2014 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions

2014 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions
DateOctober 28 – November 2
Edition6th
LocationSofia, Bulgaria
Champions
Singles
Andrea Petkovic

The 2014 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions was a singles-only tennis tournament played from October 28 to November 2, 2014, on an indoor hard court.[1] It was won by Andrea Petkovic. For the second year of a two-year deal, the tournament by Turkish construction firm Garanti Koza. This was the sixth edition of the tournament as part of the 2014 WTA Tour as well as the third and last held at Arena Armeec in Sofia, Bulgaria. Defending champion Simona Halep did not take part since she qualified for the 2014 WTA Finals.

Participants and format

The tournament was the season ending event for players who had won one of the WTA International tournaments but had not qualified for the WTA Championships. It consisted of a singles draw of eight players including two wild cards in a round robin format, split into two groups of four. Over the first four days of competition, each player met the other three players in their group, with the top two in each group advancing to the semifinals. The first-placed player in one group met the second-placed player in the other group, and vice versa. The winners of each semifinal met in the championship match.

Round robin tie-breaking methods

The final standings of each group was determined by the first of the following methods that apply:

  1. Greatest number of wins
  2. Greatest number of matches played; or
  3. Head-to-head results if only two players are tied, or if three players are tied then:
a If three players each have the same number of wins, a player having played less than all three matches is automatically eliminated and the player advancing to the single elimination competition is the winner of the match-up of the two remaining tied players; or
b Highest percentage of sets won; or
c Highest percentage of games won

Prize money and points

The total prize money for the 2014 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions was 750,000 United States dollars.

Stage Singles Points 1
Champion RR2 + 200,000 RR2 + 195
Runner-up RR2 + 75,000 RR2 + 75
Semifinalist RR2 + 10,000 RR2
Round Robin (3 wins) 80,000 180
Round Robin (2 wins) 65,000 145
Round Robin (1 win) 50,000 110
Round Robin (0 wins) 35,000 75
Alternate 7,5003 0
  • 1 for every match played in the round robin stage, a player got 25 points, and for each round robin win a player got 35 additional points.
  • 2 RR means prize money or points won during round robin play.
  • 3 Alternates received $7,500 in prize money, even if they did not play.

2014 WTA International tournaments champions

Player Nationality Tournament/s Won
Ana Ivanovic SRB Auckland
Monterrey
Li Na CHN Shenzhen
Garbiñe Muguruza ESP Hobart
Ekaterina Makarova RUS Pattaya City
Kurumi Nara JPN Rio de Janeiro
Klára Koukalová CZE Florianópolis
Dominika Cibulková SVK Acapulco
Alizé Cornet FRA Katowice
Caroline Garcia FRA Bogota
Donna Vekić CRO Kuala Lumpur
María Teresa Torró Flor ESP Marrakech
Carla Suárez Navarro ESP Oeiras
Monica Puig PUR Strasbourg
Eugénie Bouchard CAN Nürnberg
Coco Vandeweghe USA 's-Hertogenbosch
Andrea Petkovic GER Bad Gastein
Simona Halep ROU Bucharest
Caroline Wozniacki DEN İstanbul
Mona Barthel GER Bastad
Elina Svitolina UKR Baku
Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS Washington D.C.
Karin Knapp ITA Tashkent
Sabine Lisicki GER Hong Kong
Mirjana Lučić-Baroni CRO Quebec City
Monica Niculescu ROU Guangzhou
Karolína Plíšková CZE Seoul
Linz
Alison Riske USA Tianjin
Samantha Stosur AUS Osaka
Annika Beck GER Luxembourg

Participants

The six highest-ranked players who had captured at least one International tournament during the year and who were not participating in singles at the year-end WTA Finals in Singapore. Players with a purple colour qualified for the 2014 WTA Finals. The two wildcards were first awarded to Tsvetana Pironkova and Jelena Janković. On 11 October, Jankovic withdrew from the tournament and the wild card went to Flavia Pennetta. On 23 October, Samantha Stosur withdrew due to a foot injury and her place went to Garbiñe Muguruza.

WTA singles Rankings (20 October 2014)
Sd Player Rk Won
- Simona Halep 4 Bucharest
- Eugenie Bouchard 5 Nürnberg
- Ana Ivanovic 7 Auckland
Monterrey
- Caroline Wozniacki 8 İstanbul
- Li Na 9 Shenzhen
1 Ekaterina Makarova 11 Pattaya City
2 Dominika Cibulková 12 Acapulco
3 Flavia Pennetta 15 Wildcard
4 Andrea Petkovic 17 Bad Gastein
5 Carla Suárez Navarro 18 Oeiras
6 Alizé Cornet 20 Katowice
- Samantha Stosur 21 Osaka
7 Garbiñe Muguruza 23 Hobart
8 Tsvetana Pironkova 41 Wildcard
Alt Karolína Plíšková 24 Seoul
Linz
Alt Elina Svitolina 30 Baku

Champions

Singles

See also

References

  1. ^ "Официален сайт на Турнира на шампионките на WTA за 2012". Archived from the original on 2012-05-01. Retrieved 2014-01-04.