2014 Shenzhen Open

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2014 Shenzhen Open
Date 29 December 2013 – 5 January 2014
Edition 2nd
Draw 32S / 16D
Prize money $500,000
Surface Hard
Location Shenzhen, China
Venue Shenzhen Longgang Sports Center
Champions
Singles
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Li Na
Doubles
Flag of Romania.svg Monica Niculescu / Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Klára Zakopalová
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The 2014 Shenzhen Open (known as 2014 Shenzhen Gemdale Open for sponsorship reason) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the second edition of the Shenzhen Open, and was part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2014 WTA Tour. It took place at the Shenzhen Longgang Sports Center in Shenzhen, China, from 29 December 2013 to 5 January 2014.

Shenzhen Open may refer to:

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Contents

Points and prize money

Point distribution

EventWFSFQFRound of 16Round of 32QQ2Q1
Singles2801801106030118121
Doubles1N/AN/AN/AN/A

Prize money

EventWFSFQFRound of 16Round of 321Q2Q1
Singles$111,163$55,323$29,730$8,934$4,928$3,199$1,852$1,081
Doubles *$17,724$9,222$4,951$2,623$1,383N/AN/AN/A

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

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

CountryPlayerRank1Seed
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  CHN Li Na 31
Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Sara Errani 72
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  CZE Klára Zakopalová 353
Flag of Serbia.svg  SRB Bojana Jovanovski 364
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  CHN Peng Shuai 425
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  CHN Zhang Shuai [1] 526
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  CHN Zheng Jie 537
Flag of Germany.svg  GER Annika Beck 588

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Anna-Lena Friedsam German tennis player

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Viktorija Golubic Swiss tennis player

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Lyudmyla Kichenok Ukrainian tennis player

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Withdrawals

Before the tournament
María Teresa Torró Flor Spanish tennis player

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Donna Vekić Croatian tennis player

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Dinah Pfizenmaier German tennis player

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During the tournament

Retirements

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

CountryPlayerCountryPlayerRank1Seed
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  CHN Zhang Shuai Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  CHN Zheng Saisai 951
Flag of Hungary.svg  HUN Tímea Babos Flag of Croatia.svg  CRO Petra Martić 1232
Flag of Ukraine.svg  UKR Irina Buryachok Flag of Georgia.svg  GEO Oksana Kalashnikova 1253
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  TPE Chan Yung-Jan Flag of Slovakia.svg  SVK Janette Husárová 1394

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

Withdrawals

During the tournament

Champions

Singles

Doubles

Monica Niculescu Romanian tennis player

Monica Niculescu is a Romanian professional tennis player. She reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 28 in February 2012, and has three singles titles to her credit on the WTA Tour since she turned pro in May 2002, the last one coming at the end of 2016, at the BGL Luxembourg Open. Although she was a steady top 30 player for several years and enjoyed relative success in singles, she is also a doubles specialist, where she achieved a career-high ranking of no.11, in April 2018, after partnering with Grand Slam winner and Olympic medalist Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková at Indian Wells. Her biggest doubles result up to date is reaching her first grand slam doubles final at Wimbledon, in 2017, alongside Chan Hao-ching. She was also runner-up at three Premier Mandatory events: the 2015 Wuhan Open, with fellow Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu, the 2016 Rogers Cup, with current world no.1 Simona Halep, and the 2017 Cincinnati Open, partnering former world no.1 in doubles, Su-wei Hsieh.

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