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2011 Sony Ericsson Open

Tennis tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The 2011 Sony Ericsson Open, a men's and women's tennis tournament, was held from March 22 to April 3, 2011. It was the 27th edition of the Miami Masters event and played on outdoor hard courts at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park in Miami, United States. The tournament was a part of 2011 ATP World Tour and 2011 WTA Tour, classified as ATP World Tour Masters 1000 and Premier Mandatory event respectively.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “2011 Sony Ericsson Open” as tennis tournament. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 1000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Sony, Ericsson and Tennis can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as tennis tournament. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 22, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 1000.

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This entry incorporates text from “2011 Sony Ericsson Open” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.