2014 İstanbul Cup
# 2014 İstanbul Cup

The 2014 İstanbul Cup (also known as the TEB BNP Paribas İstanbul Cup for sponsorship reasons) was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 7th edition of the İstanbul Cup, and was part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2014 WTA Tour. It took place in Istanbul, Turkey, from 14 July through 20 July 2014. This was the first edition of the tournament since 2010. The event was not held in 2011–2013 because the WTA Tour Championships were held in İstanbul during those years. Caroline Wozniacki won the singles title.

## Points and prize money

### Point distribution

| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Q | Q2 | Q1 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Women's singles | 280 | 180 | 110 | 60 | 30 | 1 | 18 | 12 | 1 |
| Women's doubles | 280 | 180 | 110 | 60 | 1 | — | — | — | — |

### Prize money

| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Q2 | Q1 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Women's singles | $43,000 | $21,400 | $11,500 | $6,175 | $3,400 | $2,100 | $1,020 | $600 |
| Women's doubles | $12,300 | $6,400 | $3,435 | $1,820 | $960 | — | — | — |

## Singles main-draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - |
| DEN | Caroline Wozniacki | 15 | 1 |
| ITA | Roberta Vinci | 24 | 2 |
| CZE | Klára Koukalová | 31 | 3 |
| UKR | Elina Svitolina | 35 | 4 |
| SVK | Magdaléna Rybáriková | 37 | 5 |
| JPN | Kurumi Nara | 39 | 6 |
| SRB | Bojana Jovanovski | 41 | 7 |
| CZE | Karolína Plíšková | 48 | 8 |

* Rankings are as of July 7, 2014.

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw

* Çağla Büyükakçay
* İpek Soylu
* Caroline Wozniacki

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

* Alexandra Dulgheru
* Ana Konjuh
* Johanna Konta
* Kateryna Kozlova
* Elizaveta Kulichkova
* Kateřina Siniaková

### Withdrawals

**Before the tournament**

* Andrea Petkovic
* Urszula Radwańska
* Ajla Tomljanović
* Yanina Wickmayer

### Retirements

* Alexandra Dulgheru (shoulder injury)
* Monica Niculescu

## Doubles main-draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| UKR | Irina Buryachok | RUS | Alla Kudryavtseva | 98 | 1 |
| CZE | Karolína Plíšková | CZE | Kristýna Plíšková | 124 | 2 |
| UKR | Yuliya Beygelzimer | UKR | Olga Savchuk | 142 | 3 |
| SVK | Janette Husárová | POL | Klaudia Jans-Ignacik | 143 | 4 |

* $^1$ Rankings as of July 7, 2014.

### Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the main draw:

* Bojana Jovanovski / Francesca Schiavone
* Melis Sezer / İpek Soylu

## Finals

### Singles

* Caroline Wozniacki defeated Roberta Vinci, 6–1, 6–1

### Doubles

* Misaki Doi / Elina Svitolina defeated Oksana Kalashnikova / Paula Kania, 6–4, 6–0
