2014 Visit Panamá Cup de Chitré

2014 Visit Panamá Cup de Chitré
Date	27 January–2 February
Edition	1st
Category	ATP Challenger Tour (men)
Prize money	$40,000+H
Surface	Hard
Location	Chitré, Panama
Champions
Singles
	Wayne Odesnik
Doubles
	Kevin King / Juan-Carlos Spir

Last updated March 04, 2019

The 2014 Visit Panamá Cup de Chitré was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament for the men. It was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Chitré, Panama, on 27 January to 2 February 2014.

The Visit Panamá Cup de Chitré is a tennis tournament held in Chitré, Panama since 2014. The event is part of the ATP Challenger Tour and is played on Hard courts.

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played 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 covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to maneuver the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball will not gain a point, while the opposite player will.

The Association of Tennis Professionals (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 increase of the minimum prize money from $35,000. It was the 37th edition of challenger tournaments cycle, and 6th under the name of Challenger Tour.

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank¹	Seed
COL	Alejandro Falla	87	1
ITA	Paolo Lorenzi	115	2
USA	Wayne Odesnik	139	3
TUN	Malek Jaziri	168	4
TPE	Jimmy Wang	173	5
AUT	Gerald Melzer	201	6
BRA	André Ghem	225	7
JPN	Taro Daniel	238	8

¹ Rankings as of 13 January 2014

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

Luis Fernando García
Dylan Centella
José Carlos Peralta
Malek Jaziri

Malek Jaziri is a professional Tunisian tennis player. He reached the final of Istanbul in 2018, the semifinals of Moscow in 2012, Winston-Salem in 2015, Dubai in 2018 and the quarterfinals of Dubai in 2014.

The following players used Protected Ranking to gain entry into the singles main draw:

Daniel Kosakowski

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Dennis Novikov is an American professional tennis player of Russian descent.

Marcelo Fedrizzi Demoliner is a Brazilian professional tennis player. A doubles specialist, he won his first title at the ATP 250 Antalya Open in June, 2018, after having reached 6 finals at that level. Runner-up at the ATP 500 Vienna in 2018, Demoliner has also reached the 3rd round in the 2015 Wimbledon Championships, 2016 US Open and 2017 Australian Open. Alongside Maria José Martinez Sanchez, he was mixed doubles semifinalist in 2017 Wimbledon Championships and 2018 Australian Open. He reached a career high ranking of world number 34 in doubles in November 2017.

Jared Donaldson is an American professional tennis player from Glocester, Rhode Island. Donaldson was the only American to qualify for the inaugural Next Generation ATP Finals at the end of 2017. He has won a Challenger title in singles as well as doubles, with both of them having come at the Royal Lahaina Challenger in 2015.

Champions

Singles

Wayne Odesnik def. Jimmy Wang, 5–7, 6–4, 6–4

Doubles

Kevin King / Juan-Carlos Spir def. Alex Llompart / Mateo Nicolás Martínez, 7–6^(7–5), 6–4

Kevin King is an American professional tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He played collegiate tennis for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and was a two-time ITA All-American and a three-time All-ACC performer.

Juan Carlos Spir is a Colombian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He played college tennis for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

Alex Llompart is a professional male tennis player from Puerto Rico.

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