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2014 Royal Lahaina Challenger

tennis tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ15634859 ↗
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The 2014 Royal Lahaina Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Maui, United States between 20 and 26 January 2014.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

1 Rankings are as of January 13, 2014.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

Thibaud Berland

Petr Michnev

Marcos Giron

Mitchell Krueger

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Jared Donaldson

Malek Jaziri

Daniel Kosakowski

Wang Chieh-Fu

The following players received entry as a lucky loser:

Jarmere Jenkins

Kento Takeuchi

Champions

Singles

Bradley Klahn def. Yang Tsung-hua, 6–2, 6–3

Doubles

Denis Kudla / Yasutaka Uchiyama def.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Royal, Lahaina and Challenger can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “2014 Royal Lahaina Challenger” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.