The 2011 Baku Cup was a professional

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 tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

tournament played on

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. It was the first edition of the Baku Cup which was part of the

2011 WTA Tour The WTA Tour is the elite tour for women's professional tennis organized by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). The 2011 WTA Tour includes the Grand Slam tournaments (sanctioned by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), the WTA Premier t ...

. It took place in Baku,

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...

between 18 and 24 July 2011.

WTA entrants

Seeds

*Rankings are as of July 11, 2011.

Other entrants

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

Nigina Abduraimova Nigina Abduraimova ( uz, Нигина Абдураимова; born 7 July 1994) is a professional tennis player from Uzbekistan. Abduraimova has won 12 singles and 16 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 29 September 2014, she reached her car ...

Kamilla Farhad Kamilla Farhad ( az, Kamilla Fərhad; born 18 January 1996) is an Azerbaijani tennis player. On 7 November 2011, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 1141. On 10 October 2011, she peaked at world number 539 in the doubles ranking ...

* Nina Khrisanova The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Elena Bovina Elena Olegovna Bovina ( rus, link=no, Елена Олеговна Бовина, , ɪ̯ɪˈlʲenə ˈbovʲɪnə; born 10 March 1983) is a former professional tennis player from Russia. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 14 in ...

* Yana Buchina *

Eirini Georgatou Eirini Georgatou ( el, Ειρήνη Γεωργάτου; born 1 February 1990) is a Greek former tennis player. On 16 May 2011, she reached her career-high singles ranking of 176. Her highest doubles ranking of 171 she achieved on 31 January 201 ...

* Valeria Solovieva The following players received entry from a

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spot: *

Tatia Mikadze Tatia Mikadze ( ka, თათია მიქაძე; born 27 March 1988) is a Georgian former professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 281, achieved on 13 September 2010. On 6 June 2011, she peaked at No. 255 ...

Champions

Singles

Vera Zvonareva Vera Igorevna Zvonareva ( rus, Вера Игоревна Звонарёва, p=ˈvʲɛrə ˈiɡərʲɪvnə zvənɐˈrʲɵvə, a=Vera zvonareva.ogg; born 7 September 1984) is a Russian professional tennis player. She was introduced to tennis at ...

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Ksenia Pervak Ksenia Yuryevna Pervak (russian: Ксения Юрьевна Первак; born 27 May 1991) is a retired tennis player from Russia. Pervak won one singles title on the WTA Tour, as well as nine singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circ ...

, 6–1, 6–4. *It was Zvonareva's second title of the year and 12th of her career.

Doubles

Mariya Koryttseva Mariya Serhiyivna Koryttseva ( uk, Марія Сергіївна Коритцева; born 25 May 1985) is a Ukrainian former tennis player. On 18 August 2008, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 50. On 23 June 2008, she ...

Tatiana Poutchek Tatiana Poutchek ( be, Таццяна Мікалаеўна Пучак; russian: Татьяна Николаевна Пучек; born 9 January 1979) is a retired tennis player and current captain of the Belarus Billie Jean King Cup team. Her car ...

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Monica Niculescu Monica Niculescu (born 25 September 1987) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association as high as 28 in singles and 11 in doubles. Niculescu has won several titles: three singles and ten double ...

Galina Voskoboeva Galina Olegovna Voskoboeva (russian: Галина Олеговна Воскобоева; born 18 December 1984) is a professional Russian-born Kazakhstani tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 42 on 7 May 2012. He ...

, 6–3, 2–6, 0–8

References

External links

Official Website
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