2014 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions

2014 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions 28 October – 2 November 6th WTA Tournament of Champions Hard / indoor Sofia, Bulgaria Arena Armeec GER Andrea Petkovic no WTA Tournament of Champions The 2014 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions was a singles-only tennis tournament played from 28 October until 2 November 2014, on an indoor hard court.http://sofia-tennis.bg/ Официален сайт на Турнира на шампионките на WTA за 2012 2014-01-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20120501043703/http://sofia-tennis.bg/ 2012-05-01 dead 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: Greatest number of wins Greatest number of matches played; or 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. StageSinglesPoints 1Champion RR2 + 200,000 RR2 + 195Runner-up RR2 + 75,000 RR2 + 75Semifinalist RR2 + 10,000 RR2Round Robin (3 wins) 80,000 180Round Robin (2 wins) 65,000 145Round Robin (1 win) 50,000 110Round Robin (0 wins) 35,000 75Alternate 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 WTA International tournaments Player Nationality Tournament/s Won Ana Ivanovic SRB NZL Auckland MEX Monterrey Li Na CHN CHN Shenzhen Garbiñe Muguruza ESP AUS Hobart Ekaterina Makarova RUS THA Pattaya City Kurumi Nara JPN BRA Rio de Janeiro Klára Koukalová CZE BRA Florianópolis Dominika Cibulková SVK MEX Acapulco Alizé Cornet FRA POL Katowice Caroline Garcia FRA COL Bogota Donna Vekić CRO MAS Kuala Lumpur María Teresa Torró Flor ESP MAR Marrakech Carla Suárez Navarro ESP POR Oeiras Monica Puig PUR FRA Strasbourg Eugénie Bouchard CAN GER Nürnberg Coco Vandeweghe USA NED 's-Hertogenbosch Andrea Petkovic GER AUT Bad Gastein Simona Halep ROU ROU Bucharest Caroline Wozniacki DEN TUR İstanbul Mona Barthel GER SWE Bastad Elina Svitolina UKR AZE Baku Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS USA Washington D.C. Karin Knapp ITA UZB Tashkent Sabine Lisicki GER HKG Hong Kong Mirjana Lučić-Baroni CRO CAN Quebec City Monica Niculescu ROU CHN Guangzhou Karolína Plíšková CZE KOR Seoul AUT Linz Alison Riske USA CHN TianjinSamantha StosurAUS JPN OsakaAnnika BeckGER LUX 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 - ROU Simona Halep 4 ROU Bucharest - CAN Eugenie Bouchard 5 GER Nürnberg - SRB Ana Ivanovic 7 NZL Auckland MEX Monterrey - DEN Caroline Wozniacki 8 TUR İstanbul - CHN Li Na 9 CHN Shenzhen 1 RUS Ekaterina Makarova 11 THA Pattaya City 2 SVK Dominika Cibulková 12 MEX Acapulco 3 ITA Flavia Pennetta 15 Wildcard 4 GER Andrea Petkovic 17 AUT Bad Gastein 5 ESP Carla Suárez Navarro 18 POR Oeiras 6 FRA Alizé Cornet 20 POL Katowice - AUS Samantha Stosur 21 JPN Osaka 7 ESP Garbiñe Muguruza 23 AUS Hobart 8 BUL Tsvetana Pironkova 41 Wildcard Alt CZE Karolína Plíšková 24 KOR Seoul AUT Linz Alt UKR Elina Svitolina 30 AZE Baku Final Singles 2014 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions – Singles GER Andrea Petkovic defeated ITA Flavia Pennetta, 1–6, 6–4, 6–3 See also WTA Tournament of Champions 2014 WTA Tour 2014 WTA Finals References External links Official website (archived) Garanti Koza Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions Category:WTA Tournament of Champions Category:Tennis tournaments in Bulgaria Category:Sports competitions in Sofia Category:2014 in Bulgarian sport