The 2011

ATP Challenger Guangzhou The Guangzhou International Challenger (formerly known as ATP Challenger Guangzhou and China International Guangzhou) is a tennis List of tennis tournaments, tournament held in Guangzhou, China. The event was held in 2008 as part of the ATP Chall ...

was a professional

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tournament played on

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. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the

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. It took place in

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, China between 14 and 20 March 2011.

ATP entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of March 7, 2011.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: *

Gong Maoxin Gong Maoxin (; ; born August 24, 1987), is a professional male tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a ...

* Li Zhe * Wu Di *

Zhang Ze Zhang Ze (; ; born July 4, 1990), is a Chinese male tennis player. Zhang's career highlights include reaching the quarterfinals of the 2012 China Open (defeating Richard Gasquet en route), playing the Australian Open main draw in two consecu ...

The following entrant has been granted a Special Exemption into the main draw: *

Cedrik-Marcel Stebe Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (; born 9 October 1990) is a German professional tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 71 in February 2012. Career 2011: Grand Slam and Top 100 debut He reached his first ATP World Tour quarte ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Tiago Fernandes *

Colin Fleming Colin Fleming (born 13 August 1984) is a British retired professional tennis player who specialised in doubles. As part of the Davis Cup team, he won eight successive doubles matches to help Great Britain into the World Group. He also won his ...

Sadik Kadir Sadik Kadir (born 27 July 1981) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Biography Originally from the Indonesian city of Surabaya, Kadir later grew up in Sydney. Kadir made two main draw appearances at the Australian Open. At t ...

* Benjamin Mitchell

Champions

Singles

Uladzimir Ignatik Uladzimir Iharavich Ignatik ( be, Уладзімір Ігаравіч Ігнацік, Ihnatsik; russian: Владимир Игоревич Игнатик; born 14 July 1990 in Belarus) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Professional ...

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Alexander Kudryavtsev Alexander Mikhailovich Kudryavtsev (russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Кудря́вцев; born 26 October 1985) is a retired Russian professional tennis player who has played professionally since 2003. He made his breakthro ...

, 6–4, 6–4

Doubles

Mikhail Elgin Mikhail Nikolayevich Elgin ( rus, Михаил Николаевич Елгин, Yelgin, mʲɪxɐˈiɫ ɪ̯ɪɫˈɡʲin; born 14 October 1981) is a Russian professional tennis player. Elgin became famous when he advanced to the quarter–finals ...

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Sanchai Ratiwatana Sanchai Ratiwatana ( th, สรรค์ชัย รติวัฒน์, ), nicknamed Tong (, ; born January 23, 1982 in Bangkok), is a professional tennis player from Thailand. He turned professional in 2004. In 2007, Sanchai and his twin br ...

Sonchat Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana ( th, สนฉัตร รติวัฒน์, ), nicknamed Ton (, ; born January 23, 1982 in Bangkok) is a professional tennis player from Thailand. In 2007, Sonchat and his twin brother Sanchai Ratiwatana won their first ...

, 7–6(3), 6–3

External links

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