2014 in tennis

International Tennis Federation

Grand Slam events

Championship	Category	Champion	Finalist	Score in the final
French Open	Men's singles	Rafael Nadal	Novak Djokovic	3–6, 7–5, 6–2, 6–4
French Open	Women's singles	Maria Sharapova	Simona Halep	6–4, 6–7, 6–4
French Open	Men's doubles	Julien Benneteau Édouard Roger-Vasselin	Marcel Granollers Marc López	6–3, 7–6
French Open	Women's doubles	Hsieh Su-wei Peng Shuai	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	6–4, 6–1
French Open	Mixed doubles	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Jean-Julien Rojer	Julia Görges Nenad Zimonjić	4–6, 6–2,

Championship	Category	Champion	Finalist	Score in the final
Wimbledon Championships	Men's singles	Novak Djokovic	Roger Federer	6–7, 6–4, 7–6, 5–7, 6–4
Wimbledon Championships	Women's singles	Petra Kvitová	Eugenie Bouchard	6–3, 6–0
Wimbledon Championships	Men's doubles	Vasek Pospisil Jack Sock	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7–6, 6–7, 6–4, 3–6, 7–5
Wimbledon Championships	Women's doubles	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	Tímea Babos Kristina Mladenovic	6–1, 6–3
Wimbledon Championships	Mixed doubles	Nenad Zimonjić Samantha Stosur	Max Mirnyi Chan Hao-ching	6–4, 6–2

Championship	Category	Champion	Finalist	Score in the final
US Open	Men's singles	Marin Čilić	Kei Nishikori	6–3, 6–3, 6–3
US Open	Women's singles	Serena Williams	Caroline Wozniacki	6–3, 6–3
US Open	Men's doubles	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	Marcel Granollers Marc López	6–3, 6–4
US Open	Women's doubles	Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina	Martina Hingis Flavia Pennetta	2–6, 6–3, 6–2
US Open	Mixed doubles	Sania Mirza Bruno Soares	Abigail Spears Santiago González	6–1, 2–6,

• A total of ten men reached the third round at all four Grand Slams: Kevin Anderson, Roberto Bautista Agut, Tomáš Berdych, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Milos Raonic, Tommy Robredo, Gilles Simon, and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Of the ten, only four managed to reach the fourth round or better at every major. Federer and Tsonga reached at least the fourth round at all four slams while Djokovic and Murray reached at least the quarterfinals at every major.
• Just six women reached the third round at all four Grand Slams: Eugenie Bouchard, Simona Halep, Angelique Kerber, Ekaterina Makarova, Lucie Šafářová, and Maria Sharapova. Bouchard and Sharapova were the only two to reach at least the fourth round at every major.

  Davis Cup

Fed Cup

International Olympic Committee

• 7–18 March: South American Games
• 17–24 August: Youth Olympics
• 30–30 September: Asian Games
• 24–30 November: Central American and Caribbean Games

  Important events

January

• The Australian Open along with five ATP tournaments, seven WTA tournaments, the Hopman Cup, and the first week of Davis Cup were scheduled in January.
• Grand Slam champions Andy Murray and Maria Sharapova along with former world number two, Vera Zvonareva, returned to their respective tours after recovering from injury.
• French duo Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Alizé Cornet defeated Poland in the Hopman Cup Final to give France its first Hopman Cup victory.
• Lleyton Hewitt and Roger Federer extended their historic rivalry when the Australian defeated Federer in the final of the Brisbane International.
• After a record nine first-round retirements in the singles draws of the Australian Open, the ATP considers adding an extreme heat policy to mediate extreme temperatures on court.
• By winning her third round encounter against Daniela Hantuchová, women's top seed Serena Williams broke Margaret Court's record of 60 match victories at the Australian Open; however, she was subsequently defeated in the next round by Ana Ivanovic in three-sets.
• Doubles top seed, Mike Bryan and Bob Bryan made their earliest exit at the Australian Open in 11 years after they were defeated by the unseeded duo of Eric Butorac and Raven Klaasen in the third round.
• Li Na followed up her win at the Shenzhen Open by reaching her third Australian Open final. She defeated first-time finalist Dominika Cibulková to earn her second career Grand Slam title.
• After fourteen consecutive losses to Novak Djokovic, Stanislas Wawrinka defeated the three-time defending champion in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. He followed up this win by going on to defeat world number one Rafael Nadal in the final for the first time in thirteen career meetings with the Spaniard. It was Wawrinka's second title of the year after winning the Aircel Chennai Open earlier in January.
• The first round of the Davis Cup saw five seeds fail to advance to the second round. Of the top four seeds, only the Czech Republic won its tie while Serbia, Spain, and Argentina lost to Switzerland, Germany, and Italy, respectively. Japan, France, Great Britain, and Kazakhstan also advanced.
• Rafael Nadal, Juan Martín del Potro, John Isner, Ana Ivanovic, Garbiñe Muguruza, and Ekaterina Makarova also won titles.

WTA Premier	Category	Champion	Finalist	Score in the final
Brisbane Premier	Women's singles	Serena Williams	Victoria Azarenka	6–4, 7–5
Brisbane Premier	Women's doubles	Alla Kudryavtseva Anastasia Rodionova	Kristina Mladenovic Galina Voskoboeva	6–3, 6–1
Sydney Premier	Women's singles	Tsvetana Pironkova	Angelique Kerber	6–4, 6–4
Sydney Premier	Women's doubles	Tímea Babos Lucie Šafářová	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	7–5, 3–6,
Paris Premier	Women's singles	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	Sara Errani	3–6, 6–2, 6–3
Paris Premier	Women's doubles	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Květa Peschke	Tímea Babos Kristina Mladenovic	6–7, 6–4,

February

• Twelve ATP tournaments, five WTA tournaments, and the first week of Fed Cup were scheduled in February.
• The Czech Republic nearly joined fellow fallen seeds Russia and Slovakia, but pulled off a 3–2 victory over Spain in the first round of Fed Cup. Italy, Germany, and Australia also advanced to the semifinals.
• Peng Shuai made history and became the first Chinese number one in any tennis discipline, male or female, by reaching the top spot of the WTA's doubles rankings.
• Marin Čilić continued his impressive start to the year by reaching his third consecutive ATP Tournament final. He defeated Kevin Anderson in the Delray Beacch final to add to his fourth Zagreb title he collected earlier in February. The win meant that Čilić led the tour in match wins with an 18–4 record.
• Gaël Monfils, Fabio Fognini, Kei Nishikori, David Ferrer, Ernests Gulbis, Federico Delbonis, Kurumi Nara, Dominika Cibulková, and Klára Zakopalová also won titles.

ATP World Tour 500	Category	Champion	Finalist	Score in the final
Rotterdam	Men's singles	Tomáš Berdych	Marin Čilić	6–4, 6–2
Rotterdam	Men's doubles	Michaël Llodra Nicolas Mahut	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău	6–2, 7–6
Rio de Janeiro	Men's singles	Rafael Nadal	Alexandr Dolgopolov	6–3, 7–6
Rio de Janeiro	Men's doubles	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	David Marrero Marcelo Melo	6–4, 6–2
Dubai	Men's singles	Roger Federer	Tomáš Berdych	3–6, 6–4, 6–3
Dubai	Men's doubles	Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	6–4, 6–3
Acapulco	Men's singles	Grigor Dimitrov	Kevin Anderson	7–6, 3–6, 7–6
Acapulco	Men's doubles	Kevin Anderson Matthew Ebden	Feliciano López Max Mirnyi	6–3, 6–3

March

• Two ATP tournaments, four WTA tournaments, and the second week of Davis Cup were scheduled in March.
• Due to their deep runs at Indian Wells, Simona Halep and Roger Federer reached the number five ranking on their respective tours. This was Halep's top five debut while Federer re-entered the top five after a twelve-year low ranked number eight.
• The results of Indian Wells caused a considerable shift among the ATP Tour Top Ten Rankings. Along with Federer's return to the top five, Tomáš Berdych fell to number seven, John Isner made a return to the top ten, and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga fell out of the top ten for the first time in nearly three years.
• Being led by former world number one, Roger Federer, and Australian Open champion, Stanislas Wawrinka, Switzerland pulled off another upset against the eighth seeded Kazakhstan to reach the semifinals of the Davis Cup. They will face off against Italy on the bottom half of the draw while the first and fifth seeded teams of Czech Republic and France will meet in the other semifinal.
• 17-year-old Belinda Bencic reached her first WTA semi-final at the Family Circle Cup in Charleston. Due to the result, Bencic is the first player to be born after 1996 to enter the WTA top 100. The tournament also saw Serena Williams upset in her opening round match against Jana Čepelová. The upset snapped a 28-match winning streak Williams had on clay courts. Čepelová would be the eventual finalist of the tournament.
• Andrea Petkovic and Ana Ivanovic also won titles.

ATP World Tour 1000/WTA Premier Mandatory	Category	Champion	Finalist	Score in the final
Indian Wells	Men's singles	Novak Djokovic	Roger Federer	3–6, 6–3, 7–6
Indian Wells	Women's singles	Flavia Pennetta	Agnieszka Radwańska	6–2, 6–1
Indian Wells	Men's doubles	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	Alexander Peya Bruno Soares	6–4, 6–3
Indian Wells	Women's doubles	Hsieh Su-wei Peng Shuai	Cara Black Sania Mirza	7–6, 6–2
Miami	Men's singles	Novak Djokovic	Rafael Nadal	6–3, 6–3
Miami	Women's singles	Serena Williams	Li Na	7–5, 6–1
Miami	Men's doubles	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	7–6, 6–4
Miami	Women's doubles	Martina Hingis Sabine Lisicki	Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina	4–6, 6–4,

1. Djokovic becomes the second man after Federer to win the Indian Wells-Miami double twice. This was Djokovic's fourth title in Miami.
2. This was Hingis' first tournament title since making her doubles comeback in 2013.

   April

• Seven ATP tournaments, six WTA tournaments, and the second week of Fed Cup were scheduled in April.
• Dominika Cibulková led the WTA in match-wins after winning her 22nd match of the season at the Malaysian Open. She would raise that total to 24 before falling in the final to first-time WTA titlist Donna Vekić.
• The Czech Republic reached its third Fed Cup final in four years after defeating defending champions, Italy, in the semifinals. After a 22-year final drought, Germany also advanced to the final with a win over Australia. Russia, Canada, France and Poland earned places in the 2015 World Group. This will be Canada and Poland's first time contesting in the World Group. For the first time in the tournament's history, the United States was regulated to World Group Two after its loss to France.
• Fernando Verdasco, Guillermo García-López, Grigor Dimitrov, Carlos Berlocq, Martin Kližan, Alizé Cornet, Caroline Garcia, María Teresa Torró Flor, and Carla Suárez Navarro also won titles.

ATP World Tour 1000	Category	Champion	Finalist	Score in the final
Monte Carlo	Men's singles	Stanislas Wawrinka	Roger Federer	4–6, 7–6, 6–2
Monte Carlo	Men's doubles	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	Ivan Dodig Marcelo Melo	6–3, 3–6,

WTA Premier	Category	Champion	Finalist	Score in the final
Stuttgart Premier	Women's singles	Maria Sharapova	Ana Ivanovic	3–6, 6–4, 6–1
Stuttgart Premier	Women's doubles	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	Cara Black Sania Mirza	6–2, 6–3

1. This was Wawrinka's first Masters 1000 title of his career. The win also propelled him to the top spot of the race to the ATP World Tour Finals.
2. This was Sharapova's third consecutive title in Stuttgart and the 30th career title of her career. It was also the first time Sharapova had won a tournament three different times.

   May

• The French Open along with four ATP tournaments and four WTA tournaments were scheduled in May.
• Since losing to Li Na in the 2011 French Open semifinals, Maria Sharapova's only losses in her next fifty matches on clay came at the hands of Serena Williams. This streak came to an end when Ana Ivanovic defeated the Russian in the third round in Rome.
• For the first time in the history of the sport, both incumbent Grand Slam champions were defeated in the first round of the subsequent major. The French Open saw Australian Open men's singles champions Stanislas Wawrinka upset by Guillermo García-López while Kristina Mladenovic defeated women's champion, Li Na, in the opening round.
• Defending champion and tournament favorite Serena Williams was upset in the second round of the French Open a day after Li Na was defeated in the first round. This marked the first time in the Open Era that the top two seeds in the women's singles main draw were knocked out before the third round of a Grand Slam. More history was made when third seeded Agnieszka Radwańska was upset in the third round, marking the first time in the Open Era that a top three seed did not advance to the second week of a major.
• For the first time in her career, Maria Sharapova came back from a set down to win three consecutive matches at a tournament en route to her third consecutive French Open final. She would go on to win a 20th consecutive three-set match on clay by defeating Simona Halep in the championship match. This was Sharapova's fifth Grand Slam title and her second at the French Open.
• Rafael Nadal made history by becoming the first player to win a ninth title at a single major championship by defeating Novak Djokovic in the French Open final. This was also Nadal's fifth straight title at Roland Garros and his 90th match win at the tournament as well.
• WTA upstarts Eugenie Bouchard and Monica Puig won their maiden career titles, joining Philipp Kohlschreiber and Ernests Gulbis on the ATP Tour as title winners in the final week before the French Open.

ATP Tour 1000/WTA Premier Mandatory	Category	Champion	Finalist	Score in the final
Madrid	Men's singles	Rafael Nadal	Kei Nishikori	2–6, 6–4, 3–0
Madrid	Women's singles	Maria Sharapova	Simona Halep	1–6, 6–2, 6–3
Madrid	Men's doubles	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–4, 6–2
Madrid	Women's doubles	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	Garbiñe Muguruza Carla Suárez Navarro	6–4, 6–3

ATP Tour 1000/WTA Premier 5	Category	Champion	Finalist	Score in the final
Rome	Men's singles	Novak Djokovic	Rafael Nadal	4–6, 6–3, 6–3
Rome	Women's singles	Serena Williams	Sara Errani	6–3, 6–0
Rome	Men's doubles	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	Robin Haase Feliciano López	6–4, 7–6
Rome	Women's doubles	Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	4–0, ret.

June

• The Wimbledon Championships along with four ATP tournaments and three WTA tournaments were scheduled in June.
• The top women seeds were on the wrong side of history yet again at a Grand Slam. Serena Williams and Li Na were both upset in the third round. It is the first time in the Open Era that the top two seeded women lost in the first week of Wimbledon. Agnieszka Radwańska and Maria Sharapova, the tournament's fourth and fifth seeds, were also defeated before the quarterfinals.
• Nick Kyrgios stunned Rafael Nadal in the fourth round of Wimbledon resulting in three players born in the 1990s being in the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time. Kyrgios joined Milos Raonic and Grigor Dimitrov in the last eight and the latter two would ultimately reach the final four as well.
• Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci became the fifth partnership in the Open Era to complete a career Grand Slam in women's doubles after winning the Wimbledon title over Tímea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic.
• The women's final at Wimbledon was the first Grand Slam final to be contested between two players born in the 1990s. Petra Kvitová would remain as the only Grand Slam champion born in this decade by capturing her second Wimbledon title. In the final, Kvitová defeated Eugenie Bouchard, who was Canada's first Grand Slam finalist.
• Novak Djokovic denied Roger Federer an unprecedented eighth Wimbledon title by defeating the Swiss in the championship final. This was Djokovic's second Wimbledon title of his career and his seventh major title overall.
• Roger Federer, Grigor Dimitrov, Roberto Bautista Agut, Feliciano López, and Coco Vandeweghe also won titles.

WTA Premier	Category	Champion	Finalist	Score in the final
Birmingham Premier	Women's singles	Ana Ivanovic	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	6–3, 6–2
Birmingham Premier	Women's doubles	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears	Ashleigh Barty Casey Dellacqua	7–6, 6–1
Eastbourne Premier	Women's singles	Madison Keys	Angelique Kerber	6–3, 3–6, 7–5
Eastbourne Premier	Women's doubles	Chan Hao-ching Chan Yung-jan	Martina Hingis Flavia Pennetta	6–3, 5–7,

1. This was Ivanovic's first title on grass and her fourteenth title overall. The win was also a tour leading 37th match win-three more than the closest contender.

   July

• Ten ATP tournaments and seven WTA tournaments were scheduled in July. July also marked the beginning of the US Open Series.
• When the new rankings were released on July 7, Novak Djokovic officially became the first man to qualify for the ATP World Tour Finals in November. Rafael Nadal became the second man to qualify in the following week.
• For the first time since 2004, former world number one Lleyton Hewitt won multiple titles in a single year by defeating Ivo Karlović in the Newport final, adding a fifth different grass court title to his career total.
• The first ATP World Tour final contested between two players born in the 1990s occurred in Kitzbühel where David Goffin defeated Dominic Thiem to claim his first career title. Days later, more history was made at the Citi Open by Milos Raonic and Vasek Pospisil. Not only was the matchup the second ATP World Tour final between two players born in the 1990s, it was also the first ever all-Canadian final on the ATP World Tour.
• Roberto Bautista Agut, Pablo Cuevas, Bernard Tomic, Pablo Andújar, Simona Halep, Andrea Petkovic, Mona Barthel, Caroline Wozniacki, Elina Svitolina, and Svetlana Kuznetsova also won titles.

ATP World Tour 500	Category	Champion	Finalist	Score in the final
Hamburg	Men's singles	Leonardo Mayer	David Ferrer	6–7, 6–1, 7–6
Hamburg	Men's doubles	Marin Draganja Florin Mergea	Alexander Peya Bruno Soares	6–4, 7–5

August

• The US Open along with three ATP tournaments and three WTA tournaments were scheduled in August. August also marked the conclusion of the US Open Series.
• Venus and Serena Williams revived their sixteen-year rivalry in the semifinals of the Rogers Cup. In just their second meeting in the past four years, Venus snapped a five match losing streak to the current world number one and booked her place in the final.
• In a dramatic three-set encounter, Ana Ivanovic defeated Maria Sharapova in the semifinals of the Western and Southern Open. The win meant that Ivanovic would enter the US Open with a tour-leading 47 match wins and a return to the top ten in the WTA Tour rankings.

US Open Series Week	Date	Men's Events	Women's Events
3	Aug 4–10	Toronto 2014 Champion: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	Montreal 2014 Champion: Agnieszka Radwańska
4	Aug 11–17	Cincinnati 2014 Champion: Roger Federer	Cincinnati 2014 Champion: Serena Williams
5	Aug 18–24	Winston-Salem 2014 Champion: Lukáš Rosol	New Haven 2014 Champion: Petra Kvitová

1. Due to his results in Cincinnati, Federer became the third man to qualify for the ATP World Tour Finals. This was his record thirteenth consecutive year in which he qualified for the year end championships.

   September

• Six ATP tournaments, eight WTA tournaments, and the third week of the Davis Cup were scheduled in September.
• Maria Sharapova became the second woman to qualify for the year-end Championships on September 9. Simona Halep joined Sharapova in the eight woman line-up on September 15.
• Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka continued Switzerland's dream run, carrying their team to the Davis Cup final in a 3–2 defeat of Italy. Led by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, France upset defending champions, Czech Republic, in the semifinals to book a final against Switzerland.
• Mirjana Lučić-Baroni set a WTA record for longest gap between titles by winning the Coupe Banque Nationale sixteen years after capturing her last title.
• Australian Open champion Li Na announced her retirement from the sport on September 19. Li was the first Asian Grand Slam singles champion, male or female, and was ranked number 6 at the time of the announcement.
• David Goffin, Andy Murray, Kei Nishikori, Sabine Lisicki, Karin Knapp, and Monica Niculescu also won titles.

ATP World Tour 500	Category	Champion	Finalist	Score in the final
Tokyo	Men's singles	Kei Nishikori	Milos Raonic	7–6, 4–6, 6–4
Tokyo	Men's doubles	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Michał Przysiężny	Ivan Dodig Marcelo Melo	6–3, 6–7,

1. Due to her results in Wuhan, Kvitová became the fourth woman to qualify for the WTA Tour Championships. This was her fourth consecutive year qualifying for the event.

ATP Tour 500/WTA Premier Mandatory	Category	Champion	Finalist	Score in the final
Beijing	Men's singles	Novak Djokovic	Tomáš Berdych	6–0, 6–2
Beijing	Women's singles	Maria Sharapova	Petra Kvitová	6–4, 2–6, 6–3
Beijing	Men's doubles	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău	Julien Benneteau Vasek Pospisil	6–7, 7–5,
Beijing	Women's doubles	Andrea Hlaváčková Peng Shuai	Cara Black Sania Mirza	6–4, 6–4

October

• Seven ATP tournaments, five WTA tournaments, and both season-ending championships on the WTA Tour were scheduled in October.
• Roger Federer beats Gilles Simon to win the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the first time in his career.
• Andy Murray beats Tommy Robredo to win the Valencia Open again saving match points.
• Roger Federer beats David Goffin to win the Swiss Indoors marking the first time since 2011 that Federer has won it.
• After outside contenders, Angelique Kerber and Ekaterina Makarova both lost in the third round in Beijing, the final four spots of the WTA Finals were filled. Eugenie Bouchard, Agnieszka Radwańska, Ana Ivanovic, and Caroline Wozniacki completed the field.
• Serena Williams wins the WTA Finals dominating Simona Halep in the final after having already been beaten by her in the Round Robin stage and nearly getting knocked out of the semifinals against Caroline Wozniacki to end the year at No. 1 for the fourth time.

ATP World Tour 1000	Category	Champion	Finalist	Score in the final
Shanghai	Men's singles	Roger Federer	Gilles Simon	7–6, 7–6
Shanghai	Men's doubles	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	Julien Benneteau Édouard Roger-Vasselin	6–3, 7–6
Paris	Men's singles	Novak Djokovic	Milos Raonic	6–2, 6–3
Paris	Men's doubles	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	Marcin Matkowski Jürgen Melzer	7–6, 5–7,

Year-End Championship	Category	Champion	Finalist	Score in the final
Tour Championships – Singapore	Women's singles	Serena Williams	Simona Halep	6–3, 6–0
Tour Championships – Singapore	Women's doubles	Cara Black Sania Mirza	Hsieh Su-wei Peng Shuai	6–1, 6–0
Tournament of Champions – Sofia	Women's singles	Andrea Petkovic	Flavia Pennetta	1–6, 6–4, 6–3

November

• Novak Djokovic wins the ATP World Tour Finals after Roger Federer withdraws from the final due to a back injury.
• Roger Federer helps Switzerland win the Davis Cup for the first time.

Year-End Championship	Category	Champion	Finalist	Score in the final
Tour Finals – London	Men's singles	Novak Djokovic	Roger Federer	w/o
Tour Finals – London	Men's doubles	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	Ivan Dodig Marcelo Melo	6–7, 6–2,

December

• No ATP or WTA tournaments were scheduled in December.

  International Tennis Hall of Fame

• Class of 2014:
• *Lindsay Davenport, player
• *Chantal Vandierendonck, player
• *John Barrett, contributor
• *Nick Bollettieri, contributor
• *Jane Grimes Brown, contributor