The 2014 Hong Kong Tennis Open was a women's professional tennis tournament played on

hard courts A hardcourt (or hard court) is a surface or floor on which a sport is played, most usually in reference to tennis courts. It is typically made of rigid materials such as asphalt or concrete, and covered with acrylic resins to seal the surface and ...

. It was part 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 ...

and a return of the Hong Kong Open women's tennis tournament last held in 1993. It took place in Victoria Park, Hong Kong, from September 8 to 14.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

_{¹ Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money}
_{* per team}

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of August 25, 2014

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Duan Yingying *

Sabine Lisicki Sabine Katharina Lisicki (; born 22 September 1989) is a German professional tennis player. Lisicki turned professional in 2006, and her breakthrough came in 2009 when she reached the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon Championships, and also won h ...

* Zhang Ling The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Jarmila Gajdošová * Elizaveta Kulichkova *

Zhang Kailin Zhang Kailin (; ; born 28 January 1990) is a former tennis player from China. Zhang has won one doubles title on WTA 125 tournaments along five singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 12 September 2016, she reached her best sing ...

* Zhu Lin The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Misa Eguchi

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament *

Zarina Diyas Zarina Diyas ( kk, Зари́на Ди́ас; born 18 October 1993) is a Kazakh professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as No. 31 in the world by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Diyas has won one WTA singles title, at the ...

→ replaced by Grace Min * Vania King → replaced by Julia Glushko * Kurumi Nara → replaced by

Kimiko Date-Krumm is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She reached the semifinals of the 1994 Australian Open, the 1995 French Open and the 1996 Wimbledon Championships, and won the Japan Open a record four times. She reached a career-high ranking ...

* Peng Shuai (heat illness) → replaced by Misa Eguchi *

Sílvia Soler Espinosa Sílvia Soler Espinosa (; born 19 November 1987) is a retired Spanish tennis player. In her career, she has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as five singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 21 May 2012, she ...

→ 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 ...

Elina Svitolina Elina Mykhailivna Svitolina ( uk, Еліна Михайлівна Світоліна, ; born 12 September 1994) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She reached career-high rankings of world No. 3 in singles and 108 in doubles. Svitolina ...

→ replaced by Kristýna Plíšková * Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová → replaced by

Luksika Kumkhum Luksika "Luk" Kumkhum ( th, ลักษิกา คำขำ; ; born 21 July 1993) is a Thai tennis player. She turned professional in 2011, and reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 66 on 19 November 2018. On 16 July 2018, she ...

* Zhang Shuai → replaced by Zheng Saisai

Retirements

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

¹ Rankings are as of August 25, 2014

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: *

Venise Chan Venise Chan (; born 30 May 1989) is a former tennis player from Hong Kong. Chan, who reached No. 1 in Hong Kong and No. 340 in WTA rankings, also played college tennis for the University of Washington. Early life Chan was born in Hong Kong.(2007 ...

/ Wu Ho-ching *

Magda Linette Magda Linette (born 12 February 1992) is a Polish professional tennis player. Having made her tour debut in 2009, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 33 in February 2020. Linette has reached five finals on the WTA Tour, winning ...

/ Zhang Ling

Champions

Singles

defeated

Karolína Plíšková Karolína Hrdličková ( née Plíšková; ; born 21 March 1992) is a Czech professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 in singles, reaching the top of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rankings on 17 July 2017 and holding the pos ...

, 7–5, 6–3

Doubles

/ Kristýna Plíšková defeated Patricia Mayr-Achleitner / Arina Rodionova, 6–2, 2–6, 2–10

References

External links

Official site
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