2011 Azerbaijani protests, Domestic response
The government put four APFP members, one Müsavat activist, and an unaffiliated anti-government demonstrator on trial on 13 July over their alleged role in organizing protests. Defense lawyers argued that the protests were peaceful and not disruptive, said plainclothes men who helped police to detain the protesters should be subpoenaed for questioning, and suggested Baku city officials violated protesters' right to freedom of assembly by denying permission for the protests, but their arguments were rejected by the judge.


2011 Azerbaijani protests, Domestic response, Counter-demonstrations
Trend News Agency reported that about 100 young Azerbaijanis gathered in front of Karimli's house on 13 April to demonstrate against the APFP leader's role in organizing protests. The rally was reportedly broken up by police, with two protesters being detained, as it was officially unsanctioned.


2011 Azerbaijani protests, International reaction
United States Ambassador to Azerbaijan Matthew Bryza expressed concern over the Azerbaijani government's response to protests in March. On 15 April, Bryza denied the government's accusations that the Obama administration supports revolution in the South Caucasian republic. Bryza admitted that U.S. diplomats in Baku had met with Ali Karimli and Isa Gambar in early April, but said he had not been party to the talks and they did not constitute official U.S. backing for the opposition's goals. "Our desire is to step up sustainable activity and reform," Bryza said. The United States Department of State has also issued separate admonishments to the Azerbaijani government, seen as a vital U.S. ally in the region, to allow its citizens to assemble peacefully and to guarantee due process for the detained.


2011 Azerbaijani protests, International reaction
The European Union criticized Azerbaijan for "lack of respect of fundamental freedoms" after the 2 April rally was broken up by security forces. The supranational body called on authorities to allow for freedom of speech, free assembly, and freedom of the press, rights it suggested the government's response disrespected. On 13 April, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov summoned the head of the EU delegation to Azerbaijan to express his government's displeasure over the statement. On 12 May, the European Parliament adopted a resolution in which it sharply condemned the government crackdown and called for the release of political prisoners.


2011 Azerbaijani protests, International reaction
Amnesty International also prevailed upon the government to allow peaceful protests. In a letter published in British daily The Guardian on 20 April, its UK affiliate called for the release of Eynulla Fatullayev and other detained journalists and insisted Baku should "comply with international standards on human rights – specifically the right to assembly and the right to free expression". The International Press Institute echoed Amnesty's criticisms, condemning the Azerbaijani government's deportation of three Swedish journalists for reporting on the demonstration in Fountain Square on 17 April.


2011 Azerbaijani protests, International reaction
At least one political analyst, a Dubai-based consultant on energy issues, suggested the Iranian government may have lent covert backing to protests. He said Iran has a vested interest in discouraging foreign investment in Azerbaijan, a regional rival for oil and natural gas exports, and Tehran may have sought to spook investors by attempting to destabilize the country.


2011 Azerbaijani protests, International reaction
Many activists demanded a boycott of the 2012 Eurovision song Contest after Azerbaijan won in 2011, but it never materialized.


2011 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award
The 2011 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, presented on 22 December, was the 58th presentation of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards. Awarded annually by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the main titular award honours an individual's British sporting achievement over the past year, with the winner selected by public vote from a 10-person shortlist. Other awards presented include team, coach, and young personality of the year.


2011 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, Award process
The shortlist of ten sportspeople, which was drawn up by "a range of sports experts from newspapers and magazines across the UK", was announced on 29 November 2011. The shortlist was widely criticised for its lack of any female competitors. On 14 December, the British Olympic Association said that they were considering a boycott of the award ceremony in protest. The BOA chief executive, Andy Hunt, said that he would have included  swimmers Keri-Anne Payne and Rebecca Adlington, rower Katherine Grainger, and England women's cricket captain, Charlotte Edwards, in his top 10. The BBC said that it would review the nomination procedure for the 2012 awards.


2011 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, Award process
The award ceremony was held on Thursday 22 December at the dock10 in Salford, and was broadcast live on BBC One. The winner, decided by a public telephone vote during the ceremony, was Mark Cavendish.


2011 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, Nominees
The nominees and their achievements in 2011 as described by the BBC and their share of the votes cast were as follows:


2011 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, Other awards
In addition to the main award as "Sports Personality of the Year", several other awards were also announced:


2011 BBL Champions Cup
The 2011 BBL Champions Cup was the sixth edition of the super cup game in German basketball, and was played on October 1, 2011. The game was played in the Brose Arena in Bamberg.


2011 BBVA Compass Bowl
The 2011 BBVA Compass Bowl (formerly known as the Papajohns.com Bowl and the Birmingham Bowl) was a postseason college football bowl game between a team from the Big East Conference and a team from the SEC  played at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama on January 8, 2011 (12 p.m. ET). ESPN provided television coverage.


2011 BBVA Compass Bowl
The game was initially renamed "The Birmingham Bowl" after previous title sponsor PapaJohns.com decided not to renew their sponsorship of the game. However, on November 4, 2010, the Bowl officially changed its name to the BBVA Compass Bowl after an agreement with Spanish bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria was signed.


2011 BBVA Compass Bowl
Scoring 13 points in the second quarter, Pittsburgh defeated Kentucky 27–10.


2011 BBVA Compass Bowl, Teams
Pittsburgh (7-5, 5-2 Big East) was selected to play Kentucky (6-6, 2-6 SEC) in the game.


2011 BBVA Compass Bowl, Teams, Pittsburgh
Pitt started the season 2-3, which came as a surprise to many after Pitt was listed as the favorite to win the 2010 Big East Football Conference championship. The Panthers received 22 of 24 possible first-place votes, and 2 second-place votes. After their slow start, the Panthers rebounded, winning 4 out of their next 5 games, improving their record to 6-4. The Panthers ended the season at 8-5 and finished as Big East Co-Champions, along with West Virginia and Connecticut. However, because of the Panthers' losses to both schools, they were not eligible for the conference's bid to a BCS Bowl Game.


2011 BBVA Compass Bowl, Teams, Kentucky
The Wildcats began the season by winning their first 3 games, all against non-conference teams. Over the span of the next 6 games, the Wildcats won only a single game, reducing their record to 4-5. They then split the last 4 games of the season, finishing it at 6-6, good for 5th in the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference.


2011 BC Lions season
The 2011 BC Lions season was the 54th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 58th overall. The Lions finished in first place in the West Division with an 11–7 record. The Lions won their sixth Grey Cup championship over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers by a score of 34–23. The Lions became the first team in league history to start a season 0–5 and finish in first place. They also became the first team to lose their first five regular season games and win the Grey Cup.


2011 BC Lions season
The Lions were also the first team to win a Grey Cup championship in their home stadium since the 1994 BC Lions and were only the fourth team to win at home since the inception of the Canadian Football League in 1958. Because of their remarkable season, the Lions were named the Canadian Press Team of the Year for 2011, becoming only the second CFL team to win the award since 1983.


2011 BC Lions season
The Lions opened their training camp at Hillside Stadium in Kamloops, British Columbia with rookie camp beginning June 1 and main camp beginning on June 5. Due to ongoing construction at BC Place Stadium, the Lions played their first five regular season games at Empire Field before moving to BC Place for the remaining four. On October 10, 2011, the Lions clinched a playoff berth after the Saskatchewan Roughriders lost their game to the Edmonton Eskimos. This extends the franchise record to 15 straight years in the playoffs, with that mark also tied for fourth-best in CFL history.


2011 BC Lions season, Offseason, BC Place construction
Due to the continued construction of BC Place Stadium, the Lions started their season at Empire Field, the temporary stadium that they played in for all ten games in 2010. However, it was unclear as to when the Lions would move into the refurbished stadium, as the contractor, PCL Westcoast Constructor, would not reveal a date. It was likely that between three and five regular season games would be played at BC Place Stadium and it has been guaranteed that it will be complete by November 1, in time for the 99th Grey Cup, which it is scheduled to host.


2011 BC Lions season, Offseason, BC Place construction
On February 7, 2011, it was announced that the BC Lions would be opening the newly renovated BC Place on September 30, 2011. When the schedule was released on February 18, 2011, it was announced that the Lions' opponent would be the Edmonton Eskimos and that they would play four 2011 regular season games in BC Place Stadium.


2011 BC Lions season, Offseason, CFL Draft
The 2011 CFL Draft took place on Sunday, May 8, 2011. The Lions had five selections in the draft, with the first coming in the sixth spot overall, after trading their third overall pick with Calgary. Through the trade, BC was still able to select their first choice, Marco Iannuzzi, with their first pick and then draft kicker/punter Hugh O'Neill to replace the recently traded Sean Whyte. BC also selected Alex Ellis in the 2011 supplemental draft, and must forfeit a sixth-round 2012 draft pick.


2011 BCR Open Romania Ladies
The 2011 BCR Open Romania Ladies was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 5th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2011 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Bucharest, Romania between July 18 and July 23, 2011.


2011 BCR Open Romania Ladies, Singles entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2011 BCR Open Romania Ladies, Champions, Doubles
Irina-Camelia Begu /  Elena Bogdan def. Maria Elena Camerin /  İpek Şenoğlu, 6–7(1–7), 7–6(7–4), [16–14].


2011 BCR Open Romania Ladies – Doubles
Irina-Camelia Begu and Elena Bogdan were the defending champions, and successfully defended their title by defeating Maria Elena Camerin and İpek Şenoğlu in the final, 6–7(1–7), 7–6(7–4), [16–14]


2011 BCR Open Romania Ladies – Singles
Jelena Dokić was the defending champion, but chose not to participate. Irina-Camelia Begu won the tournament defeating Laura Pous Tió in the final 6–3, 7–5.


2011 BCS National Championship Game
The 2011 Tostitos BCS National Championship Game was the final college football game to determine the national champion of the 2010 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) season. The finale of the 2010-2011 Bowl Championship Series was played at the University of Phoenix Stadium, the host facility of the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona on January 10, 2011 (8:30 p.m. ET).


2011 BCS National Championship Game
The Auburn Tigers from the Southeastern Conference faced the Oregon Ducks of the Pacific-10 Conference for the national championship. A 19-yard field goal by Wes Byrum, as time expired, won the game for the Tigers, with the final score 22-19.


2011 BCS National Championship Game
The game was the first BCS National Championship Game not televised on network television, instead being aired on ESPN and simulcast on ESPN3, and recorded a 16.1 rating, the highest overnight rating on record for a cable television program, topping the previous high of 14.4, set by Patriots/Saints on ESPN in 2009. This marked the second time that the national championship under the BCS system was played in Arizona. It was also the first time that the BCS National Championship was streamed to a video game console, specifically the Xbox 360.


2011 BCS National Championship Game, Teams
Finishing No. 1 and No. 2 in the final BCS rankings, respectively, the Auburn Tigers from the Southeastern Conference faced the Oregon Ducks of the Pacific-10 Conference for the national championship. Both teams finished the regular season undefeated. The Coaches Poll, which partially factored into the BCS rankings, had Oregon No. 1 and Auburn No. 2, though Auburn's higher rankings in the Harris Interactive Poll and computer polls gave them the edge for No. 1 in the BCS. The Associated Press Poll (AP), which did not factor into the BCS rankings, had Auburn No. 1 and Oregon No. 2.


2011 BCS National Championship Game, Teams, Oregon Ducks
The Ducks led the Pacific-10 Conference in scoring offense (592 points, 49.3 average), rushing offense (42 touchdowns, 303.8 yards per game), rushing defense (11 touchdowns, 117.6 yards per game), and total offense (71 touchdowns, 537.5 yards per game). The team was led by tailback LaMichael James, who tops the conference with 1,682 yards on 281 carries, 21 touchdowns and averaging 152.9 yards per game. His longest carry was for 76 yards. Jeff Maehl was Oregon's top receiver at 78.58 ypg for 12 touchdowns. Casey Matthews had averaged 6.08 tackles per game for the Ducks, followed by Spencer Paysinger (5.7), Talmadge Jackson III (5.6) and John Boyett (5.6).


2011 BCS National Championship Game, Teams, Oregon Ducks
Oregon was wearing the Nike new Pro Combat uniforms, their 13th uniform combination worn this season.


2011 BCS National Championship Game, Teams, Auburn Tigers
The Tigers completed the season on top of the Southeastern Conference in scoring offense (42.7 points per game), rushing offense (287.2 yards per game) and total offense (497.7 yards per game). Auburn also led the conference in pass efficiency (174 of 261 passes, 6 interceptions, 66.7%, 29 touchdowns), third-down conversions (77 of 145, 53.1%) and first downs (316 or 24.3 per game). Quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton led the conference in rushing, pass efficiency, total offense, and scoring. On the receiving end, Darvin Adams caught 13 of 48 passes for 909 yards (69.92 ypg) and 7 touchdowns. Josh Bynes, Zac Etheridge and Neiko Thorpe made 199 tackles for the Tigers during the season.


2011 BCS National Championship Game, Game summary
Before the game a moment of silence was held for the victims of the shooting in Tucson, Arizona, two days before the game in which U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords was shot in the head and six others, including Federal Judge John Roll, were killed.


2011 BCS National Championship Game, Game summary
At halftime Auburn led 16-11; one of Auburn's scores was a safety where the Auburn defense tackled Oregon's LaMichael James in the Oregon end zone.


2011 BCS National Championship Game, Game summary
In the 3rd quarter Auburn kicker Wes Byrum kicked a 28-yard field goal to give Auburn a 19-11 lead. The teams traded possession several times until Oregon recovered a fumble on the Auburn 40-yard line with 5:05 left. Oregon then drove down the field and scored a touchdown with 2:33 minutes remaining in the game. They added a two-point conversion to tie the score at 19-19.


2011 BCS National Championship Game, Game summary
On the game's final possession, Auburn drove 73 yards to the Oregon 1-yard line and won the game with a field goal as time expired. The drive included a run by Michael Dyer in which he appeared to be tackled after 6-7 yards, but fell on top of defender Eddie Pleasant with neither his knees nor the ball touching the ground. The Auburn sideline urged Dyer to continue after getting back up, and the Oregon defense finally tackled him after a 37-yard gain. The play was reviewed and the ruling on the field was upheld.


2011 BCS National Championship Game, Game summary
Dyer then rushed for a touchdown, but a subsequent review showed that Dyer's knee went down before crossing the goal line. The touchdown was reversed and the ball placed at the Oregon 1-yard line. From there, Auburn ran the clock down to 2 seconds, and Wes Byrum kicked a game-winning 19-yard field goal as time expired, giving Auburn the national championship.


2011 BCS National Championship Game, Aftermath
By winning the game, Auburn was crowned as the BCS National Champion. In addition, Auburn was ranked as the number one team by the Associated Press.


2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling
2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling may refer to one of the following:


2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling (December)
The 2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling in December was held from December 14 to 18 at the K-Rock Centre in Kingston, Ontario. It was the second Grand Slam event of the 2011–12 curling season and the eleventh time the tournament has been held. The purse was CAD$100,000.


2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling (December)
In the final, Mike McEwen won the final over Jeff Stoughton in seven ends with a score of 5–2. He successfully defended his title from the last edition of the BDO Canadian Open, won his first Grand Slam title of the year, and won his third career Grand Slam title.


2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling (December), Five-rock rule
A new five-rock rule was implemented at this edition of the Canadian Open. The rule, a slight alteration to the free guard zone rule, was tested at the event in an attempt to increase offence in the game. The new rule was predicted to favour teams who play more offence, as the rule allows for a fifth guard to be placed in the free guard zone. However, concerns were raised that the new rule may possibly hinder teams that are more defence-oriented, an opinion echoed by the Canadian Curling Association.


2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling (December), Five-rock rule
Since the Canadian Open is a Grand Slam event, the Open carried many points on the Canadian Team Ranking System, which plays a role in determining Olympic trials participants. If a team were to miss qualifying for the 2013 trials because of a poor performance at the Open influenced by the five rock rule, the team could raise complaints to the CCA. As a result, the CCA stated that it would not sanction the event unless all players participating in the Open express written consent in regards to the five-rock rule. Not all players had agreed not to challenge the outcome of the Open, but the event went ahead as planned, with the five-rock rule in place.


2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling (December), Round robin standings
*Kevin Martin advances directly to the playoffs by virtue of a draw to the button contest between Kevin Koe, Jean-Michel Ménard, and Martin.


2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling (January)
The 2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling was held from January 26–30 at the General Motors Centre in Oshawa, Ontario. This event was the third men's Grand Slam event in the 2010-11 curling season. The purse for this event was CAD$100,000. 18 men's teams will be playing for eight quarterfinal spots in a round-robin competition.


2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling (January)
The competition was marked by an interesting turn of events when the Thomas Ulsrud rink failed to win a game against Peter Corner. Team Ulsrud's loss created an eight-way tie in 2-3 win-loss records, prompting a draw shot challenge and the scheduling of two tiebreakers. Team Ulsrud, as well as Team Corner, Team Middaugh, and Team Higgs, failed to advance in the draw shot challenge, leaving Team Epping, Team Fowler, Team Bice and Team Walchuk to participate in the tiebreakers. If Thomas Ulsrud's rink had won the game against Peter Corner, there would be no tiebreakers. This marks the first time in Grand Slam history that a 2-3 win-loss record could qualify a team to a tiebreaker. The four remaining teams fought for the eighth qualifying spot, and Rob Fowler won the qualifying game.


2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling (January)
Mike McEwen won his second Grand Slam of the season in an extra-end win over Glenn Howard in the final.


2011 BDO World Darts Championship
The 2011 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship was the 34th World Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation, and the 26th staging at the Lakeside Country Club at Frimley Green. Martin Adams was the defending men's champion, having won the title for the second time in the previous year's final against Dave Chisnall.


2011 BDO World Darts Championship
Adams became the first to successfully defend his BDO title since Raymond van Barneveld in 1999, as he beat Dean Winstanley, who is one of only a handful of players to reach the final at their first attempt. The final score was 7–5 in sets which saw Martin Adams retain the championship. Trina Gulliver successfully defended her Women's world title having beaten Rhian Edwards in a repeat of the 2010 final. It was Gulliver's ninth title.


2011 BDO World Darts Championship
Arguably the two standout matches of the tournament were Adams's victory over John Walton in the second round - the match going all the way to a sudden death leg - and Jan Dekker's comeback victory over Garry Thompson which was reminiscent of Chris Mason's comeback against Adams twelve years earlier (much like Adams in that match, Thompson missed nine darts at double to reach the semi-final).


2011 BDO World Darts Championship
Players from around the globe competed to reach the BBC televised finals, which run from 1–9 January at Frimley Green.


2011 BDO World Darts Championship, Format and qualifiers, Men's
The televised stages featured 32 players. The top 16 players in the Lakeside Table over the 2009/10 season were seeded for the tournament. Other places were made up of other qualifiers from the Lakeside Table, a number of qualifying spaces from the International Qualifiers (held in Hull on 28 October), and spaces for the 2008 & 2009 champions and 2010 semi-finalists if not already qualified and still eligible for the tournament. The draw took place on 12 November.


2011 BDO World Darts Championship, Format and qualifiers, Women's
The televised stages featured 8 players. The top 4 players in the Lakeside Table over the 2009/10 season will be seeded for the tournament. Other places were made up of other qualifiers from the Lakeside Table, a number of qualifying spaces from the International Qualifiers ( held in Hull on 28 October), and spaces for the 2008 & 2009 champions and 2010 finalists if not already qualified and eligibled for the tournament. The draw took place on 12 November.


2011 BDO World Darts Championship, Prize money
There was also a shared 9 Dart Checkout prize of £52,000, along with a High Checkout prize of £3000.


2011 BDO World Darts Championship, Prize money
The total prize fund was £329,000 – a £4000 increase on last year. All levels of prize money remained the same as 2010 (except for the Ladies winner).


2011 BDO World Darts Championship, Television coverage
The tournament was again broadcast by BBC Sport, who have done so every year since its inception. Colin Murray reprised his role as host, after taking over from Ray Stubbs in 2010, Bobby George was again the main pundit, hosting with Colin Murray for live and afternoon coverage sometimes joining Rob Walker for the highlight shows, Bobby George has been the BBC main darts pundit since the early 2000s. Rob Walker, the Master of Ceremonies at BBC's snooker events and host of the BBC's 2009 Winmau World Masters continued to present the late night highlights and Darts Extra through the night on BBC2.


2011 BDO World Darts Championship, Television coverage
The commentary team was headed by David Croft, who has been commentating for the BBC since 2003 and Vassos Alexander, making his Lakeside debut covering for the ill Tony Green. Guest commentators included Martin Adams and Tony O'Shea.


2011 BDO World Darts Championship, Television coverage
Most of the weekend coverage was shown live on either BBC One or BBC Two, included both semi finals and the final itself. All other matches were shown live via the BBC's interactive coverage on its Red Button service.


2011 BEKO Super Cup
2011 BEKO Super Cup was a mini-tournament held between 4 European national basketball teams in preparation for the FIBA EuroBasket 2011. The tournament was held from August 19 until August 21 in Bamberg, Germany. Greece won the tournament with a 3–0 record.


2011 BET Hip Hop Awards
The 2011 show were hosted by Mike Epps. DJ Premier DJed the cyphers. The show featured the final television appearance by Heavy D, before his death a month later.


2011 BET Hip Hop Awards, Winners and nominations, Track of the Year
Only the producer of the track nominated in this category.


2011 BFA Senior League
The 2011 BFA Senior League was the fourth season of the league playing in its then-current format, which involves the top teams from the Grand Bahama and New Providence Soccer Leagues. Previously, the league had been a tournament between the top teams of each island, but became the top level of Bahamian football.


2011 BFA Senior League
The competition featured the winners of the New Providence Football League and the Grand Bahamas Football League to determine the top club in The Bahamas, as well as the nation's qualifier for the CFU Club Championship.


2011 BFL season
The 2011 season of the Belgian Football League (BFL) is the regular season played in the Belgium. The championship game was Belgian Bowl XXIV.


2011 BFL season, Regular season, Regular Season overview
The BFL schedules two games at one location for saving on transportationcosts for referees and the costs of renting an ambulance and first aid responders. Half of the time, teams are playing virtually at home but actually play at the hosting team's homefield due to these costsaving measures.


2011 BFL season, Regular season, Regular Season overview
The match on week 3 in Leopoldsburg (Shotgun's homefield) was suspended due to the absence of an ambulance. In the first quarter a player was driven away to the hospital without a replacement for the leaving ambulance. Rules state that a game cannot continue without an emergency vehicle. The game was rescheduled to March 27.


2011 BFL season, Regular season, Regular-season standings
W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PCT = Winning Percentage, PF= Points For, PA = Points Against


2011 BGL Luxembourg Open
The 2011 BGL Luxembourg Open was a professional women's tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 16th edition of the tournament, which was part of the 2011 WTA Tour. It took place in Kockelscheuer, Luxembourg between 17 and 23 October 2011. Victoria Azarenka won the singles title.


2011 BGL Luxembourg Open, Champions, Doubles
Iveta Benešová /  Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová defeated  Lucie Hradecká /  Ekaterina Makarova 7–5, 6–3


2011 BGL Luxembourg Open, Entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2011 BGL Luxembourg Open, Entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry from a lucky loser spot:


2011 BGL Luxembourg Open – Doubles
Timea Bacsinszky and Tathiana Garbin were the defending champions but chose not to participate this year.


2011 BGL Luxembourg Open – Doubles
Iveta Benešová and Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová won the title beating Lucie Hradecká and Ekaterina Makarova in the final, 7–5, 6–3.


2011 BGL Luxembourg Open – Singles
Roberta Vinci was the defending champion, but chose to compete at the Kremlin Cup instead.


2011 BGL Luxembourg Open – Singles
First Seed Victoria Azarenka won the tournament beating unseeded Monica Niculescu in the final, 6–2, 6–2.


2011 BGL Luxembourg Open – Singles Qualifying
This article displays the qualifying draw of the 2011 BGL Luxembourg Open.


2011 BH Telecom Indoors
The 2011 BH Telecom Indoors was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the ninth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina between 7 and 13 March 2011.


2011 BH Telecom Indoors, ATP entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2011 BH Telecom Indoors, ATP entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry as a Lucky Loser into the singles main draw:


2011 BH Telecom Indoors, Champions, Doubles
Jamie Delgado /  Jonathan Marray def. Yves Allegro /  Andreas Beck, 7–6(4), 6–2


2011 BH Telecom Indoors – Doubles
Nicolas Mahut and Édouard Roger-Vasselin were the defending champions, but they withdrew before their first match against Tomislav Brkić and Damir Džumhur. Jamie Delgado and Jonathan Marray won the final against Yves Allegro and Andreas Beck 7–6(4), 6–2.


2011 BH Telecom Indoors – Singles
Édouard Roger-Vasselin was the defending champion; however, he lost to Karol Beck in the quarterfinals. Beck reached the final, but he withdrew before his match against Amer Delić.


2011 BH Tennis Open International Cup
The 2011 BH Tennis Open International Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 20th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil between 12 and 18 September 2011.


2011 BH Tennis Open International Cup, ATP entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2011 BH Tennis Open International Cup, Champions, Doubles
Guido Andreozzi /  Eduardo Schwank def. Ricardo Hocevar /  Christian Lindell, 6–2, 6–4


2011 BH Tennis Open International Cup – Doubles
Rodrigo Grilli and Leonardo Kirche were the defending champions but Kirche decided not to participate. Grilli played alongside André Miele. They reached the semifinals, where Ricardo Hocevar and Christian Lindell eliminated them.


2011 BH Tennis Open International Cup – Doubles
Guido Andreozzi and Eduardo Schwank won this tournament, defeating Hocevar and Lindell 6–2, 6–4 in the final.


2011 BH Tennis Open International Cup – Singles
Rogério Dutra da Silva was the defending champion, but Ricardo Hocevar eliminated him in the quarterfinals.


2011 BH Tennis Open International Cup – Singles
4th seed Júlio Silva won the tournament, defeating Christian Lindell, Marcelo Demoliner, Eládio Ribeiro Neto, Ricardo Hocevar and Gastão Elias in the final.


2011 BMC Racing Team season
The 2011 season for the BMC Racing Team began in January with the Tour Down Under and ended in October at the Giro di Lombardia. As a UCI ProTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.


2011 BMC Racing Team season
Team captain Cadel Evans provided the majority of their victories in 2011, most notably the overall crown at the Tour de France. Twice a runner-up at that race, and at age 34 the oldest post-World War II winner, Evans took used a different race program than he had in previous years. He rode relatively few races prior to the Tour, though he was also the overall victor at Tirreno–Adriatico and the Tour de Romandie.


2011 BMC Racing Team season
Though often considered to be a team with a strong classics pedigree, and active in most races with several top tens, they did not win any single-day race in the spring season. Greg Van Avermaet won the late-season Paris–Tours, along with two stages in stage races earlier in the season. The team's ostensible classics leader, Italian Alessandro Ballan, did not win any race in 2011 and was again briefly suspended from racing pursuant to the ongoing Mantova doping investigation, as he had been in 2010.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, One-day races, Spring classics
BMC was active at two of the traditional season-opening races, attaining seventh place with Ballan in the Italian opener Trofeo Laigueglia, and eighth with Quinziato in the Belgian opener, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. Ballan narrowly missed victory a week later at Montepaschi Strade Bianche, finishing second at the line behind Philippe Gilbert. Ballan acknowledged that Gilbert and not he had used the optimal tactics in the final sprint, but felt nonetheless pleased with his early-season form. The two had been part of a 19-rider group that made all the selections through the sectors of unpaved roads before the finish on cobblestones in Siena.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, One-day races, Spring classics
At the first monument race of the season, Milan–San Remo, BMC was one of only two teams to have more than three riders present in the leading group on the road after a crash on the Le Manie climb 90 kilometers (56 mi) from the finish effectively split the field in two.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, One-day races, Spring classics
With both teams lacking field sprinters, and with sprinters Tom Boonen, Alessandro Petacchi, and Heinrich Haussler surviving the split, BMC captain Ballan and Liquigas–Cannondale's Vincenzo Nibali struck a deal that they would each send men to the front of the lead group to help keep it away from the sprinters left behind in the second group, and dislodge the sprinters in the first group if possible. The tactic worked; with domestiques from both these teams, plus Omega Pharma–Lotto, pulling at the head of the leading group, they kept their lead through to the end of the race.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, One-day races, Spring classics
Ballan, and Nibali, later figured into a crucial eight-rider selection that took place on the Poggio just a few kilometers from the end of the 298 kilometers (185 mi) day of racing. Those eight riders represented eight different teams, so no one had a teammate to perform a proper leadout. After Nibali, Gilbert, and FDJ's Yoann Offredo opened up the sprint, Ballan was gapped off momentarily and could manage only fourth behind race winner Matthew Goss.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, One-day races, Spring classics
Van Avermaet had also been with the first group after the split on Le Manie, and occupied first position on the road for the kilometers between the Cipressa and the descent from the Poggio, before he was caught by the select group of eight that finished together at the head of the race.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, One-day races, Spring classics
At the second monument, the Tour of Flanders, BMC was noted to be bringing a strong squad, headed by Ballan and Hincapie. Burghardt and Van Avermaet went on the attack in the early portions of the race, only to be brought back after a short while. When Fabian Cancellara put in an attack on the Leberg, the day's fourteenth cobbled climb, and quickly took a sizable time gap, it was the BMC team which organized the chase to bring him back.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, One-day races, Spring classics
They placed four riders into a seven-rider chase group and succeeded in bringing Cancellara back, something which has usually not happened to him in classics races. A further two riders had remained at the head of the peloton, giving them six riders at the front of the race when Cancellara was caught. Cancellara put in another move on the Muur van Geraardsbergen and was followed only by Sylvain Chavanel and eventual race winner Nick Nuyens. Hincapie finished with the group 5 seconds back for sixth place on the day. Kristoff rode to seventh place in the sprinters' classic Scheldeprijs later in April, back of three-time winner Mark Cavendish.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, One-day races, Spring classics
Ballan also rode to a top-ten placing at the third monument, Paris–Roubaix. He and Thor Hushovd marked the accelerations of odds-on favorite Cancellara throughout the day and, with both having teammates up the road in breakaway groups, did not contribute any work. This led to the lightly heralded Johan Vansummeren from Hushovd's Garmin–Cervélo team winning the race from a solo escape, but Ballan was able to finish sixth by staying with Cancellara as best he could, losing contact only when Cancellara put in his most strenuous attack near the finish.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, One-day races, Spring classics
The race came just days after Ballan was again named in the ongoing Mantova doping investigation as a rider who may have perpetrated blood doping while riding for his former team Lampre. Unlike in 2010, when these accusations broke, BMC chose not to suspend Ballan from competition. Ballan felt his suspension in 2010 was because the team had not yet attained the highest level in the sport and had to rely on wildcard invitations to attend top-level races. In 2011, they had attained UCI ProTeam status and were therefore guaranteed these invites.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, One-day races, Spring classics
However, team president Jim Ochowicz denied that this was the case, saying that the team had cleared Ballan in 2010 and that the 2011 accusations were not new and therefore did not require any action on their part. However, Ballan and Santambrogio were indeed suspended and later reactivated around the time of the Giro d'Italia.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, One-day races, Spring classics
Van Avermaet was the team's top finisher at each of the Ardennes classics, though he did not come especially close to victory in any of them, finishing 24th at the 2011 Amstel Gold Race, 16th at La Flèche Wallonne, and seventh at Liège–Bastogne–Liège, the fourth monument. BMC's record at the early-season single day races ended with a series of near misses in May and June. Murphy, an essentially unknown rider on the international scene, was the sixth-place finisher at the inaugural ProRace Berlin. BMC and Leopard Trek were the only top-level professional teams in the race. Santambrogio was second at the Giro della Toscana, losing out to Garmin–Cervélo's Dan Martin in the uphill final sprint. Van Avermaet narrowly missed the podium at Halle–Ingooigem, losing the sprint for third place to FDJ's Gianni Meersman and taking fourth on the day.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, One-day races, Spring classics
The team also sent squads to the Classica Sarda, Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne, the Giro del Friuli, Dwars door Vlaanderen, Gent–Wevelgem, and Brabantse Pijl, but finished no higher than 13th in any of these races.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, One-day races, Fall races
Van Avermaet opened the team's later season with a podium finish at the Clásica de San Sebastián, winning a seven-rider sprint for third place 14 seconds back of the day's winner Philippe Gilbert. Much like he had earlier in the season at Scheldeprijs, Kristoff finished in the top ten but not especially close to victory at the sprinters' classic Paris–Brussels in September, taking seventh place in a 46-rider sprint.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, One-day races, Fall races
He turned in a similar performance a week later at the Championship of Flanders, seventh from a 55-rider sprint, and two days hence at the Grand Prix d'Isbergues with fifth from a group of 57. He also added a second place, again in a large sprint, at the Grand Prix de Fourmies.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, One-day races, Fall races
Murphy took his second top-ten finish of the year at the Omloop van het Houtland, with sixth place in a breakaway sprint behind Guillaume Van Keirsbulck of Quick-Step. Van Avermaet and Phinney finished at the front of the race in Binche–Tournai–Binche, though neither threatened for victory, finishing seventh and 13th in the 13-rider lead group.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, One-day races, Fall races
Van Avermaet took the team's lone single-day victory of the season at Paris–Tours. Despite the expectation that the race would come down to a sprint finish, Van Avermaet and other attackers provided for a different sort of finish. The sprinters' teams worked to chase down the morning breakaway, but the only effect this actually had was allowing Van Avermaet, and others, a shorter distance to bridge from the main field up to the front of the race.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, One-day races, Fall races
The leading group's advantage over the peloton never exceeded two minutes, but it proved to be enough as Van Avermaet took the win ahead of Vacansoleil–DCM's Marco Marcato, with the next rider a further 15 seconds down. Van Avermaet was also the team's best finisher at the Italian races which traditionally conclude the season. He just missed out on victory at the Giro del Piemonte, finishing second of 11 riders in a breakaway sprint behind Daniel Moreno of Team Katusha. He was more distant, 12th, in the Giro di Lombardia, though this was nonetheless a strong result for him due to that race's much hillier profile.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, One-day races, Fall races
The team also sent squads to Vattenfall Cyclassics, the GP Ouest-France, the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, and the Grand Prix de Wallonie, but finished no higher than 14th in any of these races.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Stage races
Evans took the team's first wins at Tirreno–Adriatico. Despite the fact that he had raced only two days prior to Tirreno–Adriatico on the 2011 season, as part of a planned light program meant to culminate in victory at the Tour de France, Evans showed fine form at the race of the two seas. He finished near the front of the race in the first two hilly stages, both of them 240 kilometers (150 mi) in length, and took the race lead after the second of them.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Stage races
The next day, he won the stage into Macerata, extending his race lead to nine seconds. With only a very short individual time trial remaining, and the riders directly behind Evans in the overall standings lesser than him in time trial skills, nine seconds was a significant advantage. Evans managed only 12th in the 9.3 kilometers (5.8 mi) race against the clock that closed out the race, but this was easily enough to preserve his overall victory. In April, Evans won the Tour de Romandie without winning any stage.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Stage races
His greatest time win came in the stage 4 individual time trial. Sitting third at that point, he finished eighth on the day and took sufficient time to overtake Pavel Brutt and Alexander Vinokourov to move into the race lead. The flat final stage provided for no meaningful changes to the overall standings, securing Evans' win. While he did not win anything at the Critérium du Dauphiné, Evans showed strongly at that race as well.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Stage races
While Bradley Wiggins proved by far the strongest of the overall classification riders in the stage 3 individual time trial, Evans' sixth place on the day moved him up to second overall. He finished sufficiently near the front of the race on all other days as well, assuring him second place overall in the event.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Stage races
The team's principal winner in the later season was Van Avermaet. At the Tour of Austria, he won stage 6 in a photo finish from a breakaway, besting HTC–Highroad's Matt Brammeier by the thinnest of margins. He took the points jersey with this stage win, adding a first to a fourth and an eighth place secured earlier in the event, and won it at the event's conclusion. Van Avermaet next triumphed at the Tour de Wallonie.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Stage races
He and Vacansoleil–DCM's Joost van Leijen were the only two riders to finish at the front of the race in each of the first two stages. Though van Leijen won stage 2, Van Avermaet took the race lead because of his higher finish on stage 1. This stage occurred on the same day that Evans sealed his Tour de France championship in Paris; the team posted news of Van Avermaet's race leadership by calling it the "other yellow jersey" they had taken. Van Avermaet successfully retained the race lead to the event's conclusion, adding a stage win on the last day, beating out van Leijen.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Stage races
The team took a further two victories in August. Phinney earned the first win of his professional career in the prologue time trial at the Eneco Tour, finishing the 5.7 kilometers (3.5 mi) course 7 seconds faster than Edvald Boasson Hagen in second place. Hincapie returned to the winners' circle for the first time in two years at the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, finishing the best of six breakaway riders in stage 2 in Aspen.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Stage races
The team also sent squads to the Tour Down Under, the Tour of Qatar, the Tour of Oman, the Giro di Sardegna, Paris–Nice, the Volta a Catalunya, the Tour of the Basque Country, the Giro del Trentino, the Tour de Suisse, the Tour of Utah, Circuit Franco-Belge, and the Tour of Beijing, but did not achieve a stage win, classification win, or podium finish in any of them.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
BMC came to the Giro without a real overall classification hopeful. Sporting director Fabio Baldato stated that the team's nine-man squad was designed to give them a chance at a stage win every day, with Kristoff for the sprints, Kohler, Wyss, and Zahner for the breakaways, and Tschopp and Frank for the climbs. Rounding out the squad were young Americans Barton, Beyer, and Butler, riding the Giro mainly for experience. They constituted three of the seven Americans in the Giro peloton. The team's preparation for the Giro was also affected by the Mantova investigation, which resulted in the team's banning of Ballan and Santambrogio for the second time, after a previous ban in April 2010. Again just as in 2010, the two were reactivated shortly after the Giro concluded.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
The squad was middle of the pack in the stage 1 team time trial, finishing 13th of 23 teams. The squad was most active during stage 5, on the unpaved or 'white' roads into Orvieto, when Kohler went on the attack after 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) and made the principal breakaway as a single rider. His advantage ballooned to almost 13 minutes at its highest point, but when it began to fall, it did not fall precipitously at first. With 70 kilometers (43 mi) left to race, Kohler still had eight minutes on the main field.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
He was therefore first over the two third-category climbs on the course, and while mountains leader Gianluca Brambilla took maximum points from the peloton on both, Kohler took the green jersey from him at day's end. Kohler retained the jersey on stage 6 before seventh stage winner Bart De Clercq of Omega Pharma–Lotto assumed it on Montevergine di Mercogliano.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Kristoff took two top ten stage placings in the first half of the race, with fourth on stage 8 (second from the peloton behind the attacking Oscar Gatto and Alberto Contador), and ninth on stage 10 (a more traditional field sprint ). Tschopp finished the best of the team's six riders to reach the finish, finishing 16th overall. The team also shared the Fair Play award with five other teams, avoiding penalty points for minor technical infringements.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The Tour de France was the main focal point of the season for BMC's leader Evans, and perhaps the team itself. He had ridden two Grand Tours each of the past two seasons, and in three of the past four, but in 2011 he focused solely on the Tour. He rode a different race program in preparation for the Tour than he had in previous years, riding fewer races. Among them were the early-season stage races Tirreno–Adriatico and Tour de Romandie, both of which Evans won, and the Critérium du Dauphiné, where he finished on the podium in second overall.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The squad named to the race was chosen with the sole goal of helping Evans win the race overall. It consisted of classics specialists Hincapie and Burghardt with the aim of keeping Evans out of trouble in the flatter stages, climbers Moinard and Morabito to help in the mountains, and strong time trialists Bookwalter and Schär (and Hincapie) for the stage 2 team time trial. Hincapie made his 16th consecutive Tour start, to tie the record held by Joop Zoetemelk, having finished each except the very first.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Evans was active in the finale of the first road race stage. Almost completely flat with a punchy uphill finish, the stage kept the peloton together most of the way before a crash 9 kilometers (5.6 mi) from the end split the field. Evans stayed out front and shadowed Philippe Gilbert on the finish atop the Mont des Alouettes. The Belgian won the stage, but Evans finished clear of the peloton for second place three seconds back. This positioned the team well for the stage 2 team time trial.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Despite being considered the lesser of squads such as Garmin–Cervélo, Team Sky, and HTC–Highroad, among others, the squad finished second just four seconds back of Garmin–Cervélo, tied with Team Sky and Leopard Trek. The result left Garmin–Cervélo riders Thor Hushovd and David Millar tied on the same time at the top of the overall classification, with the Norwegian taking the yellow jersey, and Evans installed into third overall just a single second back. Evans said after the stage that he was very pleased with the team's effort and had confidence for the continuation of the race.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Stage 4, again mostly flat with an uphill finish, was another important day for the team. Evans approached the finish with a select group at the head of the race, including most of the race's overall favorites and race leader Hushovd. Evans outsprinted Alberto Contador at the finish to claim his second career Tour stage win. After finishing safely in the peloton on the next three stages, all of them favoring sprinters, Evans took third, just behind Gilbert, on Super Besse in stage 8.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Despite the uphill finish and the stage's bumpy profile, Hushovd also finished in this group, meaning Evans did not, as was expected, take the yellow jersey. Though the next day featured a change of race leader, when a breakaway including Thomas Voeckler gained almost four minutes against the peloton, Evans remained well-placed in third overall. There were then no significant changes to the overall standings until stage 16. This was a medium mountain stage heading gradually uphill until a second-category climb 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) from the finish in Gap. Hushovd won the stage from a breakaway, but together with Contador and Samuel Sánchez, Evans attacked on the descent. He gained over a minute against the race's other top riders, most notably Andy Schleck.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Stage 18 was extremely important to the race's overall standings. With 60 kilometers (37 mi) still to go before the finish, Andy Schleck attacked out of the group of race favorites, and no one followed him. He made the bridge up to a teammate from the morning escape, who paced him to a maximum four-minute advantage at the front of the race. From behind, Evans put in an intensive effort from about the 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) to go mark to limit his losses.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Schleck easily won the stage, but Evans remained only 57 seconds down, a time gap he could easily make up in the stage 20 individual time trial. Evans had mounted the final chase all on his own, with riders near him such as Voeckler and Ivan Basso contributing no work. Fränk Schleck took a little time out of him in view of the finish line, but no one else did, as the field finished scattered behind Evans. His long, largely solo chase was characterized as saving his overall chances after Andy Schleck had made his bid for Tour victory beforehand.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The status quo largely held the next day on Alpe d'Huez, though Voeckler at last fell from the race lead, putting Andy Schleck in the yellow jersey. Schleck was characterized as missing an important chance to pad his race lead with the time trial, where Evans was recognized as the better of the two, still to race.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The Tour came down to the stage 20 time trial in Grenoble. While Evans was certainly the stronger of the two in the event, Schleck had surpassed expectations in the long time trial in the 2010 Tour de France and there was speculation as to whether the Luxembourger had enough time in hand to win the Tour with his 57-second cushion. They were the last two riders on the course, and rode diametrically different time trials.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
About an hour earlier, Tony Martin had set a dominant best time, finishing more than a minute better than any other rider in the field. Evans rode one of the best time trials of his life, seconds off Martin's pace at each time check and only seven seconds the lesser of him at the finish line. Schleck's ride was unremarkable, ceding two and a half minutes to Evans by finishing 17th on the day.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
What had been speculated to be a close challenge ended up being no challenge at all – Evans took the race lead by over a minute and a half. Since the Tour's final stage is largely ceremonial and not competitive for the overall classification, the time trial clinched the Tour for Evans, the first Grand Tour win in Evans' long top-level career that had featured three previous podiums and six previous top-tens. All nine BMC riders reached the Tour's finish. Evans' triumph meant that Hincapie set a new record as the only man ever to ride on nine Tour-winning squads.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Australia's prime minister phoned Evans personally to congratulate him. He was later honored with a parade and a state reception in Melbourne, with thousands of supporters attending.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
Shortly after the Tour de France ended, the team reiterated Evans' season plan, that it had been his only Grand Tour for 2011 and that he would not ride the Vuelta. The team made its Vuelta debut in 2011, having ridden the Italian and French Grand Tours in 2010 via wildcard invites while receiving no such invite to the Tour of Spain. Much as at the Giro, BMC's squad for the Vuelta was chosen with stage wins in mind. Van Avermaet and Grand Tour debutant Phinney would try for the sprints, with Frank, Santaromita, and Tschopp for the climbs. Kohler, Kroon, Quinziato, and Santambrogio rounded out the squad.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
In a squad with much less star power than that sent to the Tour de France, they were again middle of the pack in the team time trial, finishing 11th of 22 teams. The squad did not show themselves much, as it was not until stage 10 that they so much as finished in the top ten on a stage. Phinney took fifth place in the stage 10 individual time trial, a minute and a half off the pace of the day's winner Tony Martin.


2011 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
Frank rode to fourth from a breakaway in the next stage, again a minute and a half off the pace of the day's winner, this time David Moncoutié. All the team had to show for itself from the second half of the Vuelta was a seventh place from Van Avermaet in the field sprint finish to stage 12. Six BMC riders reached the Vuelta's finish, with Van Avermaet in 83rd place being their highest overall finisher.


2011 BMW Ljubljana Open
The 2011 BMW Ljubljana Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 20th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia between 19 and 25 September 2011.


2011 BMW Ljubljana Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2011 BMW Ljubljana Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry from a lucky loser spot:


2011 BMW Ljubljana Open, Champions, Doubles
Aljaž Bedene /  Grega Žemlja def. Roberto Bautista-Agut /  Iván Navarro, 6–3, 6–7(10–12), [12–10]


2011 BMW Ljubljana Open – Doubles
Nikola Mektić and Ivan Zovko were the defending champions, but decided not to participate. Aljaž Bedene and Grega Žemlja won the title, defeating Roberto Bautista-Agut and Ivan Navarro 6–3, 6–7(10–12), [12–10] in the final.


2011 BMW Ljubljana Open – Singles
Blaž Kavčič was the defending champion, but lost to his compatriot Aljaž Bedene in the second round.


2011 BMW Ljubljana Open – Singles
Fourth seed Paolo Lorenzi won the title, defeating third seed Grega Žemlja 6–2, 6–4 in the final.


2011 BMW Open
The 2011 BMW Open, also known as The BMW Open by FWU Takaful 2011 for sponsorship reasons, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 96th edition of the event . It was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2011 ATP World Tour. It took place at the MTTC Iphitos complex in Munich, Germany, from 23 April through 1 May 2011. Mikhail Youzhny was the defending champion, while he was joined by last year's finalist Marin Čilić as well as semifinalists Marcos Baghdatis and Philipp Petzschner. Unranked former world number two countryman Tommy Haas made his 2011 debut and returned to playing in doubles via a wildcard into the main draw with partner Radek Štěpánek.


2011 BMW Open, Entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry from a Lucky loser spot:


2011 BMW Open, Finals, Doubles
Simone Bolelli /  Horacio Zeballos defeated  Andreas Beck /  Christopher Kas, 7–6(3), 6–4


2011 BMW Open – Doubles
Oliver Marach and Santiago Ventura were the defending champions, but decided not to participate. Marach competed in the Serbia Open instead. Simone Bolelli of Italy and Horacio Zeballos of Argentina defeated in the final the German couple Andreas Beck and Christopher Kas 7–6(3), 6–4 to win the title.


2011 BMW Open – Singles
Mikhail Youzhny was the defending champion, but lost to Philipp Petzschner in the second round. 7th  seed Nikolay Davydenko defeated 5th seed Florian Mayer in the final 6–3, 3–6, 6–1 to win the title. It was Davydenko's first title since January 2010, and his 21st career title.


2011 BMW Open – Singles Qualifying
This article displays the qualifying draw of the 2011 BMW Open.


2011 BMW PGA Championship
The 2011 BMW PGA Championship was the 57th edition of the BMW PGA Championship, an annual professional golf tournament on the European Tour. It was held 26–29 May at the West Course of Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey, England, a suburb southwest of London.


2011 BMW PGA Championship
Englishman Luke Donald beat Lee Westwood in a sudden-death playoff and overtook his countryman as the new World Number One.


2011 BMW PGA Championship, Round summaries, Playoff
The playoff began on the par five 18th, and both laid up with their second shots. Donald played a majestic pitch to leave himself no more than six feet (1.8 m) for birdie. Westwood attempted to follow him in but overspun his approach and it retracted into the water hazard. He  eventually chipped out from the drop zone and made double bogey; Donald made his birdie putt to win the title and overtook his countryman as the new World Number One.


2011 BNP Paribas Masters
The 2011 BNP Paribas Masters, also known as the Paris Masters, was an ATP World Tour professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 39th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2011 ATP World Tour. It took place in Paris, France between 7 and 13 November 2011.


2011 BNP Paribas Masters, Finals, Doubles
Rohan Bopanna /  Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi defeated  Julien Benneteau /  Nicolas Mahut, 6–2, 6–4


2011 BNP Paribas Masters, ATP entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2011 BNP Paribas Masters, ATP entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry as a special exempt into the singles main draw:


2011 BNP Paribas Masters, ATP entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry from a lucky loser spot:


2011 BNP Paribas Masters – Doubles
Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi were the defending champions, but decided not to participate together.


2011 BNP Paribas Masters – Doubles
Bhupathi played alongside Leander Paes but were eliminated in the second round, while Mirnyi partnered up with Daniel Nestor but were eliminated in the semifinals.


2011 BNP Paribas Masters – Doubles
In the final, Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi won the title beating French wildcards Julien Benneteau and Nicolas Mahut 6–2, 6–4.


2011 BNP Paribas Masters – Singles
Roger Federer defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the final, 6–1, 7–6(7–3) to win the Singles title at the 2011 Paris Masters.


2011 BNP Paribas Masters – Singles
Robin Söderling was the defending champion, but could not participate due to mononucleosis.


2011 BNP Paribas Masters – Singles Qualifying
This article displays the qualifying draw of the 2011 BNP Paribas Masters.


2011 BNP Paribas Open
The 2011 BNP Paribas Open was a tennis tournament played at Indian Wells, California in March 2011. It was the 38th edition of the men's event (23rd for the women), known as the BNP Paribas Open, and was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2011 ATP World Tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the 2011 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California, United States from March 7 through March 20, 2011.


2011 BNP Paribas Open, Tournament
The 2011 BNP Paribas Open took place at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden from 7 to 20 March 2011. It was the 36th edition of the event. The tournament was jointly run by the Tennis Ventures Llc and was part of the 2011 ATP World Tour and the 2011 WTA Tour. On the ATP tour it was the first of the seasons Masters 1000 events; on the women's tour it was the season's first of four Premier Mandatory events. The tournament was conducted on eight outdoor Plexipave IW courts. This has been given a medium–slow court speed.


2011 BNP Paribas Open, Events, Men's singles
The semifinals were a repeat of the 2009 US Open semis. It was also the first time since 1995 that all four players to reach this stage were Grand Slam champions. En route to the semifinal stage Djokovic broke the record of his Final opponent Nadal for the fewest games lost in the history of Indian Wells Masters as well as in the masters series based on four matches. He lost only 12 games to Golubev, Gulbis, Troicki, Gasquet respectively while Nadal lost 13 in the 2010 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters. In Indian Wells Stefan Edberg held the previous record with 17 lost games while reaching the 1990 final. The results of the matches were a reverse of the US Open as Djokovic and Nadal won.


2011 BNP Paribas Open, Events, Women's singles
Before their quarter final match, Azarenka and Wozniacki led the crowd in a spontaneous tribute to the people of Japan, leading a period of silence as they came out on court with a Japanese flag. The players wrote on the flag a message for Japan; 'Our Thoughts Are With You.' The match itself only lasted three games as Azaerenka had to retire with a hip injury.


2011 BNP Paribas Open, Events, Women's singles
In the semifinals Bartoli created history as she became the first French woman to reach the final in Indian Wells. Bartoli reached the final losing just four games against Wickmayer. In the other half of the draw Wozniacki was equally dominant losing three games to Sharapova.


2011 BNP Paribas Open, Events, Men's doubles
Alexandr Dolgopolov /  Xavier Malisse def. Roger Federer /  Stanislas Wawrinka, 6–4, 6–7(5), [10–7]


2011 BNP Paribas Open, Events, Women's doubles
In the first round all the seeds made it safely through apart from second seeds Peschke and Srebotnik, who lost 10–5 in a match tiebreaker. To make it worse, Srebotnik took a hit to the eye leaving her with impaired vision for the rest of the match. While King and Shevdova won their first match back as a pairing and Bethanie Mattek–Sands pulled off a spectacular 'tweener' for a winner. The second round saw the World Number Ones, Dulko and Pennetta, exit the tournament. Also exiting in the second round was the Chang and Zheng; and number seven seeds Benesova and Strycova, who lost to Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina.


2011 BNP Paribas Open, Events, Women's doubles
The quarterfinals witnessed Hantuchová and Radwańska losing just one game against the reigning Wimbledon and US Open champions, while the third seeds Huber and Petrova exited in straight sets to Mettek–Sands and Shaughnessy. Azarenka and Kirilenko were responsible for sending home the wild card team of Jankovic and Pavlyuchenkova in straight sets. Mirza and Vesnina lost just four games against Hantuchová and Radwańska in the semifinals, whilst Mattek–Sands and Shaughnessy received a walkover against Azarenka and Kirilenko, due to a hip injury sustained by Azarenka. In the final Mirza and Vesnina lost just five games to win the title without dropping a set throughout the tournament.


2011 BNP Paribas Open, Events, Women's doubles
Sania Mirza /  Elena Vesnina def. Bethanie Mattek-Sands /  Meghann Shaughnessy, 6–0, 7–5


2011 BNP Paribas Open, Events, Hawkeye
The 2011 BNP Paribas Open was the first tournament to have hawkeye technology used on more than three courts. Many tournaments before have had the technology on their show courts (usually only three courts at the Grand Slams) but the Indian Wells Tennis Garden had hawkeye on all eight of its courts.


2011 BNP Paribas Open, Players, Men's Singles, Other Entrants
The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw:


2011 BNP Paribas Open, Players, Women's Singles, Other Entrants
The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw:


2011 BNP Paribas Open – Men's Doubles
The 2011 BNP Paribas Open was a tennis tournament played at Indian Wells, California, United States in March 2011. It was the 37th edition of the event, known as the BNP Paribas Open, and was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2011 ATP World Tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the 2011 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden from March 7 through March 20, 2011.


2011 BNP Paribas Open – Men's Doubles
Marc López and Rafael Nadal were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals to Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka. Federer and Wawrinka reached the final, but lost to Alexandr Dolgopolov and Xavier Malisse 4–6, 7–6(5–7), [7–10].


2011 BNP Paribas Open – Men's Singles
Novak Djokovic defeated Rafael Nadal in the final 4–6, 6–3, 6–2, to win the Men's Singles title at the 2011 Indian Wells Masters.


2011 BNP Paribas Open – Men's Singles
Ivan Ljubičić was the defending champion, but lost to Juan Martín del Potro in the second round.


2011 BNP Paribas Open – Men's Singles Qualifying
This article displays the qualifying draw of the 2011 BNP Paribas Open.


2011 BNP Paribas Open – Women's Doubles
The 2011 BNP Paribas Open was a tennis tournament played at Indian Wells, California in March 2011. It was the 37th edition of the event, known as the BNP Paribas Open, and was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2011 ATP World Tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the 2011 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California, United States from March 7 through March 20, 2011.


2011 BNP Paribas Open – Women's Doubles
Květa Peschke and Katarina Srebotnik were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Klaudia Jans and Alicja Rosolska. Unseeded pair Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina won the tournament, defeating 8th seeds Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Meghann Shaughnessy 6–0, 7–5 in the final.


2011 BNP Paribas Open – Women's Singles
Jelena Janković was the defending champion, but lost to compatriot Ana Ivanovic in the fourth round.


2011 BNP Paribas Open – Women's Singles
Caroline Wozniacki won the tournament, defeating Marion Bartoli 6–1, 2–6, 6–3 in the final. Bartoli, at 26 years and five months, had been bidding to become the tournament's oldest winner since Steffi Graf in 1996.


2011 BNP Paribas Polish Open
The 2011 BNP Paribas Polish Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Sopot, Poland between 11 and 17 July 2011.


2011 BNP Paribas Polish Open, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2011 BNP Paribas Polish Open, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry as a special exempt into the singles main draw:


2011 BNP Paribas Polish Open, Champions, Doubles
Mariusz Fyrstenberg /  Marcin Matkowski def. Olivier Charroin /  Stéphane Robert, 7–5, 7–6(7–4)


2011 BNP Paribas Polish Open – Doubles
Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski won the tournament. They defeated Olivier Charroin and Stéphane Robert in the final, 7–5, 7–6(7–4).


2011 BNP Paribas Polish Open – Singles
Éric Prodon the first edition of the tournament, defeating Nikola Ćirić 6–1, 6–3 in the final.


2011 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux
The 2011 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament. It was part of the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bordeaux, France between May 7 and May 15, 2011.


2011 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux, Entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2011 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux, Entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry as a special exempt into the singles main draw:


2011 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux, Champions, Doubles
Jamie Delgado /  Jonathan Marray def. Julien Benneteau /  Nicolas Mahut, 7–5, 6–3


2011 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux – Doubles
Nicolas Mahut and Édouard Roger-Vasselin were the defending champions; however, Roger-Vasselin chose not to compete this year. As a result, Mahut played alongside Julien Benneteau. They reached the final, where they lost to Jamie Delgado and Jonathan Marray.


2011 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux – Singles
Richard Gasquet was the defending champion but chose to compete in Rome instead. Marc Gicquel won the title, defeating Horacio Zeballos 6–2, 6–4 in the final.


2011 BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy
The 2011 BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 19th edition of the BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy tournament, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2011 ATP World Tour. It was held in Bucharest, Romania, 17–23 September 2011.


2011 BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy, Entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2011 BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy, Champions, Doubles
Daniele Bracciali /  Potito Starace def. Julian Knowle /  David Marrero, 3–6, 6–4, [10–8].


2011 BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy – Doubles
Juan Ignacio Chela and Łukasz Kubot were the defending champions, but decided not to participate. Daniele Bracciali and Potito Starace won the title, defeating Julian Knowle and David Marrero 3–6, 6–4, [10–8] in the final.


2011 BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy – Singles
Juan Ignacio Chela was the defending champion but was eliminated in the semifinals by Pablo Andújar. Florian Mayer won the title, defeating Pablo Andújar 6–3, 6–1 in the final.


2011 BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2011 BSL All-Star Game
The 2011 BSL All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game that was played on 11 January 2011 at Gan Ner Sports Hall, home of Hapoel Gilboa Galil. The game was played during the 2010–11 BSL Season.


2011 BSL All-Star Game, All-Star Game
The BSL League Administration announced the re-establishment of the BSL All-Star Game On 8 December 2010. The rosters for the All-Star Game were chosen by an online voting, In which the fans choose one international player and one local player from each team. The voting was open for three weeks, until 27 December. After counting approximately 10,000 votes the following rosters has been chosen.


2011 BSL All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Game
Lior Eliyahu was named MVP of the match as he scored 27 points and passed 13 assists.


2011 BSN Finals
The 2011 BSN Finals was the championship series of the 2011 season of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN) and the conclusion of the season's playoffs. The champion Capitanes de Arecibo defeated the Piratas de Quebradillas, 4–1, to win their fifth BSN title.


2011 BSN Finals
The series was held from July to August 1, 2011. The Capitanes hosted Games 1, 3, and 5. Guillermo Diaz was named Most Valuable Player.


2011 BSN Finals, Background
This was the Capitanes twelfth appearance in the BSN Finals, and the Piratas fourteenth. It was the first time each team faced each other in the Finals. The Capitanes had home-court advantage by virtue of a better regular-season record than the Piratas.


2011 BSN Finals, Series summary, Game 3
The Capitanes dominated the first half of the game, 41-32, with a second quarter score of 27-10. Quebradillas, who had won the first quarter 22-17 only scored one field goal during the first 7:30 minutes of the second quarter. Arecibo had a 15-3 run and took the lead 32-25 during that time. There was also poor shooting efficacy in field goals, as both teams scored less than 42% of their shots during that half. The Piratas made a comeback in the third quarter with an 11-0 rally which closed the game to 44-43 with 5:52 to go.


2011 BSN Finals, Series summary, Game 3
Six consecutive points from the Piratas allowed them to take the lead 52-46, while Arecibo suffered from foul trouble, particularly Danilo Pinnock, who already had three fouls. Quebradillas entered the last quarter with a 56-55 lead. In the last four minutes of the game, Peter John Ramos took control of the game for the Piratas, scoring five consecutive points, including a three-point play which gave his team a definitive lead of 72-71 with 1:50 to play. Ramos and P. J. Tucker scored two free throws each to seal the victory with 17 seconds.


2011 BSN Finals, Series summary, Game 3
Quebradillas had a 10-2 run during the last minutes of the game, and Guillermo Díaz was the only Arecibo player to score during the last three minutes of the game, finishing with 21 points. Arecibo also relied too much on their three-point shooting, making only 9 of 31 attempts for a 29% average. Ramos finished the game with 27 points and 14 rebounds, while Darius Washington had 19 points, 9 rebounds, and 5 assists to lead Quebradillas.


2011 BSN Finals, Series summary, Game 4
The Piratas led the first half, 22-18, and closed the second quarter with a 7-0 rally after Daniel Santiago had two consecutive baskets in the paint. In the third quarter, Arecibo started to put pressure on defense and limited Quebradillas to only 14 points to close out their lead to 59-57 when entering the last quarter. During that third quarter, Quebradillas only scored four field goals, the last of them, a basket from Peter John Ramos, with 7:15 on the clock. They finished the quarter with six free throws to maintain their lead.


2011 BSN Finals, Series summary, Game 4
With 1:23 to play in the fourth quarter, the Piratas widened their lead to 7 points, 73-66, after consecutive baskets from Joel Jones and Peter John Ramos. Arecibo responded with a basket from Guillermo Díaz with 0:44 seconds. Then Quebradillas' David Huertas missed a three-point shot which allowed Danilo Pinnock to score three points himself to close the gap to 74-71 with 0:21 seconds. In the next possession, Darius Washington received a foul, but missed one of his free-throws giving Arecibo a chance to tie it.


2011 BSN Finals, Series summary, Game 4
After that, Pinnock received the ball alone and scored a three-pointer with 4.7 seconds on the clock, leading the game into overtime. During the overtime, Diaz and Larry Ayuso took control of the game for Arecibo, scoring the first 11 points of their team in the extra time, including three 3-pointers. Diaz and Ayuso finished the game with 29 and 26 points respectively. This was the second game of the Finals that went to overtime.


2011 BSN Finals, Series summary, Game 5
During the first quarter, Quebradillas' David Huertas scored 14 points, with 4 three-pointers. However, Arecibo played more aggressively and ended up leading the period 24-18, including a 9-0 rally. During the second quarter, Peter John Ramos joined Huertas as the scoring threats for the Piratas, finishing both with 26 points in the first half. However, it wasn't enough to take the lead and Arecibo finishes the half with a 43-42 lead, despite shooting 4-15 from the three-point line. Arecibo also leads in offensive rebounds 19-11.


2011 BSN Finals, Series summary, Game 5
During the third quarter, the Piratas started with an erratic offensive, and their first basket came with 6:36 on the clock. However, they recovered and tried to take over with a 6-0 rally, but a technical foul from P. J. Tucker cut their momentum. Arecibo's Daniel Santiago also contributed with his defense, and several baskets, to help his team maintain the lead. The fourth quarter opened with four consecutive points from Arecibo. However, Quebradillas managed a rally of their own and closed the gap to 6 points, forcing the Capitanes to ask for a timeout. The Piratas won that quarter 22-17, but the Arecibo lead was already too much as they won the game by 5 points. Huertas and Ramos led the Piratas with 26 and 23 points respectively, while Larry Ayuso had 22 points for Arecibo.


2011 BSWW Mundialito
The 2011 BSWW Mundialito is a beach soccer tournament that takes place at Praia da Rocha, Portimão, Portugal from August 10 to 12. This competition is played in a round-robin format.


2011 BVA Open
The 2011 BVA Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which is part of the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in São José do Rio Preto, Brazil between 24 and 30 October 2011.


2011 BVA Open, ATP entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2011 BVA Open, ATP entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry as a special exempt into the singles main draw:


2011 BVA Open, Champions, Doubles
Frederico Gil /  Jaroslav Pospíšil def. Franco Ferreiro /  Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo, 6–4, 6–4


2011 BVA Open – Doubles
Frederico Gil and Jaroslav Pospíšil won the first edition of the tournament, defeating Franco Ferreiro and Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo 6–4, 6–4 in the final.


2011 BVA Open – Singles
Ricardo Mello won the first edition of the tournament against Eduardo Schwank 6–4, 6–2 in the final.


2011 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix
The 2011 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix is the fifth season of BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix.


2011 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix, Results, Performance by countries
Tabulated below are the Grand Prix performances based on countries. Only countries who have won a title are listed:


2011 BWF Super Series
The 2011 BWF Super Series was the fifth season of the BWF Super Series. This season marked the beginning of a three-year cycle of the event, the second after the first four-year one from 2007 to 2010. A few changes were announced by Badminton World Federation (BWF), as the India was promoted up one stage from the Grand Prix Gold level, while the Swiss was dropped from the Superseries. Five tournaments were promoted to become slightly higher-level Superseries Premier events with more prize money awarded than in the Super Series tournaments.


2011 BWF Super Series
The Masters Finals were held in Liuzhou, China from December 14–18, 2011.


2011 BWF Super Series, Results, Performance by countries
Tabulated below are the Super Series performances based on countries. Only countries who have won a title are listed:


2011 BWF Super Series Finals
The 2011 BWF Super Series Finals was a top level badminton competition which was held from December 14 to December 18, 2011 in Liuzhou, China. The final was held by Chinese Badminton Association and sponsored by Li-Ning. It was the final event of the BWF Super Series competition on the 2011 BWF Super Series schedule. The total purse for the event was $500,000.


2011 BWF Super Series Finals, Representatives by nation
§: Christinna Pedersen from Denmark, Zhao Yunlei from China and Cheng Wen-Hsing from China Taipei were the players who played in two categories (women's doubles and mixed doubles).


2011 BWF World Championships
The 2011 BWF World Championships was the 19th tournament of the BWF World Championships, a global tournament in the sport of badminton. It was held at Wembley Arena in London, England, from August 8 to August 14, 2011.


2011 BWF World Championships
China clean swept all the titles for a record third time and became the first nation to successfully defend all the titles won from the previous edition. Scotland won their first medal from mixed pair and India won their medal in women's doubles and their seconds worlds medal after 28 years.


2011 BWF World Championships, Draw
The draw was held on 25 July at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.


2011 BWF World Championships, Schedule
All five events started on the first day and concluded with the final on the last day.


2011 BWF World Championships, Participating countries
347 players from 48 countries participated at this year's edition. The number in parentheses indicate the player contributed by each country.


2011 BWF World Championships – Men's doubles
The Men's Doubles tournament of the 2011 BWF World Championships was held from August 8–14. Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng were the defending champions. In the final, Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng defeated Ko Sung-hyun and Yoo Yeon-seong 24–22, 21–16.


2011 BWF World Championships – Men's singles
The Men's Singles tournament of the 2011 BWF World Championships was held from August 8–14. Chen Jin was the defending champion. Lin Dan defeated Lee Chong Wei 20–22, 21–14, 23–21 in the final.


2011 BWF World Championships – Mixed doubles
The Mixed Doubles tournament of the 2011 BWF World Championships was held from August 8–14. Zheng Bo and Ma Jin were the defending champions. Zhang Nan and Zhao Yunlei won the title after defeating Chris Adcock and Imogen Bankier 21–15, 21–7 in the final.


2011 BWF World Championships – Women's doubles
The Women's Doubles tournament of the 2011 BWF World Championships was held from August 8–14. Du Jing and Yu Yang were the defending champions. Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang defeated Tian Qing and Zhao Yunlei 22–20, 21–11 in the final to win their first gold medals at the World Championships.


2011 BWF World Championships – Women's singles
The Women's Singles tournament of the 2011 BWF World Championships was held from August 8–14. Wang Lin was the defending champion. Wang Yihan won the final against Cheng Shao-Chieh 21–15, 21–10.


2011 BWF World Junior Championships
The 2011 BWF World Junior Championships is the thirteenth tournament of the BWF World Junior Championships. This tournament was held in Taipei, Chinese Taipei at Taoyuan Arena from October 28 to November 6, 2011.


2011 BWF World Junior Championships, Host city
In June 2009, the Chinese Taipei Badminton Association successfully bid for this event. This is also the first time for the Republic of China officially won the bid to host the badminton World Championships tournament.


2011 BWF World Junior Championships, Team competition
A total of 22 countries competed at the team competition in 2011 BWF World Junior Championships.


2011 BWF World Junior Championships – Mixed doubles
The Mixed Doubles tournament of the 2011 BWF World Junior Championships is a badminton world junior individual championships for the Eye Level Cups, held on November 2–6. The defending champion of the last edition is Liu Cheng / Bao Yixin from China. Indonesian pair Alfian Eko Prasetya and Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja won the gold medal after beat their compatriot Ronald Alexander and Tiara Rosalia Nuraidah in the final round with the score 12–21, 21–17, and 25–23.


2011 BWF World Junior Championships – Mixed doubles, Seeds
The seeds  based from the Continental Confederation's recommendation, players performance at the Suhandinata Cup and also using the latest world ranking  as a guideline.


2011 BWF season
The 2011 BWF Season was the overall badminton circuit organized by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) for the 2011 badminton season to publish and promote the sport. Besides the BWF World Championships, BWF promotes the sport of badminton through an extensive worldwide programme of events in four structure levels. They were the individual tournaments called Super Series, Grand Prix Events, International Challenge and International Series. Besides the individual tournaments, team wvents such as Thomas & Uber Cup, Sudirman Cup and Suhadinata Cup are held every other year.


2011 BWF season
The 2011 BWF season calendar comprised the World Championships tournaments, the Sudirman Cup, the BWF Super Series (Superseries, Superseries Premier, Superseries Finals), the Grand Prix (Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix), the International Series (International Series and International Challenge), and Future Series.


2011 BWF season, Schedule
This is the complete schedule of events on the 2011 calendar, with the champions and runners-up documented.


2011 BYU Cougars football team
The 2011 BYU Cougars football team represented Brigham Young University in the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cougars, led by head coach Bronco Mendenhall, played their home games at LaVell Edwards Stadium. This was the first year they competed as an independent in football. They finished the season 10–3 and were invited to the Armed Forces Bowl where they defeated Tulsa 24–21.


2011 BYU Cougars football team, 2011 media
The school announced that the annual BYU Football Media days would be July 12, 2011 and would be broadcast live on BYUtv. Special question and answer segments with current players and BYU Hall of Famers would take place throughout the day on BYUtv.org. Having no other sports to broadcast that day, ESPN announced they would simulcast two of the events live on ESPN3. All games will be broadcast on KSL 102.7 FM and 1160 AM, on the internet at KSL.com, and through the various BYU Cougars sport network affiliates.


2011 BYU Cougars football team, 2011 media
Additionally BYUtv will broadcast a one-hour pregame show live (called Countdown to Kickoff and hosted by Dave McCann, Alema Harrington, and David Nixon) followed by a Post-game Show with Interviews from players and coaches about the games outcome. The Bronco Mendenhall Monday Press Conference will be shown live every Monday on www.byutv.org (live events link) instead of the actual BYUtv Channel. BYUtv Sports will also be able to provide their own announcers for the BYUtv Gameday Replay of all home games with Dave McCann doing play-by-play, Gary Sheide or Blaine Fowler doing color commentary, and Robbie Bullough or Jarom Jordan doing sideline reporting.


2011 BYU Cougars football team, 2011 media, BYU Radio Sports Network Affiliates
KSL 102.7 FM and 1160 AM- Flagship Station (Salt Lake City/ Provo, UT and ksl.com)BYU Radio- Nationwide (Dish Network 980, Sirius XM 143, and byuradio.org)KIDO- Boise, ID [football only]KTHK- Blackfoot/ Idaho Falls/ Pocatello/ Rexburg, IDKMGR- Manti, UTKSUB- Cedar City, UTKDXU- St. George, UTKSHP- Las Vegas, NV [football only]KNZZ- Grand Junction, CO [football only]


2011 BYU Cougars football team, Regular season, Armed Forces Bowl- Tulsa
Cody Hoffman (BYU) was voted the offensive MVP of the game because of his 3 Touchdown Receptions and Dexter McCoil (Tulsa) was voted the defensive MVP of the game because of his 2 Interceptions. Kyle Van Noy was 2nd in the defensive MVP voting.


2011 BYU Cougars football team, Season news
During Spring Training QB Jake Heaps was named one of the top 3 non-AQ players to watch in 2011 by ESPN's Andrea Adelson.


2011 BYU Cougars football team, Season news
Rivals.com named OT Matt Reynolds as No. 24 on their top 100 countdown in 2011. Reynolds would later be named on ESPN's Pre-Season All-American team.


2011 BYU Cougars football team, Season news
At the Utah State game, Brandon Doman proposed benching Heaps and seeing what Riley Nelson could do. Nelson rallied the Cougars to beat the Aggies and would become the starting QB for every game he was healthy in the rest of the season. Nelson would go on to win 4 FBS Independent Player of the Week awards.


2011 BYU Cougars football team, Season news
BYU decided to add running back Michael Alisa to their running back rotation at homecoming. Alisa would become the starting RB for the rest of the season after going for 91 yards on 16 carries.


2011 BYU Cougars football team, Season news
Matt Putnam was ruled eligible for the Cougars starting in October and became one of the many linebacker beasts.


2011 BYU Cougars football team, Season news
On November 7, Bronco Mendenhall announced that senior Jordan Pendleton would have season ending knee surgery. As a tribute for his teammates play and attitude, Kyle Van Noy would wear his number at senior night. Pendleton won two FBS Independent defensive player of the week awards during his senior season.


2011 BYU Cougars football team, Season news
On December 5, Jake Heaps announced he would transfer after the semester ended. James Lark would resume the backup QB role for the bowl game and for the 2012 season. It was later announced he would transfer to Kansas.


2011 Babergh District Council election
The 2011 Babergh Council election took place on 5 May 2011 to elect members of Babergh District Council in Suffolk, England. The whole council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.


2011 Babergh District Council election, Background
The previous election in 2007 saw no party win a majority, with the Conservatives being the largest party. Labour won no seats at the election, but recovered one seat when Tony Bavington gained a seat back in a 2010 by-election in Great Cornard. A further change in composition came in March 2010 when councillor Dean Walton defected to the Green Party from the Conservatives, but sat as an independent on Babergh Council.


2011 Babergh District Council election, Background
A total of 122 candidates were nominated for the 43 seats being contested, which was reported to be a record for an election to Babergh Council, and up from 78 at the 2003 election and 87 in 2007. These were comprised on 34 Conservatives, 31 Labour, 27 Liberal Democrats, 14 United Kingdom Independence Party, 1 Green Party and 15 candidates from no party. The 31 candidates from Labour was a record for the party in Babergh, while the Liberal Democrat leader on Suffolk County Council, Kathy Pollard, was among the Liberal Democrat candidates.


2011 Babergh District Council election, Election result
The results saw the council remain under no overall control, with the Conservatives staying as the largest party on 18 seats. The Liberal Democrats dropped to 12 seats, while Labour increased from the 1 seat they had held after a by-election gain to 3 seats.


2011 Babergh District Council election, Election result
Individual results included an independent gain from the Conservatives in Lavenham, Liberal Democrat Kathy Pollard winning a place back on the council after 16 years, while author and Labour candidate Nicci Gerrard lost in South Cosford, coming third with 187 votes.


2011 Baby derailment
On 12 August 2011, an express train travelling from Warsaw to Katowice in southern Poland derailed at Baby, near Piotrków Trybunalski, killing two passengers and injuring 80 others.


2011 Baby derailment, Accident
On Friday, 12 August 2011, a PKP Intercity TLK train from Warszawa Wschodnia to Katowice derailed at Baby [ˈbabɨ], near the town of Piotrków Trybunalski. The accident happened at 16:15 local time (14:15 UTC). Initially, four passengers were reported dead, but search of the wreckage with the use of lifting equipment and rescue dogs established that only one 52-year-old man had died. A total of 81 passengers were injured, including about 20 in serious condition. The locomotive, PKP class EU07, number 1034, and all four carriages derailed. The first carriage turned over. The train was full, carrying almost 280 passengers, as the accident happened on the Friday before the long weekend of the Assumption Day holiday.


2011 Baby derailment, Accident
After the accident, it was reported that the train had been travelling at 118 kilometres per hour (73 mph) on a section of line where the maximum permitted speed was only 40 kilometres per hour (25 mph). The driver was placed under arrest in the hospital, and on 15 August 2011 a court placed him under detention for two months. In 2015 he was found guilty of causing the derailment and sentenced for three years and three months of prison.


2011 Baby derailment, Controversy
In 2019, Polish railway-journalist Karol Trammer wrote, that the investigation team (PKBWK, Państwowa Komisja Badań Wypadków Kolejowych) did not pay attention to the discrepancy between what driver said after derailment, and what has been saved by the audio register in Baby signal box, asserting that driver has pleaded guilty in what he told after the accident. PKBWK would also dismiss signal fault - to which the driver has pointed during interrogation, and 18 April 2012 incident in Baby, which involved signal fault - and train dispatcher error caused by workload and safety errors, as possible causes. In such circumstances, the driver should be acquitted according to in dubio pro reo rule, which was also used by Polish court during one train crash case in the past.


2011 Baby derailment, Controversy
In his 2020 book about rail crash in Otłoczyn, Jonasz Przybyszewski mentioned the accident in Baby as an example of lack of responsibility' sense among senior executives in PKP, which resulted in declaring the driver as guilty despite no proof and fact of 2013 control in Baby, which found out that the state of equipment used to control the traffic was not satisfactory.


2011 Baden Masters
The 2011 Baden Masters were held from September 2 to 4 in Baden, Switzerland. It was the first event of the Men's World Curling Tour for the 2011–12 curling season. The total purse of the event was 29,000 Swiss francs (CHF).


2011 Baden-Württemberg state election
The 2011 Baden-Württemberg state election was held on 27 March 2011 to elect the members of the 14th Landtag of Baden-Württemberg. The incumbent coalition government of the Christian Democratic Union and Free Democratic Party led by Minister-President Stefan Mappus lost its majority. The Greens achieved their best result in a state election up to this point at 24%, and became the second largest party in the Landtag. They subsequently formed a coalition with the Social Democratic Party (SPD), and Greens leader Winfried Kretschmann was elected Minister-President. He became the first Green politician to serve as a state head of government in Germany.


2011 Baden-Württemberg state election, Campaign and issues
The Baden-Württemberg election was considered to have significant ramifications for Chancellor Angela Merkel; the state had been a CDU stronghold for almost 60 years.


2011 Baden-Württemberg state election, Campaign and issues, Stuttgart 21
Stuttgart 21 was a major election issue. Work for this project, that sets out to transform the Stuttgart Main Station from a terminus station into a subterranean non-terminus station, was started in the summer of 2010 despite massive protests by the Stuttgart population.


2011 Baden-Württemberg state election, Campaign and issues, Stuttgart 21
The main reasons for the protests are the questionable necessity of the transformation, i.e. the disproportionate costs (between 4 and 5 billion Euros) in relation to the (small) gains in travel time (the current station is a functioning station with 90% of the passengers ending their journey here anyway), the dismantling and partial destruction of the old station building (generally considered to be cultural heritage), the destruction of some of the inner-city's park ("Schlossgarten"), the geological risks posed by the tunnels that would have to be drilled into the Stuttgart ground, endangering Europe's second largest mineral water sources and spas, and the danger of some of the buildings above the tunnels collapsing.


2011 Baden-Württemberg state election, Campaign and issues, Stuttgart 21
Transparent government became an issue due to the controversy about Stuttgart 21.


2011 Baden-Württemberg state election, Campaign and issues, Stuttgart 21
The CDU government of Stefan Mappus supported of the project. The government opposed demonstrations and civil disobedience campaigns against the project, which were broken up by force, with police using tear gas and water cannons on protestors. Mappus was considered to have linked his political fate to the success or failure of the project.


2011 Baden-Württemberg state election, Campaign and issues, Stuttgart 21
The SPD leadership also supported Stuttgart 21, but since early 2010 called for a referendum on the issue "to pacify the city" and end the ongoing protests. The party did not take a clear stance on the issue due to opposition of the project from much of its membership.


2011 Baden-Württemberg state election, Campaign and issues, Stuttgart 21
Opposition to Stuttgart 21 led to "unprecedented popularity" for the Alliance '90/The Greens in Baden-Württemberg and a major rise in the polls.


2011 Baden-Württemberg state election, Campaign and issues, Stuttgart 21
As a coalition partner of the CDU in the Mappus government, the FDP also supported Stuttgart 21. The party was criticized for its acceptance of the violent force used against demonstrators in the late summer of 2010.