Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Kodayake Burtaniya na iya cancantar 'yan wasa zuwa Wasannin Olympics na bazara na 2012 ta hanyar zaɓin mai masaukin baki, an zaɓi Sheppard don yin gasa a gasar cancantar yanki a Bratislava. Ta doke Cristina Ghiță ta Romania a wasan kusa da na karshe don samun ɗayan tikiti biyu na wasannin Olympics. A wasan mutum daya ta doke abokiyar wasanta Sophie Troiano a zagaye na farko, amma ta yi rashin nasara a kan World No. 6 Corinne Maîtrejean na Faransa a zagaye na biyu. A cikin wasan kungiya
Sheppard, Troiano da Anna Bentley sun ga Masar a zagaye na farko, sannan suka hadu da Italiya da aka fi so, wanda ke nuna tagulla, azurfa da zinare na gasar mutum. An murkushe Burtaniya 14 zuwa 42 a wasan kusa da na karshe. Sheppard ya gama kakar 2011-12 a Duniya No. 35, mafi kyawun aiki.