2011 Wimbledon Championships
The 2011 Wimbledon Championships will be held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, England, United Kingdom from June 20 to July 3, 2011. It will be the 125th edition of The Championships, Wimbledon and the third Grand Slam event for the 2011 ATP World Tour and the 2011 WTA Tour.
Tournament
The 125th edition of the tournament will see two new courts opened. A new showcourt, Court #3, and a new Court #4 will open on the first day of the championships. Court #3 will be opened by the Duke of Kent, President of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, who will unveil a plaque marking the occasion.[1] A total of 19 courts will be used for competition play and a further 22 for practice. The capacity of the grounds will thus be increased by a 1,000 to 38,500.[2][3] Qualifying for all events will take place at the Bank of England Sports Ground, Roehampton.[3] The grass is of the Perennial Ryegrass type and is cut to 8mm.[4]
125th anniversary
The 2011 championships are the 125th to be held since 1877, excluding the years 1915–1918 and 1940–1945, when the event was not held due to the two world wars. To mark the occasion a number of special events and activities will take place. Blue Peter will broadcast a special programme looking at the Championships, past, present and future, which will be screened on the second Monday of the tournament. Four 30-minute documentaries charting the history of the championships were commissoned. A new exhibition known as the queue was held in the All England Club's Museum celebrating the people who queue each year for tickets to the championship.[5] In addition, a range of licensed merchandise featuring the "125" logo was released; the ball boy and ball girl uniforms will also have this logo. The shoes provided by Fila will also have the words "125 years" and the logo printed on them. The balls provided by Slazenger will also have "125 years" stamped onto them, and a special can design will be used. Lanson champagne, which is served on the grounds, will have "125 years" stamped on the bottle. Finally, to celebrate the anniversary there was a community art project in which participants were asked to "interpret" an unstrung wooden tennis racket "in a medium of their choosing".[6]
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Point distribution
Seniors points
| Stage | Men's Singles[7] | Men's Doubles[7] | Women's Singles[8] | Women's Doubles[8] |
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| 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 | 48 | |
| Qualifying 3rd Round | 16 | – | 50 | |
| Qualifying 2nd Round | 8 | 40 | ||
| Qualifying 1st Round | 0 | 2 | ||
Junior points
Below is a table charting the points that are available to the boys and girls in boy singles and doubles play.
| Stage[9][10] | Boys Singles | Girls Singles | Boys Doubles | Girls Doubles |
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| Champion | 250 | 180 | ||
| Runner up | 180 | 120 | ||
| Semifinals | 120 | 80 | ||
| Quarterfinals | 80 | 50 | ||
| Round of 16 | 50 | 30 | ||
| Round of 32 | 30 | – | ||
| Qualifier who loses in first round | 25 | |||
| Qualifying Final Round | 20 | |||
Wheelchair points
| Stage[11] | Men's Doubles | Women's Doubles |
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| Champion | 800 | |
| Runner up | 500 | |
| Third Place | 375 | |
| Fourth Place | 100 | |
Prize money
All prize money is in pounds sterling. The amount for each doubles event is shown as a team.[12]
Men's and Women's Singles
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Men's and Women's Doubles
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Mixed Doubles
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Men's and Women's Wheelchair Doubles
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Invitational Doubles
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Singles seeds
The following are the seeded players and notable players who withdrew from the event.
Men's Singles
The Men's singles seeds is arranged on a surface-based system to reflect more accurately the individual player's grass court achievement as per the following formula:
- ESP points as at a week before The Championships
- Add 100% points earned for all grass court tournaments in the past 12 months
- add 75% points earned for best grass court tournament in the 12 months before that.[13]
| Seed[13] | Rank[14] | Player | Points | Points defending | Points won | New points | Status |
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| 1 | 1 |  Rafael Nadal
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12070 | 2000 | First Round vs  Michael Russell
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| 2 | 2 |  Novak Djokovic
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12005 | 720 | First Round vs  Jeremy Chardy
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| 3 | 3 |  Roger Federer
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9230 | 360 | First Round vs  Mikhail Kukushkin
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| 4 | 4 |  Andy Murray
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6855 | 720 | First Round vs | ||
| 5 | 5 |  Robin Söderling
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4595 | 360 | First Round vs  Philipp Petzschner
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| 6 | 7 |  Tomáš Berdych
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3490 | 1200 | First Round vs | ||
| 7 | 6 | David Ferrer
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4150 | 180 | First Round vs Benoit Paire
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| 8 | 10 | Andy Roddick
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2200 | 180 | First Round vs | ||
| 9 | 8 | Gaël Monfils
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2780 | 90 | First Round vs | ||
| 10 | 9 | Mardy Fish
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2335 | 45 | First Round vs | ||
| 11 | 11 |  Jürgen Melzer
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2175 | 180 | First Round vs  Alejandro Falla
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| 12 | 19 | Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
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1585 | 360 | First Round vs Q | ||
| 13 | 12 | Viktor Troicki
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1930 | 45 | First Round vs  Maximo González
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| 14 | 14 | Stanislas Wawrinka
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1920 | 10 | First Round vs  Potito Starace
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| 15 | 16 | Gilles Simon
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1745 | 90 | First Round vs | ||
| 16 | 15 | Nicolás Almagro
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1875 | 10 | First Round vs  Jarkko Nieminen
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| 17 | 13 | Richard Gasquet
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1925 | 0 | First Round vs | ||
| 18 | 17 |  Mikhail Youzhny
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1740 | 45 | First Round vs Juan Mónaco
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| 19 | 25 | Michaël Llodra
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1295 | 45 | First Round vs James Ward
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| 20 | 18 | Florian Mayer
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1600 | 90 | First Round vs Daniel Evans
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| 21 | 23 | Fernando Verdasco
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1425 | 10 | First Round vs | ||
| 22 | 21 |  Alexandr Dolgopolov
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1405 | 45 | First Round vs  Fernando González
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| 23 | 30 | Janko Tipsarević
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| 24 | 22 | Juan Martín del Potro
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1445 | 0 | First Round vs | ||
| 25 | 20 | Juan Ignacio Chela
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1475 | 10 | First Round vs | ||
| 26 | 32 | Guillermo García-López
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| 27 | 27 |  Marin Čilić
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1345 | 10 | First Round vs | ||
| 28 | 24 | David Nalbandian
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1425 | 0 | First Round vs Julian Reister
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| 29 | 28 | Nikolay Davydenko
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1330 | 45 | First Round vs Q | ||
| 30 | 29 |  Thomaz Bellucci
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1305 | 90 | First Round vs | ||
| 31 | 26 |  Milos Raonic
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1354 | (32) | First Round vs Fabio Fognini
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| 32 | 31 |  Marcos Baghdatis
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10 | First Round vs James Blake
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Women's Singles
For the Women's singles seeds, the seeding order follows the ranking list, except where in the opinion of the Committee, the grass court credentials of a particular player necessitates a change in the interest of achieving a balanced draw.
| Seed[13][15] | Rank[16] | Player | Points | Points defending | Points won | New points | Status |
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| 1 | 1 |  Caroline Wozniacki
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| 2 | 3 | Vera Zvonareva
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7935 | 1400 | First Round vs Alison Riske
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| 3 | 4 |  Li Na
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6250 | 500 | First Round vs Alla Kudryavtseva
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| 4 | 5 |  Victoria Azarenka
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5720 | 160 | First Round vs  Magdaléna Rybáriková
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| 5 | 6 | Maria Sharapova
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5021 | 280 | First Round vs Anna Chakvetadze
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| 6 | 7 | Francesca Schiavone
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4700 | 5 | First Round vs  Jelena Dokić
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| 7 | 26 | Serena Williams
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2060 | 2000 | First Round vs Aravane Rezaï
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| 8 | 8 | Petra Kvitová
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| 9 | 9 | Marion Bartoli
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280 | First Round vs Q | |||
| 10 | 10 | Samantha Stosur
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| 11 | 11 | Andrea Petkovic
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3150 | 5 | First Round vs Greta Arn
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| 12 | 12 | Svetlana Kuznetsova
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3160 | 100 | First Round vs Zhang Shuai
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| 13 | 13 |  Agnieszka Radwańska
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3170 | 280 | First Round vs Olga Govortsova
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| 14 | 14 | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
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3055 | 160 | First Round vs Q | ||
| 15 | 15 | Jelena Janković
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3050 | 280 | First Round vs María José Martínez Sánchez
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| 16 | 16 | Julia Görges
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2560 | 5 | First Round vs Anabel Medina Garrigues
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| 17 | 17 |  Kaia Kanepi
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2466 | 560 | First Round vs Sara Errani
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| 18 | 18 | Ana Ivanović
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2400 | 5 | First Round vs Melanie Oudin
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| 19 | 19 |  Yanina Wickmayer
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2350 | 160 | First Round vs Varvara Lepchenko
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| 20 | 20 | Peng Shuai
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2300 | 0 | First Round vs Kirsten Flipkens
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| 21 | 21 | Flavia Pennetta
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2220 | 160 | First Round vs  Irina-Camelia Begu
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| 22 | 22 |  Shahar Pe'er
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2170 | 100 | First Round vs Ksenia Pervak
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| 23 | 33 | Venus Williams
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1680 | 500 | First Round vs  Akgul Amanmuradova
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| 24 | 23 | Dominika Cibulková
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160 | First Round vs Mirjana Lučić
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| 25 | 25 | Daniela Hantuchová
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| 26 | 27 | Maria Kirilenko
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1985 | 160 | First Round vs Alberta Brianti
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| 27 | 28 | Jarmila Gajdošová
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1940 | 280 | First Round vs Alona Bondarenko
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| 28 | 29 | Ekaterina Makarova
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1401 | 100 | First Round vs Christina McHale
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| 29 | 30 | Roberta Vinci
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100 | First Round vs Vera Dushevina
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| 30 | 31 | Bethanie Mattek-Sands
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1643 | 5 | First Round vs Q | ||
| 31 | 32 | Lucie Šafářová
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1585 | 5 | First Round vs Lucie Hradecká
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| 32 | 34 |  Tsvetana Pironkova
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1551 | 900 | First Round vs Q |
Withdrawals
| Rank | Player | Points | Points defending | Points won | New points | Withdrew due to
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| 2 | Kim Clijsters
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8125 | 500 | 0 | 7625 | foot injury [17] |
| 24 | Alisa Kleybanova
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2005 | 160 | 0 | 1845 | illness [18] |
Wildcard entries
Below are the lists of the wildcard awardees entering in the main draws.[19][20]
Men's singles wildcard entries |
Women's singles wildcard entries
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Men's doubles wildcard entries |
Women's doubles wildcard entries
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Qualifiers entries
Men's singles qualifiers entries
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Women's singles qualifiers entries
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Men's doubles qualifiers entries
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Women's doubles qualifiers entries
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References
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- ^ "Wimbledon 2010 in numbers". All England Club. Wimbledon.com. 6 July 2010. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
- ^ a b "Facts and figures". All England Club. Wimbledon.com. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
- ^ "Grass Courts – General". All England Club. Wimbledon.com. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
- ^ Sarah Edworthy (27 May 2011). "The Queue Exhibition". All England club. Wimbledon.com.
- ^ "125TH Championships Celebrations". All England club. Wimbledon.com. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
- ^ a b "Rankings explained". atpworldtour.com. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
- ^ a b "WTA Tour rules" (PDF). wtatour.com. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
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- ^ "Wheelchair tennis rules and regs for 2011" (PDF). itftennis.com. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
- ^ "The Championships, Wimbledon, 2011 Prize Money" (PDF). All England Club. Wimbledon.com. Retrieved May 19, 2011.
- ^ a b c http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/news/articles/2011-06-15/201106151308128657255.html
- ^ http://www.atpworldtour.com/Rankings/Singles.aspx?d=13.06.2011&c=&r=1
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- ^ http://www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/SEWTATour-Archive/Archive/Notes&Netcords/2011/june13.pdf
- ^ "Kim Clijsters withdraws from Wimbledon". Press Association. Independent. 15 June 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
- ^ "Kleybanova withdraws from Wimbledon". sports.ru. Retrieved 2011-06-09.
- ^ "Wild cards announced for The Championships, 2011". All England Club. wimbledon.com. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
- ^ "No more Wimbledon wild cards for British hopefuls". Press Association. guardian.co.uk. 12 June 2011.
- ^ "Casey Dellacqua gets Wimbledon chance as Lleyton Hewitt set to play doubles with Peter Luczak". AAP. Foxsports.com.au. June 12, 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-13.
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