The 2014
Sarasota Open
The Sarasota Open is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor green clay courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour. From 2022, the event is held at the Payne Park Tennis Center in Sara ...
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
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s. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the
2014 ATP Challenger Tour
The ATP Challenger Tour, in 2014 was the secondary professional tennis circuit organized by the ATP. The 2014 ATP Challenger Tour calendar comprised 150 tournaments, with prize money ranging from $40,000 up to $220,000, which represented an increa ...
. It took place in
Sarasota, Florida
Sarasota () is a city in Sarasota County on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The area is renowned for its cultural and environmental amenities, beaches, resorts, and the Sarasota School of Architecture. The city is located in the sout ...
, United States between 14 and 20 April 2014.
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
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Sekou Bangoura
Sekou Bangoura Jr. (born November 18, 1991) is an American professional tennis player.
Bangoura partnered with Nathan Pasha to win the 2010 Kalamazoo Boys' Junior National Tennis Championship, defeating Jack Sock and Matthew Kandath 7–5, 6†...
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Mac Styslinger
Mac Styslinger (born September 6, 1993) is an American former professional tennis player.
Styslinger grew up in the Birmingham suburb of Mountain Brook and trained at the IMG Bollettieri Academy in Florida. He is the son of tennis player Mark S ...
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Daniel Kosakowski
Daniel Kosakowski (born February 21, 1992) is a retired professional American tennis player.
He played for the University of California, Los Angeles and was named Pacific-10 Conference 2011 Freshman Player of the Year. He resides in Downey, CA. ...
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Jarmere Jenkins
Jarmere Jenkins (born November 25, 1990) is a retired American professional tennis player who became the hitting partner for Serena Williams. He was the 2013 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Player of the Year and male ACC Athlet ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
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Gianni Mina
Gianni Mina (born 9 February 1992 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe, France) is a French professional tennis player.
Tennis career Juniors
On the junior circuit, Mina reached the No. 1 combined world ranking in March 2010. He finished runner-up to even ...
* Naoki Nakagawa
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Antonio Veić
Antonio Veić (born 18 February 1988) is a Croatian former professional tennis player and current coach. His highest singles ranking is 119, which was reached on 14 May 2012.
Tennis career
2009
Veić received a wild card for Zagreb Indoors an ...
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Alexander Zverev
Alexander "Sascha" Zverev (; born 20 April 1997) is a German professional tennis player. He has been ranked by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) as high as world No. 2, and was continuously ranked in the top 10 from July 2017 to N ...
Doubles main-draw entrants
Seeds
Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
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Sekou Bangoura
Sekou Bangoura Jr. (born November 18, 1991) is an American professional tennis player.
Bangoura partnered with Nathan Pasha to win the 2010 Kalamazoo Boys' Junior National Tennis Championship, defeating Jack Sock and Matthew Kandath 7–5, 6†...
/
Vahid Mirzadeh
Vahid Mirzadeh (born December 28, 1986, in Lake Worth, Florida) is an American tennis player.
Mirzadeh was a wildcard entrant at the 2014 US Open in the doubles event, where he partnered Philip Simmonds, but they lost in the first round to Br ...
* Siddhartha Chappidi / Joel Link
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Jarmere Jenkins
Jarmere Jenkins (born November 25, 1990) is a retired American professional tennis player who became the hitting partner for Serena Williams. He was the 2013 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Player of the Year and male ACC Athlet ...
/
Mac Styslinger
Mac Styslinger (born September 6, 1993) is an American former professional tennis player.
Styslinger grew up in the Birmingham suburb of Mountain Brook and trained at the IMG Bollettieri Academy in Florida. He is the son of tennis player Mark S ...
The following pairs received entry from the qualifying draw:
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RubĂ©n RamĂrez Hidalgo
RubĂ©n RamĂrez Hidalgo (; born 6 January 1978 in Alicante, Spain) is a former professional male tennis player from Spain. His career-high ATP singles ranking is world No. 50, achieved on 2 October 2006. His favourite surface is clay, where h ...
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Franko Ĺ kugor
Franko Ĺ kugor (; born 20 September 1987) is a Croatian professional tennis player who mainly competes on the ATP Challenger Tour and specialized in doubles. He has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 17 achieved on 22 April 2019. He i ...
Champions
Singles
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Nick Kyrgios
Nicholas Hilmy Kyrgios ( ; born 27 April 1995) is an Australian professional tennis player. In singles, Kyrgios' career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 13 was achieved on 24 October 2016. He has won seven ATP Tour singles titles, includin ...
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Filip Krajinović
Filip Krajinović (, ; born 27 February 1992) is a Serbian professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 26 on 23 April 2018. , 7–6
(12–10), 6–4
Doubles
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Marin Draganja
Marin Draganja (; born 13 May 1991) is a Croatian professional tennis player and competes mainly on the ATP World Tour in doubles.
Draganja reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 550 on 29 April 2013, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, ...
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Henri Kontinen
Henri Kontinen (; born 19 June 1990) is an inactive Finnish professional tennis player who is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles.
After being forced to end his singles career at a young age due to ...
def.
RubĂ©n RamĂrez Hidalgo
RubĂ©n RamĂrez Hidalgo (; born 6 January 1978 in Alicante, Spain) is a former professional male tennis player from Spain. His career-high ATP singles ranking is world No. 50, achieved on 2 October 2006. His favourite surface is clay, where h ...
/
Franko Ĺ kugor
Franko Ĺ kugor (; born 20 September 1987) is a Croatian professional tennis player who mainly competes on the ATP Challenger Tour and specialized in doubles. He has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 17 achieved on 22 April 2019. He i ...
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External links
Official Website
{{2014 ATP Challenger Tour
Sarasota Open
The Sarasota Open is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor green clay courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour. From 2022, the event is held at the Payne Park Tennis Center in Sara ...
Sarasota Open
Sarasota Open
The Sarasota Open is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor green clay courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour. From 2022, the event is held at the Payne Park Tennis Center in Sara ...
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