The 2014
BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux
The BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour 175. It is held annually at the Villa Primrose in Bordeaux, France, since 2008.
Marc Gicque ...
was a professional
tennis
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tournament played on
clay court
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s. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the
2014 ATP Challenger Tour
The ATP Challenger Tour, in 2014 in tennis, 2014 was the secondary professional tennis circuit organized by the ATP. The 2014 ATP Challenger Tour calendar comprised 150 tournaments, with prize money ranging from $40,000 up to $220,000, which repre ...
. It took place in
Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...
, France between 12 and 18 May 2014.
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
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1 Rankings are as of May 5, 2014.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
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Julien Benneteau
Julien Henry Guy Benneteau-Desgrois (; born 20 December 1981) is a French retired professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 25 and doubles ranking of No. 5 in November 2014. Benneteau did not win a singles ti ...
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Jonathan Eysseric
Jonathan Eysseric (born 27 May 1990) is a French professional tennis player, who specializes in doubles and competes on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 72 achieved on 2 July 2018.
Tennis career Juniors
In 200 ...
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Florent Serra
Florent Lucien Serra (; born 28 February 1981) is a French retired professional tennis player. A right-hander, he won two ATP titles during his career and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 36 in June 2006.
Career Early life a ...
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Maxime Teixeira
Maxime Teixeira (born 18 January 1989) is a French professional tennis player. He competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures circuit, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 154 in Mar ...
The following players received special exempt into the singles main draw:
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Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo
Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo (; born 6 January 1978 in Alicante, Spain) is a former professional male tennis player from Spain. His career-high ATP singles ranking is world No. 50, achieved on 2 October 2006. His favourite surface is clay, where h ...
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Yann Marti
Yann Marti (born 7 June 1988) is a Swiss former tennis player. His highest singles ranking was World No. 200, which was achieved on 18 August 2014.
In September 2014, Yann Marti was called as fifth player and sparring partner for the Davis Cup s ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
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Martín Alund
Martín Alund (; ; born 26 December 1985) is a retired Argentine professional tennis player. He reached the semifinals of the 2013 Brasil Open – Singles, 2013 Brasil Open; has won seven ATP Challenger Tour, ATP Challenger events in doubles; and ...
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Josselin Ouanna
Josselin Ouanna (; born 14 April 1986) is a retired French tennis player.
Biography
Born in Tours and Guadeloupean origin, he was quickly spotted and integrates INSEP with her friends of "blackteam" Gaël Monfils (of Guadeloupe and also Martiniq ...
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Olivier Rochus
Olivier Rochus (; born 18 January 1981) is a former Belgian tennis player.
Rochus won two singles titles in his career and in 2004 won the French Open doubles title, partnering fellow Belgian Xavier Malisse. His career-high singles ranking is wo ...
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Andrea Collarini
Andrea Collarini (; born 31 January 1992) is an Argentine-American tennis player, who competes on the ATP Challenger Tour.
He has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 177 achieved on 24 April 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranki ...
Doubles main-draw entrants
Seeds
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1 Rankings are as of May 5, 2014.
Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
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Florent Serra
Florent Lucien Serra (; born 28 February 1981) is a French retired professional tennis player. A right-hander, he won two ATP titles during his career and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 36 in June 2006.
Career Early life a ...
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Maxime Teixeira
Maxime Teixeira (born 18 January 1989) is a French professional tennis player. He competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures circuit, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 154 in Mar ...
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Jonathan Eysseric
Jonathan Eysseric (born 27 May 1990) is a French professional tennis player, who specializes in doubles and competes on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 72 achieved on 2 July 2018.
Tennis career Juniors
In 200 ...
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Romain Jouan
Romain Jouan (born 16 July 1985) is a French professional tennis player.
Career
2008
On September 29, Jouan qualified for the first ATP tournament of his career in Metz after beating Fabio Fognini, Prakash Amritraj and Tobias Kamke. Ranked # ...
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Enzo Couacaud
Enzo Couacaud (; born 1 March 1995) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career high singles ranking of world No. 151, which he achieved on 17 July 2023 and a doubles ranking of world No. 188 achieved on 8 March 2021.
Career 2015: ...
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Laurent Lokoli
Laurent Lokoli (born 18 October 1994) is a French professional tennis player. Lokoli plays primarily ATP Challenger and ITF events. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 167 achieved on 27 February 2023.
Career
Lokoli received a wildc ...
Champions
Singles
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Julien Benneteau
Julien Henry Guy Benneteau-Desgrois (; born 20 December 1981) is a French retired professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 25 and doubles ranking of No. 5 in November 2014. Benneteau did not win a singles ti ...
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Steve Johnson, 6–3, 6–2
Doubles
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Marc Gicquel
Marc Gicquel (; born 30 March 1977) is a former professional male tennis player from France.
Tennis career
Gicquel turned pro in 1999. He made his ATP Tour singles debut at the 2002 Open 13 tournament on hard courts in Marseilles, France. He ...
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Sergiy Stakhovsky
Sergiy Eduardovych Stakhovsky (, ; born January 6, 1986) is a Ukrainian former professional tennis player. Stakhovsky turned professional in 2003 and played mostly at the Challenger level from 2005 to 2008. His career-high rankings were World No ...
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Ryan Harrison
Ryan Harrison (born May 7, 1992) is an American former professional tennis player. Harrison won one career Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP title in singles at the 2017 Memphis Open to go along with four in doubles, including the 2017 F ...
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Alex Kuznetsov
Alex Kuznetsov (born February 5, 1987) is a retired professional tennis player. He is a former hitting partner of Maria Sharapova.
Personal life
Kuznetsov was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine). His family moved to t ...
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External links
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BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux
The BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour 175. It is held annually at the Villa Primrose in Bordeaux, France, since 2008.
Marc Gicque ...
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