The 2011 Kremlin Cup was a
tennis
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tournament played on indoor
hard court
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s. It was the 22nd edition of the
Kremlin Cup
The Kremlin Cup () is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts, which was suspended in 2022. It was part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the ATP Tour and was a Premier Tournament on the WTA Tour. It was held annually at the ...
for the men (16th edition for the women) and was part of the
ATP World Tour 250 Series
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of the
2011 ATP World Tour
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, and of the
Premier Series of the
2011 WTA Tour
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. It was held at the
Olympic Stadium
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in Moscow, Russia, from 15 October through 23 October 2011.
Janko Tipsarević
Janko Tipsarević ( sr-Cyrl, Јанко Типсаревић, ; born 22 June 1984) is a Serbian tennis coach and former professional player. He is also a politician, serving as a member of the City Assembly of Belgrade since 21 June 2024. He is ...
and
Dominika Cibulková
Dominika Cibulková (; born 6 May 1989) is a Slovak former professional tennis player. She is the 2016 WTA Finals champion, becoming the fourth player (after Serena Williams in 2001 WTA Tour Championships, 2001, Maria Sharapova in 2004 WTA Tour ...
won the singles title.
ATP entrants
Seeds
* Seeds are based on the rankings of October 10, 2011
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
*
Evgeny Donskoy
Evgeny Evgenyevich Donskoy ( rus, Евге́ний Евге́ньевич Донско́й, , jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj dɐnˈskoj; born 9 May 1990) is a Russian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 65, achieved o ...
*
Teymuraz Gabashvili
Teymuraz Besikovich Gabashvili ( rus, Теймураз Бесикович Габашвили, , tɛɪ̯mʊˈraz ɡəbɐˈʂvʲilʲɪ; born 23 May 1985) is a Russian-Georgian professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of Wo ...
*
Andrey Kuznetsov
The following players have received the entry from the qualifying draw:
*
Michael Berrer
Michael Berrer (born 1 July 1980) is a German retired professional tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 42 in May 2010.
Career
2010
He reached the quarterfinal at the Aircel Chennai Open in January, losing to ...
*
Jérémy Chardy
Jérémy Chardy (; born 12 February 1987) is a French tennis coach and a former professional player. He has won one ATP Tour singles title, in Stuttgart in 2009. His best major performance in singles was reaching the quarterfinals of the 2013 ...
*
Konstantin Kravchuk
Konstantin Vladimirovich Kravchuk ( rus, Константи́н Влади́мирович Кравчу́к, , kənstɐnʲˈtʲin krɐfˈtɕuk; born 23 February 1985) is an inactive Russian professional tennis player. He is known for his stron ...
*
Dušan Lajović
Dušan Lajović ( sr-Cyrl, Душан Лајовић; born 30 June 1990) is a Serbian professional tennis player. On 29 April 2019, he reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 23. On 21 September 2020, he peaked at No. 82 in the doubl ...
WTA entrants
Seeds
* Seeds are based on the rankings of October 10, 2011
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
*
Alla Kudryavtseva
Alla Alexandrovna Kudryavtseva (; born 3 November 1987) is a retired Russian tennis player.
Kudryavtseva won one singles title and nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as two singles titles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circ ...
*
Evgeniya Rodina
Evgeniya Sergeyevna Rodina (, born 4 February 1989) is an inactive Russian tennis player. On 6 May 2019, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 67.
Rodina has won 13 singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit alo ...
*
Francesca Schiavone
Francesca Schiavone (; born 23 June 1980) is an Italian former professional tennis player. She had career-high rankings of world No. 4 in women's singles and No. 8 in women's doubles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Schiavone won eight W ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
*
Alizé Cornet
Alizé Cornet (; born 22 January 1990) is a French professional tennis player. She has won six singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as three singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Circuit. ...
*
Ekaterina Ivanova
*
Olga Savchuk
Olga Mykolayivna Savchuk (; born 20 September 1987) is a retired tennis player from Ukraine. Savchuk grew up in the city of Makiyivka in Donetsk province. She resides in Nassau, Bahamas.
Her best accomplishment to date was reaching the third ro ...
*
Galina Voskoboeva
Galina Olegovna Voskoboeva (; born 18 December 1984) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani former tennis player. She reached career-high rankings of world No. 42 in singles and No. 26 in doubles.
Career
Born in Moscow, Voskoboeva turned pro in 2002. Du ...
The following players received entry from a
lucky loser
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spot:
*
Arantxa Parra Santonja
Arantxa Parra Santonja (; born 9 November 1982) is a Spanish former tennis player. She turned professional in 2000 and retired in 2019.
In her career, Parra Santonja won eleven doubles titles on the WTA Tour
The WTA Tour (also known as the ...
Finals
Men's singles
Janko Tipsarević
Janko Tipsarević ( sr-Cyrl, Јанко Типсаревић, ; born 22 June 1984) is a Serbian tennis coach and former professional player. He is also a politician, serving as a member of the City Assembly of Belgrade since 21 June 2024. He is ...
defeated
Viktor Troicki
Viktor Troicki ( sr-Cyrl, Виктор Троицки, ; born 10 February 1986) is a Serbian tennis coach and a former professional player. He won three singles and two doubles titles on the ATP Tour. Troicki won his first ATP singles title at t ...
, 6–4, 6–2
*It was Tipsarevic's 2nd title of the year and career.
Women's singles
Dominika Cibulková
Dominika Cibulková (; born 6 May 1989) is a Slovak former professional tennis player. She is the 2016 WTA Finals champion, becoming the fourth player (after Serena Williams in 2001 WTA Tour Championships, 2001, Maria Sharapova in 2004 WTA Tour ...
defeated
Kaia Kanepi
Kaia Kanepi (; born 10 June 1985) is an Estonian inactive professional tennis player. She achieved her career-high ranking of world No. 15 on 20 August 2012 and has won four singles titles on the WTA Tour.
Described as a 'resident Grand Slam up ...
, 3–6, 7–6
(7–1), 7–5
*It was Cibulková's first career title.
Men's doubles
František Čermák
František Čermák (born 14 November 1976) is a Czech former professional tennis player.
Career
In his career, Čermák won 31 doubles titles on the ATP Tour and he was a finalist 24 times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of world ...
/
Filip Polášek
Filip Polášek (; born 21 July 1985) is an inactive Slovak professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. He reached his highest doubles ranking of world No. 7 in February 2020, and has won 17 titles on the ATP Tour.
He was forced to re ...
defeated
Carlos Berlocq
Carlos Alberto Berlocq (; born February 3, 1983) is an Argentine former professional tennis player and coach nicknamed ''Charly'', ''Panther'' and ''Warlocq''. Berlocq's career-high singles ranking was World No. 37, achieved in March 2012. His ...
/
David Marrero
David Marrero Santana (; born 8 April 1980) is a Spanish professional tennis player. Marrero won 14 doubles titles and reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 5 in November 2013.
Professional career 2000–2007
Marrero earned hi ...
, 6–3, 6–1
Women's doubles
Vania King
Vania King (born February 3, 1989) is a retired American tennis player. A former top-10 doubles player, King won both the Wimbledon and US Open women's doubles titles in 2010 with partner Yaroslava Shvedova, with whom she also reached the fi ...
/
Yaroslava Shvedova
Yaroslava Vyacheslavovna Shvedova (; born 12 September 1987) is a Kazakhstani former professional tennis player. Before 2008, she represented her country of birth, Russia.
She won one singles title and 13 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, plus o ...
defeated
Anastasia Rodionova
Anastasia Ivanovna Rodionova (; born 12 May 1982) is a Russian-born Australian former professional tennis player.
Rodionova has won 11 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as eight singles and 13 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 16 Au ...
/
Galina Voskoboeva
Galina Olegovna Voskoboeva (; born 18 December 1984) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani former tennis player. She reached career-high rankings of world No. 42 in singles and No. 26 in doubles.
Career
Born in Moscow, Voskoboeva turned pro in 2002. Du ...
, 7–6
(7–3), 6–3
External links
Official website
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2011
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