page_title: 2011 Petra Kvitová tennis season
section_title: Grass court season
hierarchical_section_title: 2011 Petra Kvitová tennis season / Yearly summary / Grass court season
caption_attribution_description: Čeština: Česká tenistka Petra Kvitová s mísou Venus Rosewater pro vítězku dvouhry ve Wimbledonu, 2011
context_page_description: The 2011 Petra Kvitová tennis season officially began at the 2011 Brisbane International, the first of two simultaneous events which opened the official 2011 season.
context_section_description: Following a modest clay court campaign, Kvitová made the transition to grass by participating in the AEGON International event in Eastbourne. She defeated Anastasija Sevastova, Ekaterina Makarova, Agnieszka Radwańska and Daniela Hantuchová (the latter retiring) to reach the final, but found Marion Bartoli too good for her in the championship match, losing in three sets.
  Wimbledon was next for Kvitová, where she had reached the semi-finals in 2010. Intent on going one better, Kvitová won her first four matches without conceding more than three games in a single set, before surviving three-set thrillers against Tsvetana Pironkova and Victoria Azarenka, to reach her first Grand Slam final. There, she met Maria Sharapova, who was seen as a favourite to win her second title after previously triumphing in 2004. However, Kvitová would win in straight sets to win her first Grand Slam title at the expense of the Russian.
caption: Kvitová holds the Venus Rosewater Dish
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