2014 Royal Lahaina Challenger
2014 Royal Lahaina Challenger
Royal Lahaina Tennis Ranch | Lahaina, Hawaii
January 19 - 26, 2014
The 2014 Royal Lahaina Challenger, played at the Royal Lahaina Tennis
Ranch had a great showing of world-class tennis. Players from countries
across the world competed at this $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit tournament. The USTA Hawaii Pacific Section is the only section in the nation
to host and fully run a Pro Circuit event. The seven-day tournament had
draws for both Singles and Doubles and is Hawaii’s only men’s professional tennis event. Title sponsor, American Saving’s Bank, has been the
top-level sponsor for the past five years and continues to be a supportive
partner of the tournament.
Thanks to the sponsorship from Kahiau: A Tennis Foundation, the tournament also saw huge success in its School’s Day, where over 100 kids took
a field trip to the Challenger and got to learn tennis from some of the
competing pros as well as spend some time for Q&A. This was a prime
example of bringing School’s Tennis to its highest excellence.
Coverage of the event was ever present, with daily stories in the Maui
News, stories in the Honolulu Star Advertiser, Maui Now, Tennis World,
the ATP, and even ESPN. The tournament had successful promotion
through various radio, print, and television sources. The event was also
covered via live web streaming so that anyone across the world who has
access to Internet could view the event. Analytics showed over 65,000
unique viewers who watched the online streaming.
Bradley Klahn - Singles Champion (left),
Tsung-Hua Yang - Singles Finalist (right)
Bradley Klahn, No. 93 player in the ATP world rankings, beat Tsung-Hua
Yang 6-2, 6-3 for the title in the Royal Lahaina Challenger at the Royal
Lahaina Tennis Ranch in front of about 500 fans at the stadium court.
Klahn finished off Yang, a former doubles partner, in 57 minutes, and
won $7,200 of the $50,000 purse. Yang, ranked 274th, beat fourth-seeded Jack Sock in the opening round and second-seeded Tim Smyczek in
the semifinals, after a three-set quarterfinal. He won $4,240. Klahn did
not lose a set in singles in the event.
Bradley Klahn
2014 Singles Champion
Denis Kudla & Yasutaka Uchiyama
2014 Doubles Champions
Tsung-Hua Yang
2014 Singles Finalist
Daniel Kosakowski & Nicolas Meister
2014 Doubles Finalists
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