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between 7 and 13 July 2014.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of June 23, 2014.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw: *

Cristina Dinu Cristina Dinu (born 18 January 1993) is a professional Romanian tennis player. Dinu has won 23 singles and 27 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 30 September 2013, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 179. On 20 May 2019 ...

Andreea Mitu Cristina-Andreea Mitu (born 22 September 1991) is a professional tennis player from Romania. On 8 June 2015, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of 68, and her best doubles ranking is world No. 69, reached on 24 October 2016. Mitu is a ...

Raluca Olaru Ioana Raluca Olaru (born 3 March 1989) is a professional tennis player from Romania. The winner of 11 singles and 15 doubles ITF titles, Olaru reached one WTA singles final, at the 2009 Gastein Ladies,WTA TourPetkovic, Olaru Into Final(25 Ju ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Kiki Bertens Kiki Bertens (; born 10 December 1991) is a Dutch former professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking was world No. 4, which she reached on 13 May 2019, becoming the highest ranked Dutch female player ever. Her career-high do ...

Sesil Karatantcheva Sesil Radoslavova Karatantcheva ( bg, Сесил Радославова Каратанчева; born 8 August 1989) is a Bulgarian former tennis player. In her career, she won nine singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 7 November 2005, ...

Anett Kontaveit Anett Kontaveit (; born 24 December 1995) is an Estonian professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 2 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), which she first achieved on 6 June 2022, making her the highest-ranked Eston ...

Elitsa Kostova Elitsa Kostova ( bg, Елица Костова) (born 10 April 1990) is a former professional Bulgarian tennis player. On 12 September 2016, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of No. 130, achieved on 12 September 2016, her best doubles ...

The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Indy de Vroome

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament *

Julia Glushko Julia Glushko (or Yulia, he, יוליה גלושקו; born 1 January 1990) is an Israeli retired tennis player. She won 11 singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Her best results at a Grand Slam tournament were reaching the third ...

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Kristina Mladenovic Kristina "Kiki" Mladenovic (; sr, Кристина "Кики" Младеновић, Kristina "Kiki" Mladenović, ; born 14 May 1993) is a French professional tennis player and a former world No. 1 in doubles. She is a nine-time Grand Slam ch ...

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WTA doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of June 23, 2014.

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the main draw: *

Elena Bogdan Elena Bogdan (born 28 March 1992) is a professional tennis player from Romania. On 18 July 2011, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 151. On 8 June 2015, she peaked at No. 79 in the WTA doubles rankings. Junior career At ...

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Ioana Ducu Ioana Ducu (born 18 April 1996) is a former Romanian tennis player. In her career, she won one doubles title on the ITF Women's Circuit and reached best WTA rankings of 830 in singles and 736 in doubles. In June 2014, together with fellow Romani ...

Ioana Loredana Roșca Ioana Loredana Roșca (born 20 September 1996) is a Romanian tennis player. Roșca has won five singles titles and 25 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 25 January 2021, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 363. On 8 Augu ...

The following pair received entry as alternates: *

Tamara Čurović Tamara Čurović (Serbian Cyrillic: Тамара Чуровић; born 31 October 1994) is a Serbian professional tennis player. Čurović was an official member of Serbia Fed Cup team in 2011, 2011 Fed Cup World Group IISerbia vs. Canada Tie D ...

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament *

Verónica Cepede Royg Verónica Cepede Royg (; born 21 January 1992) is a professional Paraguayan tennis player. On 7 August 2017, she reached her highest WTA rankings, WTA singles ranking of No. 73 whilst her best doubles ranking is No. 85, achieved on 19 September ...

(elbow injury)

Champions

Singles

Halep and Vinci with trophies at 2014 Bucharest Open

Simona Halep Simona Halep (; born 27 September 1991) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles twice between 2017 and 2019, for a total of 64 weeks, which ranks eleventh in the history of the Women's Tennis Assoc ...

def.

Roberta Vinci Roberta Vinci (; born 18 February 1983) is an Italian professional padel and former tennis player. In doubles tennis, she won five major tournaments and reached the world No. 1 position. She also reached a career-high ranking of world No. 7 in ...

, 6–1, 6–3

Doubles

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Çağla Büyükakçay Çağla Büyükakçay (; born 28 September 1989) is a Turkish professional tennis player. She has won 11 singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In September 2016, she reached her highest singles ranking of world No. 6 ...

Karin Knapp Karin Knapp (born 28 June 1987) is a retired Italian tennis player. In her career, Knapp won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as six singles titles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, ITF Circuit. On 24 August 2015, sh ...

, 6–4, 3–6, 0–5

References

External links

Official website
{{2014 WTA Tour BRD Bucharest Open BRD Bucharest Open 2014 in Romanian tennis July 2014 sports events in Romania BCR