez Sánchez	Vera Zvonareva [2]
2nd round out
Virginie Razzano	Andrea Hlaváčková	Polona Hercog	Mathilde Johansson
Anastasiya Yakimova	Elena Baltacha	Lucie Šafářová [31]	Laura Robson (WC)
Li Na [3]	Zheng Jie	Eleni Daniilidou (WC)	Agnieszka Radwańska [13]
Lourdes Domínguez Lino	Evgeniya Rodina	Tamarine Tanasugarn (Q)	Simona Halep
Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	Christina McHale	Pauline Parmentier	Stéphanie Dubois (LL)
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova [14]	Sara Errani	Marina Erakovic (Q)	Iveta Benešová
Anne Keothavong	Rebecca Marino	Anna Tatishvili	Alexandra Dulgheru
Monica Niculescu	Kimiko Date-Krumm	Petra Martić	Elena Vesnina
1st round out
Arantxa Parra Santonja	Sania Mirza	Anastasia Rodionova	Alona Bondarenko
Mirjana Lučić	Johanna Larsson	Heather Watson (WC)	Anabel Medina Garrigues
Samantha Stosur [10]	Sofia Arvidsson	Mona Barthel (Q)	Kirsten Flipkens
Lucie Hradecká	Emily Webley-Smith (WC)	Angelique Kerber	Anna Chakvetadze
Alla Kudryavtseva	Anastasija Sevastova	Zuzana Ondrášková	Bethanie Mattek-Sands [30]
Melanie Oudin	CoCo Vandeweghe	Kristina Barrois	Olga Govortsova
Kristýna Plíšková (Q)	Romina Oprandi	Chanelle Scheepers	Irina-Camelia Begu
Alberta Brianti	Yaroslava Shvedova	Bojana Jovanovski	Aravane Rezaï
Jelena Dokic	Aleksandra Wozniak (Q)	Ayumi Morita	Ekaterina Makarova [28]
Shahar Pe'er [22]	Sorana Cîrstea	Irina Falconi (Q)	Stéphanie Foretz Gacon (LL)
Lesia Tsurenko (Q)	Vesna Dolonc	Alizé Cornet	Kaia Kanepi [17]
Vitalia Diatchenko (Q)	Chang Kai-chen (Q)	Sandra Záhlavová	Magdaléna Rybáriková
Alexa Glatch (Q)	Naomi Broady (WC)	Patricia Mayr-Achleitner	Vera Dushevina
Varvara Lepchenko	Anastasia Pivovarova	Jill Craybas	Zhang Shuai
Jelena Janković [15]	Sybille Bammer	Katie O'Brien (WC)	Akgul Amanmuradova
Camila Giorgi (Q)	Vania King	Laura Pous Tió	Alison Riske

  Novak Djokovic def.   Rafael Nadal, 6–4, 6–1, 1–6, 6–3 ^[19]

• It was Djokovic's 8th title of the year and 26th of his career. It was his 2nd slam of the year and 3rd of his career. It was his first Wimbledon title.

  Petra Kvitová def.   Maria Sharapova, 6–3, 6–4 ^[20]

• It was Kvitová's first Major title, 4th title of the year, and 5th title of her career. She was also the first Grand Slam tournament champion of either gender to be born in the 1990s.

  Bob Bryan /   Mike Bryan def.   Robert Lindstedt /   Horia Tecău, 6–3, 6–4, 7–6^{(7–2) [21][22]}

• It was the Bryan brothers's second Wimbledon title, 6th title of the year, and 73rd title as a team. With this title they equalled the Woodies' Open era record of 11 men's Grand Slam doubles titles.

  Květa Peschke /   Katarina Srebotnik def.   Sabine Lisicki /   Samantha Stosur, 6–3, 6–1 ^[23][24]

• It was Peschke's first Wimbledon title, 4th title of the year, and 20th title of her career. It was Srebotnik's first Wimbledon title, 3rd title of the year, and 27th title of her career.

  Jürgen Melzer /   Iveta Benešová def.   Mahesh Bhupathi /   Elena Vesnina, 6–3, 6–2 ^[25][26]

  Luke Saville def.   Liam Broady, 2–6, 6–4, 6–2 ^[27][28]

  Ashleigh Barty def.   Irina Khromacheva, 7–5, 7–6^{(7–3) [29]}

  George Morgan /   Mate Pavić def.   Oliver Golding /   Jiří Veselý, 3–6, 6–4, 7–5 ^[30]

  Eugenie Bouchard /   Grace Min def.   Demi Schuurs /   Tang Haochen, 5–7, 6–2, 7–5 ^[31]

  Jacco Eltingh /   Paul Haarhuis def.   Jonas Björkman /   Todd Woodbridge, 3–6, 6–3, [13–11]

  Lindsay Davenport /   Martina Hingis def.   Martina Navratilova /   Jana Novotná, 6–4, 6–4

  Pat Cash /   Mark Woodforde def.   Jeremy Bates /   Anders Järryd, 6–3, 5–7, [10–5]

  Maikel Scheffers /   Ronald Vink def.   Stéphane Houdet /   Michaël Jérémiasz, 7–5, 6–2 ^[32]

  Esther Vergeer /   Sharon Walraven def.   Jiske Griffioen /   Aniek van Koot, 6–4, 3–6, 7–5 ^[32]

The 2011 tournament was broadcast in 185 countries.^[5] The BBC was the host broadcaster and, since the All England Club had made a deal with Sony, some of the tournament was broadcast in 3D for the first time.^[33] To mark the 125th anniversary, the BBC broadcast a documentary the night before the start of the tournament (19 June 2011), called 125 years of Wimbledon: You Cannot Be Serious, looking back at memorable moments.^[34]

In the United States, the championship matches aired on NBC for the 43rd and final year. The network issued a statement saying it had been outbid for the rights to future broadcasts.^[35] Cable sports channel ESPN, which had already been sharing Wimbledon coverage with NBC, became the exclusive American broadcaster of the tournament for a 12-year period, beginning in 2012. Under the agreement, all matches were to air live, as opposed to tape delaying some matches, a practice for which NBC had been criticised.^[36]

 

Members of the British Royal Family attended the championships. With the Duchess of Cornwall (Camilla) attending the tournament on the first Wednesday, on official duty, where she met six ball boys and girls before watching the days play on Centre court from the Royal box.^[37] While on the second Monday, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (Prince William and Catherine) attended the championships, while on a private visit. The pair took in all three matches on Centre Court.^[38] After the first match, which was won by British player Andy Murray, the pair briefly met him, after the Scot bowed towards them while on court at the end of the match.^[39]

On the second Monday temperatures topped 30 degrees, and a 146 patrons needed medical assistance by 16:30, due to the heat. This was a significant rise compared to other days as in the two days previous days of the championships 90 and 87 people were treated respectively.^[40]

On the middle Saturday, 14 people were arrested at the gate when trying to obtain access to the grounds. The All England Club shut the gates of the ground forcing spectators who had camped overnight to wait outside for 45 minutes before letting them in at 11.15 am. The group wore yellow shirts and had paint and other equipment to make banners once inside of the ground. A source stated that the group were planning to demonstrate against government policy.^[41]

The following are the seeded players and notable players who withdrew from the event. Seedings are based on ATP and WTA rankings as of 13 June 2011. Rankings and points are as of before 20 June 2011.

The Men's singles seeds is arranged on a surface-based system to reflect more accurately the individual player's grass court achievement as per the following formula:

• ATP Entry System Position points as at a week before The Championships
• Add 100% points earned for all grass court tournaments in the past 12 months
• add 75% points earned for best grass court tournament in the 12 months before that.^[42]

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Rafael Nadal	12,070	2,000	1,200	11,270	Runner-up, lost to   Novak Djokovic [2]
2	2	Novak Djokovic	12,005	720	2,000	13,285	Champion, defeated   Rafael Nadal [1]
3	3	Roger Federer	9,230	360	360	9,230	Quarterfinals lost to   Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [12]
4	4	Andy Murray	6,855	720	720	6,855	Semifinals lost to   Rafael Nadal [1]
5	5	Robin Söderling	4,595	360	90	4,325	Third round lost to   Bernard Tomic (Q)
6	7	Tomáš Berdych	3,490	1,200	180	2,470	Fourth round lost to   Mardy Fish [10]
7	6	David Ferrer	4,150	180	180	4,150	Fourth round lost to   Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [12]
8	10	Andy Roddick	2,200	180	90	2,110	Third round lost to   Feliciano López
9	8	Gaël Monfils	2,780	90	90	2,780	Third round lost to   Łukasz Kubot (Q)
10	9	Mardy Fish	2,335	45	360	2,650	Quarterfinals lost   Rafael Nadal [1]
11	11	Jürgen Melzer	2,175	180	90	2,085	Third round lost to   Xavier Malisse
12	19	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	1,585	360	720	1,945	Semifinals lost to   Novak Djokovic [2]
13	12	Viktor Troicki	1,930	45	45	1,930	Second round lost to   Lu Yen-hsun
14	14	Stan Wawrinka	1,900	10	45	1,935	Second round lost to   Simone Bolelli (LL)
15	16	Gilles Simon	1,745	90	90	1,745	Third round lost to   Juan Martín del Potro [24]
16	15	Nicolás Almagro	1,875	10	90	1,955	Third round lost to   Mikhail Youzhny [18]
17	13	Richard Gasquet	1,925	0	180	2,105	Fourth round lost to   Andy Murray [4]
18	17	Mikhail Youzhny	1,740	45	180	1,875	Fourth round lost to   Roger Federer [3]
19	35	Michaël Llodra	1,195	45	180	1,330	Fourth round lost vs   Novak Djokovic [2]
20	18	Florian Mayer	1,600	90	45	1,555	Second round lost to   Xavier Malisse
21	22	Fernando Verdasco	1,425	10	45	1,460	Second round lost to   Robin Haase
22	24	Alexandr Dolgopolov	1,405	45	10	1,370	First round lost to   Fernando González (PR)
23	29	Janko Tipsarević	1,305	10	10	1,305	First round lost to   Ivo Karlović
24	21	Juan Martín del Potro	1,445	0	180	1,625	Fourth round lost to   Rafael Nadal [1]
25	20	Juan Ignacio Chela	1,475	10	45	1,505	Second round lost to   Alex Bogomolov Jr.
26	41	Guillermo García López	1,120	10	45	1,155	Second round lost to   Karol Beck (Q)
27	26	Marin Čilić	1,345	10	10	1,345	First round lost to   Ivan Ljubičić
28	23	David Nalbandian	1,425	0	90	1,515	Third round lost to   Roger Federer [3]
29	27	Nikolay Davydenko	1,330	45	10	1,295	First round lost to   Bernard Tomic (Q)
30	28	Thomaz Bellucci	1,305	90	10	1,225	First round lost to   Rainer Schüttler
31	25	Milos Raonic	1,354	0	45	1,399	Second round lost to   Gilles Müller (WC)
32	30	Marcos Baghdatis	1,295	10	90	1,375	Third round lost to   Novak Djokovic [2]

For the Women's singles seeds, the seeding order follows the ranking list, except where in the opinion of the committee, the grass court credentials of a particular player necessitates a change in the interest of achieving a balanced draw.

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Caroline Wozniacki	9,915	280	280	9,915	Fourth round lost to   Dominika Cibulková [24]
2	3	Vera Zvonareva	7,935	1,400	160	6,695	Third round lost to   Tsvetana Pironkova [32]
3	4	Li Na	6,255	500	100	5,855	Second round lost to   Sabine Lisicki (WC)
4	5	Victoria Azarenka	5,725	160	900	6,465	Semifinals lost to   Petra Kvitová [8]
5	6	Maria Sharapova	5,021	280	1,400	6,141	Runner-up, lost to   Petra Kvitová [8]
6	7	Francesca Schiavone	4,705	5	160	4,860	Third round lost to   Tamira Paszek
7†	25	Serena Williams	2,060	2,000	280	340	Fourth round lost to   Marion Bartoli [9]
8	8	Petra Kvitová	4,337	900	2,000	5,437	Champion, defeated   Maria Sharapova [5]
9	9	Marion Bartoli	4,010	280	500	4,230	Quarterfinals lost to   Sabine Lisicki (WC)
10	10	Samantha Stosur	3,405	5	5	3,405	First round lost to   Melinda Czink (PR)
11	13	Andrea Petkovic	3,150	5	160	3,305	Third round lost to   Ksenia Pervak
12	12	Svetlana Kuznetsova	3,160	100	160	3,220	Third round lost to   Yanina Wickmayer [19]
13	11	Agnieszka Radwańska	3,175	280	100	2,995	Second round lost to   Petra Cetkovská
14	14	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	3,055	160	100	2,995	Second round lost to   Nadia Petrova
15	15	Jelena Janković	3,050	280	5	2,775	First round lost to   María José Martínez Sánchez
16	16	Julia Görges	2,560	5	160	2,715	Third round lost to   Dominika Cibulková [24]
17	17	Kaia Kanepi	2,466	500	5	1,971	First round lost to   Sara Errani
18	18	Ana Ivanovic	2,400	5	160	2,555	Third round lost to   Petra Cetkovská
19	19	Yanina Wickmayer	2,350	160	280	2,470	Fourth round lost to   Petra Kvitová [8]
20	20	Peng Shuai	2,300	0	280	2,580	Fourth round lost to   Maria Sharapova [5]
21	21	Flavia Pennetta	2,220	160	160	2,220	Third round lost to   Marion Bartoli [9]
22	22	Shahar Pe'er	2,170	100	5	2,075	First round lost to   Ksenia Pervak
23	30	Venus Williams	1,680	500	280	1,460	Fourth round lost to   Tsvetana Pironkova [32]
24	24	Dominika Cibulková	2,115	160	500	2,455	Quarterfinals lost to   Maria Sharapova [5]
25	23	Daniela Hantuchová	2,135	100	160	2,195	Third round lost to   Victoria Azarenka [4]
26	27	Maria Kirilenko	1,985	160	160	1,985	Third round lost to   Serena Williams [7]
27	28	Jarmila Gajdošová	1,940	280	160	1,820	Third round lost to   Caroline Wozniacki [1]
28	38	Ekaterina Makarova	1,381	100	5	1,286	First round lost to   Christina McHale
29	29	Roberta Vinci	1,925	100	160	1,985	Third round lost to   Petra Kvitová [8]
30	31	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1,643	5	5	1,643	First round lost to   Misaki Doi (Q)
31	32	Lucie Šafářová	1,585	5	100	1,680	Second round lost to   Klára Zakopalová
32	33	Tsvetana Pironkova	1,551	900	500	1,151	Quarterfinals lost to   Petra Kvitová [8]

†Serena Williams was ranked 26 on the day when seeds were announced. Nevertheless, she was deemed a special case and seeded 7th by the organizers because she missed a significant portion of the last 12-month period due to knee injury.

The following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.

Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points after	Withdrawal reason
2	Kim Clijsters	8,125	500	7,625	Foot injury[43]
26	Alisa Kleybanova	2,005	160	1,845	Illness[44]

The following players received wild cards into the main draw senior events.^[45][46]

1.   Jamie Delgado /   Melanie South
2.   Colin Fleming /   Jocelyn Rae
3.   Ross Hutchins /   Heather Watson
4.   Jonathan Marray /   Anne Keothavong
5.   Ken Skupski /   Elena Baltacha

The following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:

Below are the lists of the qualifiers entering in the main draws.

The following players were accepted directly into the main tournament, but withdrew with injuries or personal reasons.

 

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