The 2014 BNP Paribas Katowice Open is a women's
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
tournament played on
indoor hard courts. It is the 2nd edition of the
BNP Paribas Katowice Open, in the
International category of the
2014 WTA Tour
The 2014 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organized by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2014 tennis season. The 2014 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Fe ...
. It will take place at
Spodek
Spodek (meaning "saucer" in Polish) is a multipurpose arena complex in Katowice, Poland, opened on 9 May 1971. Aside from the main dome, the complex includes a gym, an ice rink, a hotel and three large car parks. It was the largest indoor venue ...
arena in
Katowice
Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most popul ...
, Poland, from April 7 through April 13, 2014.
Points and prize money
Point distribution
Prize money
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings as of March 31, 2014.
Other entrants
The following players received
wildcards into the main draw:
*
Alizé Cornet
Alizé Cornet (; born 22 January 1990) is a French professional tennis player. Cornet has won six singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as three singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Circu ...
*
Magdalena Fręch
Magdalena Fręch (; born 15 December 1997) is a Polish tennis player.
She has won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. She has also won five singles titles and four doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 25 July 2022, she reached her be ...
*
Kristýna Plíšková
The following players received entry as a special exempt into the singles main draw:
*
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*Jovana Brakočević, Serbian volleyball player
*Jovana Crnogorac, Serbian cyclist
*Jovana Damnjanović, Serbian football player
*Jovana Jakšić, Serbian tennis player
*Jovana Jankov ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
*
Vera Dushevina
Vera Yevgenyevna Dushevina ( rus, Вера Евгеньевна Душевина; born 6 October 1986) is a Russian former professional tennis player.
She won one singles title and two doubles titles on the WTA Tour. As a junior, she won the ...
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Claire Feuerstein
Claire Feuerstein (; ; born 28 February 1986) is a former tennis player from France.
She made her debut in professional competition in 2002, aged 16, at an ITF tournament in Les Contamines, France.
From 2002 to 2009, she played at many ITF t ...
*
Kristína Kučová
Kristína Kučová (; born 23 May 1990) is a Slovak tennis player. On 12 September 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 71. On 5 October 2009, she peaked at No. 168 in the WTA doubles rankings.
She has won one singles title on ...
*
Ksenia Pervak
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
*
Kirsten Flipkens (ankle injury) --> replaced by
Andrea Hlaváčková
*
Polona Hercog --> replaced by
Alison Van Uytvanck
Alison Van Uytvanck (; born 26 March 1994) is a Belgian professional tennis player.
Van Uytvanck has won five singles and two doubles WTA Tour titles and three Challenger Tour singles titles, as well as 12 singles and two doubles titles on th ...
*
María Teresa Torró Flor
María Teresa Torró Flor (; born 2 May 1992) is a Spanish former professional tennis player.
In her career, Torró Flor won one singles title and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as 18 singles and five doubles titles on the ITF W ...
--> replaced by
Vesna Dolonc
Vesna Ratkovna Dolonc (Serbian Cyrillic and russian: link=yes, Весна Ратковна Долонц; née Manasieva, Манасиева; born 21 July 1989) is a retired Serbian tennis player. She earned career-highs of 84 in singles and 93 ...
WTA doubles main-draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings as of March 31, 2014.
Other entrants
The following pairs received
wildcards into the main draw:
*
Magdalena Fręch
Magdalena Fręch (; born 15 December 1997) is a Polish tennis player.
She has won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. She has also won five singles titles and four doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 25 July 2022, she reached her be ...
/
Zuzanna Maciejewska
Zuzanna Maciejewska (born 19 January 1995) is a Polish former tennis player.
Maciejewska has a singles career-high ranking of 574 by the WTA, achieved on 26 August 2013. She also has a WTA doubles career-high ranking of 746, achieved on 13 Octo ...
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Klaudia Jans-Ignacik
Klaudia Jans-Ignacik (née Jans; born 24 September 1984) is a retired Polish tennis player. On 16 August 2004, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 410. On 10 September 2012, she peaked at No. 28 in the doubles rankings.
Ja ...
/
Raluca Olaru
The following pairs received entry as alternates:
*
Veronika Kapshay /
Teodora Mirčić
Teodora Mirčić ( sr-cyr, Теодора Мирчић, ; born 3 March 1988) is a retired Serbian tennis player. She won three singles and 33 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit, and also played for the Serbia Fed Cup team.
Personal life
Teodora ...
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
*
Tamira Paszek (left rib injury)
Champions
Singles
*
Alizé Cornet
Alizé Cornet (; born 22 January 1990) is a French professional tennis player. Cornet has won six singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as three singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Circu ...
def.
Camila Giorgi
Camila Giorgi (; born 30 December 1991) is an Italian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 26, achieved on 22 October 2018. She is the current Italian No. 2, after Martina Trevisan.
After winning her fi ...
, 7–6
(7-3), 5–7, 7–5
Doubles
*
Yuliya Beygelzimer
Yuliya Markovna Beygelzimer ( ua, Юлія Марківна Бейгельзимер; born 20 October 1983) is a retired tennis player from Ukraine.
Career
She is perhaps best known for nearly defeating Jennifer Capriati at the 2004 French Op ...
/
Olga Savchuk
Olga Mykolayivna Savchuk ( uk, Ольга Миколаївна Савчук; born 20 September 1987) is a retired tennis player from Ukraine. Savchuk grew up in the city of Makiyivka in Donetsk province. She resides in Nassau, Bahamas.
Her best ...
def.
Klára Koukalová /
Monica Niculescu
Monica Niculescu (born 25 September 1987) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association as high as 28 in singles and 11 in doubles. Niculescu has won several titles: three singles and ten doubles ...
, 6–4, 5–7,
0–7
References
External links
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{{2014 WTA Tour
BNP Paribas Katowice Open
Katowice Open
The Katowice Open was a professional women's tennis tournament played on an indoor hard court in Katowice, Poland and was held in April. The event was affiliated with the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and was an International-level tournament ...
Katowice Open
BNP Paribas Katowice Open