The 2011 Sony Ericsson Open (also known as 2011 Miami Masters), a men's and women's tennis tournament, was held from March 22 to April 3, 2011. It was the 27th edition of the Miami Masters event and played on outdoor hard courts at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park in Miami. The tournament was a part of

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and

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, classified as ATP World Tour Masters 1000 and Premier Mandatory event respectively.

Tournament

The 2011 Sony Ericsson Open took place at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park in Miami. This was the twenty seventh edition of the event and took place from March 22 to April 3, 2011. The tournament was part of the

and the

. It was a Masters 1000 series event on the ATP Tour and a Premier Mandatory series event on the WTA Tour. It was the second event to be staged in 2011 in either category. The tournament was played on 12 Laykold Cushion Plus courts which have been rated slow by the ITF.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

The total commitment prize money for this year's event was $4,500,000 each (WTA Tour and ATP World Tour).

Players

Men's singles

Seeds

* Rankings are as of March 21, 2011.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw: * James Blake * Ryan Harrison * Ivo Karlović * Jack Sock * Bernard Tomic The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw: * Juan Martín del Potro The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Alex Bogomolov Jr. Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bogomolov Jr. (russian: Александр Александрович «Алекс» Богомолов; born April 23, 1983), nicknamed Bogie, is a Russian-American retired professional tennis player. Tennis caree ...

Paul Capdeville Paul Gerard Capdeville Castro (; born 2 April 1983) is a Chilean former tennis player. He was born in Santiago. Tennis career In May 2009, he achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 76. At the 2006 French Open, Capdeville had a s ...

* Grigor Dimitrov * Marsel İlhan * Robert Kendrick * Igor Kunitsyn * Paolo Lorenzi * Olivier Rochus * Michael Russell * Rainer Schüttler * Ryan Sweeting * Donald Young

Withdrawals

* Thiemo de Bakker (wisdom teeth) → replaced by Milos Raonic * Juan Carlos Ferrero → replaced by

Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo (; born 6 January 1978 in Alicante, Spain) is a former professional male tennis player from Spain. His career-high ATP singles ranking is world No. 50, achieved on 2 October 2006. His favourite surface is clay, where h ...

* Tommy Haas → replaced by

Blaž Kavčič Blaž Kavčič (born 5 March 1987) is a Slovenian former professional tennis player. He was the highest ranked Slovenian male player ever, achieving a career-high of World No. 68 in August 2012, until Aljaž Bedene began to play for Slovenia a ...

* Lleyton Hewitt (foot surgery recovery) → replaced by Frederico Gil * Gaël Monfils (left wrist) → replaced by

Mischa Zverev Mikhail "Mischa" Alexandrovich Zverev (russian: Михаил "Миша" Александрович Зверев, , ; born 22 August 1987) is a German professional tennis player born in Russia. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world ...

* David Nalbandian (torn hamstring & hernia) → replaced by Ricardo Mello * Tommy Robredo (adductor injury) → replaced by Somdev Devvarman

Women's singles

Seeds

* Rankings are as of March 7, 2011.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw: * Sorana Cîrstea *

Sabine Lisicki Sabine Katharina Lisicki (; born 22 September 1989) is a German professional tennis player. Lisicki turned professional in 2006, and her breakthrough came in 2009 when she reached the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon Championships, and also won h ...

* Madison Keys * Dinara Safina * Coco Vandeweghe * Heather Watson *

Petra Martić Petra Martić (; born 19 January 1991) is a Croatian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 14, achieved in January 2020. Martić has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles and one doubles tou ...

* Ajla Tomljanović The following players received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw: * Melinda Czink * Urszula Radwańska The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Chan Yung-jan * Jelena Dokić * Jamie Hampton * Lucie Hradecká * Vesna Manasieva * Sania Mirza * Ksenia Pervak * Arantxa Rus * Sloane Stephens * Anna Tatishvili * Anastasiya Yakimova * Zhang Shuai

Withdrawals

* Akgul Amanmuradova → replaced by Virginie Razzano * Alona Bondarenko → replaced by Urszula Radwańska * Anna Chakvetadze → replaced by Sybille Bammer * Romina Oprandi → replaced by Anabel Medina Garrigues * Anastasija Sevastova → replaced by Kristina Barrois * Carla Suárez Navarro → replaced by Chanelle Scheepers * Tamarine Tanasugarn → replaced by Zuzana Ondrášková * Serena Williams (pulmonary embolism and related upcoming surgery) → replaced by Edina Gallovits-Hall * Venus Williams (abdominal injury) → replaced by Lourdes Domínguez Lino

Finals

Men's singles

Novak Djokovic defeated Rafael Nadal, 4–6, 6–3, 7–6^(7–4) *It was Djokovic's 4th title of the year and 22nd of his career. It was his 2nd Masters of the year and 7th of his career. It was his 2nd win at Miami, also winning in 2007. The win brought Djokovic to 26 consecutive match wins dating to the

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final.

Women's singles

Victoria Azarenka defeated Maria Sharapova, 6–1, 6–4 *It was Azarenka's 1st title of the year and 6th of her career. It was her 4th career Premier win and 2nd at the Mandatory level. It was her 2nd win at Miami, also winning in 2009.

Men's doubles

Mahesh Bhupathi / Leander Paes defeated Max Mirnyi /

Daniel Nestor Daniel Mark Nestor ( ; sr, Данијел Нестор, Danijel Nestor; born September 4, 1972) is a Canadian former professional tennis player. Nestor won 91 men's doubles titles (with 11 different partners), including an Olympic gold medal ...

, 6–7^(5–7), 6–2, 0–5

Women's doubles

Daniela Hantuchová / Agnieszka Radwańska defeated Liezel Huber / Nadia Petrova, 7–6^(7–5), 2–6, 0–8

Viewership

Attendance

A record capacity of 14,625 crowd attended the men's final on Sunday, April 3. Also the tournament attracted a new record sum of 316,267 spectators breaking the previous one of 312,386 sold tickets set last year.

References

External links

Official website
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