The 2011 Aberto Santa Catarina De Tenis was a professional tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 tournament played on clay courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour

2011 ATP Challenger Tour

The Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour was the secondary professional tennis circuit organized by the ATP. The 2011 ATP Challenger Tour calendar comprised 15 top tier Tretorn SERIE+ tournaments, and approximately 150 regular series tournaments, with prize money ranging from...

. It took place in Blumenau

Blumenau

Blumenau is a city in Vale do Itajaí, state of Santa Catarina, in southern Brazil. It was founded on September 2, 1850 by Dr. Hermann Bruno Otto Blumenau along with 17 German immigrants. A few years later Fritz Müller migrated to Blumenau as well....

, Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

 between 11 and 17 April 2011.

Seeds

Nationality	Player	Ranking*	Seeding
Brazil	Ricardo Mello Ricardo Mello Ricardo Mello is a Brazilian tennis player. His preference is for clay courts. He has had the occasional win in hard court tournaments. His best singles rank was no. 50 in 2005...	86	1
Brazil	Marcos Daniel Marcos Daniel Marcos Diniz Daniel is a professional tennis player from Brazil who turned professional in 1997. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on September 14, 2009, when he became World No. 56...	106	2
Brazil	João Souza João Souza João Olavo Soares de Souza is a Brazilian professional tennis player. Souza competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 90 August 7, 2011, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 171, on September 21, 2009...	126	3
France	Éric Prodon Eric Prodon - Juniors career :Prodon had a long career in Juniors, playing from 1997 to 1999 and reaching year-end #28 in 1998.In matches against future top pros, he beat Mikhail Youzhny and Julien Benneteau in 1997....	128	4
Argentina	Diego Junqueira Diego Junqueira Diego Junqueira is a professional tennis player who plays left-handed from Argentina...	141	5
Argentina	Leonardo Mayer Leonardo Mayer Leonardo Martin Mayer is an Argentine professional tennis player.Mayer achieved a singles career high of world no. 51 on June 7, 2010. His career high in doubles was world no. 94 on March 1, 2010.http://www.itftennis.com/mens/players/player.asp?player=100049039 He is coached by Emiliano Redondi...	160	6
Japan	Tatsuma Ito Tatsuma Ito is a Japanese professional tennis player.-Singles: 4 :-Doubles: 1 :-External links:*...	166	7
Ecuador	Giovanni Lapentti Giovanni Lapentti Giovanni Lapentti Gómez is a Ecuadorian tennis player. His brother is Nicolás Lapentti, another professional tennis player, while a third brother, Leonardo, has also been active at the lower levels of professional tennis....	170	8

• Rankings are as of April 4, 2011.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: Marcelo Demoliner

Marcelo Demoliner

Marcelo Demoliner is a Brazilian professional tennis player. Demoliner competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour, both in singles and doubles.-Singles: 5 :-Doubles: 16 :...

 Thiago Moura Monteiro Thales Turini Bruno Volkmann

The following entrant has been granted a Special Exemption into the main draw: Tiago Fernandes

Tiago Fernandes

Tiago Fernandes is a Brazilian tennis player. He achieved the number 1 ranking on the ITF Junior Circuit Fernandes is coached by Larri Passos, the former coach of Brazilian former world #1 and three-time French Open winner Gustavo Kuerten.Fernandes won the Boys' Singles division of the 2010...

 Javier Martí

Javier Martí

Javier Martí Hernanz is a professional tennis player from Spain. Javier qualified for the 2011 French Open by defeating Andrej Martin, Jaroslav Pospíšil, and Ryan Harrison.His career high rank is #182, achieved on October 31, 2011....

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: Martín Alund

Martín Alund

Martín Alund is an Argentine professional tennis player. Alund has won one ATP Challenger event, in doubles.-ATP Tournaments Finals:-Runner-Up :-External links:*...

 Aljaž Bedene

Aljaž Bedene

Aljaž Bedene is a Slovenian tennis player.He won five Futures and one Challenger singles titles . In doubles he won one Challenger title and two Futures titles. Aljaž plays with right hand and two-handed backhand. He is a member of the Slovenia Davis Cup team. His highest ranking is No...

 André Ghem

André Ghem

André Ghem is a professional Brazilian tennis player.- Career :He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on August 14, 2006, when he became the World No. 181....

 Martín Vassallo Argüello

Martín Vassallo Argüello

Martin Miguel Vassallo Argüello is a professional male tennis player from Argentina. His career-high ATP entry ranking is #47 .He turned pro in 1999...

Singles

  José Acasuso

José Acasuso

José Javier "Chucho" Acasuso is a professional male tennis player from Argentina. Like many of his fellow countrymen, he favours clay. He is known for his strong serve and his hard groundstrokes off both sides...

def.   Marcelo Demoliner

Marcelo Demoliner

Marcelo Demoliner is a Brazilian professional tennis player. Demoliner competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour, both in singles and doubles.-Singles: 5 :-Doubles: 16 :...

, 6–2, 6–2

Doubles

  Franco Ferreiro

Franco Ferreiro

Franco Ferreiro is a professional Brazilian tennis player. He qualified for the 2009 French Open, but lost to Feliciano López in five sets in the first round after leading two sets to love.-Doubles: 2 :...

/   André Sá

André Sá

André Rezende Sá is a professional Brazilian tennis player. He is number 29 for doubles, and 467 for singles.-Personal:...

def.   Adrián Menéndez /   Leonardo Tavares

Leonardo Tavares

Leonardo Tavares is a Portuguese professional tennis player. He competes on the ATP Tour. On August 2010, he achieved a career-high singles world ranking of no. 186....

, 6–2, 3–6, [10–4]