The 2014

Nürnberger Versicherungscup The Nuremberg Cup was a women's professional tennis tournament held in Nuremberg, Germany. Held from 2013 until 2019, this 250-level tournament was played on outdoor clay courts. Tournament history The Nuremberg Open was a defunct men's tenni ...

was a professional

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

clay court A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Clay courts are made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate depending on the tournament. ...

s. It was the second edition of the tournament, and 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 ...

. It took place in

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

, Germany, on 18–24 May 2014.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

Singles main draw entrants

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Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of 12 May 2014

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Anna-Lena Friedsam * Antonia Lottner *

Lisa-Maria Moser Lisa-Maria Moser (born 28 March 1991) is an Austrian former tennis player. Moser won two singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Women's Circuit in her career. On 28 July 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 280. On 4 ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Beatriz García Vidagany * Julia Glushko * Anastasia Rodionova *

Nina Zander Nina Zander (born 26 January 1990) is a German former professional tennis player. Zander was born in Nuremberg. She won one singles title and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit in her career. On 18 August 2014, she reached her best si ...

The following players received entry into the singles main draw as lucky losers: *

Montserrat González Montserrat González Benítez (; born 1 July 1994) is a Paraguayan former tennis player. In her career, she won eleven singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 12 September 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of w ...

* Tereza Martincová

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament * Lourdes Domínguez Lino → replaced by Mona Barthel *

Garbiñe Muguruza Garbiñe Muguruza Blanco (; born 8 October 1993) is a Spanish-Venezuelan professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. ...

→ replaced by Belinda Bencic *

Anna Karolína Schmiedlová Anna Karolína Schmiedlová (; born 13 September 1994) is a Slovak tennis player. She has won three singles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as 12 singles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 12 October 201 ...

(right shoulder injury) → replaced by Tereza Martincová * Roberta Vinci → replaced by

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings as of 12 May 2014

Other entrants

The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw: * Yvonne Meusburger /

Kathinka von Deichmann Kathinka von Deichmann (born 16 May 1994) is a professional tennis player from Liechtenstein. Von Deichmann has won 15 singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 8 October 2018, she reached her best singles ranking of world ...

Champions

Singles

* Eugenie Bouchard def.

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 ...

6–2, 4–6, 6–3

Doubles

Michaëlla Krajicek Michaëlla Krajicek ( cz, Michaela Krajíčková; born 9 January 1989) is a Dutch former tennis player. She won three singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as one WTA 125 tournaments, WTA 125 doubles title, and 14 singles and ...

def. Raluca Olaru /

Shahar Pe'er Shahar Pe'er ( he, שחר פאר, ; born ) is an Israeli retired tennis player. Pe'er won five singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as four singles and three doubles titles on the ITF circuit in her career. She reached ...

6–0, 4–6, 0–6

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nurnberger Versicherungscup, 2014 2014 WTA Tour

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