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The 2011 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in the United Kingdom. [1] It was the 125th edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from 20 June to 3 July 2011.
It was his first Wimbledon title and third major title overall. With his loss to Djokovic in the final, Nadal ended his 20-match Wimbledon winning streak dating back to 2008, having missed the 2009 championships due to injury. It marked Nadal's fifth non-consecutive and last Wimbledon final.
The match took place on the final day of the 2011 edition of the 13-day Wimbledon Championships, held every June and July. Rafael Nadal was the world no. 1 entering Wimbledon, and was the top-seed in Wimbledon for the first time in his career. Djokovic was the world no. 2 and was seeded second.
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Roger Federer is the only player in history, in both the Amateur and Open Eras, to reach the Wimbledon Gentlemen's Singles Final twelve times. For 9 consecutive years, from 1992 to 2000, Pete Sampras reached the Wimbledon final winning 8 titles out of 9 [not in 1996], an open era record.
Petra Kvitová defeated Maria Sharapova in the final, 6–3, 6–4 to win the ladies' singles title at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships. [1] It was her first major title. . Kvitová became the first player (men's or women's) born in the 1990s to win a major, [2] the first Czech to win the title since Jana Novotná in 1998, and the first left-hander to win the title since Martina Navratilova i
Wimbledon and the French Open are the only Grand Slam tournaments where fans without tickets for play can queue up and still get seats on the three show courts on the day of the match. [93] Sequentially numbered queue cards were introduced in 2003. From 2008, there is a single queue, allotted about 500 seats for each court.
2011 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doubles qualifying; 2011 Wimbledon Championships – Gentlemen's invitation doubles; 2011 Wimbledon Championships – Senior gentlemen's invitation doubles; 2011 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles; 2011 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles qualifying; 2011 Wimbledon Championships – Wheelchair ...