2011 Open Castilla y León
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The 2011 Open Castilla y León was a professional tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 tournament played on hard courts. It was the 26th edition of the tournament which was part of the Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour
2011 ATP Challenger Tour
The Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour was the secondary professional tennis circuit organized by the ATP. The 2011 ATP Challenger Tour calendar comprised 15 top tier Tretorn SERIE+ tournaments, and approximately 150 regular series tournaments, with prize money ranging from...

. It took place in Segovia
Segovia
Segovia is a city in Spain, the capital of Segovia Province in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is situated north of Madrid, 30 minutes by high speed train. The municipality counts some 55,500 inhabitants.-Etymology:...

, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

 between 1 and 7 August 2011.

Seeds

Country Player Rank1 Seed
 Kazakhstan Mikhail Kukushkin
Mikhail Kukushkin
Mikhail Kukushkin is a professional Kazakh tennis player of Russian origin.-History:Born in Volgograd, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, he turned pro in 2006 and achieved his highest ranking on 1 November 2010....

69 1
 France Nicolas Mahut
Nicolas Mahut
Nicolas Pierre Armand Mahut is a French tennis player. Mahut is right-handed and has previously won the Orange Bowl in 1999, becoming professional in 2000. He is a good serve and volleyer and a doubles expert, having won many tournaments with his doubles partner Julien Benneteau. His career high...

96 2
 Slovakia Karol Beck
Karol Beck
Karol Beck is a male tennis player from Slovakia, who turned professional in 2001. He has been ranked as high as 36th in the world .- Career :On October 25, 2004, Beck lost in the final of the St...

100 3
 Germany Rainer Schüttler
Rainer Schüttler
Rainer Schüttler is a German professional tennis player, ranked World No. 113 in the ATP rankings. He is the last German player who reached a final in a grand slam tournament....

116 4
 Russia Teymuraz Gabashvili 133 5
 France Kenny de Schepper
Kenny de Schepper
Kenny de Schepper is a French professional tennis player.-2011 Challengers and Futures Tournaments:While not having any wins, he has several runner-up finishes in ITF Futures events and has a runner-up finish at an ATP Challenger event - the 2011 Open EuroEnergie de Quimper, where lost to his...

144 6
 Belgium Ruben Bemelmans
Ruben Bemelmans
Ruben Bemelmans , is a Belgian male professional tennis player. His career-high rank ATP singles ranking was No. 172 reached on October 26, 2009. His best doubles rank is No. 245....

145 7
 France Arnaud Clément
Arnaud Clément
Arnaud Clément is a professional tennis player from France. His best achievement is reaching the final of the 2001 Australian Open.-Career:Clément was born in Aix-en-Provence, and currently lives in Geneva, Switzerland...

146 8
  • 1 Rankings are as of July 25, 2011.

Other Entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: Guillermo Alcaide
Guillermo Alcaide
Guillermo Alcaide Justel is a Spanish professional tennis player.-Titles :-External links:...

 Pablo Carreño-Busta
Pablo Carreño-Busta
Pablo Carreño Busta is a Spanish tennis player.He has reached the finals of three Futures tournaments; only one of these he won against Karlis Lejnieks, He plays with right hand and two-handed backhand. Pablo Carreño currently resides in Barcelona.-Singles Finals:-Wins :-Runner-up :-External...

 Gerard Granollers Christian Voinea

The following players received entry as a special exempt into the singles main draw: Henri Kontinen
Henri Kontinen
Henri Kontinen is a Finnish tennis player. His highest ranking is 220th which was archived on 18 October 2010. His brother Micke is also a tennis player.-Junior career:...

 Fabrice Martin
Fabrice Martin
Fabrice Martin is a French professional tennis player. He competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 259 on 12 September 2011, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 202, on 26 September 2011.-Singles...



The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: Jaime Pulgar-García Nikola Mektić
Nikola Mektić
Nikola Mektić is a Croatian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On May 16, 2011, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 242.-External links:...

 Adrián Menéndez Federico Zeballos

The following players received entry as an Lucky Loser into the singles main draw: Albano Olivetti

Singles

  Karol Beck
Karol Beck
Karol Beck is a male tennis player from Slovakia, who turned professional in 2001. He has been ranked as high as 36th in the world .- Career :On October 25, 2004, Beck lost in the final of the St...

def.   Grégoire Burquier, 6–4, 7–6(7–4)

Doubles

  Johan Brunström
Johan Brunström
Johan Brunström is a professional Swedish tennis player. His highest ATP doubles ranking is 31st, which he reached on March 22, 2010. His career high in singles is 377th, which he reached on September 24, 2007.-Doubles: 10 :...

/   Frederik Nielsen
Frederik Nielsen
Frederik Løchte Nielsen is a professional male tennis player. Nielsen competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour, in both singles and doubles....

def.   Nicolas Mahut
Nicolas Mahut
Nicolas Pierre Armand Mahut is a French tennis player. Mahut is right-handed and has previously won the Orange Bowl in 1999, becoming professional in 2000. He is a good serve and volleyer and a doubles expert, having won many tournaments with his doubles partner Julien Benneteau. His career high...

 /   Lovro Zovko
Lovro Zovko
Lovro Zovko is a professional Croatian tennis player.-Tennis career:Early on in 2000 and 2001, Zovko reached the Umag final both years with Ivan Ljubičić....

, 6–2, 3–6, [10–6]

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