The defending champion in the individual Novak Đoković appeared again this year and was placed in first position. He failed in the semifinals against the former world number one Roger Federer , who in turn won the tournament for the sixth time. In the final, he defeated Tomáš Berdych in three sets and won his 78th career title in individual. Mahesh Bhupathi and Michaël Llodra won the doubles title last year. This year the two top seeded duos faced each other. Thereby gained Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi against Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić in two sets of 6: 4 and 6: 3rd For Bopanna this was the second title in Dubai after 2012.
The field of participants in the individual competition consisted of 32 players, that of the doubles competition consisted of 16 pairs.
The qualification for the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships 2014 took place on February 22nd and 23rd, 2014. Four qualifying places were played, which entitle them to participate in the main draw of the tournament.
At the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships 2014, the following prize money and world ranking points were paid out or credited for reaching the respective round. Players who entered the main field from qualification received the specified qualification points in addition to those for reaching the respective round. Otherwise the amounts are not to be understood as cumulative. The amounts for the double competition were per player.
Novak Đoković
Mahesh Bhupathi Michaël Llodra
Roger Federer
Michael Russell (92)
Thiemo de Bakker
Marius Copil
Lukáš Lacko
D. Istomin
R. Bautista Agut
T. Gabashvili
J. Ward
M. Przysiężny
B. Becker
R. Štěpánek
A. Golubev
I. Dodig
S. Stachowskyj
A. Seppi
M. Jaziri
JM del Potro
