2014 Apia International Sydney

2014 Apia International Sydney
Date 5 January – 11 January
Edition 122nd
Location Sydney
Venue NSW Tennis Centre
Champions
Men's Singles
Argentina Juan Martín del Potro
Women's Singles
Bulgaria Tsvetana Pironkova
Men's Doubles
Canada Daniel Nestor / Serbia Nenad Zimonjić
Women's Doubles
Hungary Tímea Babos / Czech Republic Lucie Šafářová

The 2014 Apia International Sydney was a joint 2014 ATP World Tour and 2014 WTA Tour tennis tournament, played on outdoor hard courts in Sydney, New South Wales. It was the 122nd edition of the tournament and took place at the NSW Tennis Centre in Sydney, Australia. It was held from 5–11 January 2014. It was part of the Australian Open Series in preparation for the first Grand Slam of the year.

Women's singles defending champion, Agnieszka Radwańska[1] and ATP players, Juan Martín del Potro, Jerzy Janowicz and Bernard Tomic[2] announced their participation in the event.

Point distribution

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Q Q3 Q2 Q1
Men's Singles 250 150 90 45 20 0 12 6 0 0
Men's Doubles 0 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Women's Singles 470 305 185 100 55 1 25 18 13 1
Women's Doubles 1 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Prize money

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 321 Q3 Q2 Q1
Men's Singles $82,040 $43,210 $23,405 $13,335 $7,860 $4,655 $750 $360 N/A
Men's Doubles * $24,920 $13,100 $7,100 $4,060 $2,380 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Women's Singles $120,000 $64,000 $33,865 $18,220 $9,700 $5,385 $2,210 $1,010 $635
Women's Doubles * $38,000 $20,000 $11,000 $5,600 $3,035 N/A N/A N/A N/A

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

Broadcast

In Australia, all matches were broadcast live on 7Two. The men's final was also due to air on 7Two, however it was moved to Channel Seven (7Two's parent channel) when Australian Bernard Tomic made the final match. A movie which was due to air on Channel Seven was swapped to 7Two. Day coverage was hosted by Ryan Phelan while night coverage was hosted by Matt White.

ATP singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Rank1 Seed
 ARG Juan Martín del Potro 5 1
 POL Jerzy Janowicz 21 2
 ITA Andreas Seppi 25 3
 RUS Dmitry Tursunov 29 4
 CAN Vasek Pospisil 32 5
 FRA Julien Benneteau 35 6
 CRO Marin Čilić 37 7
 ESP Marcel Granollers 38 8

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:[3]

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

Retirements

ATP doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
 USA Bob Bryan  USA Mike Bryan 1 1
 IND Leander Paes  CZE Radek Štěpánek 19 2
 IND Rohan Bopanna  PAK Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi 28 3
 POL Mariusz Fyrstenberg  POL Marcin Matkowski 38 4

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

The following pair received entry as alternates:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

WTA singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Rank1 Seed
 POL Agnieszka Radwańska 5 1
 CZE Petra Kvitová 6 2
 ITA Sara Errani [4] 7 3
 SRB Jelena Janković 8 4
 GER Angelique Kerber 9 5
 DEN Caroline Wozniacki 10 6
 ROU Simona Halep 11 7
 USA Sloane Stephens [5] 12 8

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

The following players received entry as lucky losers:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

Retirements

WTA doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
 ITA Sara Errani  ITA Roberta Vinci 2 1
 CZE Květa Peschke  SLO Katarina Srebotnik 22 2
 ZIM Cara Black  IND Sania Mirza 22 3
 USA Raquel Kops-Jones  USA Abigail Spears 46 4

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

Champions

Men's Singles

Women's Singles

Men's Doubles

Women's Doubles

References

  1. ↑ Radwanska signals Sydney return - Apia International Sydney Tennis
  2. ↑ Towering line-up set for Sydney - Apia International Sydney Tennis
  3. ↑ Matosevic, Ebden awarded main draw wildcards - Apia International Sydney Tennis
  4. ↑ WTA SYDNEY - MAIN DRAW: derby Errani-Vinci al primo turno!
  5. ↑ Sloane Stephens hires coach Paul Annacone on trial basis - TENNIS.com

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