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2011 WDSF Grand Slam Stuttgart The WDSF Communications team is gearing up to provide you with extensive coverage on the two Grand Slam events held as part of the 2011 German Open Championships in Stuttgart, GER. Team members will be on location for the duration of the event and provide you with live feeds of the decisive stages of the Latin and Standard Grand Slams.

Both competitions will undoubtedly draw record numbers of entries this year too. In 2010, 336 couples contested the title in Latin, 320 couples in Standard. Last year's winners were Alexey Silde and Anna Firstova, RUS, in Latin, Benedetto Ferruggia and Claudia Koehler, GER, in Standard. 

This year's schedule for the two-day contests have been established as follows.

Grand Slam Latin

17 August

Round 1

09:00 – 13:40

18 August

Round 2 through Round 5

09:00 – 20:40

18 August

Quarterfinal through Final

21:00 – 23:40

Grand Slam Standard

19 August

Round 1

08:45 – 12:55

20 August

Round 2 through Round 5

09:00 – 19:05

20 August

Quarterfinal through Final

20:30 – 23:45

With one month to go until the 2011 Grand Slam Stuttgart, we will try to post as much pre-event information as possible on this blog. Another initiative that ties in with the German Open Championships, a WDSF DanceSport Academy workshop held on 15 August in Stuttgart, will also be reported on here. Stay tuned!

WDSF DanceSport Academy Workshop

The DanceSport Academy Workshopis staged concurrently with the 2011 German Open in Stuttgart on 15 August. It focuses on the "Development of the Viennese Waltz", with the IDSF Professional Division acting as co-organiser. Slovenian pros Luca Bussoleti and Tjasa Vulic will demonstrate open choreography in the Viennese Waltz.

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