The 2011 Izida Cup

Izida Cup

The Izida Cup is a tournament for female professional tennis players played on outdoor clay courts. The event is classified as a 25K ITF Women's Circuit Tournament. It is held annually in Dobrich, Bulgaria, since 2009. From 2009 until 2010 the tournament was classified as a 10K event on the ITF...

will be a professional tennis

Tennis

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

 tournament played on clay courts. It will be the third edition of the tournament which is part of the 2011 ITF Women's Circuit

2011 ITF Women's Circuit

The 2011 ITF Women's Circuit is the 2011 edition of the second tier tour for women's professional tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation and is a tier below the WTA Tour...

. It will take place in Dobrich

Dobrich

Dobrich is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, the administrative centre of Dobrich Province. With 91,030 inhabitants, as of February 2011, Dobrich is the ninth most populated town in Bulgaria, being the centre of the historical region of Southern Dobruja...

, Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

 between 3 and 9 October 2011.

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
Bulgaria	Dia Evtimova Dia Evtimova Dia Evtimova is a professional Bulgarian tennis player. On October 24, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 146 whilst her best doubles ranking was 275 on June 15, 2009. In 2010, she qualified for the Internationaux de Strasbourg where she was defeated by Maria Sharapova in the...	148	1
Bulgaria	Elitsa Kostova Elitsa Kostova Elitsa Kostova is a professional Bulgarian tennis player and member of the Bulgaria Fed Cup team. On October 24, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 143 whilst her best doubles ranking was 238 on October 10, 2011...	151	2
Romania	Mihaela Buzărnescu Mihaela Buzărnescu Mihaela Buzărnescu is a professional Romanian tennis player.-Career highlights:Mihaela won the junior doubles title at the 2006 US Open partnering Ioana Raluca Olaru. Seeded No. 2, they defeated in the final the No...	163	3
Romania	Elena Bogdan Elena Bogdan Elena Bogdan is a Romanian professional tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking was 155, which she reached on July 4, 2011 whilst her best doubles ranking was 107 on June 13, 2011...	178	4
Romania	Ioana Raluca Olaru Ioana Raluca Olaru Ioana Raluca Olaru is a Romanian tennis player. As of 2 August 2010, she is ranked World No. 158 in singles and No. 104 in doubles. The winner of nine singles and six doubles ITF Circuit titles, Olaru reached one WTA Tour singles final, at the 2009 Gastein Ladies, losing to Andrea Petkovic 6–2, 6–3...	243	5
Italy	Giulia Gatto-Monticone Giulia Gatto-Monticone Giulia Gatto-Monticone is a professional Italian tennis player. On July 25, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 231 whilst her best doubles ranking was 262 on August 2, 2010.-External links:...	283	6
Italy	Annalisa Bona	285	7
Austria	Nikola Hofmanova Nikola Hofmanova Nikola Hofmanova is a female tennis player originally from Chomutov, Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic, and now residing in Hornstein, Austria....	289	8

• ¹ Rankings are as of September 26, 2011.

Other Entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: Michaela Frlicka Isabella Shinikova

Isabella Shinikova

Isabella Shinikova is a professional Bulgarian tennis player. On August 15, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 401 whilst her best doubles ranking was 420 on August 15, 2011.-ITF Singles Circuit finals: 4 :...

 Julia Stamatova

Julia Stamatova

Julia Stamatova is a professional Bulgarian female tennis player. On September 12, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 702 whilst her best doubles ranking was 668 on October 4, 2010.-ITF Circuit finals:...

 Viktoriya Tomova

Viktoriya Tomova

Viktoriya Konstantinova Tomova is a professional Bulgarian tennis player. On 17 October 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 766.-ITF Circuit finals:-Singles finals: 2 :-Doubles finals: 1 :-External links:...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: Michaela Boev Lucie Kriegsmannová Clelia Melena Yvonne Neuwirth Stefania Rubini Sarah-Rebecca Sekulic Barbara Sobaszkiewicz Patricia Maria Țig

Singles

  Elitsa Kostova

Elitsa Kostova

Elitsa Kostova is a professional Bulgarian tennis player and member of the Bulgaria Fed Cup team. On October 24, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 143 whilst her best doubles ranking was 238 on October 10, 2011...

def.   Elena Bogdan

Elena Bogdan

Elena Bogdan is a Romanian professional tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking was 155, which she reached on July 4, 2011 whilst her best doubles ranking was 107 on June 13, 2011...

, 7–6^(8–6), 6–2

Doubles

  Diana Marcu /   Cristina Mitu

Cristina Mitu

Cristina-Andreea Mitu is a professional Romanian tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On November 22, 2010, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 431. She is coached by Adi Avram and Manu Nicolae....

def.   Laura-Ioana Andrei /   Cristina Dinu

Cristina Dinu

Cristina Dinu is a professional Romanian tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit and member of the Romania Fed Cup team. She is considered to be one of the up and coming tennis player from Romania. On July 18, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 364 whilst her highest...

, 4–6, 6–3, [10–6]

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