2014 Dunlop World Challenge
# 2014 Dunlop World Challenge

The 2014 Dunlop World Challenge was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 7th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2014 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $75,000+H for women and $40,000+H for men in prize money respectively. It took place in Toyota, Japan, on 17–23 November 2014.

## Men's entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - |
| JPN | Tatsuma Ito | 103 | 1 |
| JPN | Go Soeda | 116 | 2 |
| RUS | Alexander Kudryavtsev | 122 | 3 |
| JPN | Yūichi Sugita | 126 | 4 |
| AUS | James Duckworth | 132 | 5 |
| JPN | Hiroki Moriya | 146 | 6 |
| AUS | Luke Saville | 158 | 7 |
| JPN | Yoshihito Nishioka | 164 | 8 |

* $^1$ Rankings as of 10 November 2014

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

* Sho Katayama
* Hiroki Kondo
* Arata Onozawa
* Yusuke Watanuki

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

* Mikhail Elgin
* Gong Maoxin
* Shintaro Imai
* Nam Ji-sung

The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a lucky loser:

* Hiroyasu Ehara

The following player received entry from a protected ranking:

* Greg Jones

## Women's entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - |
| THA | Luksika Kumkhum | 96 | 1 |
| JPN | Kimiko Date-Krumm | 115 | 2 |
| JPN | Misaki Doi | 122 | 3 |
| BEL | An-Sophie Mestach | 125 | 4 |
| JPN | Misa Eguchi | 127 | 5 |
| JPN | Eri Hozumi | 144 | 6 |
| JPN | Hiroko Kuwata | 152 | 7 |
| CHN | Xu Yifan | 183 | 8 |

* $^1$ Rankings as of 10 November 2014

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

* Miyu Kato
* Ksenia Lykina
* Mari Tanaka
* Yuuki Tanaka

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

* Kanae Hisami
* Tori Kinard
* Ayaka Okuno
* Akiko Omae

The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a lucky loser:

* Yuka Higuchi

The following player received entry from a protected ranking:

* Chang Kai-chen

## Champions

### Men's singles

* Go Soeda def. Tatsuma Ito 6–4, 7–5

### Women's singles

* An-Sophie Mestach def. Shuko Aoyama 6–1, 6–1

### Men's doubles

* Toshihide Matsui / Yasutaka Uchiyama def. Bumpei Sato / Yang Tsung-hua $7–6^{(8–6)},$ 6–2

### Women's doubles

* Eri Hozumi / Makoto Ninomiya def. Shuko Aoyama / Junri Namigata 6–3, 7–5
