2011 Australian Open
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The 2011 Australian Open was a tennis tournament featuring six different competitions, and part of the 2011 ATP World Tour
2011 ATP World Tour
The Association of Tennis Professionals World Tour is the elite professional tennis circuit organized by the ATP. The 2011 ATP World Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments , the ATP World Tour Masters 1000, the ATP World Tour 500 series, the ATP World Tour 250 series, the ATP World...

, the 2011 WTA Tour
2011 WTA Tour
The WTA Tour is the elite tour for women's professional tennis organized by the Women's Tennis Association . The 2011 WTA Tour includes the Grand Slam tournaments , the WTA Premier tournaments, the WTA International tournaments, the Fed Cup , the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, and the WTA...

, ITF Junior Tour and the NEC Tour
ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour
ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour is a tennis tour for disabled men and women. There are two categories of players who play on the tour. Paraplegic, this category is split into separate competitions for men and women...

, as tournaments for professional, junior and wheelchair players were held. The tournament took place at Melbourne Park
Melbourne Park
Melbourne Park is a sports venue in the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Since 1988, Melbourne Park has been home of the Australian Open in tennis, which is played annually in January...

 in Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

, Australia, from 17 January to 30 January, it was the 99th edition of the Australian Open
Australian Open
The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...

 and the first Grand Slam
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...

 event of 2011. The tournament was played on hard courts and was organised by the International Tennis Federation
International Tennis Federation
The International Tennis Federation is the governing body of world tennis, made up of 205 national tennis associations.It was established as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by 12 national associations meeting at a conference in Paris, France on 1 March 1913...

 and Tennis Australia
Tennis Australia
Tennis Australia is the governing body for the sport of Tennis in Australia. The organisation exists to promote tennis and conduct domestic and international tournaments on behalf of Australia, including the Australian Open and the Davis Cup for the Australian Davis Cup Team...

.

In the professional tournaments Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic is a Serbian professional tennis player who has been ranked world no. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals since 4 July 2011. He has won four Grand Slam singles titles: the 2008 and 2011 Australian Open, the 2011 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2011 US Open...

 won the Australian Open for the second time while Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....

 won her maiden Open. In the men's doubles the Bryan Brothers
Bob and Mike Bryan
Twin brothers Robert Charles Bryan and Michael Carl Bryan are American professional tennis double players. They have been the World No. 1 doubles player for over 270 weeks and have finished the ATP year-end number 1 doubles team a record 7 times...

 won their fifth Australian Open while Gisela Dulko
Gisela Dulko
Gisela Dulko is an Argentine female tennis player, who will, as of 4 July 2011, be ranked World No. 51 in singles and No. 4 in doubles. Although she enjoyed a modest success in singles, reaching No. 26 on November 21, 2005, and winning four WTA Tour titles, her speciality has been doubles, where...

 and Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta is an Italian professional tennis player. She became Italy's first top 10 female singles player on 17 August 2009 and also the first ever Italian Tennis player to be ranked No.1 in Doubles on 28 February 2011. As of 10 October 2011, Pennetta is ranked World No. 18 in singles and...

 won their maiden Grand Slam title in the women's doubles. Daniel Nestor
Daniel Nestor
Daniel Mark Nestor, CM , born Danijel Nestorović September 4, 1972, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is a Serbian-born Canadian professional tennis player from Toronto, Ontario, Canada....

 claimed his second mixed doubles Grand Slam alongside Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik is a Slovenian professional tennis player. Srebotnik is right-handed, 1.80 m, weighs 65 kg and lives in Dubai. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 20 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour on August 7, 2006.Srebotnik won 4 singles titles on the WTA-tour and was a steady top 30...

 who won her fourth mixed title, her first Australian, leaving her one away from a career Grand Slam, as she has now won three of the Grand Slams, needing just Wimbledon to complete her collection.

In the junior tournaments both the singles and doubles titles in the boys and girls events were won by Jiří Veselý
Jiří Veselý
Jiří Veselý is a tennis professional player.Veselý is ranked number two in the ITF junior rankings. In 2011, Veselý won the Boys' Singles title at the Australian Open, defeating Australian Luke Saville in straight sets...

 and An-Sophie Mestach
An-Sophie Mestach
An-Sophie Mestach is a junior Belgian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 408, which she reached on 4 April 2011...

. Vesely won the doubles alongside Filip Horanský
Filip Horansky
Filip Horansky is a tennis player from Slovakia. Filip, with partner Jiří Veselý, won the 2011 Boys Doubles Australian Open. He is coached by Miloslav Grolmus.-Sources:...

 whilst Mestach won her doubles crown with Demi Schuurs
Demi Schuurs
Demi Schuurs is a junior Dutch tennis player. Althought not successful in singles, Schuurs successfully compete at doubles tournaments. Her highest WTA doubles ranking is 553rd achieved on August 1, 2011. Her current doubles ranking as of September 12, 2011 is 666th.- Junior Grand Slam doubles...

. Vesely and Mestach won their first Grand Slam titles and became the first players to achieve the junior double together in any Grand Slam since Kristian Pless
Kristian Pless
Kristian Peter Pless is a professional male tennis player from Denmark.In 1999, he won the Australian Open for juniors , and reached the junior finals at Wimbledon , and the US Open . He finished 1999 as the no...

 and Virginie Razzano
Virginie Razzano
Virginie Razzano , is a French professional tennis player and the current French No. 4. Razzano, who was born in Dijon, has won two WTA singles titles, both in 2007 in Guangzhou and Tokyo. Razzano reached her career high ranking of World No. 16 on September 14, 2009. As of May 2011, she is ranked...

 achieved this at the 1999 Australian Open
1999 Australian Open
The 1999 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Melbourne Park in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia. It was the 87th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 18 through 31 January 1999. This was the first Grand Slam of the calendar year.In the singles...

.

Shingo Kunieda
Shingo Kunieda
is a Japanese number one singles wheelchair tennis player. Kunieda is a right-hander whose favorite surface is hard court. His coach is Hiromichi Maruyama. His training base is the Tennis Training Center in Kashiwa....

 and Esther Vergeer
Esther Vergeer
Esther Vergeer is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player. Combining singles and doubles, she has won 39 Grand Slams, 22 year-end championships and 5 Paralympics titles. Vergeer has been the world number one wheel chair tennis player since 1999. In singles, she has not been beaten since January 2003 and...

 both won the singles and doubles in the men's and women's wheelchair tennis events respectively. Kunieda won his fourth consecutive Australian Open, his fifth overall. In the doubles Kunieda was partnered to the title by Maikel Scheffers. Vergeer's singles win was her eighth Australian Open crown, her seventeenth overall, and the fourth time that she has not lost a game during a Grand Slam final. The win in the final was her 404th consecutive match win, she was partnered by Sharon Walraven in the doubles. In the Quad events David Wagner
David Wagner (tennis)
David Wagner is an American wheelchair tennis player. Paralyzed from the mid-chest down and with thirty percent function in his hands, he competes in the quadriplegic division of that sport. He plays by taping the tennis racket to his hand...

 won the singles while Andrew Lapthorne and Peter Norfolk
Peter Norfolk
Peter Robert Norfolk OBE is a British wheelchair tennis player.Norfolk suffered a motorbike accident at the age of 19, and was left paraplegic. He subsequently became a Paralympian, and was the first person ever to win a Paralympic medal for Britain in tennis when he took gold in the quads singles...

 took the doubles crown.

Tournament

The 2011 Australian Open was the 99th edition of the Australian Open
Australian Open
The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...

, held at Melbourne Park
Melbourne Park
Melbourne Park is a sports venue in the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Since 1988, Melbourne Park has been home of the Australian Open in tennis, which is played annually in January...

, in Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

, Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

. The tournament was an event run by the International Tennis Federation
International Tennis Federation
The International Tennis Federation is the governing body of world tennis, made up of 205 national tennis associations.It was established as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by 12 national associations meeting at a conference in Paris, France on 1 March 1913...

 (ITF) and Tennis Australia, that was part of the 2011 ATP World Tour
2011 ATP World Tour
The Association of Tennis Professionals World Tour is the elite professional tennis circuit organized by the ATP. The 2011 ATP World Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments , the ATP World Tour Masters 1000, the ATP World Tour 500 series, the ATP World Tour 250 series, the ATP World...

 and the 2011 WTA Tour
2011 WTA Tour
The WTA Tour is the elite tour for women's professional tennis organized by the Women's Tennis Association . The 2011 WTA Tour includes the Grand Slam tournaments , the WTA Premier tournaments, the WTA International tournaments, the Fed Cup , the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, and the WTA...

 calendars, under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consisted of men's and women's singles and doubles draws as well as a mixed doubles event. There was also singles and doubles events for boys and girls (players under 18), part of the Grade A category of tournaments of the junior tour. There were also events for wheelchair tennis
Wheelchair Tennis
Wheelchair tennis is one of the forms of tennis adapted for those who have disabilities in their lower bodies. The size of courts, balls, and rackets are same, but there are two major differences from pedestrian tennis; they use specially designed wheelchairs and the ball may bounce up to two times...

 players, they competed in two categories: Paraplegic players where men and women play in separate competitions and a category for Quadriplegic's, shortened to Quads and is a mixed event. These competitions are part of the NEC tour, under the Grand Slam category. The tournament was played on Plexicushion
Plexicushion
Plexicushion is a tennis surface system made by Plexipave, a company based in Massachusetts, USA.- Description :According to the Plexipave website there are four different types of Plexicushion...

 Prestige AO hard courts, which were rated a medium-fast pace by the ITF. The tournament took place over twenty-five courts, including three showcourts: the Hisense Arena, the Margaret Court Arena
Margaret Court Arena
Margaret Court Arena is a tennis venue located in Melbourne, Australia. The capacity of the arena is 6,000 and was built in 1988. It was formerly known as Show Court One, but was renamed on the eve of the 2003 Australian Open to honor the Australian tennis great Margaret Court, who won more Grand...

 and the Rod Laver Arena
Rod Laver Arena
Rod Laver Arena is a tennis stadium that is part of the Melbourne Park complex located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and has been the main venue for the Australian Open in tennis since 1988, replacing the ageing Kooyong Stadium...

 (the Hisense and Rod Laver Arenas have roofs which allow play to continue indoors should the roof be needed).

Point distribution

Below is a series of tables for each of the competitions showing the ranking points on offer for each event.

Seniors points

Stage Men's Singles Men's Doubles Women's Singles Women's Doubles
Champion 2000
Runner up 1200 1400
Semifinals 720 900
Quarterfinals 360 500
Round of 16 180 280
Round of 32 90 160
Round of 64 45 0 100 5
Round of 128 10 5
Qualifier 25 60
Qualifying 3rd Round 16 50
Qualifying 2nd Round 8 40
Qualifying 1st Round 0 2


Junior points

Stage Boys Singles Boys Doubles Girls Singles Girls Doubles
Champion 250 180 250 180
Runner up 180 120 180 120
Semifinals 120 80 120 80
Quarterfinals 80 50 80 50
Round of 16 50 30 50 30
Round of 32 30 n/a 30 n/a
Qualifier who loses in first round 25 n/a 25 n/a
Qualifying Final Round 20 n/a 20 n/a


Wheelchair points

Stage Men's Singles Men's Doubles Women's Singles Women's Doubles Quad Singles Quad Doubles
Champion 800
Runner up 500 100
Semifinals/3rd 375 100 375 100 375 n/a
Quarterfinals/4th 100 n/a 100 n/a 100 n/a


Prize money

The 2011 Australian Open offered record prize money to both men and women of a total of A$25 million (US$24 million), up 3.8% on the total prize money from 2010
2010 Australian Open
The 2010 Australian Open was a tennis tournament that took place in Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, from 18 to 31 January. It was the 98th edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam event of the year....

. The winners of the singles titles took home A$2.2 million (US$2.1 million) with the finalists receiving A$1.1 million (US$1 million). To put it into perspective Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....

 and Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal
Rafael "Rafa" Nadal Parera is a Spanish professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. , he is ranked No. 2 by the Association of Tennis Professionals...

 both took home US$1.7 million for winning the 2010 US Open
2010 US Open (tennis)
The 2010 US Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts, held from August 30 to September 13, 2010 in the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York City, United States....

. Below is the list of prize money given to each player in the main draw of the professional competitions; all prize money is in Australian dollar
Australian dollar
The Australian dollar is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu...

s (A$); doubles prize money is distributed per pair.

Men's and Women's Singles

  • Winners: $2,200,000
  • Runners-up: $1,100,000
  • Semi-finalists: $420,000
  • Quarter-finalists: $210,000
  • Fourth round: $93,000
  • Third round: $54,500
  • Second round: $32,000
  • First round: $20,000


Men's and Women's Doubles

  • Winners: $454,500
  • Runners-up: $227,250
  • Semi-finalists: $113,000
  • Quarter-finalists: $56,000
  • Third round: $31,500
  • Second round: $17,200
  • First round: $9,600


Mixed Doubles

  • Winners: $135,500
  • Runners-up: $67,500
  • Semi-finalists: $33,900
  • Quarter-finalists: $15,500
  • Second round: $7,800
  • First round: $3,800


Fundraising for the Queensland floods

Following the widespread flooding in Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

 several players decided to raise money for the cause. The Association of Tennis Professionals
Association of Tennis Professionals
The Association of Tennis Professionals or ATP was formed in 1972 by Donald Dell, Jack Kramer, and Cliff Drysdale to protect the interests of male professional tennis players. Since 1990, the association has organized the worldwide tennis tour for men and linked the title of the tour with the...

 and the Women's Tennis Association
Women's Tennis Association
The Women's Tennis Association , founded in 1973 by Billie Jean King, is the principal organizing body of Women's Professional Tennis. It governs the WTA Tour which is the worldwide professional tennis tour for women. Its counterpart organization in the men's professional game is the Association of...

 donated ten dollars for every ace served during the Australian Open and as well as during the two pre tournament joint events in Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

, before the Pat Rafter Arena was flooded four days after the conclusion of the 2011 Brisbane International
2011 Brisbane International
The 2011 Brisbane International was a joint ATP and WTA tennis tournament, played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 3rd edition of the tournament and took place at the Queensland Tennis Centre in Tennyson, Brisbane. It was held from 2 to 9 January...

, and Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

. In Brisbane, Andy Roddick
Andy Roddick
Andrew Stephen "Andy" Roddick is an American professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. He is currently the second highest-ranked American player, behind Mardy Fish....

 and Sam Stosur pledged a hundred dollars for every ace they hit, which was also matched by Australian player Matthew Ebden
Matthew Ebden
Matthew Ebden is an Australian professional tennis player who is currently ranked the World No. 80, making him the second highest ranked Australian behind Bernard Tomic...

 when he played in Sydney the following week. Roddick later doubled his pledge to two hundred dollars. In total Roddick hit fifty four aces, raising just under eleven thousand dollars for his efforts during the Brisbane tournament. In addition to this the Brisbane International
Brisbane International
The Brisbane International is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the Association of Tennis Professionals World Tour and of the WTA Premier tournaments of the Women's Tennis Association Tour...

 donated another five thousand dollars. While American Bethanie Mattek-Sands pledged to donate five percent of her prize money from the Hobart International and Australian Open to the cause. Mattek–Sands move was similar to a gesture that she conducted to help the victims of the Nashville floods
2010 Tennessee floods
The May 2010 Tennessee floods were 1000-year floods in Middle Tennessee, West Tennessee, south-central and western Kentucky and northern Mississippi as the result of torrential rains on May 1 and 2, 2010...

 in 2010. As well the ITF donated $25,000 towards the rebuilding of tennis facilities. In total from the ATP and WTA's $10 per an ace drive they managed to raise $51,070 while Roddick donated over $10,000 from his personal pledge.

Rally for Relief

On 16 January, Roger Federer
Roger Federer
Roger Federer is a Swiss professional tennis player who held the ATP no. 1 position for a record 237 consecutive weeks, and 285 weeks overall. As of 28 November 2011, he is ranked World No. 3 by the Association of Tennis Professionals . Federer has won a men's record 16 Grand Slam singles titles...

, Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal
Rafael "Rafa" Nadal Parera is a Spanish professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. , he is ranked No. 2 by the Association of Tennis Professionals...

, Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....

, Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic is a Serbian professional tennis player who has been ranked world no. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals since 4 July 2011. He has won four Grand Slam singles titles: the 2008 and 2011 Australian Open, the 2011 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2011 US Open...

, Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Glynn Hewitt born 24 February 1981) is an Australian professional tennis player and former world no. 1.In 2000, Hewitt had won ATP titles on all three major surfaces and reached one final on carpet. By 2001, he became the youngest male ever to be ranked no. 1 at the age of 20...

, Andy Murray, Andy Roddick
Andy Roddick
Andrew Stephen "Andy" Roddick is an American professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. He is currently the second highest-ranked American player, behind Mardy Fish....

, Justine Henin, Ana Ivanovic
Ana Ivanovic
Ana Ivanović is a former world no. 1 Serbian tennis player. As of November 7, 2011, she is ranked 22th on the WTA rankings. She beat Dinara Safina to win the 2008 French Open and was the runner-up in singles at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open...

, Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Her career high and current ranking is world no. 3, which she first achieved on 12 September 2011. She became the highest-ranked Belarusian player ever, surpassing Natasha Zvereva by two spots....

, Vera Zvonareva
Vera Zvonareva
Vera Zvonareva is a professional tennis player from Russia. She was introduced to tennis at the age of six and turned professional in 2000. Her career high is World No. 2 by the WTA, and she is currently ranked as the World No. 7. Zvonarёva has won twelve WTA Tour singles titles and reached the...

, Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki is a Danish professional tennis player. She is the current world no. 1 on the WTA Tour. As of 7 November 2011, she has held this position for 56 weeks...

 and Queenslanders Sam Stosur and Pat Rafter played a charity match at Rod Laver Arena to raise money for the flood efforts. Tickets to the event cost twenty dollars, and other events – such as an auction of shirts signed by the players – also took place. Queensland Energy Resources
Queensland Energy Resources
Queensland Energy Resources Limited is an Australian oil shale mining and shale oil extraction company with the headquarter in Brisbane. It is the developer of the Stuart and McFarlane oil shale projects.-History:...

 pledged to match the total amount of money raised. The event raised $1.8 million.

Singles players

Men's Singles
2011 Australian Open – Men's Singles
Roger Federer was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Novak Djokovic, who went on to win the tournament by defeating Andy Murray 6–4, 6–2, 6–3 in the final. It was Djokovic's 2nd title at the Australian Open, with this title bearing many resemblances to his title in 2008. Djokovic...



Women's Singles
2011 Australian Open – Women's Singles
Serena Williams was the defending champion, but could not defend her title due to a foot injury sustained in the middle of the 2010 season.Kim Clijsters won her first Australian Open title and fourth Grand Slam overall by beating Li Na 3–6, 6–3, 6–3 in the final match...


Seniors

There were five competitions open to professional tennis players. The Association of Tennis Professionals
Association of Tennis Professionals
The Association of Tennis Professionals or ATP was formed in 1972 by Donald Dell, Jack Kramer, and Cliff Drysdale to protect the interests of male professional tennis players. Since 1990, the association has organized the worldwide tennis tour for men and linked the title of the tour with the...

 and Women's Tennis Association
Women's Tennis Association
The Women's Tennis Association , founded in 1973 by Billie Jean King, is the principal organizing body of Women's Professional Tennis. It governs the WTA Tour which is the worldwide professional tennis tour for women. Its counterpart organization in the men's professional game is the Association of...

 awarded ranking points in all events apart from the mixed doubles. The singles draws were contested by one hundred and twenty eight players, while sixty four teams partook in the doubles events, and thirty two teams lined up in the mixed doubles competition.

Men's Singles

At the start of the 2011 Australian Open, World Number one Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal
Rafael "Rafa" Nadal Parera is a Spanish professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. , he is ranked No. 2 by the Association of Tennis Professionals...

 was on the edge of history, as he had an opportunity to become the first man since Rod Laver
Rod Laver
Rodney George "Rod" Laver MBE is an Australian former tennis player who holds the record for titles won in career, and was the World No. 1 player for seven consecutive years, from 1964 to 1970...

 in 1969 to hold all four Grand Slams at the same time, after winning the previous three. This would not be the Grand Slam, but the media had dubbed the feat if Nadal was to achieve it the "Rafa Slam", which was taken from the "Serena Slam" which was coined when Serena Williams
Serena Williams
Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked her world no. 1 in singles on five separate occasions. She became the world no. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002 and regained this ranking for the fifth time on...

 won all four Grand Slam titles in a row spanning two calendar years, which was taken from the "Tiger Slam" in which golfer Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods
Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Formerly the World No...

 accomplished a similar feat in golf.

Nadal was the number one seed and led the field. The other top ten seeds were; sixteen time Grand Slam champion, Roger Federer
Roger Federer
Roger Federer is a Swiss professional tennis player who held the ATP no. 1 position for a record 237 consecutive weeks, and 285 weeks overall. As of 28 November 2011, he is ranked World No. 3 by the Association of Tennis Professionals . Federer has won a men's record 16 Grand Slam singles titles...

, 2008 Australian Open
2008 Australian Open
The 2008 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 96th edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam event of the year. It took place at the Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, from 14 through 27 January 2008.After twenty years of playing on...

 winner Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic is a Serbian professional tennis player who has been ranked world no. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals since 4 July 2011. He has won four Grand Slam singles titles: the 2008 and 2011 Australian Open, the 2011 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2011 US Open...

, two time Grand Slam finalists Robin Söderling
Robin Söderling
Robin Bo Carl Söderling is a professional tennis player from Sweden who is currently ranked number 13 in the ATP rankings. Söderling reached successive French Open finals in 2009 and 2010...

 and Andy Murray, Wimbledon runner up Tomáš Berdych
Tomáš Berdych
Tomáš Berdych is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. His most notable achievements are reaching the final of the 2010 Wimbledon Championships, and the semifinals of the 2010 French Open. He defeated the Croatian player Ivan Ljubičić in five sets to win the Paris Masters in 2005...

, David Ferrer
David Ferrer
David Ferrer Ern is a Spanish professional tennis player who lives in Valencia, Spain who is currently no. 5 in the ATP Rankings and the second-highest ranked Spaniard behind world no. 2 Rafael Nadal. He turned professional in 2000...

, 2003 US Open champion Andy Roddick
Andy Roddick
Andrew Stephen "Andy" Roddick is an American professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. He is currently the second highest-ranked American player, behind Mardy Fish....

, Fernando Verdasco
Fernando Verdasco
Fernando Verdasco Carmona is a professional tennis player. He is currently ranked no. 22 in the world. Verdasco started playing tennis at four years of age and had a full-time coach when he was eight...

 and Mikhail Youzhny
Mikhail Youzhny
Mikhail Mikhailovich Youzhny , is a professional Russian tennis player, noted for his consistency and all-court play style. He has been coached by Boris Sobkin for 17 years....

.

The start of the 2011 Australian Open saw all the seeds apart from Gulbis, Querrey, who lost in the fifth set 8–6 and Davydenko make it to the second round. Montanes, Fish, Monfils, Baghdatis, Tsonga, Bellucci and Nalbandian all survived final set deciders. The second round witnessed all the seeds go though except Michaël Llodra
Michaël Llodra
Michaël Llodra is a French professional tennis player. He is a prolific doubles player with three Grand Slam championships, and has also had success in singles.-Life and career:...

 who lost to qualifier Milos Raonic
Milos Raonic
Milos Raonic is a Canadian professional tennis player from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada.Born in what is now Podgorica, Montenegro, Raonic moved to Canada with his family at the age of 3. Raonic is Canada's highest ATP ranked male singles player and the country's highest ever ranked player since...

, Feliciano López
Feliciano López
Feliciano López Diaz-Guerra is a Spanish professional male tennis player. He was born in Toledo and now lives in the Spanish capital Madrid....

 who went out to Wildcard Bernard Tomic
Bernard Tomic
Bernard Tomic is an Australian professional tennis player. As of 24 October 2011, Tomic is ranked the World No. 41, making him the highest ranked Australian male tennis player and the youngest player in the top 100...

, Juan Mónaco
Juan Mónaco
Juan Mónaco , nicknamed "Pico", is a male tennis player from Argentina. He reached a career-high ranking of World No. 14 on February 4, 2008. He is sponsored by Adidas and Yonex.-Biography:...

 lost to Robin Haase
Robin Haase
Robin Haase is a Dutch tennis player. Haase is currently the highest-ranked Dutch player, with his career high of No. 41 coming on 29 August 2011. He is endorsed by Head and SNS Reaal.-Career:...

. Fish lost to Robredo and Albert Montañés
Álbert Montañés
Albert Montañés Roca is a professional tennis player from Spain.He first entered the top-100 in 2001 and has been in the top-100 for all but 20 weeks since then...

 lost to Malisse. While Nalbandian had to retire against Berenkis and Bellucci lost 8–6 in the final set to Hernych. Youzhny, Verdasco, Almagro and Federer all survived final set deciders to progress to the third round. Raonic continued his form from the previous round as he upset Youzhny this time in four sets, the biggest upset to date. While Alexandr Dolgopolov upset Tsonga coming back two sets to one down to win. The third round is also where the seeds meet for the first time, so Garcia–Lopez, Baghdatis, Gasquet, Ljubicic and Troicki all exited to higher seeds. While Stanislas Wawrinka
Stanislas Wawrinka
Stanislas Wawrinka is a Swiss professional tennis player. He also holds German citizenship as his father is German. His career ranking high is no. 9, achieved on 9 June 2008. He considers clay his best surface and his backhand his best shot...

 who was the nineteenth seed managed to defeat Gaël Monfils
Gaël Monfils
Gaël Sébastien Monfils is a French professional tennis player. he was the highest-ranked French tennis player, ranked no. 7 in the world ATP rankings. He was the runner-up at the Paris Masters in 2009 and 2010 and a semifinalist at the 2008 French Open.-2002:In 2002, Monfils finished 24th at the...

 the twelfth seed in straight sets. Marin Čilić
Marin Cilic
Marin Čilić , is a Croatian professional tennis player. His career high ATP ranking is no. 9, achieved on 22 February 2010, following his best-ever performance at a Grand Slam, reaching the semi-finals in the 2010 Australian Open...

, semifinalist from 2010 defeated John Isner
John Isner
John Robert Isner is an American professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high rank of no. 18 on July 5, 2010, and has been as high as the second-ranked American tennis player behind Andy Roddick...

 9–7 in the final set. The fourth round saw Ferrer end Raonic's run, and Dolgopolov edge out Soderling in the final set for the biggest upset in the tournament to date. There were also wins for Berdych, Djokovic, Federer, Murray and Nadal, all except Federer eliminated other seeds. There was one other upset as nineteenth seed Wawrinka beat Roddick in straight sets.

Djokovic, Federer and Murray successfully made their way into the semifinals, however the upset of the tournament happened as Nadal went out. The "Rafa Slam" attempt came to an end on Australia Day in straight sets against Ferrer, a year to the day since Nadal last lost a Grand Slam match. The semifinals witness Djokovic taking out Federer in straight sets while Murray overcame Ferrer the next night in four sets. In the final Djokovic defeated Murray for his second Australian Open crown in straight sets.

Championship match result

 
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic is a Serbian professional tennis player who has been ranked world no. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals since 4 July 2011. He has won four Grand Slam singles titles: the 2008 and 2011 Australian Open, the 2011 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2011 US Open...

 def.   Andy Murray, 6–4, 6–2, 6–3.

Women's Singles

The 2011 women's draw was missing its defending champion Serena Williams who pulled out in late 2010 due to ligament damage. World number one Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki is a Danish professional tennis player. She is the current world no. 1 on the WTA Tour. As of 7 November 2011, she has held this position for 56 weeks...

 of Denmark was the number one seed. The Dane headed up the top ten seeds which included Vera Zvonareva
Vera Zvonareva
Vera Zvonareva is a professional tennis player from Russia. She was introduced to tennis at the age of six and turned professional in 2000. Her career high is World No. 2 by the WTA, and she is currently ranked as the World No. 7. Zvonarёva has won twelve WTA Tour singles titles and reached the...

, three time US Open champion Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....

, seven time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams
Venus Williams
Venus Ebony Starr Williams is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 101 as of 10 October 2011 in singles and World No. 20 in doubles as of 2011. She has been ranked World No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association on three separate...

, Samantha Stosur
Samantha Stosur
Samantha "Sam" Jane Stosur is an Australian professional tennis player. She won the 2011 US Open singles title and was a finalist at the 2010 French Open. Stosur is ranked World No. 6 and her career high in singles is World No. 4, achieved on 21 February 2011. She is a former world No...

, reigning French Open Champion Francesca Schiavone
Francesca Schiavone
Francesca Schiavone is an Italian tennis player who turned professional in 1998. She won the 2010 French Open singles title, becoming the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam event in singles. She was also runner-up at the 2011 French Open. As of 24 October 2011, Schiavone's ranking is World...

, Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from Serbia. She reached the final of the 2008 US Open and won the 2007 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles title. Janković is ranked world no...

, Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Her career high and current ranking is world no. 3, which she first achieved on 12 September 2011. She became the highest-ranked Belarusian player ever, surpassing Natasha Zvereva by two spots....

, Li Na
Li Na (tennis)
Li Na , goes first before the equivalent of a first name in some other nations. Her name off court in China is Li Na. When listed on the , she is known as Na Li. However, in the match, the commentators call her Li Na, and when her full name is listed in text on court, it is also written as Li Na.;...

 and Shahar Pe'er
Shahar Pe'er
Shahar Pe'er is an Israeli professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is World No. 11, which she achieved on January 31, 2011 ....

. Former Grand Slam champions, Justine Henin, Ana Ivanović
Ana Ivanovic
Ana Ivanović is a former world no. 1 Serbian tennis player. As of November 7, 2011, she is ranked 22th on the WTA rankings. She beat Dinara Safina to win the 2008 French Open and was the runner-up in singles at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open...

, Svetlana Kuznetsova
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova ; born June 27, 1985) is a Russian professional tennis player and as of October 10, 2011 ranked No. 21 in the WTA singles and No. 90 in the doubles ranking. Kuznetsova has appeared in four singles Grand Slam finals, winning two, and has also appeared in six doubles...

 and Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova ,. is a Russian professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. A US resident since 1994, Sharapova has won 24 WTA singles titles, including three Grand Slam singles titles at the 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open and 2008 Australian Open...

 were also seeded.

The start of the 2011 Australian Open saw all the seeds apart from Rezaï, Hantuchová, Dulgheru. The biggest upset of the first round was Ivanović losing 10–8 in the final set to Ekaterina Makarova
Ekaterina Makarova
Ekaterina Valeryevna Makarova is a professional Russian tennis player. She achieved her career high ranking of number 29 on June 6, 2011.-Career:...

 while Schiavone survived after being a set down to win the final set. The biggest loser in the second round was Janković as she lost to Peng in straight sets. The Serb was not the only seed to exit though as Iveta Benešová
Iveta Benešová
Iveta Benešová is a professional tennis player. She began playing tennis at age of 7 and turned professional in 1998 in Prague. She has won two WTA Tour events and one Grand Slam in mixed doubles partnering with Jürgen Melzer at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships.-2006–2008:In the 2006 Australian...

 defeated Maria Kirilenko
Maria Kirilenko
Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko is a Russian professional tennis player. Kirilenko won her first WTA Tour title in 2005, defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the China Open. Kirilenko reached no. 18, her career-high singles ranking, on the WTA tour in July 2008. She won the junior event at the 2002 Canadian...

, Martinez–Sanchez lost to Cornet. Kleybanova, Kanepi, Pironkova, Bartoli and Wickmayer all joined them on the plane home. While Schiavone had to survive another final set decider this time winning it 9–7. The third round saw Kutznetsova defeat Henin, in what turned out to be the Belgium's last ever match as she announced her retirement in the second week of the tournament. Whilst Andrea Petkovic
Andrea Petkovic
Andrea Petkovic is a professional German tennis player of Serbian origin. She is the highest ranked German tennis player. She lives in Griesheim near Darmstadt, Germany....

 had a virtual bye into round four as Williams retired after just seven points of their match. Makarova caused another upset as she knocked out Nadia Petrova
Nadia Petrova
Nadezhda Viktorovna Petrova is a Russian professional tennis player.Overall, she has won 28 WTA Titles, ten in singles and eighteen in doubles. In singles, Petrova has reached a career high ranking of World No. 3 in May 2006 and has reached the semi-finals of the French Open in 2003 and 2005...

 while Benešová defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Anastasia Sergeyevna Pavlyuchenkova is a Russian professional tennis player and a multiple junior Grand Slam champion. Her career-high rank of World No. 13 was achieved on 4 July 2011. From July 2007 to September 2009 she was coached at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy in France...

 in the final set. Other seeds who went out to other seeded players were Cibulková, Peer who lost in the final set. While Petra Kvitová
Petra Kvitová
Petra Kvitová is a Czech professional tennis player. She has won seven WTA singles titles. As of 31 October 2011, she is ranked World No. 2. Kvitová won the 2011 Wimbledon Championships and the 2011 WTA Tour Championships singles titles...

 ended home hopes as she disposed of Stosur, while Sharapova had to come from a set down to progress to the next round.

The fourth round witnessed women's tennis history, as the match between Kuznetsova and Schiavone broke records. The match became the longest match, in terms of time for women in a Grand Slam as it lasted for 4 hours, and 44 minutes. At 8–7 in the final set Kutznetsova had three match points, but the Italian saved all three. In the next game Schiavone broke her opponents serve but touched the net after hitting the winner, meaning the point went to Kutznetsova, when holding three break points. Kutznetsova had another three match points in the next game before a run of four games in a row where the serve was broken. Finally after breaking in the previous game and missing three match points Schiavone closed the match out to win 16–14 in the final set. Other fourth round matches saw Sevastova's run end against Wozniacki and Makarova's end against Clijsters, while Petkovic upset Sharapova in straight sets. Other upsets saw the seeded players of Li and Kvitová defeat higher seeded players.

The quarterfinals witnessed Wozniacki put an end to Schiavone's run by winning a final set decider. Into the semifinals with the Dane were Li who defeated Petkovic, Clijsters who defeated Radwańska and Zvonerava who took care of Kvitová. In the first semifinal Li caused an upset, as she saved match point, to defeat the world number one Wozniacki in three sets. As a result Li became the first Chinese citizen to reach a Grand Slam singles final. Her opponent in the final, Clijsters, won in straight sets against Zvonerava. In the final Clijsters came from a set down to claim her first Australian Open title. It was her fourth grand slam title in her career and second consecutive slam having won the US Open in 2010.

Championship match result

 
Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....

 def.   Li Na
Li Na (tennis)
Li Na , goes first before the equivalent of a first name in some other nations. Her name off court in China is Li Na. When listed on the , she is known as Na Li. However, in the match, the commentators call her Li Na, and when her full name is listed in text on court, it is also written as Li Na.;...

, 3–6, 6–3, 6–3.

Men's Doubles

The 2011 men's doubles competition saw the two-time defending champions and four-time champions overall come back to defend the two previous titles in the team of Bob
Bob Bryan
Robert Charles "Bob" Bryan is an American male professional tennis player. With his twin brother Mike, he has spent over 200 weeks as a World No. 1 doubles player. He has won eighteen Grand Slam titles, 11 in men's doubles and seven in mixed doubles. He turned professional in 1998...

 and Mike Bryan
Mike Bryan
Michael Carl "Mike" Bryan is an American professional tennis player. He stands tall, weighs 192 lbs and plays right-handed. He turned professional in 1998. With his twin brother Bob, he has been World No...

, which they were the number one seeded team in the draw. All of the top eight seeds made the quarterfinals, with the exception being the seventh seeded team of Lukáš Dlouhý
Lukáš Dlouhý
Lukáš Dlouhý is a professional Czech tennis player on the ATP Tour. A doubles specialist, Dlouhý reached a career-high ranking of World Number 5 on June 22, 2009.-2006-2008:...

 and Paul Hanley
Paul Hanley (tennis)
Paul Jason Hanley is a professional male tennis player from Australia, specialising in doubles. His parents, Jay and Judy, co-own a tennis centre, one of the main reasons Hanley pursued a career in the sport.He lost the 2005 Wimbledon finals in mixed doubles, playing with Tatiana Perebiynis...

 who exited in round one. Lastly, this event saw four teams exit in the quarterfinal round, which those was the 4th seeded team of Łukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach
Oliver Marach
Oliver Marach is a professional Austrian tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking is 82nd, which he reached on August 7, 2005. His career high in doubles is 8th, set at October 18, 2010.-Doubles: 14 :...

, Mariusz Fyrstenberg
Mariusz Fyrstenberg
Mariusz Fyrstenberg is a left-handed Polish professional tennis player whose speciality is in doubles. His current partner is Marcin Matkowski; they have been playing together since 2003....

 and Marcin Matkowski
Marcin Matkowski
Marcin Matkowski is a right-handed Polish professional tennis player whose speciality is in doubles. His current partner is Mariusz Fyrstenberg; they have been playing together since 2003, he occasionally plays mixed doubles with Caroline Wozniacki.Matkowski and Fyrstenberg qualified as the eighth...

 the 5 seeded team, the 6th seeded and 2010 Wimbledon Champions
2010 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić were the defending champions, however they were beaten in the second round by British wildcards, Chris Eaton and Dominic Inglot.Jürgen Melzer and Philipp Petzschner won the final against Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecău 6–1, 7–5, 7–5.-Seeds:# Daniel Nestor / Nenad...

 Jürgen Melzer
Jürgen Melzer
Jürgen Melzer is an Austrian tennis player. He reached a career-high ranking of no. 8 on 18 April 2011, and a doubles ranking of no. 6 on 13 September 2010. He is the only current player on the ATP Tour to be ranked in the top 10 in both singles and doubles. He is a left-handed tennis player, but...

 and Philipp Petzschner
Philipp Petzschner
Philipp Petzschner is a professional German tennis player. He is known for his hard-hitting and incredible bursts of speed around the court, and now for controversy in the US Open Men's Doubles Final which he won partnered with Jurgen Melzer against the Polish team of Fystenberg/Matkowski...

, and the 8th seeded team of Michaël Llodra
Michaël Llodra
Michaël Llodra is a French professional tennis player. He is a prolific doubles player with three Grand Slam championships, and has also had success in singles.-Life and career:...

 and Nenad Zimonjić
Nenad Zimonjic
Nenad Zimonjić is a professional Serbian tennis player who is currently ranked World No. 3 in men's doubles. He is the second tennis doubles player from Serbia to hold the World No.1, after Slobodan Živojinović.-Career:...

.

In the semifinals Bhupathi and Peas beat Max Mirnyi
Max Mirnyi
Max Mirnyi is a professional tennis player from Belarus.Today Mirnyi is a doubles specialist, but he also enjoyed a good singles career, finishing in the top 50 in the world for seven straight years, as well as representing Belarus in Davis Cup competition since April 1994, where he holds a...

 and Daniel Nestor
Daniel Nestor
Daniel Mark Nestor, CM , born Danijel Nestorović September 4, 1972, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is a Serbian-born Canadian professional tennis player from Toronto, Ontario, Canada....

 in the final set. This set up a final against the Bryan Brothers who won in straight sets over Butorac and Rojer. In the championship match the Bryan Brothers won in straight sets for their third title in a row. This was also the Bryan Brothers tenth Men's Doubles Grand Slam title leaving them one behind the Woodies (Todd Woodbridge
Todd Woodbridge
Todd Andrew Woodbridge is an Australian former tennis player. He was born in Sydney and turned professional in 1988. He is best known for his successful Doubles partnerships with Mark Woodforde and later Jonas Björkman...

 and Mark Woodforde
Mark Woodforde
Mark Woodforde is a former professional tennis player from Australia. He is best known as one half of "The Woodies", a doubles partnership with Todd Woodbridge....

) all time grand slam record of 11 titles.

Championship match result

 
Bob Bryan
Bob Bryan
Robert Charles "Bob" Bryan is an American male professional tennis player. With his twin brother Mike, he has spent over 200 weeks as a World No. 1 doubles player. He has won eighteen Grand Slam titles, 11 in men's doubles and seven in mixed doubles. He turned professional in 1998...

/   Mike Bryan
Mike Bryan
Michael Carl "Mike" Bryan is an American professional tennis player. He stands tall, weighs 192 lbs and plays right-handed. He turned professional in 1998. With his twin brother Bob, he has been World No...

 def.   Mahesh Bhupathi
Mahesh Bhupathi
Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi is an Indian professional tennis player widely regarded as among the best doubles players in the world with 11 Grand Slam titles to his credit. In 1997, he became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam tournament...

 /   Leander Paes
Leander Paes
Leander Adrian Paes, pronounced pās, is an Indian professional tennis player who currently features in the doubles events in the ATP tour and the Davis Cup tournament...

, 6–3, 6–4.

Women's Doubles

The 2011 women's doubles competition was wide open with no team in the field having previously won a grand slam. Argentina's Gisela Dulko
Gisela Dulko
Gisela Dulko is an Argentine female tennis player, who will, as of 4 July 2011, be ranked World No. 51 in singles and No. 4 in doubles. Although she enjoyed a modest success in singles, reaching No. 26 on November 21, 2005, and winning four WTA Tour titles, her speciality has been doubles, where...

 and Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta is an Italian professional tennis player. She became Italy's first top 10 female singles player on 17 August 2009 and also the first ever Italian Tennis player to be ranked No.1 in Doubles on 28 February 2011. As of 10 October 2011, Pennetta is ranked World No. 18 in singles and...

 of Italy led the field as the number one seeds, who had won seven titles in 2010 including the WTA championships but they had never been past a Grand Slam semifinal. Second seeds were the French Open
2010 French Open
The 2010 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 109th edition of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam event of the year...

 finalists Květa Peschke
Kveta Peschke
Květoslava Peschke, also known as Květa Peschkeová is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic. She plays mostly on the baseline, with her best shot being the forehand. Her favourite surfaces are hard court and carpet...

 and Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik is a Slovenian professional tennis player. Srebotnik is right-handed, 1.80 m, weighs 65 kg and lives in Dubai. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 20 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour on August 7, 2006.Srebotnik won 4 singles titles on the WTA-tour and was a steady top 30...

, who had already won a tournament in 2011, the ASB Classic
ASB Classic
The ASB Classic is a tennis tournament held in Auckland, New Zealand. Held since 1986, this WTA Tour event is an International series tournament and is played on outdoor hardcourts during the first week of the year....

. Number three seeds are the US Open
2010 US Open (tennis)
The 2010 US Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts, held from August 30 to September 13, 2010 in the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York City, United States....

 finalists Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber is a professional tennis player who competes for, resides in, and is a naturalized citizen of the United States. Huber has won four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles with partner Cara Black, one with Lisa Raymond, and two mixed doubles titles with Bob Bryan.  On November 12, 2007,...

 and Nadia Petrova
Nadia Petrova
Nadezhda Viktorovna Petrova is a Russian professional tennis player.Overall, she has won 28 WTA Titles, ten in singles and eighteen in doubles. In singles, Petrova has reached a career high ranking of World No. 3 in May 2006 and has reached the semi-finals of the French Open in 2003 and 2005...

; the number four seeds are the 2009 WTA Champions Nuria Llagostera Vives
Nuria Llagostera Vives
Nuria Llagostera Vives is a Spanish female tennis player. On June 6, 2005, Llagostera Vives reached her career-high singles ranking, World No. 35.During her career she has won 2 singles titles and 11 in doubles...

 and María José Martínez Sánchez
María José Martínez Sánchez
María José Martínez Sánchez is a Spanish professional tennis player. In singles, she has won five WTA singles titles, the 2009 Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas, the 2009 Swedish Open, the Premier 5 event, 2010 Internazionali BNL d'Italia, the 2011 Gastein Ladies and the 2011 Hansol Korea Open. She...

 with Cara Black
Cara Black
Cara Black is a professional female tennis player from Zimbabwe. She has won 7 singles titles and 63 women's doubles titles. She has won all four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles and three of the four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles. She is currently ranked World No. 28 in women's doubles...

 and Anastasia Rodionova seeded fifth heading the field.

All the seeds made it through the opening round with the exception of Francesca Schiavone
Francesca Schiavone
Francesca Schiavone is an Italian tennis player who turned professional in 1998. She won the 2010 French Open singles title, becoming the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam event in singles. She was also runner-up at the 2011 French Open. As of 24 October 2011, Schiavone's ranking is World...

 and Rennae Stubbs
Rennae Stubbs
Rennae Stubbs is an Australian tennis player. She has won several Grand Slam doubles titles and represented Australia at four successive Olympic Games; Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008....

, who lost, winning just five games in what was Stubbs' final Australian Open. In round two the biggest casualties were the departure of the number four seeds; Llagostera Vives and Martínez Sánchez in straight sets. In the third round the number six, seven and eighth seeds all crashed out. In the quarterfinals Huber won the battle of the ex partners as she downed Black's team to set up a semi final with Dulko and Penetta. The other semi was filled by Azarenka and Kirilenko and the number two seeds. In the semis the Number one seeds advanced to the final where after a shock they faced Azerenka and Kilrenko. In the final Dulko and Pennetta came from a set down to win.

Championship match result

 
Gisela Dulko
Gisela Dulko
Gisela Dulko is an Argentine female tennis player, who will, as of 4 July 2011, be ranked World No. 51 in singles and No. 4 in doubles. Although she enjoyed a modest success in singles, reaching No. 26 on November 21, 2005, and winning four WTA Tour titles, her speciality has been doubles, where...

/   Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta is an Italian professional tennis player. She became Italy's first top 10 female singles player on 17 August 2009 and also the first ever Italian Tennis player to be ranked No.1 in Doubles on 28 February 2011. As of 10 October 2011, Pennetta is ranked World No. 18 in singles and...

 def.   Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Her career high and current ranking is world no. 3, which she first achieved on 12 September 2011. She became the highest-ranked Belarusian player ever, surpassing Natasha Zvereva by two spots....

 /   Maria Kirilenko
Maria Kirilenko
Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko is a Russian professional tennis player. Kirilenko won her first WTA Tour title in 2005, defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the China Open. Kirilenko reached no. 18, her career-high singles ranking, on the WTA tour in July 2008. She won the junior event at the 2002 Canadian...

, 2–6, 7–5, 6–1.

Mixed Doubles

The mixed doubles field was led by top seeds and US Open champions Bob Bryan
Bob Bryan
Robert Charles "Bob" Bryan is an American male professional tennis player. With his twin brother Mike, he has spent over 200 weeks as a World No. 1 doubles player. He has won eighteen Grand Slam titles, 11 in men's doubles and seven in mixed doubles. He turned professional in 1998...

 and Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber is a professional tennis player who competes for, resides in, and is a naturalized citizen of the United States. Huber has won four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles with partner Cara Black, one with Lisa Raymond, and two mixed doubles titles with Bob Bryan.  On November 12, 2007,...

. Other significant seeds were: number two seeds Daniel Nestor
Daniel Nestor
Daniel Mark Nestor, CM , born Danijel Nestorović September 4, 1972, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is a Serbian-born Canadian professional tennis player from Toronto, Ontario, Canada....

 and Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik is a Slovenian professional tennis player. Srebotnik is right-handed, 1.80 m, weighs 65 kg and lives in Dubai. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 20 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour on August 7, 2006.Srebotnik won 4 singles titles on the WTA-tour and was a steady top 30...

, Nestor's ex-doubles partner Nenad Zimonjić
Nenad Zimonjic
Nenad Zimonjić is a professional Serbian tennis player who is currently ranked World No. 3 in men's doubles. He is the second tennis doubles player from Serbia to hold the World No.1, after Slobodan Živojinović.-Career:...

 and Maria Kirilenko
Maria Kirilenko
Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko is a Russian professional tennis player. Kirilenko won her first WTA Tour title in 2005, defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the China Open. Kirilenko reached no. 18, her career-high singles ranking, on the WTA tour in July 2008. She won the junior event at the 2002 Canadian...

 are the third seeds. Fourth seeds were defending champions Leander Paes
Leander Paes
Leander Adrian Paes, pronounced pās, is an Indian professional tennis player who currently features in the doubles events in the ATP tour and the Davis Cup tournament...

 and Cara Black
Cara Black
Cara Black is a professional female tennis player from Zimbabwe. She has won 7 singles titles and 63 women's doubles titles. She has won all four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles and three of the four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles. She is currently ranked World No. 28 in women's doubles...

, while the fifth and sixth seeds were Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi is a professional tennis player from Pakistan. He is currently Pakistan's top player. A top 10 doubles player, his highest Singles Race ranking is 103rd and is the former Asian No. 3...

 and Květa Peschke
Kveta Peschke
Květoslava Peschke, also known as Květa Peschkeová is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic. She plays mostly on the baseline, with her best shot being the forehand. Her favourite surfaces are hard court and carpet...

 and Wesley Moodie
Wesley Moodie
Wesley Moodie is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. Wesley is now retired.-Early life and college career:...

 and Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond is an American professional tennis player who has achieved notable success in doubles tennis. On June 12, 2000, she reached the world number one ranking in doubles...

.

All the seeded teams made it through the first round apart from the teams of Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi is a professional tennis player from Pakistan. He is currently Pakistan's top player. A top 10 doubles player, his highest Singles Race ranking is 103rd and is the former Asian No. 3...

 and Květa Peschke
Kveta Peschke
Květoslava Peschke, also known as Květa Peschkeová is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic. She plays mostly on the baseline, with her best shot being the forehand. Her favourite surfaces are hard court and carpet...

 who lost to Rennae Stubbs
Rennae Stubbs
Rennae Stubbs is an Australian tennis player. She has won several Grand Slam doubles titles and represented Australia at four successive Olympic Games; Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008....

 and Chris Guccione
Chris Guccione
Christopher "Chris" Luke Guccione , is an Australian professional tennis player from Greenvale, Victoria; his father is Italian and his mother is Australian....

 and Moody and Reymond who lost to Horia Tecău
Horia Tecau
Horia Tecău is a Romanian tennis player who turned pro in 2003, and is a doubles specialist. Tecău is currently ranked 9th in ATP's doubles ranking, being also his highest doubles ranking achieved on August 8, 2011....

 and Bethanie Mattek-Sands. The second round witnessed the number one seeds Bryan and Huber withdraw and the defending champions, Paes and Black go out to Paul Hanley
Paul Hanley (tennis)
Paul Jason Hanley is a professional male tennis player from Australia, specialising in doubles. His parents, Jay and Judy, co-own a tennis centre, one of the main reasons Hanley pursued a career in the sport.He lost the 2005 Wimbledon finals in mixed doubles, playing with Tatiana Perebiynis...

 and Chan Yung-jan
Chan Yung-jan
Chan Yung-jan , Taiwan) is a professional female tennis player from Republic of China . She has won 13 ITF singles titles; and 7 WTA and 11 ITF doubles titles. Her career highlights include semifinals in the Japan Open in 2006 and finals in the PTT Bangkok Open in 2007 Chan Yung-jan , Taiwan) is a...

 after two tiebreak sets. The quarterfinals saw no upsets as Nestor and Srebotnik, Zimonjic and Kirlienko, Hanley and Chan and Tecau and Mettek–Sands made the semifinals. In the semifinals Nestor and Srebotnik won in straight sets against Zimonjic and Kirilenko. Their opponents in the final were Hanley and Chan after they won a match tiebreak 11–9 against Tecau and Mettek–Sands. The final came down to a match tiebreak which the number two seeds, Nestor and Srebotnik won. It was Nestor's second Australian Open mixed title while for Srebotnik it was her first.

Championship match result

 
Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik is a Slovenian professional tennis player. Srebotnik is right-handed, 1.80 m, weighs 65 kg and lives in Dubai. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 20 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour on August 7, 2006.Srebotnik won 4 singles titles on the WTA-tour and was a steady top 30...

/   Daniel Nestor
Daniel Nestor
Daniel Mark Nestor, CM , born Danijel Nestorović September 4, 1972, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is a Serbian-born Canadian professional tennis player from Toronto, Ontario, Canada....

 def.   Chan Yung-jan
Chan Yung-jan
Chan Yung-jan , Taiwan) is a professional female tennis player from Republic of China . She has won 13 ITF singles titles; and 7 WTA and 11 ITF doubles titles. Her career highlights include semifinals in the Japan Open in 2006 and finals in the PTT Bangkok Open in 2007 Chan Yung-jan , Taiwan) is a...

 /   Paul Hanley
Paul Hanley (tennis)
Paul Jason Hanley is a professional male tennis player from Australia, specialising in doubles. His parents, Jay and Judy, co-own a tennis centre, one of the main reasons Hanley pursued a career in the sport.He lost the 2005 Wimbledon finals in mixed doubles, playing with Tatiana Perebiynis...

, 6–3, 3–6, [10–7].

Juniors

Sixty four players competed in the boys and girls singles events, with thirty two teams competing in the boys and girls doubles events. The event is one of nine ITF Grade A junior competitions. Qualifying for the main draw took place between 20 and 21 January 2011. Sixty four players attempted to qualify for the main draw of the boys and girls singles. There were eight qualifying spots available to join the forty six direct acceptance, two special exemptions and eight wildcards in the main draw. The qualifying event was held at the Pakenham Regional Tennis Centre. The main draws took place between 23 and 29 January 2011.

Boys' Singles

World number one Jiří Veselý
Jiří Veselý
Jiří Veselý is a tennis professional player.Veselý is ranked number two in the ITF junior rankings. In 2011, Veselý won the Boys' Singles title at the Australian Open, defeating Australian Luke Saville in straight sets...

 led the field. Other top seeds included World number two Dominic Thiem, Orange Bowl
Junior Orange Bowl (tennis)
The Junior Orange Bowl is a youth tennis tournament, held in Coral Gables, for '14 and under' and '12 and under'.Boys and girls compete in separate draws.-Past champions:•BOYS 14-and-under •GIRLS 14-and-under 1948...

 Champion George Morgan
George Morgan (tennis)
George Morgan is a British tennis player. He won the Boys Doubles title at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships alongside Mate Pavic.-Singles Titles :-Doubles Titles :George Morgan is a British tennis player...

 and World number five Mate Pavic
Mate Pavić
Mate Pavić is a Croatian tennis player who won the boys' doubles title at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships in partnership with George Morgan.-External links:**...

. In the first round of the tournament Pavic exited in straight sets to Karim Hossam. While fellow seeds Dimitri Bretting, Joris De Loore and Ben Wagland also went out of the tournament. Also in action was Vesley and the 2010 finalist Sean Berman who both won their opening matches. Luke Saville
Luke Saville
Luke Saville is an Australian junior tennis player. Saville is most famous for winning the boys singles at the Wimbledon Championships, and was also runner up in the boys singles at the Australian Open.-Junior career:...

 caused the biggest upset in the second round as he outsted World number two Thiem in straight sets while Veselý and Morgan progressed with straight sets wins. The third round saw Morgan and Saville win epics in the final set. The quarterfinals saw Veselý, Morgan, Carballes and Saville reach the semifinals, where Veselý and Saville reached the final. In the final Veselý claimed his first junior Grand Slam title as he lost just three games against home hope Saville.

Championship match result

 
Jiří Veselý
Jiří Veselý
Jiří Veselý is a tennis professional player.Veselý is ranked number two in the ITF junior rankings. In 2011, Veselý won the Boys' Singles title at the Australian Open, defeating Australian Luke Saville in straight sets...

 def.   Luke Saville
Luke Saville
Luke Saville is an Australian junior tennis player. Saville is most famous for winning the boys singles at the Wimbledon Championships, and was also runner up in the boys singles at the Australian Open.-Junior career:...

, 6–0, 6–3.

Girls' Singles

The 2011 Australian Open girls field was led by the World number one, US Open and youth Olympic champion, Daria Gavrilova
Daria Gavrilova
Daria Gavrilova is a junior Russian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 347, which she reached on May 02, 2011.Daria highest junior ITF ranking is at No. 1 reached on August 23, 2010.-2010:...

. Joining the Russian leading the field was An-Sophie Mestach
An-Sophie Mestach
An-Sophie Mestach is a junior Belgian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 408, which she reached on 4 April 2011...

, Irina Khromacheva
Irina Khromacheva
Irina Khromacheva is a junior Russian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 347th, which she reached on November 14, 2011. Her current singles ranking as of November 14, 2011, is 347th.- Personal life :...

 and Mónica Puig
Mónica Puig
Mónica Puig is a junior Puerto Rican tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 310, attained on May 9, 2011. Currently Monica WTA single ranking is 313 as of May 16, 2011....

. While Orange Bowl
Junior Orange Bowl (tennis)
The Junior Orange Bowl is a youth tennis tournament, held in Coral Gables, for '14 and under' and '12 and under'.Boys and girls compete in separate draws.-Past champions:•BOYS 14-and-under •GIRLS 14-and-under 1948...

 champion Lauren Davis
Lauren Davis
Lauren Davis is a professional American tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 328, which she reached on August 1, 2011.-Personal life:...

 who competed in the main draw of the women's singles was the third seed and she was also joined by Caroline Garcia
Caroline Garcia
Caroline Garcia is a French professional tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 141, which she reached on August 15, 2011. Her career high in doubles is 357, achieved on August 15, 2011....

 who also appeared in the women's draw. The first round saw all of the seeds bar Natalija Kostic move into the second round. Gavrilova, however was not in the second round as she was dumped out in straight sets by fifteen year old Kanami Tsuji Puig, in the second round got rid of the last of the home contingent losing just two games in the process. Eugénie Bouchard
Eugénie Bouchard
Eugenie "Genie" Bouchard is a Canadian professional tennis player. On November 21, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 301. She is currently playing on the Junior Circuit and on the ITF Circuit.-Early life:...

 caused the biggest upset of round three when she lost just three games against Davis. Garcia caused an upset in the quarterfinals as she upset the number four seed Khromacheva in straight sets. The semifinals witnessed Mestach drop her first and only set of the tournament when she defeated Garcia whilst Puig saw off Bouchard in straight sets. In the final Mestach defeated Puig in straight sets to win her first junior Grand Slam title.

Championship match result

 
An-Sophie Mestach
An-Sophie Mestach
An-Sophie Mestach is a junior Belgian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 408, which she reached on 4 April 2011...

 def.   Mónica Puig
Mónica Puig
Mónica Puig is a junior Puerto Rican tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 310, attained on May 9, 2011. Currently Monica WTA single ranking is 313 as of May 16, 2011....

, 6–4, 6–2.

Boys' Doubles

The first round witnessed Dimitri Bretting and Dennis Novak the fifth seeds and seventh seeds Luis Patiño and Filip Peliwo exit at the first hurdle. All the remaining seeds made it to the quarterfinals, where the number one seeds George Morgan
George Morgan (tennis)
George Morgan is a British tennis player. He won the Boys Doubles title at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships alongside Mate Pavic.-Singles Titles :-Doubles Titles :George Morgan is a British tennis player...

 and Mate Pavić
Mate Pavić
Mate Pavić is a Croatian tennis player who won the boys' doubles title at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships in partnership with George Morgan.-External links:**...

 who exited to the eighth seeds Mitchell Krueger and Karue Sell in a match tiebreak while second seeds Filip Horanský
Filip Horansky
Filip Horansky is a tennis player from Slovakia. Filip, with partner Jiří Veselý, won the 2011 Boys Doubles Australian Open. He is coached by Miloslav Grolmus.-Sources:...

 and Jiří Veselý
Jiří Veselý
Jiří Veselý is a tennis professional player.Veselý is ranked number two in the ITF junior rankings. In 2011, Veselý won the Boys' Singles title at the Australian Open, defeating Australian Luke Saville in straight sets...

 knocked out sixth seeds Dominic Thiem and Matthias Wunner. Horansky and Vesely reached the final after defeating the fourth seeds Joris de Loore and Mate Delić who received a bye in the previous round in straight sets. While third seeds Ben Wagland and Andrew Whittington took care of Krueger and Sell in a match tiebreak. Horansky and Vesely triumphed in straight sets in the final over Wagland and Whttington.

Championship match result

 
Filip Horanský
Filip Horansky
Filip Horansky is a tennis player from Slovakia. Filip, with partner Jiří Veselý, won the 2011 Boys Doubles Australian Open. He is coached by Miloslav Grolmus.-Sources:...

/   Jiří Veselý
Jiří Veselý
Jiří Veselý is a tennis professional player.Veselý is ranked number two in the ITF junior rankings. In 2011, Veselý won the Boys' Singles title at the Australian Open, defeating Australian Luke Saville in straight sets...

 def.   Ben Wagland /   Andrew Whittington, 6–4, 6–4.

Girls' Doubles

All the seeds made it through the first round with out incident. Nastja Kolar and Danka Kovinić the fifth seeds, Tang Haochen and Tian Ran the seventh seeds and the biggest upset with the second seeds Eugénie Bouchard and Mónica Puig
Mónica Puig
Mónica Puig is a junior Puerto Rican tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 310, attained on May 9, 2011. Currently Monica WTA single ranking is 313 as of May 16, 2011....

 all went out in the second round. In the quarterfinals An-Sophie Mestach
An-Sophie Mestach
An-Sophie Mestach is a junior Belgian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 408, which she reached on 4 April 2011...

 and Demi Schuurs
Demi Schuurs
Demi Schuurs is a junior Dutch tennis player. Althought not successful in singles, Schuurs successfully compete at doubles tournaments. Her highest WTA doubles ranking is 553rd achieved on August 1, 2011. Her current doubles ranking as of September 12, 2011 is 666th.- Junior Grand Slam doubles...

 sent the number one seeds Irina Khromacheva
Irina Khromacheva
Irina Khromacheva is a junior Russian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 347th, which she reached on November 14, 2011. Her current singles ranking as of November 14, 2011, is 347th.- Personal life :...

 and Yulia Putintseva home for the loss of just three games. While Margarita Gasparyan and Daria Gavrilova
Daria Gavrilova
Daria Gavrilova is a junior Russian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 347, which she reached on May 02, 2011.Daria highest junior ITF ranking is at No. 1 reached on August 23, 2010.-2010:...

 the fourth seeds lost a match tiebreaker to Eri Hozumi and Miyu Kato whilst Lucia Butkovská and Anna Schmiedlová the eighth seeds won only one game. Kato and Hozumi progressed to the final, where they faced Mestach and Schuurs who knocked out the third seeds Natalija Kostić and Ilona Kremen in a match tiebreaker. In the final Mestach and Schuurs defeated Hozumi and Kato in straight sets for their first Grand Slam doubles title.

Championship match result

 
An-Sophie Mestach
An-Sophie Mestach
An-Sophie Mestach is a junior Belgian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 408, which she reached on 4 April 2011...

/   Demi Schuurs
Demi Schuurs
Demi Schuurs is a junior Dutch tennis player. Althought not successful in singles, Schuurs successfully compete at doubles tournaments. Her highest WTA doubles ranking is 553rd achieved on August 1, 2011. Her current doubles ranking as of September 12, 2011 is 666th.- Junior Grand Slam doubles...

 def.   Eri Hozumi /   Miyu Kato, 6–2, 6–3.

Wheelchair tennis

There are six events in the wheelchair tennis discipline; a singles and doubles draw for each of the three categories. The tournament was played between 26 and 29 January 2011. All events were part of the NEC tour under the Grand Slam category. A total of $63,000 was awarded in prize money across all the events.

Wheelchair Men's Singles

In the opening round World number one Shingo Kunieda
Shingo Kunieda
is a Japanese number one singles wheelchair tennis player. Kunieda is a right-hander whose favorite surface is hard court. His coach is Hiromichi Maruyama. His training base is the Tennis Training Center in Kashiwa....

 defeated Ronald Vink
Ronald Vink
Ronald Vink is a professional wheelchair tennis player from the Netherlands. He specializes in doubles but also plays singles. He represented his country at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, where he competed in singles and doubles...

 for the loss of just one game. Kunieda would play Robin Ammerlaan
Robin Ammerlaan
Robin Ammerlaan is a professional, former world number one in singles and doubles, wheelchair tennis player from the Netherlands. Ammerlaan is also champion of many grand slam titles since 2000. The right-handed player's favorite surface is carpet, and he is coached by Gert Bolk. His wheelchair is...

 in the semifinals after the Dutchman defeated home hope Ben Weekes. In the other half of the draw Stéphane Houdet
Stéphane Houdet
-Grand Slam titles:* 2009 Wimbledon Championships - Wheelchair Men's Doubles* 2009 US Open - Wheelchair Men's Doubles* 2010 Australian Open – Wheelchair Men's Doubles* 2010 French Open – Wheelchair Men's Doubles-References:...

 saw off Maikel Scheffers while Stefan Olsson saw off Houdet's doubles partner Nicolas Peifer. In the semifinals Kunieda and Houdet emerged victorious in the battle for the final. Kunieda defeated Houdet for his twelfth Grand Slam title losing just three games.

Championship match result

 
Shingo Kunieda
Shingo Kunieda
is a Japanese number one singles wheelchair tennis player. Kunieda is a right-hander whose favorite surface is hard court. His coach is Hiromichi Maruyama. His training base is the Tennis Training Center in Kashiwa....

 def.   Stéphane Houdet
Stéphane Houdet
-Grand Slam titles:* 2009 Wimbledon Championships - Wheelchair Men's Doubles* 2009 US Open - Wheelchair Men's Doubles* 2010 Australian Open – Wheelchair Men's Doubles* 2010 French Open – Wheelchair Men's Doubles-References:...

, 6–0, 6–3.

Wheelchair Women's Singles

There were eight entries into the singles competition. On her Grand Slam debut Marjolein Buis won in three sets against Annick Sevenans to reach the semifinals. Also into the semifinals were World number one Esther Vergeer
Esther Vergeer
Esther Vergeer is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player. Combining singles and doubles, she has won 39 Grand Slams, 22 year-end championships and 5 Paralympics titles. Vergeer has been the world number one wheel chair tennis player since 1999. In singles, she has not been beaten since January 2003 and...

 who recorded her four hundred and second consecutive match win with a 6–0, 6–0 win over her doubles partner, Sharon Walraven. Buis then took on World number two and home favourite Daniela di Toro who lost just three games on Australia Day against Aniek van Koot. While Jiske Griffioen would play Vergeer in the semifinals after defeating Grand Slam debuant Jordanne Whiley in straight sets. The semifinals witnessed di Toro and Vergeer make the final with straight sets wins. In the final Vergeer claimed her eighth Australian Open title as she defeated di Toro without losing a game to chalk up her four hundredth and fourth consecutive win.

Championship match result

 
Esther Vergeer
Esther Vergeer
Esther Vergeer is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player. Combining singles and doubles, she has won 39 Grand Slams, 22 year-end championships and 5 Paralympics titles. Vergeer has been the world number one wheel chair tennis player since 1999. In singles, she has not been beaten since January 2003 and...

 def.   Daniela di Toro
Daniela Di Toro
Daniela Di Toro is a Paralympic tennis player competitor from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.-Personal life:Daniela Di Toro was born on 16 October 1974 in Melbourne, Victoria. She became a paraplegic in 1988 in an accident while competing at a school swimming carnival, when a wall fell on her...

, 6–0, 6–0.

Wheelchair Quad Singles

The tournament was played in a round robin format. Peter Norfolk
Peter Norfolk
Peter Robert Norfolk OBE is a British wheelchair tennis player.Norfolk suffered a motorbike accident at the age of 19, and was left paraplegic. He subsequently became a Paralympian, and was the first person ever to win a Paralympic medal for Britain in tennis when he took gold in the quads singles...

, the defending champion, opened with a straight sets win over doubles partner Andrew Lapthorne. Whilst World number one David Wagner
David Wagner (tennis)
David Wagner is an American wheelchair tennis player. Paralyzed from the mid-chest down and with thirty percent function in his hands, he competes in the quadriplegic division of that sport. He plays by taping the tennis racket to his hand...

 defeated his doubles partner Nick Taylor for the loss of two games. In the second round of matches Wagner edged Norfolk in a final set decider, whilst Grand Slam debuant Lapthorne recorded his first victory as he won in straight sets against Taylor. The loss for Taylor meant that he was elminated from the event. In the final round robin matches, Norfolk defeated Taylor for the loss of just three games, while Wagner defeated Lapthorne in straight sets. The win for Norfolk and the loss for Lapthorne meant that Norfolk would play Wagner in the final. In the final Wagner defeated Norfolk for the loss of just five games. It was Wagner's first Australian Open singles title.

Championship match result

 
David Wagner
David Wagner (tennis)
David Wagner is an American wheelchair tennis player. Paralyzed from the mid-chest down and with thirty percent function in his hands, he competes in the quadriplegic division of that sport. He plays by taping the tennis racket to his hand...

 def.   Peter Norfolk
Peter Norfolk
Peter Robert Norfolk OBE is a British wheelchair tennis player.Norfolk suffered a motorbike accident at the age of 19, and was left paraplegic. He subsequently became a Paralympian, and was the first person ever to win a Paralympic medal for Britain in tennis when he took gold in the quads singles...

, 6–2, 6–3.

Wheelchair Men's Doubles

There was four teams competing in this event. Shingo Kunieda
Shingo Kunieda
is a Japanese number one singles wheelchair tennis player. Kunieda is a right-hander whose favorite surface is hard court. His coach is Hiromichi Maruyama. His training base is the Tennis Training Center in Kashiwa....

 and Maikel Scheffers beat Wimbledon champions, Robin Ammerlaan
Robin Ammerlaan
Robin Ammerlaan is a professional, former world number one in singles and doubles, wheelchair tennis player from the Netherlands. Ammerlaan is also champion of many grand slam titles since 2000. The right-handed player's favorite surface is carpet, and he is coached by Gert Bolk. His wheelchair is...

 and Stefan Olsson in straight sets. They were joined in the final by the all French pairing of Stéphane Houdet
Stéphane Houdet
-Grand Slam titles:* 2009 Wimbledon Championships - Wheelchair Men's Doubles* 2009 US Open - Wheelchair Men's Doubles* 2010 Australian Open – Wheelchair Men's Doubles* 2010 French Open – Wheelchair Men's Doubles-References:...

 and Nicolas Peifer who defeated Ronald Vink
Ronald Vink
Ronald Vink is a professional wheelchair tennis player from the Netherlands. He specializes in doubles but also plays singles. He represented his country at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, where he competed in singles and doubles...

 and Ben Weekes. In the final Kunieda and Scheffers came from a break down in the first set to defeat the French pair in straight sets.

Championship match result

 
Shingo Kunieda
Shingo Kunieda
is a Japanese number one singles wheelchair tennis player. Kunieda is a right-hander whose favorite surface is hard court. His coach is Hiromichi Maruyama. His training base is the Tennis Training Center in Kashiwa....

/   Maikel Scheffers def.   Stéphane Houdet
Stéphane Houdet
-Grand Slam titles:* 2009 Wimbledon Championships - Wheelchair Men's Doubles* 2009 US Open - Wheelchair Men's Doubles* 2010 Australian Open – Wheelchair Men's Doubles* 2010 French Open – Wheelchair Men's Doubles-References:...

 /   Nicolas Peifer, 6–3, 6–3.

Wheelchair Women's Doubles

There were four entries to this competition. Esther Vergeer
Esther Vergeer
Esther Vergeer is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player. Combining singles and doubles, she has won 39 Grand Slams, 22 year-end championships and 5 Paralympics titles. Vergeer has been the world number one wheel chair tennis player since 1999. In singles, she has not been beaten since January 2003 and...

 and Sharon Walraven defeated Daniela di Toro
Daniela Di Toro
Daniela Di Toro is a Paralympic tennis player competitor from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.-Personal life:Daniela Di Toro was born on 16 October 1974 in Melbourne, Victoria. She became a paraplegic in 1988 in an accident while competing at a school swimming carnival, when a wall fell on her...

 and Jordanne Whiley in straight sets to make the final. The final was turned into an all Dutch affair as Aniek van Koot and Jiske Griffioen joined them after defeating Marjolein Buis and Annick Sevenans in two tiebreaks. In the final Vergeer and Walraven lost just two games as they defeated van Koot and Griffioen to claim their third consecutive Grand Slam title.

Championship match result

 
Esther Vergeer
Esther Vergeer
Esther Vergeer is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player. Combining singles and doubles, she has won 39 Grand Slams, 22 year-end championships and 5 Paralympics titles. Vergeer has been the world number one wheel chair tennis player since 1999. In singles, she has not been beaten since January 2003 and...

/   Sharon Walraven def.   Jiske Griffioen
Jiske Griffioen
Jiske Griffioen is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player. She was born with Spina bifida. Before she started her career as a wheelchair tennis player, she was a member of the national wheelchair basketball team at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney at the age of 14.In 2001 she decided to give...

 /   Aniek van Koot, 6–0, 6–2.

Wheelchair Quad Doubles

There was just two entries in the Quad doubles, and they played a straight final to decided the championship. In the one off match history was made as Lapthorne and Norfolk became the first all British pair to win a wheelchair Grand Slam doubles title. It was Lapthorne's first Grand Slam title and Norfolk's first Grand Slam doubles title as the pair defeated the all American pair of Taylor and Wagner in straight sets for their fourth win over them.

Championship match result

 
Andrew Lapthorne /   Peter Norfolk
Peter Norfolk
Peter Robert Norfolk OBE is a British wheelchair tennis player.Norfolk suffered a motorbike accident at the age of 19, and was left paraplegic. He subsequently became a Paralympian, and was the first person ever to win a Paralympic medal for Britain in tennis when he took gold in the quads singles...

 def.   Nicholas Taylor /   David Wagner
David Wagner (tennis)
David Wagner is an American wheelchair tennis player. Paralyzed from the mid-chest down and with thirty percent function in his hands, he competes in the quadriplegic division of that sport. He plays by taping the tennis racket to his hand...

, 6–3, 6–3.

Broadcast

The 2011 Australian Open was broadcast around the world with eleven different broadcasters officially screening the event. Channel 7
Seven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...

 was the host broadcaster, with ESPN
ESPN
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....

 covering North America with its International franchise covering South and Latin America. Eurosport
Eurosport
Eurosport is a pan-European television sport network operated by French broadcaster TF1 Group. The network of channels are available in 59 countries, in 20 different languages providing viewers with European and international sporting events...

 holds the rights to broadcast the tournament in Europe. In Asia broadcasts were covered by ESPN Star Sports
ESPN Star Sports
ESPN Star Sports is a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company and News Corporation...

 and in Japan by WOWOW
WOWOW
WOWOW was the first private satellite broadcasting and pay TV station in Japan. It has its headquarters on the 21st floor of the Akasaka Park Building in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo...

 and by CN Sports Interactive Media Group in China. In Africa coverage is by SuperSport, and in the middle east by Abu Dhabi TV. Pacific coverage was broadcast by Sky New Zealand in New Zealand and by FIJI TV in Fiji
Fiji
Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...

. During the course of the tournament, Tennis Australia and Eurosport, announced that they had extended their partnership for another five years, which extends Eurosports unbroken coverage of the Australian Open to over twenty years.

For the first time in the history of the Australian Open, the qualifying competition for the main draw was streamed live on the internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

. Camera's covered courts number three, five, six and seven, as the competition was streamed live on australianopen.com, foxsports.com.au, yahoo7.com, livestream.com and on the Australian Open's Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...

 page. The qualifying competition was broadcast between 12 and 15 January. The charity event Rally for Relief was also broadcast live on australianopen.com and Australian network channel seven.

During the first week of the tournament, viewing figures in Australia were down for the second year running. 1.36 million people tuned in for the Men's singles final which was lower than the rating which the women's final received according to figures released by OzTAM
OzTAM
OzTAM is an Australian audience measurement research firm that collects and markets television ratings data. It is jointly owned by the Seven Network, the Nine Network and Network Ten, and is the official source of television ratings data for all metropolitan television in Sydney, Melbourne,...

.

Attendance

2011 introduced a kids tennis day event, which took place on the Saturday before the tournament took place, the final day of qualifying (But due to play being washed out Sunday was the final day of qualifying). Around eight thousand fans attended the day, as fans entertained themselves in a variety of activities, including watching stringers string racquets and arts and crafts. But the highlight of the day for many fans was a chance to watch past and present players on show court three. These players included, Pat Cash
Pat Cash
Patrick Hart "Pat" Cash is a retired Australian professional tennis player who won the men's singles title at Wimbledon in 1987.-Early career:...

, Henri Leconte
Henri Leconte
Henri Leconte is a former French professional tennis player. He reached the men's singles final at the French Open in 1988, won the French Open men's doubles title in 1984, and helped France win the Davis Cup in 1991.-Biography and career:...

, Peter Luczak
Peter Luczak
Peter Luczak is a professional tennis player for Australia. His career-high ATP Entry ranking was No. 64 on 12 October 2009.At the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, Luczak won the gold in the doubles....

, Alicia Molik
Alicia Molik
Alicia Molik is a Australian professional female tennis player. She reached a career high singles rank of number 8 and also won a bronze medal for Australia at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Molik also reached a career high doubles ranking of number 6, and won two grand slam doubles titles, at the...

 and Anastasia Rodionova.

A full house of 15,000 people watched the charity fund-raiser Rally for Relief on the Rod Laver Arena, while another twelve hundred watched in the grounds bringing the attendance for the day to 16,220.

A total of 651,127 patrons attended the tournament throughout the two weeks, which was lower than the attendance in 2010, although daily records were set on several days. The middle Saturday witnessed a record breaking crowd. As 51,276 filled Melbourne Park, which was a record for the middle Saturday and the biggest crowd ever at the Australian Open for a day session. A further 25,845 attended the evening session which brought the total number of patrons for the day to 77,121 which was again record breaking as it was the largest amount of spectators to have attended on one day.

Singles Seeds

The men's and women's singles draw of the 2011 Australian Open seeded the top thirty-two players who were not injured. The seeds were set on the ranking system's that the Association of Tennis Professionals
Association of Tennis Professionals
The Association of Tennis Professionals or ATP was formed in 1972 by Donald Dell, Jack Kramer, and Cliff Drysdale to protect the interests of male professional tennis players. Since 1990, the association has organized the worldwide tennis tour for men and linked the title of the tour with the...

 and the Women's Tennis Association
Women's Tennis Association
The Women's Tennis Association , founded in 1973 by Billie Jean King, is the principal organizing body of Women's Professional Tennis. It governs the WTA Tour which is the worldwide professional tennis tour for women. Its counterpart organization in the men's professional game is the Association of...

 use; so the top thirty-two players seeded were the top thirty-two players according to their rankings. Below is the list of the seeded players and also of the players who would have been seeded if injury had not excluded them.

Men's Singles

Sd Rk Player Points
Points
defending
Points won New points Status
1 1   Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal
Rafael "Rafa" Nadal Parera is a Spanish professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. , he is ranked No. 2 by the Association of Tennis Professionals...

12390 360 360 12390
2 2   Roger Federer
Roger Federer
Roger Federer is a Swiss professional tennis player who held the ATP no. 1 position for a record 237 consecutive weeks, and 285 weeks overall. As of 28 November 2011, he is ranked World No. 3 by the Association of Tennis Professionals . Federer has won a men's record 16 Grand Slam singles titles...

9245 2000 720 7965
3 3   Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic is a Serbian professional tennis player who has been ranked world no. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals since 4 July 2011. He has won four Grand Slam singles titles: the 2008 and 2011 Australian Open, the 2011 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2011 US Open...

6240 360 2000 7880
4 4   Robin Söderling
Robin Söderling
Robin Bo Carl Söderling is a professional tennis player from Sweden who is currently ranked number 13 in the ATP rankings. Söderling reached successive French Open finals in 2009 and 2010...

5785 10 180 5955
5 5   Andy Murray 5760 1200 1200 5760
6 6   Tomáš Berdych
Tomáš Berdych
Tomáš Berdych is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. His most notable achievements are reaching the final of the 2010 Wimbledon Championships, and the semifinals of the 2010 French Open. He defeated the Croatian player Ivan Ljubičić in five sets to win the Paris Masters in 2005...

3955 45 360 4270
7 7   David Ferrer
David Ferrer
David Ferrer Ern is a Spanish professional tennis player who lives in Valencia, Spain who is currently no. 5 in the ATP Rankings and the second-highest ranked Spaniard behind world no. 2 Rafael Nadal. He turned professional in 2000...

3895 45 720 4570
8 8   Andy Roddick
Andy Roddick
Andrew Stephen "Andy" Roddick is an American professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. He is currently the second highest-ranked American player, behind Mardy Fish....

3565 360 180 3385
9 9   Fernando Verdasco
Fernando Verdasco
Fernando Verdasco Carmona is a professional tennis player. He is currently ranked no. 22 in the world. Verdasco started playing tennis at four years of age and had a full-time coach when he was eight...

3240 180 180 3240
10 10   Mikhail Youzhny
Mikhail Youzhny
Mikhail Mikhailovich Youzhny , is a professional Russian tennis player, noted for his consistency and all-court play style. He has been coached by Boris Sobkin for 17 years....

2920 90 90 2920
11 11   Jürgen Melzer
Jürgen Melzer
Jürgen Melzer is an Austrian tennis player. He reached a career-high ranking of no. 8 on 18 April 2011, and a doubles ranking of no. 6 on 13 September 2010. He is the only current player on the ATP Tour to be ranked in the top 10 in both singles and doubles. He is a left-handed tennis player, but...

2785 10 180 2955
12 12   Gaël Monfils
Gaël Monfils
Gaël Sébastien Monfils is a French professional tennis player. he was the highest-ranked French tennis player, ranked no. 7 in the world ATP rankings. He was the runner-up at the Paris Masters in 2009 and 2010 and a semifinalist at the 2008 French Open.-2002:In 2002, Monfils finished 24th at the...

2560 90 90 2560
13 13   Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 2345 720 90 1715
14 14   Nicolás Almagro
Nicolás Almagro
Nicolas Almagro Sanchez Rolle is a professional Spanish tennis player, ranked 10 on the ATP World Tour.-2005:...

2160 180 180 2160
15 15   Marin Čilić
Marin Cilic
Marin Čilić , is a Croatian professional tennis player. His career high ATP ranking is no. 9, achieved on 22 February 2010, following his best-ever performance at a Grand Slam, reaching the semi-finals in the 2010 Australian Open...

2140 720 180 1600
16 16   Mardy Fish
Mardy Fish
Mardy Simpson Fish is an American professional tennis player, and Olympic silver medalist. He is a hardcourt specialist...

1921 10 45 1956
17 17   Ivan Ljubičić
Ivan Ljubicic
----Ivan Ljubičić is a Croatian tennis player born in Bosnia and Herzegovina . His career-high ATP ranking to date has been no. 3, and he stands at no. 37....

1965 90 90 1965
18 18   Sam Querrey
Sam Querrey
Sam Austin Querrey is a professional American tennis player from Thousand Oaks, California currently living in Las Vegas, Nevada. As of August 2010, he is the fourth-highest ranked American. His career high rank was #17, achieved on January 31, 2011. His height allows him to play with a strong...

1860 10 10 1860
19 19   Stanislas Wawrinka
Stanislas Wawrinka
Stanislas Wawrinka is a Swiss professional tennis player. He also holds German citizenship as his father is German. His career ranking high is no. 9, achieved on 9 June 2008. He considers clay his best surface and his backhand his best shot...

1855 90 360 2125
20 20   John Isner
John Isner
John Robert Isner is an American professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high rank of no. 18 on July 5, 2010, and has been as high as the second-ranked American tennis player behind Andy Roddick...

1645 180 90 1555
21 21   Marcos Baghdatis
Marcos Baghdatis
At the French Open, Baghdatis lost in the second round in five sets to Frenchman Julien Benneteau, 6-3, 4-6, 3-6, 7-6, 4-6.At Wimbledon, Baghdatis defeated British player Andy Murray in the fourth round in straight sets. In the quarterfinals, Baghdatis beat the 2002 champion and former world no. 1...

1580 90 90 1580
22 22   Michaël Llodra
Michaël Llodra
Michaël Llodra is a French professional tennis player. He is a prolific doubles player with three Grand Slam championships, and has also had success in singles.-Life and career:...

1575 45 45 1575
23 23   Nikolay Davydenko
Nikolay Davydenko
Nikolay Vladimirovich Davydenko is a Ukrainian-Russian tennis player. Davydenko's best result in a Grand Slam tournament has been reaching the semifinals, which he has done on four occasions: twice each at the French Open and the U.S. Open. His biggest achievement to date was winning the 2009 ATP...

1555 360 10 1205
24 24   Ernests Gulbis
Ernests Gulbis
Ernests Gulbis is a Latvian professional tennis player. In 2008, Gulbis won his first ATP Tour doubles title at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, teaming with Rainer Schüttler, and in 2010 won his first ATP Tour singles title in the Delray Beach, defeating Ivo Karlović in the final...

1575 10 10 1575
25 25   Albert Montañés
Álbert Montañés
Albert Montañés Roca is a professional tennis player from Spain.He first entered the top-100 in 2001 and has been in the top-100 for all but 20 weeks since then...

1495 90 45 1450
26 26   Juan Mónaco
Juan Mónaco
Juan Mónaco , nicknamed "Pico", is a male tennis player from Argentina. He reached a career-high ranking of World No. 14 on February 4, 2008. He is sponsored by Adidas and Yonex.-Biography:...

1480 90 45 1435
27 27   David Nalbandian
David Nalbandian
David Pablo Nalbandian is an Argentine professional tennis player and former world no. 3. He was runner-up at the 2002 Wimbledon Championships and the winner of the Tennis Masters Cup in 2005.-Biography:...

1610 0 45 1655
28 29   Richard Gasquet
Richard Gasquet
Richard Gasquet is a French professional tennis player. He won the mixed doubles Grand Slam title at the 2004 French Open, partnering Tatiana Golovin. His highest ranking in singles is #7. His best achievements in tennis are reaching the semi-finals of Wimbledon in 2007 and later that year...

1280 10 90 1360
29 30   Viktor Troicki
Viktor Troicki
Viktor Troicki is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has Serb and Russian ethnic roots. His paternal grandparents emigrated from Tver and Rostov-on-Don to Serbia in 1917. His career-high ranking is no. 12, achieved on 6 June 2011. He won his first ATP singles title at the 2010 Kremlin Cup,...

1445 45 90 1535
30 31   Thomaz Bellucci
Thomaz Bellucci
Thomaz Cocchiarali Bellucci , a professional tennis player, is the top ranked Brazilian tennis player. He achieved a career high ranking of #21 on July 26, 2010....

1355 45 45 1355
31 32   Feliciano López
Feliciano López
Feliciano López Diaz-Guerra is a Spanish professional male tennis player. He was born in Toledo and now lives in the Spanish capital Madrid....

1310 90 45 1265
32 33   Guillermo García-López 1300 10 90 1380

Women's Singles

Sd Rk Player Points
Points
defending
Points won New points Status
1 1   Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki is a Danish professional tennis player. She is the current world no. 1 on the WTA Tour. As of 7 November 2011, she has held this position for 56 weeks...

8035 280 900 8655 Semifinals lost to   Li Na
Li Na (tennis)
Li Na , goes first before the equivalent of a first name in some other nations. Her name off court in China is Li Na. When listed on the , she is known as Na Li. However, in the match, the commentators call her Li Na, and when her full name is listed in text on court, it is also written as Li Na.;...

2 2   Vera Zvonareva
Vera Zvonareva
Vera Zvonareva is a professional tennis player from Russia. She was introduced to tennis at the age of six and turned professional in 2000. Her career high is World No. 2 by the WTA, and she is currently ranked as the World No. 7. Zvonarёva has won twelve WTA Tour singles titles and reached the...

6785 280 900 7405 Semifinals lost to   Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....

3 3   Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....

6675 160 2000 8515 Champion, won against   Li Na
Li Na (tennis)
Li Na , goes first before the equivalent of a first name in some other nations. Her name off court in China is Li Na. When listed on the , she is known as Na Li. However, in the match, the commentators call her Li Na, and when her full name is listed in text on court, it is also written as Li Na.;...

4 5   Venus Williams
Venus Williams
Venus Ebony Starr Williams is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 101 as of 10 October 2011 in singles and World No. 20 in doubles as of 2011. She has been ranked World No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association on three separate...

4985 500 160 4645 Third round lost to   Andrea Petkovic
Andrea Petkovic
Andrea Petkovic is a professional German tennis player of Serbian origin. She is the highest ranked German tennis player. She lives in Griesheim near Darmstadt, Germany....

5 6   Samantha Stosur
Samantha Stosur
Samantha "Sam" Jane Stosur is an Australian professional tennis player. She won the 2011 US Open singles title and was a finalist at the 2010 French Open. Stosur is ranked World No. 6 and her career high in singles is World No. 4, achieved on 21 February 2011. She is a former world No...

4982 280 160 4862 Third round lost to   Petra Kvitová
Petra Kvitová
Petra Kvitová is a Czech professional tennis player. She has won seven WTA singles titles. As of 31 October 2011, she is ranked World No. 2. Kvitová won the 2011 Wimbledon Championships and the 2011 WTA Tour Championships singles titles...

6 7   Francesca Schiavone
Francesca Schiavone
Francesca Schiavone is an Italian tennis player who turned professional in 1998. She won the 2010 French Open singles title, becoming the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam event in singles. She was also runner-up at the 2011 French Open. As of 24 October 2011, Schiavone's ranking is World...

4835 280 500 5055 Quarterfinals lost to   Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki is a Danish professional tennis player. She is the current world no. 1 on the WTA Tour. As of 7 November 2011, she has held this position for 56 weeks...

7 8   Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from Serbia. She reached the final of the 2008 US Open and won the 2007 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles title. Janković is ranked world no...

4445 160 100 4385 Second round lost to   Peng Shuai
Peng Shuai
Peng Shuai is a Chinese professional female tennis player. She won a gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games, defeating Akgul Amanmuradova in the final...

8 10   Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Her career high and current ranking is world no. 3, which she first achieved on 12 September 2011. She became the highest-ranked Belarusian player ever, surpassing Natasha Zvereva by two spots....

4155 500 280 3935 Fourth round lost to   Li Na
Li Na (tennis)
Li Na , goes first before the equivalent of a first name in some other nations. Her name off court in China is Li Na. When listed on the , she is known as Na Li. However, in the match, the commentators call her Li Na, and when her full name is listed in text on court, it is also written as Li Na.;...

9 11   Li Na
Li Na (tennis)
Li Na , goes first before the equivalent of a first name in some other nations. Her name off court in China is Li Na. When listed on the , she is known as Na Li. However, in the match, the commentators call her Li Na, and when her full name is listed in text on court, it is also written as Li Na.;...

3950 900 1400 4450 Final lost to   Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....

10 12   Shahar Pe'er
Shahar Pe'er
Shahar Pe'er is an Israeli professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is World No. 11, which she achieved on January 31, 2011 ....

3225 160 160 3225 Third round lost to   Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta is an Italian professional tennis player. She became Italy's first top 10 female singles player on 17 August 2009 and also the first ever Italian Tennis player to be ranked No.1 in Doubles on 28 February 2011. As of 10 October 2011, Pennetta is ranked World No. 18 in singles and...

11 13   Justine Henin 3215 1400 160 1975 Third round lost to   Svetlana Kuznetsova
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova ; born June 27, 1985) is a Russian professional tennis player and as of October 10, 2011 ranked No. 21 in the WTA singles and No. 90 in the doubles ranking. Kuznetsova has appeared in four singles Grand Slam finals, winning two, and has also appeared in six doubles...

12 14   Agnieszka Radwańska
Agnieszka Radwanska
Agnieszka Radwańska is a WTA Tour Polish tennis player.Her career high singles ranking is World No. 8, which she achieved on 22 February 2010. As of 24 October 2011, she is ranked World No. 8. In 2007, Radwańska became the first Polish player in history to claim a WTA Tour singles title when she...

3000 160 500 3340 Quarterfinals lost to   Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....

13 15   Nadia Petrova
Nadia Petrova
Nadezhda Viktorovna Petrova is a Russian professional tennis player.Overall, she has won 28 WTA Titles, ten in singles and eighteen in doubles. In singles, Petrova has reached a career high ranking of World No. 3 in May 2006 and has reached the semi-finals of the French Open in 2003 and 2005...

2702 500 160 2362 Third round lost to   Ekaterina Makarova
Ekaterina Makarova
Ekaterina Valeryevna Makarova is a professional Russian tennis player. She achieved her career high ranking of number 29 on June 6, 2011.-Career:...

14 16   Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova ,. is a Russian professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. A US resident since 1994, Sharapova has won 24 WTA singles titles, including three Grand Slam singles titles at the 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open and 2008 Australian Open...

2661 5 280 2936 Fourth round lost   Andrea Petkovic
Andrea Petkovic
Andrea Petkovic is a professional German tennis player of Serbian origin. She is the highest ranked German tennis player. She lives in Griesheim near Darmstadt, Germany....

15 17   Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli is a French professional tennis player and the current French no. 1. She has won seven Women's Tennis Association singles titles and three doubles titles. She was also a runner-up at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships....

2655 160 100 2595 Second round lost to   Vesna Manasieva
Vesna Manasieva
Vesna Ratkovna Dolonts is a Russian professional tennis player, born to a Serbian father and Russian mother.-ITF Tournament career:Dolonts began competing on the ITF women's circuit in September 2005, soon after her sixteenth birthday, and had risen to World No...

16 18   Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Anastasia Sergeyevna Pavlyuchenkova is a Russian professional tennis player and a multiple junior Grand Slam champion. Her career-high rank of World No. 13 was achieved on 4 July 2011. From July 2007 to September 2009 she was coached at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy in France...

2585 100 160 2645 Third round lost to   Iveta Benešová
Iveta Benešová
Iveta Benešová is a professional tennis player. She began playing tennis at age of 7 and turned professional in 1998 in Prague. She has won two WTA Tour events and one Grand Slam in mixed doubles partnering with Jürgen Melzer at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships.-2006–2008:In the 2006 Australian...

17 19   Aravane Rezaï
Aravane Rezaï
Aravane Rezaï is an Iranian-French tennis player born in Saint-Étienne, France to Iranian parents. She is the current French No. 5 in women's tennis. Rezaï took up tennis after a childhood stint as her older brother's ball girl...

2445 100 5 2350 First round lost to   Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová
18 20   Maria Kirilenko
Maria Kirilenko
Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko is a Russian professional tennis player. Kirilenko won her first WTA Tour title in 2005, defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the China Open. Kirilenko reached no. 18, her career-high singles ranking, on the WTA tour in July 2008. She won the junior event at the 2002 Canadian...

2540 500 100 2140 Second round lost to   Iveta Benešová
Iveta Benešová
Iveta Benešová is a professional tennis player. She began playing tennis at age of 7 and turned professional in 1998 in Prague. She has won two WTA Tour events and one Grand Slam in mixed doubles partnering with Jürgen Melzer at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships.-2006–2008:In the 2006 Australian...

19 21   Ana Ivanović
Ana Ivanovic
Ana Ivanović is a former world no. 1 Serbian tennis player. As of November 7, 2011, she is ranked 22th on the WTA rankings. She beat Dinara Safina to win the 2008 French Open and was the runner-up in singles at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open...

2500 100 5 2405 First round lost to   Ekaterina Makarova
Ekaterina Makarova
Ekaterina Valeryevna Makarova is a professional Russian tennis player. She achieved her career high ranking of number 29 on June 6, 2011.-Career:...

20 22   Kaia Kanepi
Kaia Kanepi
Kaia Kanepi is an Estonian professional tennis player. Her career-high ranking is world no. 16 reached on 14 February 2011....

2460 100 100 2460 Second round lost to   Julia Görges
Julia Görges
Julia Görges is a professional tennis player from Germany. Görges reached career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 16 on 6 June 2011 and a doubles ranking of 31 on 6 June 2011...

21 23   Yanina Wickmayer
Yanina Wickmayer
Yanina Wickmayer is a Belgian professional tennis player who is currently ranked world no. 22 and is the second-highest ranked female Belgian tennis player. She reached her career-high ranking of world no. 12 on 19 April 2010...

2370 280 100 2190 Second round lost to   Anastasija Sevastova
Anastasija Sevastova
Anastasija Sevastova is a Latvian tennis player. On January 31, 2011, she achieved her career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 36. On August 31, 2009, she claimed her highest Doubles rank of No. 195...

22 24   Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta is an Italian professional tennis player. She became Italy's first top 10 female singles player on 17 August 2009 and also the first ever Italian Tennis player to be ranked No.1 in Doubles on 28 February 2011. As of 10 October 2011, Pennetta is ranked World No. 18 in singles and...

2355 100 280 2535 Fourth round lost to   Petra Kvitová
Petra Kvitová
Petra Kvitová is a Czech professional tennis player. She has won seven WTA singles titles. As of 31 October 2011, she is ranked World No. 2. Kvitová won the 2011 Wimbledon Championships and the 2011 WTA Tour Championships singles titles...

23 25   Svetlana Kuznetsova
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova ; born June 27, 1985) is a Russian professional tennis player and as of October 10, 2011 ranked No. 21 in the WTA singles and No. 90 in the doubles ranking. Kuznetsova has appeared in four singles Grand Slam finals, winning two, and has also appeared in six doubles...

2310 280 280 2310 Fourth round lost to   Francesca Schiavone
Francesca Schiavone
Francesca Schiavone is an Italian tennis player who turned professional in 1998. She won the 2010 French Open singles title, becoming the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam event in singles. She was also runner-up at the 2011 French Open. As of 24 October 2011, Schiavone's ranking is World...

24 26   Alisa Kleybanova
Alisa Kleybanova
Alisa Mikhaelovna Kleybanova is a Russian professional tennis player. Her highest WTA world ranking to date is No. 20, achieved on February 21, 2010...

2420 160 100 2360 Second round lost to   Simona Halep
Simona Halep
Simona Halep is a world top-50 tennis player playing on the ITF Women's Circuit and the WTA Tour, and is currently the number-two ranked women's tennis player in Romania.-Career:...

25 28   Petra Kvitová
Petra Kvitová
Petra Kvitová is a Czech professional tennis player. She has won seven WTA singles titles. As of 31 October 2011, she is ranked World No. 2. Kvitová won the 2011 Wimbledon Championships and the 2011 WTA Tour Championships singles titles...

2018 100 500 2418 Quarterfinals lost to   Vera Zvonareva
Vera Zvonareva
Vera Zvonareva is a professional tennis player from Russia. She was introduced to tennis at the age of six and turned professional in 2000. Her career high is World No. 2 by the WTA, and she is currently ranked as the World No. 7. Zvonarёva has won twelve WTA Tour singles titles and reached the...

26 29   María José Martínez Sánchez
María José Martínez Sánchez
María José Martínez Sánchez is a Spanish professional tennis player. In singles, she has won five WTA singles titles, the 2009 Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas, the 2009 Swedish Open, the Premier 5 event, 2010 Internazionali BNL d'Italia, the 2011 Gastein Ladies and the 2011 Hansol Korea Open. She...

2010 100 100 2010 Second round lost to   Alizé Cornet
Alizé Cornet
Alizé Cornet is a French professional tennis player and the current French number three . She was born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, and has a career-high ranking of No. 11, achieved on 16 February 2009; as of 4 July 2011 she is ranked World No. 69...

27 30   Alexandra Dulgheru
Alexandra Dulgheru
Alexandra Dulgheru is a Romanian professional tennis player. She achieved a singles career high of World No. 26 on April 11, 2011. Her career high in doubles was World No. 47 on March 21, 2011.She is coached by Gabriel Urpi.-Biography:...

2000 5 5 2000 First round lost to   Ayumi Morita
Ayumi Morita
is a Japanese female tennis player. She reached her career-high ranking of 42nd in the world on June 6, 2011 and is currently the highest ranked Japanese player in the world at World No. 46, the seventh overall in Asia. At Junior level, she reached a career high ranking of No. 3.Morita is known for...

28 31   Daniela Hantuchová
Daniela Hantuchová
Daniela Hantuchová is a Slovak professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1999 and had her breakthrough year in 2002, when she won her first Tier I tournament and ended the year in the top 10.She is currently coached by Larri Passos...

1945 160 5 1790 First round lost to   Regina Kulikova
Regina Kulikova
Regina Kulikova is a professional Russian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 65th, which she reached on May 3, 2010. Her career high in doubles is 417th, which she reached on September 28, 2009...

29 32   Dominika Cibulková
Dominika Cibulková
Dominika Cibulková is a Slovak professional tennis player. She is also a former World Junior No. 3, achieving that ranking in May 2005. Her career-high ranking of World No. 12 was achieved on 6 July 2009...

1905 5 160 2060 Third round lost to   Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki is a Danish professional tennis player. She is the current world no. 1 on the WTA Tour. As of 7 November 2011, she has held this position for 56 weeks...

30 33   Andrea Petkovic
Andrea Petkovic
Andrea Petkovic is a professional German tennis player of Serbian origin. She is the highest ranked German tennis player. She lives in Griesheim near Darmstadt, Germany....

1890 100 500 2290 Quarterfinals lost to   Li Na
Li Na (tennis)
Li Na , goes first before the equivalent of a first name in some other nations. Her name off court in China is Li Na. When listed on the , she is known as Na Li. However, in the match, the commentators call her Li Na, and when her full name is listed in text on court, it is also written as Li Na.;...

 
31 34   Lucie Šafářová
Lucie Šafárová
Lucie Šafářová is a professional Czech tennis player. She was born in Brno.Šafářová has won four WTA tour singles titles and reached the quarterfinals of the 2007 Australian Open, upsetting defending champion Amélie Mauresmo en-route...

1780 5 160 1935 Third round lost to   Vera Zvonareva
Vera Zvonareva
Vera Zvonareva is a professional tennis player from Russia. She was introduced to tennis at the age of six and turned professional in 2000. Her career high is World No. 2 by the WTA, and she is currently ranked as the World No. 7. Zvonarёva has won twelve WTA Tour singles titles and reached the...

32 35   Tsvetana Pironkova
Tsvetana Pironkova
Tsvetana Kirilova Pironkova is a female Bulgarian tennis player. She was born and lives in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Pironkova is right-handed and plays with a two-handed backhand....

1722 100 100 1722 Second round lost to   Monica Niculescu
Monica Niculescu
Monica Niculescu is a Romanian tennis player. As of October 24, 2011 she is ranked No. 29 at the WTA Tour Singles Ranking. Her highest WTA ranking is currently her present ranking in singles, reached on 24 Oct 2011, and No. 24 in doubles, reached on June 7, 2010.Niculescu was born in Slatina,...



Main Draw wildcard entries

Tennis Australia
Tennis Australia
Tennis Australia is the governing body for the sport of Tennis in Australia. The organisation exists to promote tennis and conduct domestic and international tournaments on behalf of Australia, including the Australian Open and the Davis Cup for the Australian Davis Cup Team...

 awarded eight wildcards for the men's and women's professional singles competitions. Former Australian Grand Slam
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...

 champions, Pat Rafter and Todd Woodbridge
Todd Woodbridge
Todd Andrew Woodbridge is an Australian former tennis player. He was born in Sydney and turned professional in 1988. He is best known for his successful Doubles partnerships with Mark Woodforde and later Jonas Björkman...

 helped to select the four discretionary wildcards in the men's draw. In an agreement with the United States Tennis Association
United States Tennis Association
The United States Tennis Association is the national governing body for the sport of tennis in the United States. A not-for-profit organization with more than 700,000 members, it invests 100% of its proceeds to promote and develop the growth of tennis, from the grass-roots to the professional levels...

, Tennis Australia gave one man and one woman from the United States a wildcard into the Australian Open. Tennis Australia also has a similar agreement with the French Tennis Federation
Fédération Française de Tennis
The Fédération Française de Tennis , also known as the FFT is an organisation set up in 1920 that takes charge of the organisation, co-ordination and promotion of tennis in France. It is recognised by the International Tennis Federation and by the French Minister for Sports. Its headquarters are at...

. The Australian Open is promoted as "the Grand Slam of Asia/Pacific"; one male and one female player from this geographical area was awarded a wildcard. The final wildcard was awarded to the winner of the Australian Open wildcard playoff, a tournament between Australian players, who do not receive direct entry into the draw. Below is a list of players and teams who received wildcard entries into the main draw.
Men's Singles Wildcard entries
  1.   Carsten Ball
    Carsten Ball
    Carsten Thomas Ball is a professional Australian tennis player. Although born and based in the U.S., Carsten has continued to compete as an Australian player.-Tennis career:...

  2.   Somdev Devvarman
    Somdev Devvarman
    Somdev Devvarman , is a professional Indian tennis player. Three of Devvarman's college conquests, John Isner, Kevin Anderson, and Jesse Levine have successful pro careers. He hit the headlines for being the only collegiate player to have made three consecutive finals at the NCAA, winning...

  3.   Matthew Ebden
    Matthew Ebden
    Matthew Ebden is an Australian professional tennis player who is currently ranked the World No. 80, making him the second highest ranked Australian behind Bernard Tomic...

  4.   Ryan Harrison
  5.   Peter Luczak
    Peter Luczak
    Peter Luczak is a professional tennis player for Australia. His career-high ATP Entry ranking was No. 64 on 12 October 2009.At the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, Luczak won the gold in the doubles....

  6.   Marinko Matosevic
    Marinko Matosevic
    Marinko Matosevic is a professional Croatian-Australian tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking is No. 144, which he reached on October 25, 2010. His career high ranking in doubles was No. 541, set on September 28, 2009.-Tennis career and background:Matosevic was born in Jajce, SR Bosnia...

  7.   Benoît Paire
    Benoît Paire
    Benoît Paire is a French tennis player. He reached a career high-ranking of 94 . He reached the 1st round of a Grand Slam event for the first time at Roland Garros in 2010...

  8.   Bernard Tomic
    Bernard Tomic
    Bernard Tomic is an Australian professional tennis player. As of 24 October 2011, Tomic is ranked the World No. 41, making him the highest ranked Australian male tennis player and the youngest player in the top 100...



Women's Singles Wildcard entries
  1.   Chang Kai-chen
  2.   Lauren Davis
    Lauren Davis
    Lauren Davis is a professional American tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 328, which she reached on August 1, 2011.-Personal life:...

  3.   Jelena Dokić
    Jelena Dokic
    Jelena Dokić is an Australian female professional tennis player.During the height of her career, she played for Serbia and Montenegro and reached a career-high ranking of World No. 4 on 19 August 2002. After several family-related difficulties , she slowly slipped down the rankings in 2006...

  4.   Sophie Ferguson
    Sophie Ferguson
    Sophie Ferguson is an Australian professional tennis player.Ferguson's best performance at a Grand Slam tournament was at the 2005 Australian Open, where she lost in the second round to Nadia Petrova, 4–6, 6–0, 6–1...

  5.   Caroline Garcia
    Caroline Garcia
    Caroline Garcia is a French professional tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 141, which she reached on August 15, 2011. Her career high in doubles is 357, achieved on August 15, 2011....

  6.   Alicia Molik
    Alicia Molik
    Alicia Molik is a Australian professional female tennis player. She reached a career high singles rank of number 8 and also won a bronze medal for Australia at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Molik also reached a career high doubles ranking of number 6, and won two grand slam doubles titles, at the...

  7.   Sally Peers
    Sally Peers
    Sally Peers is an Australian professional tennis player. She plays right-handed, with a double-handed backhand. Her career high WTA singles ranking is world no. 153, which she reached on 20 September 2010 & her career high doubles ranking is world no. 89 which she reached on 8 November 2010, while...

  8.   Olivia Rogowska
    Olivia Rogowska
    Olivia Rogowska is an Australian tennis player. The right-hander was born in and lives in Melbourne, Australia. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 138, which she reached on 7 December 2009. Her career high in doubles is 170, which she reached on 20 September 2010...


Men's Doubles Wildcard entries
  1.   Carsten Ball
    Carsten Ball
    Carsten Thomas Ball is a professional Australian tennis player. Although born and based in the U.S., Carsten has continued to compete as an Australian player.-Tennis career:...

     /   Chris Guccione
    Chris Guccione
    Christopher "Chris" Luke Guccione , is an Australian professional tennis player from Greenvale, Victoria; his father is Italian and his mother is Australian....

  2.   James Duckworth
    James Duckworth (tennis)
    James Duckworth is an Australian professional tennis player.-2011:Duckworth began the year playing in the 2011 Brisbane International and the 2011 Australian Open qualifying tournaments after receiving wildcards into each event. Following the Australian summer series of tournaments Duckworth...

     /   Benjamin Mitchell
    Benjamin Mitchell (tennis)
    Benjamin "Ben" Mitchell is an Australian junior tennis player. As of 24 October 2011, he currently has a professional ATP Ranking of World No. 256. Mitchell mainly competes on the junior tour where he has enjoyed varying success....

  3.   Colin Ebelthite
    Colin Ebelthite
    Colin Ebelthite is a professional Australian tennis player.Ebelthite's highest ATP singles ranking is World 209, which he reached on 23 June 2008. His career high in doubles was at 463 set at 28 January 2008. The South Australian won three Futures titles including Sorrento , Perth and Wellington...

     /   Adam Feeney
    Adam Feeney
    Adam Feeney is a professional Australian tennis player.Feeney's highest ATP singles ranking is 248th, which he reached on 10 September 2007. His career high in doubles was 110th, which he reached on 27 August 2007.-External links:...

  4.   Matthew Ebden
    Matthew Ebden
    Matthew Ebden is an Australian professional tennis player who is currently ranked the World No. 80, making him the second highest ranked Australian behind Bernard Tomic...

      /   Peter Luczak
    Peter Luczak
    Peter Luczak is a professional tennis player for Australia. His career-high ATP Entry ranking was No. 64 on 12 October 2009.At the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, Luczak won the gold in the doubles....

  5.   Samuel Groth
    Samuel Groth
    Samuel Groth is a professional Australian tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking is 220, which he reached on 16 November 2009...

     /   Greg Jones
    Greg Jones (tennis)
    Greg Jones is an Australian professional tennis player.-Early life:Born in Sydney, Jones is an only child. He is the son of Russell Jones, a quantity surveyor, and Donna Jones, a teacher...

  6.   James Lemke
    James Lemke
    James Lemke is a Australian professional tennis player. He competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 224 on 3 October 2011, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 297, on 26 September 2011.-External...

     /   Matt Reid
  7.   Marinko Matosevic
    Marinko Matosevic
    Marinko Matosevic is a professional Croatian-Australian tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking is No. 144, which he reached on October 25, 2010. His career high ranking in doubles was No. 541, set on September 28, 2009.-Tennis career and background:Matosevic was born in Jajce, SR Bosnia...

      /   John Millman
    John Millman
    John Millman is an Australian professional tennis player. He reached a career high ranking of 179 in October 2010.- 2008 :...



Women's Doubles Wildcard entries
  1.   Monique Adamczak
    Monique Adamczak
    Monique Adamczak is an Australian professional tennis player. She is coached by Roger Federer's former coach, Tony Roche. Adamczak's favourite surface is grass....

     /   Isabella Holland
    Isabella Holland
    Isabella Holland is an Australian professional tennis player. Her preferred surfaces are clay and hardcourt....

  2.   Jelena Dokić
    Jelena Dokic
    Jelena Dokić is an Australian female professional tennis player.During the height of her career, she played for Serbia and Montenegro and reached a career-high ranking of World No. 4 on 19 August 2002. After several family-related difficulties , she slowly slipped down the rankings in 2006...

      /   Sally Peers
    Sally Peers
    Sally Peers is an Australian professional tennis player. She plays right-handed, with a double-handed backhand. Her career high WTA singles ranking is world no. 153, which she reached on 20 September 2010 & her career high doubles ranking is world no. 89 which she reached on 8 November 2010, while...

  3.   Daniella Dominikovic
    Daniella Dominikovic
    Daniella Dominikovic is a professional Australian tennis player.Dominikovic's highest WTA singles ranking is 324th, which she reached on 3 October 2005. Her career high in doubles was at 172 set at 3 October 2005. She is the younger sister of fellow professional Evie Dominikovic.-External links:*...

      /   Jessica Moore
    Jessica Moore (tennis)
    Jessica Moore is an Australian professional tennis player. Formerly coached by Milo Bradley, Moore works with the Australian Institute of Sport. Her preferred surface is grass.-Career:...

  4.   Sophie Ferguson
    Sophie Ferguson
    Sophie Ferguson is an Australian professional tennis player.Ferguson's best performance at a Grand Slam tournament was at the 2005 Australian Open, where she lost in the second round to Nadia Petrova, 4–6, 6–0, 6–1...

      /   Alicia Molik
    Alicia Molik
    Alicia Molik is a Australian professional female tennis player. She reached a career high singles rank of number 8 and also won a bronze medal for Australia at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Molik also reached a career high doubles ranking of number 6, and won two grand slam doubles titles, at the...

  5.   Jade Hopper
    Jade Hopper
    Jade Hopper is a professional Australian tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On 21 June 2010 she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 622. On 2 August 2010 she reached her highest WTA doubles ranking of 252....

     /   Monika Wejnert
    Monika Wejnert
    Monika Wejnert is an Australian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 324, which she reached on 30 November 2009. Her career high ranking in doubles is No...

  6.   Sophie Letcher
    Sophie Letcher
    Sophie Letcher is an Australian tennis player. She started with tennis at the age of three, inspired by her two older brothers and parents, who also played tennis She competed at the 2011 Australian Open in the women's doubles with Viktorija Rajicic, but lost in the opening round.-External links:...

     /   Viktorija Rajicic
  7.   Tammi Patterson
    Tammi Patterson
    Tammi Patterson is a professional Australian tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On 29 November 2010 she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 331. On 29 November 2010 she reached her highest WTA doubles ranking of 267. Her coach is Steve Blundell.-External links:...

     /   Olivia Rogowska
    Olivia Rogowska
    Olivia Rogowska is an Australian tennis player. The right-hander was born in and lives in Melbourne, Australia. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 138, which she reached on 7 December 2009. Her career high in doubles is 170, which she reached on 20 September 2010...



Mixed Doubles Wildcard entries
  1.   Sophie Ferguson
    Sophie Ferguson
    Sophie Ferguson is an Australian professional tennis player.Ferguson's best performance at a Grand Slam tournament was at the 2005 Australian Open, where she lost in the second round to Nadia Petrova, 4–6, 6–0, 6–1...

     /   Marinko Matosevic
    Marinko Matosevic
    Marinko Matosevic is a professional Croatian-Australian tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking is No. 144, which he reached on October 25, 2010. His career high ranking in doubles was No. 541, set on September 28, 2009.-Tennis career and background:Matosevic was born in Jajce, SR Bosnia...

  2.   Jarmila Groth  /   Samuel Groth
    Samuel Groth
    Samuel Groth is a professional Australian tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking is 220, which he reached on 16 November 2009...

  3.   Mirjana Lučić
    Mirjana Lucic
    Mirjana Lučić is a Croatian professional tennis player. She enjoyed a promising career on the WTA Tour in the late 1990s, during which she set several "youngest-ever" records, won one Grand Slam women's doubles title at the Australian Open in 1998 when she was only 15 years old, partnering Martina...

     /   Bernard Tomic
    Bernard Tomic
    Bernard Tomic is an Australian professional tennis player. As of 24 October 2011, Tomic is ranked the World No. 41, making him the highest ranked Australian male tennis player and the youngest player in the top 100...

  4.   Alicia Molik
    Alicia Molik
    Alicia Molik is a Australian professional female tennis player. She reached a career high singles rank of number 8 and also won a bronze medal for Australia at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Molik also reached a career high doubles ranking of number 6, and won two grand slam doubles titles, at the...

      /   Peter Luczak
    Peter Luczak
    Peter Luczak is a professional tennis player for Australia. His career-high ATP Entry ranking was No. 64 on 12 October 2009.At the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, Luczak won the gold in the doubles....

  5.   Sally Peers
    Sally Peers
    Sally Peers is an Australian professional tennis player. She plays right-handed, with a double-handed backhand. Her career high WTA singles ranking is world no. 153, which she reached on 20 September 2010 & her career high doubles ranking is world no. 89 which she reached on 8 November 2010, while...

      /   Carsten Ball
    Carsten Ball
    Carsten Thomas Ball is a professional Australian tennis player. Although born and based in the U.S., Carsten has continued to compete as an Australian player.-Tennis career:...

  6.   Olivia Rogowska
    Olivia Rogowska
    Olivia Rogowska is an Australian tennis player. The right-hander was born in and lives in Melbourne, Australia. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 138, which she reached on 7 December 2009. Her career high in doubles is 170, which she reached on 20 September 2010...

      /   Matthew Ebden
    Matthew Ebden
    Matthew Ebden is an Australian professional tennis player who is currently ranked the World No. 80, making him the second highest ranked Australian behind Bernard Tomic...

  7.   Rennae Stubbs
    Rennae Stubbs
    Rennae Stubbs is an Australian tennis player. She has won several Grand Slam doubles titles and represented Australia at four successive Olympic Games; Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008....

      /   Chris Guccione
    Chris Guccione
    Christopher "Chris" Luke Guccione , is an Australian professional tennis player from Greenvale, Victoria; his father is Italian and his mother is Australian....


Qualifiers entries

In the men's singles one hundred and twenty eight players, including eight wildcards competed for sixteen entries into the main draw of the 2011 Australian Open. Matches commenced on 12 January and concluded on 15 January 2011, with players required to win three matches to qualify. On the second day of qualifying, the entire schedule was washed out by rain. This was the first time since the Australian Open moved to Melbourne Park
Melbourne Park
Melbourne Park is a sports venue in the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Since 1988, Melbourne Park has been home of the Australian Open in tennis, which is played annually in January...

 from Kooyong
Kooyong Stadium
Kooyong Stadium, at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club, is a tennis venue, located in Melbourne, Australia. The stadium was built in 1927 and has a capacity of 8,500....

 in 1988 that play has failed to take place on at least one court. Below is a list of qualifiers for the main draw of the men's and women's singles events.
Men's Singles Qualifiers entries


  1.   Flavio Cipolla
    Flavio Cipolla
    Flavio Cipolla is a professional tennis player on the ATP Tour from Italy. He reached the second round at the French Open of 2007, where he lost to Rafael Nadal. He reached the 3rd round of the 2008 US Open...

  2.   Marco Crugnola
    Marco Crugnola
    Marco Crugnola is an Italian professional tennis player.-Singles: 2 :-Doubles: 12 :-External links:...

  3.   Frank Dancevic
    Frank Dancevic
    Frank Russell Dancevic is a Canadian professional tennis player. He first became the country's top singles player, according to ATP rankings, on February 10, 2003, as an eighteen-year old, and remained so from January 30, 2006 until June 20, 2010. He is the Canada No...

  4.   Grigor Dimitrov
    Grigor Dimitrov
    Grigor Dimitrov is a tennis player from Bulgaria. He achieved a career high ranking of World No. 52 on August 22, 2011. Dimitrov also enjoyed a very successful junior career, in which he held the World No...

  5.   Denis Gremelmayr
    Denis Gremelmayr
    Denis Gremelmayr is a German male tennis player. Gremelmayr turned pro in 2000 and reached #97 in August, 2006. He spent 2007 in the top 200 and finished the year at #119...

  6.   Jan Hernych
    Jan Hernych
    Jan Mauda Hernych is a professional male tennis player from Czech Republic. Born in Prague, he turned pro in 1998 and achieved his highest ranking of World No. 59 on 27 April 2009. He is currently 241st in the ATP rankings.-External links:...

  7.   Blaž Kavčič
    Blaž Kavčič
    Blaž Kavčič is a Slovenian professional tennis player, turned professional in 2005. He considers clay his favourite surface...

  8.   Nicolas Mahut
    Nicolas Mahut
    Nicolas Pierre Armand Mahut is a French tennis player. Mahut is right-handed and has previously won the Orange Bowl in 1999, becoming professional in 2000. He is a good serve and volleyer and a doubles expert, having won many tournaments with his doubles partner Julien Benneteau. His career high...

  9.   Vincent Millot
    Vincent Millot
    Vincent Millot is a professional tennis player.-Singles :-External links:...

  10.   Gilles Müller
    Gilles Müller
    Gilles Müller is a Luxembourgish professional tennis player. He was a US Open junior champion and is the most successful male tennis player in the history of his country...

  11.   Milos Raonic
    Milos Raonic
    Milos Raonic is a Canadian professional tennis player from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada.Born in what is now Podgorica, Montenegro, Raonic moved to Canada with his family at the age of 3. Raonic is Canada's highest ATP ranked male singles player and the country's highest ever ranked player since...

  12.   Stéphane Robert
    Stéphane Robert
    Stéphane Robert is a professional French professional tennis player.He reached his first ATP-level final at the 2010 SA Tennis Open, falling to Feliciano López 5–7, 1–6....

  13.   Simon Stadler
    Simon Stadler
    Simon Stadler is a left-handed, German tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of #140 in February 2009 and his career-high doubles ranking of #144 in October 2011.- Juniors career :...

  14.   Ryan Sweeting
    Ryan Sweeting
    Ryan Sweeting is a Bahamian-born American professional tennis player.-Tennis career:Sweeting was born in Nassau, Bahamas, and has lived and trained in Ft. Lauderdale since the age of 12...

  15.   Donald Young
  16.   Grega Žemlja
    Grega Žemlja
    Grega Žemlja is a tennis player from Slovenia.Žemlja reached his highest world ranking #111 in singles and #252 in doubles. He lives in Kranj, Slovenia...



Women's Singles Qualifiers entries


  1.   Irina Falconi
    Irina Falconi
    Irina Falconi is a professional American tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is World No. 119, which she reached on April 18, 2011. Her career high in doubles is World No. 205, which she reached on February 28, 2011...

  2.   Jamie Hampton
    Jamie Hampton
    Jamie Lee Hampton is a professional American tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On April 4, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of World No. 116. Hampton lived in Enterprise, Alabama until she was 13, when she moved to Auburn, Alabama...

  3.   Anne Keothavong
    Anne Keothavong
    Anne Viensouk Keothavong is a British professional tennis player. She is a former long-standing British number 1, however she is the current British number 2, behind Elena Baltacha and is ranked 71st in the world...

  4.   Anne Kremer
    Anne Kremer
    Anne Kremer is a professional female tennis player from Luxembourg. Her highest WTA Ranking has been World No...

  5.   Vesna Manasieva
    Vesna Manasieva
    Vesna Ratkovna Dolonts is a Russian professional tennis player, born to a Serbian father and Russian mother.-ITF Tournament career:Dolonts began competing on the ITF women's circuit in September 2005, soon after her sixteenth birthday, and had risen to World No...

  6.   Petra Martić
    Petra Martic
    Petra Martić is a professional tennis player from Croatia. Her career high ranking is #47, achieved on September 26th 2011.-Early Career: 2006–2009:...

  7.   Sania Mirza
    Sania Mirza
    Sania Mirza is a professional Indian tennis player. She began her tennis career in 2003 and is well known for her powerful forehand ground strokes. She is the first ever Indian to break into the top 30 WTA rankings...

  8.   Arina Rodionova
    Arina Rodionova
    Arina Rodionova is a Russian tennis player. The sister of Russian-born Australian tennis player Anastasia Rodionova, she won 2007 Australian Open in girls' doubles, partnering with Evgeniya Rodina. In 2010, Rodionova reached her first WTA Tour doubles final partnering with her sister, at 2010...

  9.   Arantxa Rus
    Arantxa Rus
    Arantxa Rus is a Dutch female tennis player. In 2008 she won the Australian Open for juniors, defeating Jessica Moore from Australia. Because of this win she went from 35th to 2nd place on the junior tennis list, but soon she became new junior No.1 player...

  10.   Lesya Tsurenko
    Lesya Tsurenko
    Lesia Tsurenko is a professional Ukrainian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is World No. 115, which she reached on October 24, 2011. Her career high in doubles is 116, which she achieved on August 16, 2010. To date, Lesia has won four singles and eight doubles tennis titles.Lesia is...

  11.   Coco Vandeweghe
    Coco Vandeweghe
    Coco Vandeweghe is an American professional tennis player. She played on the junior circuit, where she reached a high ranking of junior world no. 15, but is gradually playing more senior tournaments. She won the 2008 US Open Girls' singles championship.She made her WTA debut in Los Angeles, and...

  12.   Kathrin Wörle


Juniors

Below is a list of the sixteen seeds for the boys and girls singles and the eight qualifiers for each event.
Boys' Singles
Sd Rk Player
1 1   Jiří Veselý
Jiří Veselý
Jiří Veselý is a tennis professional player.Veselý is ranked number two in the ITF junior rankings. In 2011, Veselý won the Boys' Singles title at the Australian Open, defeating Australian Luke Saville in straight sets...

2 3   Dominic Thiem
3 5   Mate Pavić
Mate Pavić
Mate Pavić is a Croatian tennis player who won the boys' doubles title at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships in partnership with George Morgan.-External links:**...

4 8   George Morgan
George Morgan (tennis)
George Morgan is a British tennis player. He won the Boys Doubles title at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships alongside Mate Pavic.-Singles Titles :-Doubles Titles :George Morgan is a British tennis player...

5 7   Joris de Loore
6 9   Roberto Carballes
7 10   Ben Wagland
8 12   Jeson Patrombon
9 19   Bruno Sant'anna
10 16   Andrew Whittington
11 18   Filip Horanský
Filip Horansky
Filip Horansky is a tennis player from Slovakia. Filip, with partner Jiří Veselý, won the 2011 Boys Doubles Australian Open. He is coached by Miloslav Grolmus.-Sources:...

12 20   Dimitri Bretting
13 23   Nikola Milojević
14 22   Mate Delić
15 25   Sean Berman
16 29   Lukáš Vrňák


Girls' Singles
Sd Rk Player
1 1   Daria Gavrilova
Daria Gavrilova
Daria Gavrilova is a junior Russian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 347, which she reached on May 02, 2011.Daria highest junior ITF ranking is at No. 1 reached on August 23, 2010.-2010:...

2 5   An-Sophie Mestach
An-Sophie Mestach
An-Sophie Mestach is a junior Belgian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 408, which she reached on 4 April 2011...

3 3   Lauren Davis
Lauren Davis
Lauren Davis is a professional American tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 328, which she reached on August 1, 2011.-Personal life:...

4 6   Irina Khromacheva
Irina Khromacheva
Irina Khromacheva is a junior Russian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 347th, which she reached on November 14, 2011. Her current singles ranking as of November 14, 2011, is 347th.- Personal life :...

5 4   Mónica Puig
Mónica Puig
Mónica Puig is a junior Puerto Rican tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 310, attained on May 9, 2011. Currently Monica WTA single ranking is 313 as of May 16, 2011....

6 7   Zheng Saisai
Zheng Saisai
Zheng Saisai or Zheng Sai-Sai is a junior Chinese tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 261, which she reached on June 6, 2011...

7 8   Yulia Putintseva
Yulia Putintseva
Yulia Putintseva is a junior Russian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 230, which she reached on October 24, 2011.- Personal life :...

8 13   Caroline Garcia
Caroline Garcia
Caroline Garcia is a French professional tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 141, which she reached on August 15, 2011. Her career high in doubles is 357, achieved on August 15, 2011....

9 12   Natalija Kostić
10 20   Danka Kovinić
Danka Kovinić
Danka Kovinić is a professional Montenegrin tennis player and member of the Montenegro Fed Cup team. On July 4, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 575 whilst her best doubles ranking was 858 on October 4, 2010....

11 16   Maho Kowase
12 NA   Nikola Milojević
13 23   Ilona Kremen
14 21   Eugénie Bouchard
Eugénie Bouchard
Eugenie "Genie" Bouchard is a Canadian professional tennis player. On November 21, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 301. She is currently playing on the Junior Circuit and on the ITF Circuit.-Early life:...

15 25   Ganna Poznikhirenko
16 28   Nastja Kolar
Nastja Kolar
Nastja Kolar is a Slovenian tennis player. Her highest ranking is No. 232 in singles and No. 731 in doubles.- 2009 :...



Qualifier enteries

Qualifying for the junior events took place between 20 and 21 January 2011 at the Pakenham Regional Tennis Centre.
Boys' Singles Qualifiers entries
  1.   Axel Álvarez Llamas
  2.   Darius Florin Brăguşi
  3.   Jaden Grinter
  4.   Thanasi Kokkinakis
  5.   Oriol Roca Batalla
  6.   Bruno Sant'Anna
  7.   Mac Styslinger
  8.   Thomas Szewczyk


Girls' Singles Qualifiers entries
  1.   Nigina Abduraimova
    Nigina Abduraimova
    Nigina Abduraimova is a junior Uzbekistani tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 369, which she reached on August 9, 2010. Her career high in doubles is 426, which she reached on September 21, 2009.-External links:...

  2.   Mana Ayukawa
  3.   Teiwa Casey
  4.   Azra Hadzic
  5.   Abbie Myers
  6.   Riko Sawayanagi
  7.   Kanami Tsuji
  8.   Natallia Vavulina


Wheelchair Tennis

Below is a list of the seeds for the singles tournaments of the wheelchair tennis event.
Men's Singles
Sd Rk Player
1 1   Shingo Kunieda
Shingo Kunieda
is a Japanese number one singles wheelchair tennis player. Kunieda is a right-hander whose favorite surface is hard court. His coach is Hiromichi Maruyama. His training base is the Tennis Training Center in Kashiwa....

2 2   Stéphane Houdet
Stéphane Houdet
-Grand Slam titles:* 2009 Wimbledon Championships - Wheelchair Men's Doubles* 2009 US Open - Wheelchair Men's Doubles* 2010 Australian Open – Wheelchair Men's Doubles* 2010 French Open – Wheelchair Men's Doubles-References:...



Women's Singles
Sd Rk Player
1 1   Esther Vergeer
Esther Vergeer
Esther Vergeer is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player. Combining singles and doubles, she has won 39 Grand Slams, 22 year-end championships and 5 Paralympics titles. Vergeer has been the world number one wheel chair tennis player since 1999. In singles, she has not been beaten since January 2003 and...

2 2   Daniela di Toro
Daniela Di Toro
Daniela Di Toro is a Paralympic tennis player competitor from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.-Personal life:Daniela Di Toro was born on 16 October 1974 in Melbourne, Victoria. She became a paraplegic in 1988 in an accident while competing at a school swimming carnival, when a wall fell on her...



Quad Singles
Sd Rk Player
1 1   David Wagner
David Wagner (tennis)
David Wagner is an American wheelchair tennis player. Paralyzed from the mid-chest down and with thirty percent function in his hands, he competes in the quadriplegic division of that sport. He plays by taping the tennis racket to his hand...

2 2   Peter Norfolk
Peter Norfolk
Peter Robert Norfolk OBE is a British wheelchair tennis player.Norfolk suffered a motorbike accident at the age of 19, and was left paraplegic. He subsequently became a Paralympian, and was the first person ever to win a Paralympic medal for Britain in tennis when he took gold in the quads singles...


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