The 2011 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in the United Kingdom. It was the 125th edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from 20 June to 3 July 2011. It was the third Grand Slam tennis event of the year and was part of the ATP World Tour, the WTA Tour, the ITF Junior Tour, the NEC Tour and the London Prepares series of test events for the following year's London Olympics. The championships were organised by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club and the International Tennis Federation.

In the professional tournaments there were two new singles champions for the first time since 2002: Novak Djokovic and Petra Kvitová. By reaching the final Djokovic also claimed the World No. 1 in the ATP rankings from Rafael Nadal, while Kvitová became the first Grand Slam event winner born in the 1990s. In the doubles the Bryan brothers claimed the men's title for a second time, and equalled the overall Grand Slam tournament record of 11 set by the Woodies, Mark Woodforde and Todd Woodbridge. In the women's doubles Katarina Srebotnik won her first ladies major title after making four previous major finals. Srebotnik won alongside Květa Peschke; this was Peschke's first major title. In the mixed doubles Jürgen Melzer won his second major title, and first in the mixed doubles as he partnered Iveta Benešová to her first major title. In total, players from the Czech Republic (Kvitová, Peschke, and Benešová) were champions in three of the five main tour events in the tournament.

In the junior tournaments both the boys and girls singles titles were won by Australians. Luke Saville won the boys title while Ashleigh Barty became the first Australian in 31 years to win the girls title. In the doubles, there was home success as Brit George Morgan and Croatian Mate Pavić won their maiden junior Grand Slam tournament titles. The girls doubles title was claimed by Canadian Eugenie Bouchard and American Grace Min.

In the wheelchair events Esther Vergeer and Sharon Walraven retained their doubles title. This was Vergeer's third successive win at the championships and meant that she was still unbeaten at Wimbledon. In the men's event Maikel Scheffers and Ronald Vink completed a team career Grand Slam, as they won the only title they had previously failed to win as a team.

The legends events titles were won by the teams of: Lindsay Davenport and Martina Hingis, the Dutch pair of Jacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis, and the Australian pair of Pat Cash and Mark Woodforde.

Tournament

The 125th edition of the tournament saw two new courts opened. A new showcourt, Court No. 3, and a new Court No. 4 opened on the first day of the championships. Court No. 3 was opened by The Duke of Kent, President of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, who unveiled a plaque marking the occasion. A total of 19 courts were used for competition play and a further 22 for practice. The capacity of the grounds was thus increased by 1,000 to 38,500.

On the commercial front, Sony became a sponsor of the championships for the first time, while Jacob's Creek and Lavazza replaced Blossom Hill and Nescafe as official wine and coffee of the tournament. Qualifying for all events took place at the Bank of England Sports Ground, Roehampton. The grass was of the Perennial Ryegrass type and cut to 8mm.

125th anniversary The 2011 championships were the 125th to be held since 1877, excluding the years 1915–1918 and 1940–1945, when the event was not held due to the two world wars. To mark the occasion a number of special events and activities occurred. Blue Peter broadcast a special programme looking at the championships, past, present and future, which was screened on the second Monday of the tournament. Four 30-minute documentaries charting the history of the championships were commissioned. A new exhibition known as the queue was held in the All England Club's Museum celebrating the people who queue each year for tickets to the championship. In addition, a range of licensed merchandise featuring the "125" logo was released; the ball boy and ball girl uniforms had this logo. The shoes provided by Fila had the words "125 years" and the logo printed on them. The balls provided by Slazenger also had "125 years" stamped onto them, and a special can design was used. Lanson champagne, which is served on the grounds, had "125 years" stamped on the bottle. Finally, to celebrate the anniversary there was a community art project in which participants were asked to "interpret" an unstrung wooden tennis racket "in a medium of their choosing".

HSBC held a series of polls on the Wimbledon website to find the 10 greatest things about the championships. The polls consisted of anything from greatest character to best final. In addition the bank also teamed up with the Sports Technology Institute at Loughborough University; to predict how tennis would develop over the next 25 years up to 2036; the 150th Wimbledon and 100 years since Fred Perry, the last British male winner of the championships, won.

Point and prize money distribution

Point distribution Below are the tables with the point distribution for each discipline of the tournament.

Senior points Event Round of 16 Round of 32 Round of 64 Round of 128 Men's singles20001200720360180904510251680Men's doubles00014009005002801601005605040254800

Wheelchair points EventWF3rd4thDoubles800500375100

Junior points Event Round of 16 Round of 32Boys' singles2501801208050302520Girls' singles180120805030Girls' doubles

Prize money The total prize money for 2011 championships was £14,600,000. The winner of the men's and women's singles title earned £1,100,000.

Event Round of 16 Round of 32 Round of 64 Round of 128 Singles£1,100,000£550,000£275,000£137,500£68,750£34,375£20,125£11,500£7,000£3,500£1,750 Doubles*£250,000£125,000£62,500£31,250£16,000£9,000£5,250 Mixed doubles*£92,000£46,000£23,000£10,500£5,200£2,600£1,300 *£7,000£4,000 Invitation doubles£17,500£14,500 * per team

Singles players Gentlemen's singles ChampionRunner-up Novak Djokovic Rafael Nadal Semifinals out Andy Murray Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Quarterfinals out Mardy Fish Feliciano López Roger Federer Bernard Tomic (Q)4th round out Juan Martín del Potro Tomáš Berdych Richard Gasquet Łukasz Kubot (Q) David Ferrer Mikhail Youzhny Xavier Malisse Michaël Llodra 3rd round out Gilles Müller (WC) Gilles Simon Robin Haase Alex Bogomolov Jr. Ivan Ljubičić Simone Bolelli (LL) Gaël Monfils Andy Roddick Karol Beck (Q) Fernando González (PR) Nicolás Almagro David Nalbandian Robin Söderling Jürgen Melzer Lu Yen-hsun Marcos Baghdatis 2nd round out Ryan Sweeting Milos Raonic Olivier Rochus Dudi Sela (WC) Denis Istomin Fernando Verdasco Juan Ignacio Chela Julien Benneteau Tobias Kamke Sergiy Stakhovsky Igor Kunitsyn Stan Wawrinka Grega Žemlja (LL) Ivo Karlović (PR) Rainer Schüttler Victor Hănescu Ryan Harrison (LL) Guillermo García López Rik de Voest (Q) Grigor Dimitrov John Isner Somdev Devvarman Andreas Haider-Maurer Adrian Mannarino Lleyton Hewitt Igor Andreev Florian Mayer Dmitry Tursunov Viktor Troicki Ricardo Mello Andreas Seppi Kevin Anderson1st round out Michael Russell Pablo Andújar Tommy Haas (PR) Marc Gicquel (LL) Flavio Cipolla (Q) Kenny de Schepper (Q) Frederico Gil Édouard Roger-Vasselin (Q) Marcel Granollers Philipp Kohlschreiber Pere Riba Radek Štěpánek Marinko Matosevic (Q) Donald Young Ruben Bemelmans (Q) Filippo Volandri Daniel Gimeno Traver Blaž Kavčič Daniel Cox (WC) Marin Čilić Santiago Giraldo Igor Sijsling (Q) Martin Fischer (Q) Potito Starace Matthias Bachinger Lukáš Lacko (Q) Arnaud Clément (WC) Janko Tipsarević Thomaz Bellucci Michael Berrer Jaroslav Pospíšil Andreas Beck (Q) Benoît Paire Ivan Dodig Carlos Berlocq Andrey Golubev Alexandr Dolgopolov Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (Q) Go Soeda (Q) Jarkko Nieminen Nicolas Mahut Denis Gremelmayr Juan Mónaco Julian Reister Florent Serra Conor Niland (Q) Mikhail Kukushkin Philipp Petzschner Kei Nishikori Teymuraz Gabashvili Nikolay Davydenko Dan Evans (WC) Mischa Zverev Ernests Gulbis Alejandro Falla (WC) Máximo González Tommy Robredo Frank Dancevic (Q) James Ward (WC) James Blake Albert Montañés Illya Marchenko Jérémy Chardy

Ladies' singles ChampionRunner-up Petra Kvitová Maria Sharapova Semifinals out Sabine Lisicki (WC) Victoria Azarenka Quarterfinals out Dominika Cibulková Marion Bartoli Tamira Paszek Tsvetana Pironkova 4th round out Caroline Wozniacki Peng Shuai Petra Cetkovská Serena Williams Ksenia Pervak Nadia Petrova Yanina Wickmayer Venus Williams 3rd round out Jarmila Gajdošová Julia Görges Melinda Czink (PR) Klára Zakopalová Misaki Doi (Q) Ana Ivanovic Flavia Pennetta Maria Kirilenko Francesca Schiavone Andrea Petkovic Kateryna Bondarenko Daniela Hantuchová Roberta Vinci Svetlana Kuznetsova María José Martínez Sánchez Vera Zvonareva 2nd round out Virginie Razzano Andrea Hlaváčková Polona Hercog Mathilde Johansson Anastasiya Yakimova Elena Baltacha Lucie Šafářová Laura Robson (WC) Li Na Zheng Jie Eleni Daniilidou (WC) Agnieszka Radwańska Lourdes Domínguez Lino Evgeniya Rodina Tamarine Tanasugarn (Q) Simona Halep Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová Christina McHale Pauline Parmentier Stéphanie Dubois (LL) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Sara Errani Marina Erakovic (Q) Iveta Benešová Anne Keothavong Rebecca Marino Anna Tatishvili Alexandra Dulgheru Monica Niculescu Kimiko Date-Krumm Petra Martić Elena Vesnina1st round out Arantxa Parra Santonja Sania Mirza Anastasia Rodionova Alona Bondarenko Mirjana Lučić Johanna Larsson Heather Watson (WC) Anabel Medina Garrigues Samantha Stosur Sofia Arvidsson Mona Barthel (Q) Kirsten Flipkens Lucie Hradecká Emily Webley-Smith (WC) Angelique Kerber Anna Chakvetadze Alla Kudryavtseva Anastasija Sevastova Zuzana Ondrášková Bethanie Mattek-Sands Melanie Oudin CoCo Vandeweghe Kristina Barrois Olga Govortsova Kristýna Plíšková (Q) Romina Oprandi Chanelle Scheepers Irina-Camelia Begu Alberta Brianti Yaroslava Shvedova Bojana Jovanovski Aravane Rezaï Jelena Dokic Aleksandra Wozniak (Q) Ayumi Morita Ekaterina Makarova Shahar Pe'er Sorana Cîrstea Irina Falconi (Q) Stéphanie Foretz Gacon (LL) Lesia Tsurenko (Q) Vesna Dolonc Alizé Cornet Kaia Kanepi Vitalia Diatchenko (Q) Chang Kai-chen (Q) Sandra Záhlavová Magdaléna Rybáriková Alexa Glatch (Q) Naomi Broady (WC) Patricia Mayr-Achleitner Vera Dushevina Varvara Lepchenko Anastasia Pivovarova Jill Craybas Zhang Shuai Jelena Janković Sybille Bammer Katie O'Brien (WC) Akgul Amanmuradova Camila Giorgi (Q) Vania King Laura Pous Tió Alison Riske

Day-by-day summaries

Champions

Seniors

Men's singles

Novak Djokovic def. Rafael Nadal, 6–4, 6–1, 1–6, 6–3 It was Djokovic's 8th title of the year and 26th of his career. It was his 2nd slam of the year and 3rd of his career. It was his first Wimbledon title.

Women's singles

Petra Kvitová def. Maria Sharapova, 6–3, 6–4 It was Kvitová's first Major title, 4th title of the year, and 5th title of her career. She was also the first Grand Slam tournament champion of either gender to be born in the 1990s.

Men's doubles

Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan def. Robert Lindstedt / Horia Tecău, 6–3, 6–4, 7–6(7–2) It was the Bryan brothers's second Wimbledon title, 6th title of the year, and 73rd title as a team. With this title they equalled the Woodies' Open era record of 11 men's Grand Slam doubles titles.

Women's doubles

Květa Peschke / Katarina Srebotnik def. Sabine Lisicki / Samantha Stosur, 6–3, 6–1 It was Peschke's first Wimbledon title, 4th title of the year, and 20th title of her career. It was Srebotnik's first Wimbledon title, 3rd title of the year, and 27th title of her career.

Mixed doubles

Jürgen Melzer / Iveta Benešová def. Mahesh Bhupathi / Elena Vesnina, 6–3, 6–2

Juniors

Boys' singles

Luke Saville def. Liam Broady, 2–6, 6–4, 6–2

Girls' singles

Ashleigh Barty def. Irina Khromacheva, 7–5, 7–6(7–3)

Boys' doubles