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2014 Sparkassen Open

tennis tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ17298973 ↗
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The 2014 Sparkassen Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 21st edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Braunschweig, Germany between 30 June and 5 July 2014.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

1 Rankings are as of June 24, 2014.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

Andrey Golubev

Maximilian Marterer

Philipp Petzschner

Alexander Zverev

The following players received entry as a special exempt into the singles main draw:

Nikola Ćaćić

The following players received entry as an alternate into the singles main draw:

Uladzimir Ignatik

Jaroslav Pospíšil

Martín Alund

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Jozef Kovalík

Nils Langer

Philipp Davydenko

André Ghem

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

Boris Pašanski

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

1 Rankings as of June 24, 2014.

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

Michal Konečný / Marek Pešička

Sriram Balaji / Philipp Petzschner

Daniel Masur / Alexander Zverev

Champions

Singles

Alexander Zverev def. Paul-Henri Mathieu, 1–6, 6–1, 6–4

Doubles

Andreas Siljeström / Igor Zelenay def.

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This entry incorporates text from “2014 Sparkassen Open” 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.