# 2011 Family Circle Cup

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2011 Family Circle Cup Date April 4–10 Edition 39th Category Premier level Draw 56S / 16D Prize money $721,000 Surface Clay / outdoor Location Charleston, SC, US Venue Family Circle Tennis Center Attendance 94,241 Champions Singles Caroline Wozniacki Doubles Sania Mirza / Elena Vesnina ← 2010 · Family Circle Cup · 2012 →

The **2011 Family Circle Cup** was a women's [tennis](/source/Tennis) event on the [2011 WTA Tour](/source/2011_WTA_Tour). It took place from April 4 to April 10, 2011. It was the 39th edition of the [tournament](/source/Family_Circle_Cup) and one of the [Premier level](/source/WTA_Premier_tournaments#Premier) tournaments. The event was hosted at the [Family Circle Tennis Center](/source/Family_Circle_Tennis_Center), on [Daniel Island](/source/Daniel_Island), [Charleston, South Carolina](/source/Charleston%2C_South_Carolina), United States. It was the only event of the clay court season played on green clay. The total prize money offered at this tournament was [US$](/source/United_States_dollar)711,000[1]

The field was led by top seed and World No. 1 [Caroline Wozniacki](/source/Caroline_Wozniacki) and defending champion [Samantha Stosur](/source/Samantha_Stosur). They were joined by former champions [Jelena Janković](/source/Jelena_Jankovi%C4%87), [Nadia Petrova](/source/Nadia_Petrova), and [Sabine Lisicki](/source/Sabine_Lisicki).

## Finals

### Singles

Main article: [2011 Family Circle Cup – Singles](/source/2011_Family_Circle_Cup_%E2%80%93_Singles)

- [Caroline Wozniacki](/source/Caroline_Wozniacki) defeated [Elena Vesnina](/source/Elena_Vesnina), 6–2, 6–3

It was Wozniacki's 3rd title of the year and 15th of her career. It was her 1st Premier-level title of the year and 4th of her career.

### Doubles

Main article: [2011 Family Circle Cup – Doubles](/source/2011_Family_Circle_Cup_%E2%80%93_Doubles)

- [Sania Mirza](/source/Sania_Mirza) / [Elena Vesnina](/source/Elena_Vesnina) defeated [Bethanie Mattek-Sands](/source/Bethanie_Mattek-Sands) / [Meghann Shaughnessy](/source/Meghann_Shaughnessy), 6–4, 6–4

## Prize money & points distribution

### Points distribution

Stage Women's singles[2] Women's doubles[2] Champion 470 Runner up 320 Semifinals 200 Quarterfinals 120 Round of 16 60 1 Round of 32 40 – Round of 64 1 Qualifier 12 Qualifying final round 8 Qualifying first round 1

### Prize money

The total commitment prize money for this year's event is $721,000.

Stage Women's singles[3] Women's doubles (per team)[3] Champion $111,000 $35,500 Runner up $57,350 $19,000 Semifinals $29,205 $9,500 Quarterfinals $15,200 $4,900 Round of 16 $7,850 $2,500 Round of 32 $4,000 – Round of 64 $2,025 Qualifying final round $1,035 Qualifying first round $535

## Entrants

### Seeds

Country Player Rank1 Seed DEN Caroline Wozniacki 1 1 AUS Samantha Stosur 5 2 SRB Jelena Janković 7 3 FRA Marion Bartoli 10 4 ISR Shahar Pe'er 11 5 BEL Yanina Wickmayer 20 6 RUS Nadia Petrova 22 7 RUS Alisa Kleybanova 26 8 RUS Maria Kirilenko 27 9 SVK Daniela Hantuchová 30 10 CHN Peng Shuai 32 11 GER Julia Görges 35 12 SUI Patty Schnyder 41 13 USA Bethanie Mattek-Sands 43 14 CZE Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová 50 15 RUS Vera Dushevina 53 16

- Rankings are as of March 21, 2011.

### Other entrants

The following players received [wildcards](/source/Wild_card_(sports)) into the main draw:

- [Jamie Hampton](/source/Jamie_Hampton)

- [Sabine Lisicki](/source/Sabine_Lisicki)

- [Shelby Rogers](/source/Shelby_Rogers)

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Main article: [2011 Family Circle Cup – Singles qualifying](/source/2011_Family_Circle_Cup_%E2%80%93_Singles_qualifying)

- [Eva Birnerová](/source/Eva_Birnerov%C3%A1)

- [Irina Falconi](/source/Irina_Falconi)

- [Sania Mirza](/source/Sania_Mirza)

- [Monica Puig](/source/Monica_Puig)

- [Sloane Stephens](/source/Sloane_Stephens)

- [Alexandra Stevenson](/source/Alexandra_Stevenson)

- [Anna Tatishvili](/source/Anna_Tatishvili)

- [Heather Watson](/source/Heather_Watson)

### Withdrawals

- [Akgul Amanmuradova](/source/Akgul_Amanmuradova)

- [Viktoriya Kutuzova](/source/Viktoriya_Kutuzova)

- [Serena Williams](/source/Serena_Williams) (foot injury & pulmonary embolism)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-PrizeMoney_1-0)** ["Family Cirlce Cup to Expand Qualifying Draw"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120326211109/http://www.familycirclecup.com/pages/articles/20120203143437.html). familycirclecup.com. p. 1. Archived from [the original](http://www.familycirclecup.com/pages/articles/20120203143437.html) on March 26, 2012. Retrieved February 5, 2012.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-WTA_Tour_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-WTA_Tour_2-1) ["WTA ranking System"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110312231756/http://www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/Rankings_Stats/howitworks.pdf) (PDF). wtatour.com. Archived from [the original](http://www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/Rankings_Stats/howitworks.pdf) (PDF) on March 12, 2011. Retrieved January 8, 2011.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Prize_Money_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Prize_Money_3-1) ["MEDIA / FACT SHEET"](https://web.archive.org/web/20100323055247/http://www.familycirclecup.com/pages/FCC_Media/FactSheet.html). familycirclecup.com. Archived from [the original](http://www.familycirclecup.com/pages/FCC_Media/FactSheet.html) on March 23, 2010. Retrieved April 10, 2011.

## External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [2011 Family Circle Cup](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2011_Family_Circle_Cup).

- [Official website](https://web.archive.org/web/20100922055525/http://familycirclecup.com/)

- [WTA tournament draws](https://wtafiles.blob.core.windows.net/pdf/draws/archive/2011/804.pdf)

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