her final tournament of the year was the australian open wildcard playoff where she won her pool matches against azra hadzic 6–3, 6–2, daniella jeflea 6–3, 7–5 and belinda woolcock 6–0, 6–4. in her semifinal, she defeated bojana bobusic 6–4, 7–5. she played 15-year-old ashleigh barty in the final and things looked good for rogowska as she led 5–2 in the first set, but barty came back and took the match 7–6, 6–2. rogowska improved her wta ranking in 2011 from 259 to 167.