The 2014 Brasil Open Grand Prix was the eleventh grand prix badminton tournament of the

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. The tournament was held in Gymnasium of Comissão de Desporto da Aeronáutica (CDA),

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from 5 until 10 August 2014 and had a total purse of $50,000. This tournament organized by Confederação Brasileira de Badminton (CBBd), and sanctioned from the BWF. The sponsor of this tournament was the

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. 130 players from 27 countries competed at this tournament.

Men's singles

Seeds

Henri Hurskainen Henri Mikael Hurskainen (born 13 September 1986) is a Swedish badminton player who competed for Sweden at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. Hurskainen has won several gold and silver medals in badminton championships. Hurskainen was born in Emm ...

''(semifinals)'' # Dieter Domke ''(finals)'' # Osleni Guerrero ''(semifinals)'' # Scott Evans (champion) #

Sattawat Pongnairat Sattawat Pongnairat ( th, ศตวรรษ พงษ์นัยรัตน์; ; born May 8, 1990) is an American badminton player who competed at 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He trained at the Orange County Badminton club, ...

''(quarterfinals)'' # Petr Koukal ''(quarterfinals)'' #

Joachim Persson Joachim Persson (born 23 May 1983) is a badminton player from Denmark. Career Persson was born in Denmark but his family moved to Germany in his early years. He began to playing badminton in Trittau, Germany together with his parents. As Germa ...

''(quarterfinals)'' #

Daniel Paiola Daniel Vasconcellos Paiola (born May 4, 1989) is a Brazilian badminton player. He became the first Brazilian badminton player to win an individual medal in the Pan American Games when he won a bronze in the men's singles event at the 2011 Games, ...

''(quarterfinals)''

Finals

Women's singles

Seeds

# Beiwen Zhang (champion) #

Linda Zetchiri Linda Zetchiri ( bg, Линда Зечири; born 27 July 1987) is a Bulgarian badminton player. She competed in the women's singles at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. Career Zetchiri is one of the leading Bulgarian players in the sport. Sh ...

''(withdrew)'' #

Karin Schnaase Karin Schnaase (born 14 February 1985) is a German badminton player. She represented her country at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She placed 2nd in her group during group play and did not advance to the next round. She is well known for the broken sh ...

''(quarterfinals)'' #

Chloe Magee Chloe Noelle Magee (born 29 November 1988) is an Irish people, Irish professional badminton player. She represented her country at the Badminton at the Summer Olympics, Olympic Games for three consecutive times in Badminton at the 2008 Summer Oly ...

''(second round)''

Finals

Men's doubles

Seeds

Phillip Chew Phillip Hung Chew (born May 16, 1994) is an American badminton player. He won two gold medals in men's and mixed doubles at the Badminton at the 2015 Pan American Games, 2015 Pan American Games. Chew also participated in the Badminton at the 201 ...

''(second round)'' #

Matijs Dierickx Mattijs Dierickx (born 18 November 1991) is a Belgian male badminton player. Achievements BWF International Challenge/Series ''Men's Doubles'' : BWF International Challenge tournament : BWF International Series tournament : BWF Future Series ...

/ Freek Golinski ''(semifinals)'' #

Giovanni Greco Giovanni Greco (born 11 April 1990) is an Italian badminton player. He started playing badminton in 1999, in a small town near Palermo. He started competing competitively when he was 20, and was selected to join the national team in 2009. He part ...

/ Rosario Maddaloni ''(second round)''

Finals

Women's doubles

Seeds

Gabriela Stoeva Gabriela Stoeva ( bg, Габриела Стоева; born 15 July 1994) is a Bulgarian badminton player specializing in doubles. Her current partner is her younger sister, Stefani Stoeva. The pair is the three-time European Champion and European ...

Stefani Stoeva Stefani Stoeva ( bg, Стефани Стоева; born 23 September 1995) is a Bulgarian badminton player specializing in doubles. Her current partner is her older sister, Gabriela Stoeva. They competed at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. The d ...

''(finals)'' #

Eva Lee Eva Lee (, born August 7, 1986) is an American badminton player. Career ;1997 She started to play badminton and trained with her first coach Peter Baum (former US National Team member). ;1998 She took her first three crown titles in US Jun ...

Paula Lynn Obanana Paula Lynn Cao Hok (née Obañana; born March 19, 1985) is a Filipino-American badminton player who was originally from Dumaguete, Philippines. In 2015, she won the women's doubles gold medals at the Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada partnered ...

''(semifinals)''

Finals

Mixed doubles

Seeds

# Max Schwenger /

Carla Nelte Carla Nyenhuis ( Nelte, born 21 September 1990) is a German badminton player. She started playing badminton at 5 years old in her hometown and became a national team member in 2009. In 2014, she took double victories at the Brasil Open in the w ...

(champion) #

Sam Magee Samuel Magee (born 9 January 1990) is a retired Irish badminton player. He won the 2009 European Junior Badminton Championships, 2009 European Junior Championships in the boys' doubles event at Milan, Italy with his partner Sylvain Grosjean of F ...

''(finals)'' #

/ Jamie Subandhi ''(quarterfinals)'' #

Nico Ruponen Nico Mikael Ruponen (born 3 February 1989) is a Swedish badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are " ...

Amanda Hogstrom Amanda is a Latin feminine gerundive (i.e. verbal adjective) name meaning, literally, “she who must (or is fit to) be loved”. Other translations, with similar meaning, could be "deserving to be loved," "worthy of love," or "loved very much ...

''(second round)''

Finals

References

External links

Tournament info
at ''badminton.org.br''
Tournament draw
at ''tournamentsoftware.com'' {{Brasil Open (badminton) Brasil Open (badminton) BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix Brasil Open Grand Prix