The 2014

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was a professional

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s. It was the eleventh edition of the tournament which was part of the

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. It took place in

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, Italy, between 1 and 7 September 2014.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of August 25, 2014.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: *

Alessandro Giannessi Alessandro Giannessi (born 30 May 1990) is a professional Italian tennis player. On 24 July 2017 he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 84 while his best doubles ranking was 171 on 14 October 2013. Career Giannessi made his Grand Slam de ...

Gianluca Mager Gianluca Mager (born 1 December 1994) is an Italian tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 66 achieved on 13 September 2021. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 310 achieved on 10 June 2019. Personal Info ...

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Matteo Trevisan Matteo Trevisan (; born 13 August 1989) is an Italian professional tennis player who was ranked world number one junior player in 2007. Alongside Daniel Alejandro Lopez, he won the Junior Wimbledon doubles title of that year. Trevisan is the ol ...

The following players entered into the singles main draw as alternates: *

Mate Delić Mate Delić (; born 29 April 1993) is a former Croatian tennis player. He primarily played on the ITF Futures Tour and ATP Challenger Tour. Delic has reached a career high singles ranking of world No. 150, achieved on 5 January 2015, as well as ...

Uladzimir Ignatik Uladzimir Iharavich Ignatik ( be, Уладзімір Ігаравіч Ігнацік, Ihnatsik; russian: Владимир Игоревич Игнатик; born 14 July 1990 in Belarus) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Professional ...

The following player entered into the singles main draw as a special exemption: *

Viktor Troicki Viktor Troicki ( sr-Cyrl, Виктор Троицки, ; born 10 February 1986) is a Serbian former professional tennis player. He won his first ATP singles title at the 2010 Kremlin Cup, and his second and third ATP singles titles at the 2015 ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Viktor Galović Viktor Galović (; born 19 September 1990) is a former Croatian tennis player. Galović has a career high ATP singles ranking of 173, achieved on 14 May 2018. Galović had previously represented Italy where he was raised but in 2014 switched back ...

Jozef Kovalík Jozef Kovalík (; born 4 November 1992) is a Slovak tennis player playing mostly on the ATP Challenger Tour. Career 2010-2014 Kovalík together with Filip Horanský won bronze medal in doubles at 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. He won his first ...

Gianluca Naso Gianluca Naso (born 6 January 1987) is an Italian retired professional tennis player. He won three doubles titles on ATP Challenger Tour in Genoa and Todi (both in 2008). Both times his partner was Walter Trusendi. And in 2013 at Meknes wi ...

Adelchi Virgili Adelchi Virgili (born 10 March 1990) is an Italian tennis player. Virgili has a career high ATP singles ranking of 394 achieved on 16 October 2017. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 378 achieved on 9 September 2013. Virgili made ...

Champions

Singles

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Doubles

Daniele Bracciali Daniele Bracciali (; born 10 January 1978) is an Italian former tennis player, best ranked world no. 21 in doubles. His career-high ATP singles ranking is world no. 49, achieved in May 2006. In doubles, he reached the semifinals of the 2012 Fren ...

Potito Starace Potito Starace (; born 14 July 1981) is an Italian retired professional tennis player on the ATP Tour. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world no. 27 on October 15, 2007. He was a clay court specialist, and was coached by Umberto Ria ...

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Alexander Satschko Alexander Satschko (born 12 November 1980) is a Germans, German retired tennis player. He was a doubles specialist, who achieved his highest doubles ranking of world No. 80 in October 2014. He won his first ATP World Tour title with partner Gero ...

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External links

Official Website
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