# 2014 Family Circle Cup

The 2014 Family Circle Cup was a women's tennis event on the 2014 WTA Tour. The event took place from March 31 to April 6, 2014. It was the 42nd edition of the tournament and a Premier level tournament. The event was hosted at the Family Circle Tennis Center, on Daniel Island, Charleston, United States. It is the only event of the clay court season played on green clay.

## Points and prize money
### Point distribution

| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Q | Q2 | Q1 |
| Singles | 470 | 305 | 185 | 100 | 55 | 30 | 1 | 25 | 13 | 1 |
| Doubles | 470 | 305 | 185 | 100 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |

### Prize money

The total commitment prize money for this year's event was $710,000
| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Singles | $120,000 | $64,000 | $31,510 | $16,200 | $8,400 | $4,300 | $2,200 | $1,000 | $600 |
| Doubles | $38,000 | $20,000 | $11,000 | $5,600 | $3,035 | — | — | — | — |

## Singles main draw entrants
### Seeds

| Country | Player | Ranking$^1$ | Seed |
| USA | Serena Williams | 1 | 1 |
| SRB | Jelena Janković | 6 | 2 |
| ITA | Sara Errani | 10 | 3 |
| GER | Sabine Lisicki | 15 | 4 |
| USA | Sloane Stephens | 16 | 5 |
| CAN | Eugenie Bouchard | 19 | 6 |
| AUS | Samantha Stosur | 20 | 7 |
| ROU | Sorana Cîrstea | 26 | 8 |
| CZE | Lucie Šafářová | 27 | 9 |
| RUS | Maria Kirilenko | 29 | 10 |
| USA | Venus Williams | 31 | 11 |
| SVK | Daniela Hantuchová | 33 | 12 |
| RUS | Elena Vesnina | 35 | 13 |
| GER | Andrea Petkovic | 37 | 14 |
| USA | Madison Keys | 38 | 15 |
| CHN | Zhang Shuai | 41 | 16 |
* $^1$ Rankings as of March 17, 2014

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw:
* Melanie Oudin
* Nadia Petrova
* Shelby Rogers
The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw:
* Petra Cetkovská
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
* Belinda Bencic
* Kiki Bertens
* Jarmila Gajdošová
* Alla Kudryavtseva
* Michelle Larcher de Brito
* Grace Min
* Lesia Tsurenko
* Zheng Saisai

### Withdrawals
#### Before the tournament

* Alizé Cornet → replaced by Caroline Garcia
* Casey Dellacqua → replaced by Dinah Pfizenmaier
* Polona Hercog → replaced by Virginie Razzano
* Svetlana Kuznetsova → replaced by Anabel Medina Garrigues
* Bethanie Mattek-Sands (hip injury) → replaced by Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
* Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova → replaced by Julia Glushko
* Galina Voskoboeva → replaced by Julia Görges

### Retirements

* Kiki Bertens (lower back injury)

## Doubles main draw entrants
### Seeds

| Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank$^1$ | Seed |
| TPE | Hsieh Su-wei | CHN | Peng Shuai | 3 | 1 |
| CZE | Květa Peschke | CZE | Lucie Šafářová | 24 | 2 |
| USA | Raquel Kops-Jones | USA | Abigail Spears | 36 | 3 |
| GER | Julia Görges | GER | Anna-Lena Grönefeld | 41 | 4 |
* $^1$ Rankings as of March 17, 2014

### Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
* Eugenie Bouchard / Taylor Townsend
* Sorana Cîrstea / Maria Kirilenko
* Jelena Janković / Andrea Petkovic
The following pair received entry as alternates:
* Jarmila Gajdošová / Zheng Saisai

### Withdrawals
#### Before the tournament

* Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová (left wrist injury)

### Retirements

* Peng Shuai (abdominal strain)
* Anastasia Rodionova (concussion)

## Finals
### Singles

* Andrea Petkovic defeated Jana Čepelová 7–5, 6–2

### Doubles

* Anabel Medina Garrigues / Yaroslava Shvedova defeated Chan Hao-ching / Chan Yung-jan 7–6$^{(7–4)}$, 6–2