2014 ATP World Tour


The 2014 ATP World Tour was the global male elite professional tennis circuit organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals for the 2014 tennis season. The 2014 ATP World Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments, the ATP World Tour Masters 1000, the ATP World Tour 500 series, the ATP World Tour 250 series, the Davis Cup and the ATP World Tour Finals. Also included in the 2014 calendar is the Hopman Cup, which is organized by the ITF and does not distribute ranking points.
The women's counterpart of the ATP is the WTA and the 2014 WTA Tour.

Schedule

This is the complete schedule of events on the 2014 calendar, with player progression documented from the quarterfinals stage.
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Grand Slam
ATP World Tour Finals
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP World Tour 500
ATP World Tour 250
Team Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

Statistical information

These tables present the number of singles, doubles, and mixed doubles titles won by each player and each nation during the season, within all the tournament categories of the 2014 ATP World Tour: the Grand Slam tournaments, the ATP World Tour Finals, the ATP World Tour Masters 1000, the ATP World Tour 500 series, and the ATP World Tour 250 series. The players/nations are sorted by:
  1. Total number of titles ;
  2. Cumulated importance of those titles ;
  3. A singles > doubles > mixed doubles hierarchy;
  4. Alphabetical order.

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Titles won by player

Titles won by nation

Titles information

The following players won their first main circuit title in singles, doubles, or mixed doubles:
Singles

Mixed doubles

The following players defended a main circuit title in singles, doubles, or mixed doubles:
Singles

Top 10 entry

The following players entered the top 10 for the first time in their careers:
Singles

  • Kei Nishikori
  • Ernests Gulbis
  • Grigor Dimitrov

ATP rankings

These are the ATP rankings of the top 20 singles players, doubles players, and the top 10 doubles teams on the ATP Tour, at the current date of the 2014 season. Players on a gold background have qualified for the Year-End Championships.

Singles

Number 1 ranking

Doubles

Number 1 ranking

Prize money leaders

Best matches by ATPWorldTour.com

Best 5 Grand Slam matches

Best 5 ATP World Tour matches

Statistics leaders


Point distribution

Retirements

Following is a list of notable players who announced their retirement from professional tennis, became inactive, or were permanently banned from playing, during the 2014 season:
List of Retirements

  • Alex Bogomolov Jr. ' turned professional in 2002, and peaked at no. 33 in singles in 2011. He won 1 double title on the main tour. He retires at the age of 31.
  • Paul Capdeville ' turned professional in 2002, and peaked at no. 76 in singles in 2009. He won one doubles title. Capdeville was also part of the Chile Davis Cup team for 19 ties between 2004 and 2014. He announced his retirement after Roland Garros.
  • Nikolay Davydenko ' turned professional in 1999, and peaked at no. 3 in singles in 2006 and no. 31 in doubles in 2005. Davydenko won 21 singles titles on the main tour, as well as 2 doubles titles. At Grand Slams, Davydenko reached the semifinal four times. His major achievement was winning the 2009 ATP World Tour Finals tournament, beating in the final Juan Martín del Potro. He was also active part of the Russian Davis Cup team for 17 ties between 2003 and 2012, winning the title in 2006 with Marat Safin, Dmitry Tursunov and Mikhail Youzhny. On 16 October, he announced his retirement at the age of 33.
  • Rik De Voest ' turned professional in 1999, and peaked at no. 39 in doubles in 2009. He won two doubles titles. De Voest was also part of the South African Davis Cup team for 25 ties between 2002 and 2014. He retired after the Vancouver Open in July.
  • Alessio di Mauro ' turned professional in 1998, and peaked at no. 68 in singles in 2007. He reached one singles final in 2007, where he lost to Juan Mónaco. He was involved in a betting scandal that led to a 9-month ban from the tour. Di Mauro also participated in one tie for the Italian Davis Cup team in 2004. He announced his retirement at the end of September.
  • Marc Gicquel ' turned professional in 1999, and peaked at no. 37 in singles in 2008 and no. 38 in doubles in 2009. He reached three singles finals on the main tour, as well as seven doubles finals. In Grand Slam he reached in singles the 4th round at 2006 US Open and in doubles the quarterfinals at 2008 Australian Open. He announced his retirement after losing in the quarterfinals against Nicolas Mahut at the Rennes tournament.
  • Paul Hanley ' turned professional in 1997, and peaked at no. 5 in doubles in 2006. Hanley won 26 doubles titles. In Grand Slam doubles, he reached six semifinals – four with Kevin Ullyett and two with fellow countryman Wayne Arthurs. He also was a finalist at 2005 Wimbledon Championships in mixed doubles. He was part of the Australia Davis Cup team for 10 ties between 2006 and 2010.
  • Ross Hutchins ' turned professional in 2002, and peaked at no. 26 in doubles in 2012. Hutchins won 5 doubles titles. In Grand Slam he reached the quarterfinals twice in pair with fellow countryman Colin Fleming. He also won a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in 2010. He was part of the Great Britain Davis Cup team for 7 ties between 2008 and 2012. After being diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in early 2013, he decided to have a rest from the circuit and returned in mid-2014. He retired at the end of the 2014 ATP World Tour season.
  • Evgeny Korolev ' turned professional in 2005, and peaked at no. 46 in singles in 2010. He won 4 titles on the ATP Challenger Tour and reached one singles final on the main tour. He was part of the Kazakhstan Davis Cup team for 7 ties between 2011 and 2014. He played his final match in the 2014 Bauer Watertechnology Cup qualifying event.
  • Michaël Llodra ' turned professional in 1999, and peaked at no. 21 in singles in 2011 and no. 3 in doubles in 2011. The Frenchman, appreciated on the tour for his volley strategy, won five singles titles on the main tour, as well as 25 doubles titles. Llodra's Grand Slam titles included the 2003 Australian Open and 2004 Australian Open doubles with fellow Frenchman Fabrice Santoro and the 2007 Wimbledon Championships doubles with fellow Frenchman Arnaud Clément. He won the silver medal at the Olympic Games with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, losing to the world no. 1 pair of Bob and Mike Bryan. He was part of the French Davis Cup team for 27 ties between 2002 and 2013, reaching 2 finals in 2002 and 2010. He announced that he will retire at the end of the 2014 ATP World Tour season.
  • Björn Phau ' turned professional in 1999, and peaked at no. 59 in singles in 2006. He won 7 titles on the ATP Challenger Tour and reached one doubles final on the main tour. He played his final match at the 2014 Košice Open.
  • Andy Ram ' turned professional in 1998, and peaked at no. 187 in singles in 2000 and no. 5 in doubles in 2008. He won 20 doubles titles. Ram's sole men's doubles Grand Slam title was won at the 2008 Australian Open doubles with fellow Israeli Jonathan Erlich. He also won two mixed Grand Slam titles at 2006 Wimbledon Championships with Vera Zvonareva and at 2007 French Open with Natalie Dechy. He was part of the Israeli Davis Cup team for 27 ties between 2000 and 2014. He announced his retirement after the Davis Cup playoff against Argentina.
  • Olivier Rochus turned professional in 1999, and peaked at no. 24 in singles in 2005 and no. 29 in doubles in 2004. He won two singles titles on the main tour, as well as two doubles titles. Rochus' Grand Slam doubles title was won at the 2004 French Open with fellow Belgian Xavier Malisse. He was part of the Belgian Davis Cup team for 28 ties between 2000 and 2013. He retired after competing at the Mons tournament.

Comebacks

Following are notable players who will come back after retirements during the 2014 ATP Tour season:
List of Comebacks

  • Francisco Roig ' joined the pro tour in 1987, reached the singles no. 60 spot in 1992, and the doubles no. 23 ranking in 1995. He won nine main circuit titles including one ATP Championship Series title. He sometimes acts as the alternate coach of fellow Spaniard Rafael Nadal. He decided to come back from inactivity at the 2014 Qatar ExxonMobil Open, where he played doubles alongside Nadal.
  • Patrick Rafter joined the pro tour in 1991, former no. 1 in 1998, and doubles no. 6 in 1999. He won 11 main circuit titles in singles. He decided to come back from inactivity at the 2014 Australian Open, playing alongside Lleyton Hewitt.
  • Sándor Noszály joined the ATP Challenger Tour in 1989 at the age of 17. In 1995 he reached the quarterfinal of 1995 Austrian Open losing to Thomas Muster and the semifinal of 1995 Romanian Open losing again to the Austrian. Thus he became ranked no. 95 in the world. The same year—maturing from being the youngest member ever of the Davis Cup team—he pushed Hungary to the World Group for the second time after beating former champions Australia in the play-off. He returned to international tennis in the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships after a 4-year hiatus.
  • Viktor Troicki ' joined the pro tour in 2003, reached the singles no. 12 in 2011, and the doubles no. 49 ranking in 2010. He won one main circuit title in singles and one in doubles. On 25 July 2013, Troicki was banned from playing tennis for 18 months, for failing to provide a blood sample at the Monte-Carlo Masters event. However, the suspension was reduced on appeal to one year, meaning he could play from 15 July 2014. He was allowed to come back from inactivity at the 2014 Crédit Agricole Suisse Open, where he received a wildcard.