The 2011 Swedish Open was a 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 outdoor clay courts part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2011 ATP World Tour

2011 ATP World Tour

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 and 2011 WTA Tour

2011 WTA Tour

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. It took place in Båstad

Båstad

Båstad is a locality and the seat of Båstad Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 4,793 inhabitants in 2005.-Geography:The town of Båstad is located in a sheltered bay with the Hallandian ridge stretching behind it...

, Sweden

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, from July 4 through July 10, 2011 for Women's and from July 11 through July 17, 2011 for Men's. It was also known as 2011 Collector Swedish Open for the Women's and 2011 SkiStar Swedish Open for the Men's for sponsorship reasons. It was the 3rd edition for the Women's, while the 64th for the Men's.

Players

Country	Player	Ranking*	Seeding
Denmark	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...	1	1
Italy	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...	21	2
Czech Republic	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...	32	3
Spain	Lourdes Domínguez Lino Lourdes Dominguez Lino Lourdes Domínguez Lino is a Spanish professional female tennis player. On 11 September 2006 Domínguez Lino reached her career-high singles ranking: World No...	48	4
Russia	Vera Dushevina Vera Dushevina Vera Yevgenyevna Dushevina is a Russian professional female tennis player. She was born in Moscow but now resides in Khimki, Russia. In 2006, she privately amended the presentation of her surname so as to be more English language friendly, adopting Dushevina in place of Douchevina which is a...	51	5
Czech Republic	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...	53	6
Czech Republic	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	55	7
Slovenia	Polona Hercog Polona Hercog Polona Hercog is a Slovenian tennis player. Her highest ranking is No. 35 in singles and No. 56 in doubles. Hercog has won two WTA Tour doubles title and one singles title. She also enjoyed success on the ITF Circuit, winning nine singles and five doubles titles...	59	8

• Seedings are based on the rankings of June 21, 2011.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcard

Wild card (sports)

The term wild card refers broadly to a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play.-International sports:...

s into the singles main draw: Ellen Allgurin Anna Brazhnikova

Anna Brazhnikova

Anna Brazhnikova is a Swedish tennis player. She achieved the #1 rankings position for girls under 18 years in Sweden according to the January 2009 tennis rankings list published by the Swedish Tennis Federation....

 Hilda Melander

Hilda Melander

Hilda Melander is a professional Swedish tennis player. On July 4, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 677 whilst her best doubles ranking was 609 on September 20, 2010.-ITF Circuit finals:-Singles finals: 2 :...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Tetyana Arefyeva

Tetyana Arefyeva

Tetyana Arefyeva is a Ukrainian tennis player. She began tennis at the age of 6 and is coached by Igor Dernovskyy. She mainly plays on the ITF Women's Circuit.-2005:...

 Mona Barthel

Mona Barthel

Mona Barthel is a German professional tennis player. She has won four ITF singles titles and one ITF doubles title. Barthel's highest singles ranking of World No. 67 was achieved on 31 October 2011, while her highest doubles ranking of World No...

 Alizé Lim

Alizé Lim

Alize Lim is a professional French tennis player.Lim partnered fellow French Victoria Larrière for the 2011 French Open's Women's Doubles and lost in the first round to Bethanie Mattek-Sands & Meghann Shaughnessy, 6-1, 6-2....

 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...

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank*	Seed
Sweden	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...	5	1
Spain	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...	6	2
Czech Republic	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...	9	3
Spain	Nicolás Almagro Nicolás Almagro Nicolas Almagro Sanchez Rolle is a professional Spanish tennis player, ranked 10 on the ATP World Tour.-2005:...	13	4
Spain	Tommy Robredo Tommy Robredo Tommy Robredo Garcés is a Spanish professional tennis player. On 8 May 2006, he broke into the world's top ten for the first time. His highest singles ranking to date is No...	33	5
Argentina	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:...	43	6
Kazakhstan	Andrey Golubev Andrey Golubev Andrey Golubev is a Kazakhstani professional tennis playercurrently living in Italy. His career high rank is #33, achieved on October 4, 2010. He has participated in all Grand Slam tournaments, the first being the 2008 US Open, as well in the main draw of ATP Masters Series and ATP International...	45	7
Italy	Potito Starace Potito Starace Potito Starace is an Italian professional tennis player on the ATP Tour. He achieved his career-high ranking of 27th on October 15, 2007 and prefers to play on red clay...	52	8

• Seedings are based on the rankings of July 4, 2011.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcard

Wild card (sports)

The term wild card refers broadly to a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play.-International sports:...

s into the singles main draw: Christian Lindell

Christian Lindell

Christian Lindell is a professional tennis player from Sweden.Despite living his whole life in Brazil, Christian Lindell plays for Sweden after a curious event: In 2007, he already was one of the three best tennis player in Brazil for his age...

 Michael Ryderstedt

Michael Ryderstedt

Michael Ryderstedt is a professional tennis player from Sweden.In August 2001, at the Fischer Junior Open he captured the doubles title with Dudi Sela of Israel....

 Andreas Vinciguerra

Andreas Vinciguerra

Andreas Vinciguerra is a tennis player from Sweden, who turned professional in 1998. He was an impressive junior, winning the European junior championships and making the final of the junior Australian Open when he was 17, when he finished number 6 in the junior rankings.-Tennis career:Vinciguerra...

The following players received entry as a special exempt into the singles main draw: Michael Yani

Michael Yani

Michael Yani is a Singaporean-American tennis player. He turned professional in 2003.Yani is 6 ft 1 in and 75 kg . He resides in Durham, North Carolina. His high singles ranking to date is World No. 143, which he reached March 1, 2010.Yani qualified for the 2009 Wimbledon Championships and 2009...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Jonathan Dasnières de Veigy

Jonathan Dasnières de Veigy

Jonathan Dasnières de Veigy is a French professional tennis player. Dasnières de Veigy competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 203, on April 19, 2010, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No...

 Diego Junqueira

Diego Junqueira

Diego Junqueira is a professional tennis player who plays left-handed from Argentina...

 Guillermo Olaso

Guillermo Olaso

Guillermo Olaso De la Rica is a Spanish professional tennis player.-Singles: 1 :-Doubles: 4 :-Futures:-External links:...

 Antonio Veić

Antonio Veic

Antonio Veić is a professional Croatian tennis player. His highest singles ranking is 183, which was reached on February 1, 2010.- 2009 :...

Men's singles

  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...

def.   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...

, 6–2, 6–2

• It was Soderling's fourth title of the year and tenth of his career. It was his second win at Bastad, also winning in 2009.

Women's singles

  Polona Hercog

Polona Hercog

Polona Hercog is a Slovenian tennis player. Her highest ranking is No. 35 in singles and No. 56 in doubles. Hercog has won two WTA Tour doubles title and one singles title. She also enjoyed success on the ITF Circuit, winning nine singles and five doubles titles...

def.   Johanna Larsson, 6–4, 7–5

• It was Hercog's first career title.

Men's doubles

  Robert Lindstedt

Robert Lindstedt

Robert Lindstedt is a Swedish professional tennis player, who turned pro in 1998, and is a doubles specialist...

/   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....

def.   Simon Aspelin

Simon Aspelin

Simon Aspelin is a former professional tennis doubles player from Sweden who turned professional in 1998...

 /   Andreas Siljeström

Andreas Siljeström

Andreas Siljeström is a Swedish professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. He has a career doubles high-ranking of 113 .-ATP Career finals :-ITF and Challengers Men's Doubles Wins :...

, 6–3, 6–3

Women's doubles

  Lourdes Domínguez Lino

Lourdes Dominguez Lino

Lourdes Domínguez Lino is a Spanish professional female tennis player. On 11 September 2006 Domínguez Lino reached her career-high singles ranking: World No...

/   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...

def.   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...

 /   Arantxa Parra Santonja

Arantxa Parra Santonja

Arantxa Parra Santonja is a professional female tennis player from Spain. She turned pro in 2000.On 12 July 2010, Parra Santonja reached her career-high singles ranking: World No...

, 6–3, 6–3