# 2011 Open GDF Suez

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2011 Open GDF Suez Date 7–13 February Edition 19th Category Premier Draw 30S / 16D Prize money $618,000 Surface Hard / indoor Location Paris, France Venue Stade Pierre de Coubertin Champions Singles Petra Kvitová Doubles Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Meghann Shaughnessy ← 2010 · Open GDF Suez · 2012 →

The **2011 Open GDF Suez** was a women's professional [tennis](/source/Tennis) tournament played on indoor [hard courts](/source/Hard_court). It was the 19th edition of the [Open GDF Suez](/source/Open_GDF_Suez) (formerly known as the *Open Gaz de France*) and was a [Premier tournament](/source/WTA_Premier_tournaments) on the [2011 WTA Tour](/source/2011_WTA_Tour). It took place at [Stade Pierre de Coubertin](/source/Stade_Pierre_de_Coubertin_(Paris)) in Paris, France from 7 February through 13 February 2011. Fourth-seeded [Petra Kvitová](/source/Petra_Kvitov%C3%A1) won the singles title.

## Entrants

### Seeds

Country Player Ranking1 Seeding BEL Kim Clijsters 2 1 RUS Maria Sharapova 13 2 EST Kaia Kanepi 17 3 CZE Petra Kvitová 18 4 RUS Nadia Petrova 20 5 GER Andrea Petkovic 24 6 BEL Yanina Wickmayer 26 7 SVK Dominika Cibulková 27 8

- 1 Rankings as of January 31, 2011.

### Other entrants

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

- [Virginie Razzano](/source/Virginie_Razzano)

- [Maria Sharapova](/source/Maria_Sharapova)

- [Yanina Wickmayer](/source/Yanina_Wickmayer)

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Main article: [2011 Open GDF Suez – Singles qualifying](/source/2011_Open_GDF_Suez_%E2%80%93_Singles_qualifying)

- [Jelena Dokić](/source/Jelena_Doki%C4%87)

- [Kristína Kučová](/source/Krist%C3%ADna_Ku%C4%8Dov%C3%A1)

- [Vesna Manasieva](/source/Vesna_Manasieva)

- [Ana Vrljić](/source/Ana_Vrlji%C4%87)

The following players received entry as a [lucky loser](/source/Lucky_loser) into the singles main draw:

- [Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro](/source/St%C3%A9phanie_Cohen-Aloro)

## Finals

### Singles

Main article: [2011 Open GDF Suez – Singles](/source/2011_Open_GDF_Suez_%E2%80%93_Singles)

[Petra Kvitová](/source/Petra_Kvitov%C3%A1) defeated [Kim Clijsters](/source/Kim_Clijsters), 6–4, 6–3.

- It was Kvitová's second title of the year and third career title.

### Doubles

Main article: [2011 Open GDF Suez – Doubles](/source/2011_Open_GDF_Suez_%E2%80%93_Doubles)

[Bethanie Mattek-Sands](/source/Bethanie_Mattek-Sands) / [Meghann Shaughnessy](/source/Meghann_Shaughnessy) defeated [Vera Dushevina](/source/Vera_Dushevina) / [Ekaterina Makarova](/source/Ekaterina_Makarova), 6–4, 6–2.

## External links

- [Official website](https://web.archive.org/web/20110207052823/http://www.opengdfsuez.com/)

- [WTA tournament draws](https://wtafiles.blob.core.windows.net/pdf/draws/archive/2011/604.pdf)

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