2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Sony Open Tennis
The semifinals saw a rematch of the previous years final against the fourth seed Maria Sharapova. After falling behind 1–4 in the first set, Williams racked off five straight games to take the first set, finishing the set with 11 winners including 5 aces. Again Williams fell behind an early break at the start of the second set, but the world No. 1 broke back immediately to level. Williams earned the first of two service breaks to take the second set and the match. In the final Williams faced the new world No. 2 Li Na.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Sony Open Tennis
Much like her semifinal match, Williams had a sluggish start to the opening set, struggling to get her first serve in play. She fell behind to China's No. 1 player, however, Williams regrouped and broke to stay in the first set on her third break opportunity. A quick hold to fifteen followed and Li Na was forced to serve for the set a second time. This time the Chinese player held a set point but Williams saved it with backhand winner down the line.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Sony Open Tennis
She followed this up by hitting a huge forehand return winner creating another break point to stay in the set, which she eventually took. Williams broke again to come back and take the set. Li Na stopped the loss of six consecutive games by holding serve for 1–1 in the second set. Williams responded by winning the next five games, the match and her seventh Miami title, finishing with 29 winners to 29 unforced errors. This seventh tournament win in Miami put her ahead of Andre Agassi for most Miami titles won by any individual player, male or female.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Clay court season and French Open, Family Circle Cup
Williams began her clay season on the green clay courts of the Family Circle Cup. She entered the tournament as the two-time defending champion and top seed and received a bye past the first round. In the second round she faced world No. 78 Jana Čepelová. She lost the opening five games, losing her serve three times to the young Slovak, but the world No. 1 surged back to win four straight games and trail by a single break.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Clay court season and French Open, Family Circle Cup
Despite holding a break point on her opponent's serve to level the match, Čepelová served out the set on her third attempt. The two players exchanged breaks early in the second set, but it was ultimately the Slovak who gained the decisive break in the seventh game. Čepelová's win ended William's 28 match winning streak on clay, dating back to her win in the opening round of the 2013 edition of the same tournament.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Clay court season and French Open, Mutua Madrid Open
After her first loss on clay since 2012, Williams  returned to Mutua Madrid Open in pursuit of her third consecutive title at the tournament. Her campaign got underway against former junior world No.1 Belinda Bencic in the first round. Williams overcame the Swiss qualifier, breaking her serve five times throughout the match, which included a run of 21 consecutive points for the world No. 1. In the second round Williams came up against the world No.1 doubles player Peng Shuai.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Clay court season and French Open, Mutua Madrid Open
In their first meeting since 2009, Williams was dominant from the beginning, hitting 28 winners including 11 aces, winning the match in straight sets. In the round of 16, Williams played local player Carla Suárez Navarro, whom in their last meeting failed to win a single game. The Spaniard, however, put up a much more respectable scoreline on her favorite surface, winning five games, including a break of the Williams serves in the opening game of the match. Ultimately, Williams came through the match untroubled with a straight sets victory. Williams was set to face world No.6 Petra Kvitová in the quarterfinals but the world No.1 withdrew before their match, citing a left thigh injury, which she had heavily strapped from the second round onwards.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Clay court season and French Open, Internazionali BNL d'Italia
Williams came into the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in search of her 60th career singles title. As top seed she received a bye through the first round to face Andrea Petkovic in the second round, whom she defeated dropping only 4 games, taking an early double break lead in each set. In the following round, she face compatriot Varvara Lepchenko. Williams won the first set with a breadstick and dominated the second set despite getting broken, dropping only two games.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Clay court season and French Open, Internazionali BNL d'Italia
In the last 8, Williams faced surprise quarterfinalist Zhang Shuai of China and cruised passed her opponent, breaking her opponent four times in the first set and won the second with a single break. This win set up a rematch of her 4th Round loss at the 2014 Australian Open as she took on Ana Ivanovic. Similar to their Australian Open match, Williams won the first set, while Ivanovic won the second. In the final set, Williams took the first 5 games and closed it out two games after to gain revenge on her Serbian opponent.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Clay court season and French Open, Internazionali BNL d'Italia
In the final, she faced Italian Sara Errani, Williams took an early break lead, before Errani could break back in the 7th game to take it back on serve. However, Williams took the next eight games to win the match with a bagel in the second set to successfully defend her title.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Clay court season and French Open, French Open
Williams came into the French Open as the defending champion and the top seed. She faced good friend Alizé Lim of France in the first round and won the match dropping only three games. In the second round, Williams faced Spain's Garbiñe Muguruza and suffered her worst loss at a slam, only claiming four games in two sets in 64 minutes. Williams finished the match with 8 winners and 29 unforced errors, to Mugurza's 12 winners and 18 unforced errors.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Wimbledon
Williams came into Wimbledon after falling short in her past two slams, Williams is trying to regain form in the slams. Williams faced compatriot Anna Tatishvili in the first round and made quick work of her dropping just 3 games with the help of 16 aces. In the second round, she took on Chanelle Scheepers and made quick work of the South African in just 49 minutes with a drop of just two games.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Wimbledon
In the third round, Williams faced France's Alizé Cornet, Cornet broke Williams in the first game, but Williams won six games in a row to win the set, after a rain delay after the second game. In the second set, Cornet raced to win the first five games, but Williams came back to win the next three games, Cornet then served it out in the ninth game to push it to a deciding set.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Wimbledon
In the third set, Cornet served for the match at the eight game, but Williams broke and held serve to make Cornet serve it out again in the ninth game and Cornet was able to serve it out in the ninth to reach the fourth round. This is the worst performance of Williams in the slams for a single season since 2006.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Wimbledon
Williams played doubles with her sister Venus and faced the team of Oksana Kalashnikova and Olga Savchuk and won in three sets after losing the first set. In the second round they faced Kristina Barrois and Stefanie Vögele and ended with a loss after retiring being down 0–3, with Williams reportedly suffering from viral illness, being unable to pick up a ball and also being unable to serve.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, Bank of the West Classic
Williams came into the Bank of the West Classic, aiming to regain form after the disappointment in the French Open and Wimbledon. Williams also entered the event with a nine-match winning streak winning it in 2011 and 2012 and missing the event in 2013. She received a bye in the first round and faced Karolína Plíšková, the pair held comfortably throughout the first with no break points until Williams broke at love in the twelfth game. In the second set Williams broke twice and served it out in the eight game.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, Bank of the West Classic
In the quarterfinals, Williams faced Ana Ivanovic, Ivanovic took control of the first set breaking her American opponent twice and not facing a break point to take the set. Williams came back in the second set, taking an early break in the second game and didn't look back to push it to a deciding set. In the final set, Williams broke in a long first game, but the Serbian broke back in the sixth game. They then traded breaks until Williams served it out in the 12th game to take the match.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, Bank of the West Classic
In the final four, Williams took on Germany's Andrea Petkovic, they stood toe-to-toe in the first ten games, until Williams reeled in eight straight games to take the first set and win the second set at love. In the final, Williams faced Angelique Kerber, Kerber took an early lead winning five games in a row, until Williams won five games in a row herself. Williams then claimed it in a tiebreak. Williams then broke in the first and ninth game to win the match and claim her fourth title of the year.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, Rogers Cup
Serena came into the event as the defending champion, being the 1st seed she received a bye in the first round and dominated her second round opponent in Samantha Stosur, winning the match losing only two game including a bagel in the first set. In the third round she faced Czech Lucie Šafářová, in a tightly contested two set victory for Williams, where she broke Šafářová at the end of each set to win the match.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, Rogers Cup
In the last eight, Williams took on Caroline Wozniacki, Wozniacki took the first set with a single break lead and led by a break in the second set, but Williams came back and broke back and broke again in the twelfth game to push it to a decider. In the deciding set, the pair was even until Williams broke in the twelfth game to take the match. In their first meeting in over a year, Serena Williams took on her sister Venus in match for a spot in the final. Venus took an early break lead, but Serena came back and won the set in a tie-break. However, Venus dominated the next two sets to win the match, and beat her sister for the first time in five years.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, Western & Southern Open
Williams, similar to the Rogers Cup received a bye in the first round of the Western & Southern Open and faced Samantha Stosur in the following round. The match was a lot tighter than their match in Montreal, However Williams came out as the victor in two tie-break sets winning both nine points to seven. The match also did not have any breaks of serve nor any break points.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, Western & Southern Open
In the round of 16, Williams defeated Ital y's Flavia Pennetta in two quick sets, dropping only two games in each set, making 28 winners and 25 unforced errors in the process. In the quarterfinals, Williams took on Jelena Janković, Williams took the first set dropping only a game. In the second set, the Serbian took an early brake lead, but Williams came back winning five of the last six games, to win the set and the match in just 58 minutes.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, Western & Southern Open
In the last 4, Williams for the second straight week faced Caroline Wozniacki, like their previous encounter, Williams made a slow start giving the first set to the Dane. However, Williams again turned in around winning the next two sets to advance to the final. The match featured 15 breaks of serves, with Williams breaking serve eight times while Wozniacki broke seven times. Williams made 36 winners to her opponents 8 and 41 unforced errors to her opponents 23. The win awarded Williams the US Open Series for the third time.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, Western & Southern Open
Williams faced Serbia's Ana Ivanovic in the final, Ivanovic took an early break lead and had a break point for a double break lead in the fifth game, however she could not convert. Williams then took the game and 10 of the next 12 games to win her first Cincinnati title. Williams hit 12 aces in the match.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, US Open
Williams came into the US Open as the two-time defending champion and the world no. 1. Williams started off her campaign against young American Taylor Townsend and blasted past the 18-year-old, dropping just four games including a breadstick in the second in just 55 minutes. Williams made sixteen winners to just eight unforced errors to her opponents six winners and fourteen unforced errors.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, US Open
In the second round, she took another American in Vania King, Serena made quick work of her compatriot dropping just a game in two sets in 57 minutes with the aide of 25 winners in the entire match. In the following round, she faced her third American opponent in a row in Varvara Lepchenko, Williams had a tougher time this time around despite losing only three games in each set including saving a break point in the sixth game of the second set, to prevent her opponent to take a break lead against her.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, US Open
In the round of 16, Williams took on Estonia's Kaia Kanepi and picked up a similar scoreline as the previous round with nineteen winners and sixteen unforced errors. This win marks the first time Williams gets past the fourth of the slam in the year. In the last eight, Williams had Italian Flavia Pennetta between her and the final four. Pennetta had an early lead winning the first three games and breaking Williams twice, however the American came back strong and won 12 of the next 14 games to advance.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, US Open
In the semifinals, Williams faced Ekaterina Makarova and beat the Russian in just an hour including a breadstick in the second set to advance to the final. In the final, the person standing between Williams and her 18th slam, was Caroline Wozniacki, this is the third time the two are facing in the span of a month with Williams winning the previous two in three sets. However, the match was one-sided in Williams' favor, with Williams winning dropping three game in each set and hitting more winners than her opponent an outstanding 29 winners to 4 winners.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, US Open
This marks milestones for Williams, including the first women since Evert in 1977 to win three US Opens in a row, the most US Open titles in the Open Era with six tying her with Evert and her 18th slam, placing her second in the open era and 4th in the all-time count of most slams with Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. Williams also earned the highest single paycheck in the history of tennis with an outstanding $4 million, with the $1 million bonus coming from winning the US Open Series.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Asian hard court swing and WTA Finals, Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open
Williams came into the Wuhan Open as the top seed. She received a bye in the first round and took on France's Alizé Cornet and had to retire due to viral illness prior to serving for the first set at the twelfth game. This is Williams' third loss to Cornet in the year, the first time she lost to a single player thrice since 2007 to Justine Henin.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Asian hard court swing and WTA Finals, China Open
Williams came into the China Open as the defending champion and the top seed. She began her quest against Sílvia Soler Espinosa, Espinosa took an early lead taking the first five games of the match and serve for the set, however, Williams took the next seven games to win the set and then only lost two games in the second set to win the match.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Asian hard court swing and WTA Finals, WTA Finals
Serena Williams entered the WTA Finals as the favourite. In her first round robin match she beat Ana Ivanovic in two tough sets. She then suffered a shocking loss to Simona Halep who beat her 6–0, 6–2, equaling the worst loss of her career. The loss snapped Serena's 16-match win streak at the year-end Championships. She then rebounded against Eugenie Bouchard beating her in two sets. She subsequently qualified for the semifinals by virtue of Halep taking the second set from Ivanovic, despite losing the match in three sets.


2014 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Asian hard court swing and WTA Finals, WTA Finals
In the semi-finals she beat Caroline Wozniacki, coming back from one set down and 1–4 in the final set to clinch the match in three sets. In the final she played Simona Halep in a rematch of the round robin math. It was an easy two set victory, her third WTA finals championship in a row. Serena now owns five WTA Finals titles (2001, 2009, 2012, 2013, and 2014), tying her with Steffi Graf and only trailing Martina Navratilova who owns eight titles.


2014 Sergipe gubernatorial election
The Sergipe gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next Governor of the state of Sergipe. If no candidate had received more than 50% of the vote, a second-round runoff election would have been held on 26 October. Governor Jackson Barreto ran for his first full term after assuming the Governorship in December 2013 and won in the first round.


2014 Setanta Sports Cup
The 2014 Setanta Sports Cup was the ninth and final staging of the annual all-Ireland football competition. It commenced on 24 February 2014 and concluded on 10 May 2014 with the final.


2014 Setanta Sports Cup
Shamrock Rovers were the defending champions, following a comfortable 7–1 win over Drogheda United in the 2013 final. This season's competition was reduced in size from twelve clubs down to eight, with four clubs representing each league. The competition was originally going to feature Linfield, who were inaugural winners of this competition in 2005 and had appeared in all eight editions of the competition to date, and 2012–13 IFA Premiership champions Cliftonville. However, both clubs declined the invitation to take part.


2014 Setanta Sports Cup
The clubs cited the difficulty faced by supporters to attend away games, inconvenient match scheduling, and the reduced prize fund as reasons for deciding not to enter. As a result, the fifth and sixth placed sides from the 2012–13 IFA Premiership – Ballinamallard United and Coleraine – were drafted in as replacements.


2014 Setanta Sports Cup
The competition featured two-legged quarter-finals, semi-finals, and a single-match final.


2014 Setanta Sports Cup, Prize money
A prize fund of €73,000 (£60,000) was distributed in the competition, with €33,000 going to the winners, the runners-up collecting €13,000, and the other six participants collecting €4,500 each.


2014 Setanta Sports Cup, Quarter-finals
The quarter-final draw was made on 11 December 2013, with the first legs played on 24 February 2014 and the second legs played on 10 and 17 March 2014. The four League of Ireland and four IFA Premiership clubs played each other in the quarter-finals over two games (home and away) with the winners qualifying for the semi-finals. Clubs from the same association were kept apart for the draw. All four League of Ireland clubs defeated their Northern Irish Premiership opponents.


2014 Setanta Sports Cup, Semi-finals
The winners of the four quarter-finals entered this round, with the same format as the quarter-finals.


2014 Setanta Sports Cup Final
The 2014 Setanta Sports Cup Final was the final match of the 2014 Setanta Sports Cup, an all-Ireland association football competition. The match took place on 10 May 2014 in Tallaght Stadium. Sligo Rovers secured their first ever Setanta Sports Cup title with a 1-0. The only goal came when John Russell slipped in Greene whose low cross was finished by Paul O'Conor at the near post. The match was played in near monsoon conditions.


2014 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
The 2014 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali was the 29th edition of the Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali cycling stage race. It started on 27 March in Gatteo and ended on 30 March in Castello di Montecuccolo.


2014 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
The race consisted of four stages, with the first one divided into two half-stages; the second half of the first stage was a particular team time trial, with every team split into two teams and final time taken on the fourth rider who crossed the finish line. A similar team time trial was also used in the 2013 edition of the race.


2014 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
The race was dominated by Team Sky. Team Sky's riders won four stages out of five, won the General Classification (with Peter Kennaugh, with another rider – Dario Cataldo – finishing in the second place), won the Points Classification (Ben Swift), and finished ahead of Teams Classifications. The others minor classifications were the King of Mountains Classification, won by Mirko Tedeschi (Team Idea), and the Young Rider Classification, won by Simone Petilli (Area Zero Pro Team).


2014 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali, Teams
The start list includes 25 teams (3 ProTeams, 9 Professional Continental Teams and 13 Continental Teams).


2014 Shanghai Challenger
The 2014 Shanghai Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Shanghai, China between 1 and 7 September 2014.


2014 Shanghai Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Shanghai Challenger – Doubles
Yuki Bhambri and Divij Sharan triumphed in an all Indian final, beating Somdev Devvarman and Sanam Singh 7–6(7–2), 6–7(4–7), [10–8]


2014 Shanghai Challenger – Singles
Yoshihito Nishioka won his maiden ATP Challenger Tour title, beating 2nd seed Somdev Devvarman 6–4, 6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–3)


2014 Shanghai Greenland Shenhua F.C. season
The 2014 Shanghai Greenland Shenhua season was Shanghai Greenland Shenhua's 11th season in the Chinese Super League and 52nd overall in the Chinese top flight. They also competed in the Chinese FA Cup, reaching the Semi-Finals.


2014 Shanghai Greenland Shenhua F.C. season, Squad
Updated 27 June 2014. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2014 Shanghai Greenland Shenhua F.C. season, Squad, Reserve squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2014 Shanghai International Film Festival
The 2014 Shanghai International Film Festival was the 17th such festival devoted to international cinema held in Shanghai, China.


2014 Shanghai International Film Festival, International Jury
The members of the jury for the Golden Goblet Award were:


2014 Shanghai Masters (snooker)
The 2014 Bank of Communications OTO Shanghai Masters was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 8–14 September 2014 at the Shanghai Grand Stage in Shanghai, China. It was the third ranking event of the 2014/2015 season.


2014 Shanghai Masters (snooker)
Ding Junhui was the defending champion, but he lost 4–6 against Stuart Bingham in the semi-finals.


2014 Shanghai Masters (snooker)
Bingham won his second ranking title by defeating Mark Allen 10–3 in the final.


2014 Shanghai Masters (snooker), Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


2014 Shanghai Masters (snooker), Wildcard round
These matches were played in Shanghai on 8 and 9 September 2014.


2014 Shanghai Masters (snooker), Qualifying
These matches were held between 12 and 15 August 2014 at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley, England.


2014 Shanghai Rolex Masters
The 2014 Shanghai Rolex Masters was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000, classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2014 ATP World Tour. It took place at Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena in Shanghai, China from October 5 to October 12, 2014.


2014 Shanghai Rolex Masters, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Shanghai Rolex Masters, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2014 Shanghai Rolex Masters – Doubles
Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea. Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan won the title, defeating Julien Benneteau and Édouard Roger-Vasselin in the final, 6–3, 7–6(7–3).


2014 Shanghai Rolex Masters – Singles
Novak Djokovic was the two-time defending champion, but lost to Roger Federer in the semifinals.


2014 Shanghai Rolex Masters – Singles
Federer saved 5 match points against Leonardo Mayer in the second round, and went on to win his first title in Shanghai, defeating Gilles Simon in the final, 7–6(8–6), 7–6(7–2).


2014 Shanghai Rolex Masters – Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2014 Shanghai Rolex Masters – Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2014 Shanghai stampede
On December 31, 2014, a deadly crush occurred in Shanghai, near Chen Yi Square on the Bund, where around 300,000 people had gathered for the new year celebration. 36 people were killed and another 49 were injured, 13 seriously.


2014 Shanghai stampede, Cause
The incident began at about 23:35 local time on New Year's Eve. The crush centered on a stairway leading up to a viewing platform overlooking the river. Some people were trying to climb to the platform while others were trying to go down, causing panic and confusion. People standing on the steps to the viewing platform began to fall down the stairs, collapsing into each other.


2014 Shanghai stampede, Cause
There were reports that a planned New Year's light show had been canceled at the last minute and that the crowd control measures required for such a show were not in place.


2014 Shanghai stampede, Cause, Rumors of cash coupons
Early reports stated that people were throwing cash coupons resembling U.S. dollars into the crowd. One of the victims stated that cash coupons were thrown onto the street from a bar and that several of the people had rushed to grab them. However, the Shanghai police later denied social media reports that the stampede was triggered by people stopping to pick up coupons, saying that "video footage showed that the bills had been thrown after the crush took place". An 18-year-old witness told news portal Sina: "I've seen people saying that the stampede happened because people were throwing fake money. But I don't think that's the main reason — there was so much distance, there's no way the money could have blown over to the viewing platform."


2014 Shanghai stampede, Rescue
At approximately 23:50, people started to realize the danger and began to retreat from the crowd. The police at the scene also started to instruct people to evacuate from the second level. At 23:55, police and citizens had formed a wall to make way for ambulances. The injured were then sent to local hospitals.


2014 Shanghai stampede, Rescue
After the accident, the government of Shanghai formed a working group to coordinate the rescue, led by mayor Yang Xiong.


2014 Shanghai stampede, Rescue
The identities of all victims have been confirmed, according to the local government. The youngest victim was 12 years old.


2014 Shanghai stampede, Rescue
As a result of the stampede, similar New Year celebration events on December 31, 2015 were cancelled.


2014 Shanghai stampede, Response, Central government
President and General Secretary of the Communist Party Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang ordered the Shanghai government to "go all out" in its rescue efforts. On January 1, Xi and Li called for an immediate investigation into the source of the accident. Xi Jinping also said a profound lesson should be learned from the incident.


2014 Shanghai stampede, Response, Shanghai government
The local government cancelled all New Year celebration activities on January 1, including the New Year's marathon and Shanghai Tower light show. Guyi Garden, Fangta Garden and Yu Garden's Lantern Festival were also cancelled. On the morning of the 1st, citizens mourned for the victims at the Bund.


2014 Shanghai stampede, Response, Media
This stampede was front page on local newspapers on the morning of January 1. The media needed to seek authorization for reporting this news, which was impossible to obtain at midnight. The official WeChat account of local government released relevant news at 9 a.m. the next day.


2014 Shanghai stampede, Response, Media
Media reports indicated that the cancellation of a planned light show led to a reduction in the number of police assigned to the event, resulting in only 700 police officers (as compared to 6000 in 2013) at the scene. However, the crowd was no smaller than in previous years, possibly because a scaled-down version of the light show was being held at different venue with a similar name.


2014 Shanghai stampede, Response, Media
Media outlets have faced criticism for publishing personal information posted online by victims or their families.


2014 Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships season
The 2014 Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships season was the ninth time that the Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships were held. The season began 28 March 2014 at Sandown Raceway and finished on 2 November 2014 at Sydney Motorsport Park.


2014 Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships season
A total of 14 different series held race weekends as part of the Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships. Of these, the 2014 seasons of the Australian Manufacturers' Championship, the Australian Production Car Championship, the Australian Saloon Car Series, the Australian Superkart Championship, the Australian Sports Racer Series, the Kerrick Sports Sedan Series and the Kumho V8 Touring Car Series were all held exclusively on the Shannons Nationals calendar. Rounds of the Australian Carrera Cup Championship, the Australian Drivers' Championship, the Australian Formula Ford Series, the Australian GT Championship, the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Australia, the PRB Motorsport Series and the Radical Australia Cup were also part of the Shannons Nationals schedule.


2014 Sheffield City Council election
Sheffield City Council elections took place on May 22, 2014, alongside nationwide local elections and European elections.


2014 Sheffield City Council election
There were 29 seats up for election, one third of the council with a double vacancy in Walkley.


2014 Sheffield City Council election
With a Labour majority of 36 and defending 19 seats, it was almost mathematically impossible for Labour to lose control of the council, as they would have needed to lose all 19 of those 19 seats to lose control. Even then, Labour would still have been the largest party.


2014 Sheffield City Council election
This result has the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections:


2014 Sheffield City Council election, Defections
Since 2010, when these seats were last contested, two Liberal Democrats had defected to Labour: Ben Curran in Walkley and Clive Skelton in Beauchief & Greenhill. The result in Stocksbridge & Upper Don was notable in that two former Liberal Democrat councillors stood for other parties. Martin Brelsford (defeated in 2011) stood as an Independent, whilst Jack Clarkson (defeated in 2012) stood for UKIP.


2014 Sheikh Jassim Cup
The 2014 Sheikh Jassim Cup will be the 36th edition of the cup competition for football teams from Qatar. It has now changed from a group staged pre-season tournament featuring all Qatari Stars League sides, to a one off match between the previous seasons Qatar Stars League winners and Emir of Qatar Cup winners.


2014 Sheikh Jassim Cup
Newly built Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium – the home base of Lekhwiya – will host the Sheikh Jassim Cup final between Al Sadd and Lekhwiya.


2014 Shohada Cup
The 2014 Shohada Cup was a friendly football tournament that took place in Tehran in the Iran in July 2014.


2014 Shohada Cup, Participating teams
Totally 4 teams get permission to participate in the tournament "2014 Shohada Cup".


2014 Shreveport mayoral election
The 2014 Shreveport mayoral election resulted in the election of the Democrat Ollie Tyler as the first African-American female mayor of Shreveport. The nonpartisan blanket primary was held on November 4, 2014, and as no candidate obtained the required majority, the general election followed on December 6, 2014.


2014 Shriram Capital P.L. Reddy Memorial Challenger
The 2014 Shriram Capital P.L. Reddy Memorial Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament for the men. It was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Chennai, India, on 3 February to 9 February 2014.


2014 Shriram Capital P.L. Reddy Memorial Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Shriram Capital P.L. Reddy Memorial Challenger – Doubles
Second seeds Yuki Bhambri and Michael Venus won the title over Sriram Balaji and Blaž Rola 6–4, 7–6(7–3).


2014 Shriram Capital P.L. Reddy Memorial Challenger – Singles
Yuki Bhambri is the first winner of the event, defeating Alexander Kudryavtsev in the final 4–6, 6–3, 7–5.


2014 Sibiu Open
The 2014 Sibiu Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Sibiu, Romania between 22 and 28 September 2014.


2014 Sibiu Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Sibiu Open – Doubles
Rameez Junaid and Philipp Oswald were the defending champions, but both players chose not to participate.


2014 Sibiu Open – Doubles
Potito Starace and Adrian Ungur won the title, defeating Marius Copil and Alexandru-Daniel Carpen 7–5, 6–2 in the final.


2014 Sibiu Open – Singles
Jaroslav Pospíšil was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Potito Starace.


2014 Sibiu Open – Singles
Jason Kubler won the title by defeating Radu Albot 6–4, 6–1 in the final.


2014 Sidecarcross World Championship
The 2014 FIM Sidecarcross World Championship, the 35th edition of the competition, started on 13 April and finished after ten Grand Prix weekends on 21 September 2014.


2014 Sidecarcross World Championship
The defending champions were Ben Adriaenssen from Belgium and his Dutch passenger Ben van den Bogaart, who won their first title in 2013. The pair defended their title while the Dutch-Latvian combination of Etienne Bax and Kaspars Stupelis finished runners-up for the third consecutive time. Third place went to the British duo of Stuart Brown and Josh Chamberlain, their highest-ever finish.


2014 Sidecarcross World Championship
The Sidecarcross World Championship, first held in 1980 and organised by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme, is an annual competition. All races, manufacturers and the vast majority of riders in the competition being in and from Europe. Sidecarcross is similar to motocross except that the teams consist of two riders, a driver and a passenger. Races are held on the same tracks as solo motocross but the handling of the machines differs as sidecars do not lean. The majority of physical work in the sport is carried out by the passenger, who speeds up the sidecarcross in corners by leaning out. The coordination between the driver and the passenger are therefore of highest importance.


2014 Sidecarcross World Championship
While usually a male-dominated sport the 2014 season saw the participation of a woman driver in the competition. Belgian Sabrina van Calster was able to score two points in the first race of the Swiss Grand Prix.


2014 Sidecarcross World Championship, Overview
The ten Grands Prix of the season were held in eight countries, Switzerland, Germany (two events), Czech Republic, Netherlands, France (three events), Estonia and Latvia. No Grands Prix were initially added or removed from the calendar in comparison to the 2013 season but Germany, which held three events in 2013, had this number reduced to two. An eleventh Grand Prix, to be held in Belgium was cancelled because of severe weather shortly before being staged.


2014 Sidecarcross World Championship, Overview
A twelfth Grand Prix, scheduled to be held in the Ukraine on 18 May, was cancelled because of the ongoing political unrest in the country before the start of the season. The second race of the final Grand Prix of the season was also cancelled because of the track conditions after heavy rainfall.


2014 Sidecarcross World Championship, Format
Every Grand Prix weekend was split into two races, both held on the same day. This meant that the 2014 season, with its ten Grands Prix, had nominally 20 races, however, only 19 were held. Each race lasted for 30 minutes plus two laps. The two races on a weekend actually get combined to determine an overall winner. In case of a tie, the results of the second race were used to determine the winner. While this overall winner received no extra world championship points, they usually were awarded a special trophy. Race start times were set at 13:30 and 16:00.


2014 Sidecarcross World Championship, Format
Events typically consisted of a qualifying competition, held in multiple stages on Saturdays of a race weekend while the two race events were typically held on Sundays. One exception to this rule is Easter weekends, when the races were held on Easter Monday. Race weekends could consist of additional motocross or quart support races as well, but the FIM stipulates that the World Championship races have priority. Riders had to be provided with at least one 30 minute free practice season, which was timed.


2014 Sidecarcross World Championship, Format
A race can consist of up to 30 starters and the qualifying modus is dependent on the number of entries. Up to 32 entries, it was held in one group split into two sessions of 30 minutes each. Above 32 entries, the starter field was sub-divided into two groups through ballot and the current standings. Each qualifying group can consist of up to 30 racers. Should there be more than 60 entries, a pre-qualifying has to be held. Of the riders in the two groups, the top-twelve directly qualified for the races. The remaining teams then go to a second-chance qualifying, in which the best six advanced. The riders placed seventh and eighth remained in reserve should one of the qualified teams be unable to participate.


2014 Sidecarcross World Championship, Format
The FIM stipulated that all drivers must be of a minimum age of 18 while passengers had to be at least 16 years old to compete, but no older than 50. Riders older than 50 had to provide a certificate of medical fitness to be permitted to compete. The driver had the right to exchange his passenger under certain conditions.


2014 Sidecarcross World Championship, Format
The engines permitted in the competition in 2014 were 2-stroke from 350 to 750 cc or 4-stroke up to 1,000 cc.


2014 Sidecarcross World Championship, Format
Starting numbers for the season were awarded according to the previous season's overall finishing position of the driver. Current or former World Champions had however the right to pick any number they wished, except the number one which was reserved for the current World Champion.


2014 Sidecarcross World Championship, Format
The competition was open for motor cycles with two-stroke engines from between 350 and 750cc and four-stroke engines of up to 1,000cc. Each team was permitted the use of two motorcycles with the possibility of changing machines between races.


2014 Sidecarcross World Championship, Format
The FIM did not permit radio communication between riders and their teams. Outside assistance during the race on the course was not permitted unless it was through race marshals in the interest of safety. Limited repairs in the designated repair zone during the race were permitted.


2014 Sidecarcross World Championship, Format
The first twenty teams of each race scored competition points. The point system for the 2014 season was as follows:


2014 Sidecarcross World Championship, Prize money
In 2014 prize money was awarded to all rider scoring points, with €300 going to each race winner, €250 to the runners-up, gradually declining from there, with €50 going to all teams placed 12th to 20th. Additionally, every team qualified for the race plus the two reserve teams received €500 in travel compensation.


2014 Sidecarcross World Championship, Classification, Manufacturers
Parallel to the riders championship, a manufacturers competition was also held. In every race, only the best-placed rider of every make was awarded points in this competition.


2014 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election
The  election was held on 12 April 2014 for 7th assembly of Sikkim, the northeastern state of India. It elected 32 members of Sikkim Legislative Assembly.


2014 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election, Background
Pawan Chamling led SDF had already formed the previous four governments in Sikkim having first formed the government after the 1994 election, when they won 19 seats within a year of the party being formed, and then again after the 1999 election, when they increased their tally to 24 seats. Chamling's third term began on 21 May 2004 after increasing his telly to 31. In the 2009 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election, the SDF had a clean-sweep winning all 32 seats in the state assembly and Chamling sworn in as a Chief Minister fourth times on 20 May 2009. SDF is contesting for the fifth consecutive term.


2014 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election, Campaign and issues
The Buddhist minority demanded Karmapa to contest from Rumtek monastery. Nepali community in Sikkim demanded tribal status.


2014 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election, Campaign and issues
Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) was formed by Prem Singh Tamang in February 2013. Prem Singh Tamang alias P S Golay left Chamling's SDF in September 2014 and joined SKM. SKM contested from all 32 seats.


2014 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election, Polling
There were 370,731 eligible voters including 179,650 female voters. 538 polling stations were set up by election commission which were guarded by 3500 policemen and 15 companies of the West Bengal Police. There are two seats reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC), 12 for Bhutia-Lepcha (BL) communities out of 32 seats. One seat (Sangha) is reserved for 2900 monks of over 100 monasteries.


2014 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election, Polling
SKM leader Golay contested from Namthang-Rateypani seat against incumbent SDF minister Tilu Gurung.


2014 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election, Polling
SDF leader and incumbent chief minister Chamling contested from two places, Namchi-Singhithang and Rangang-Yangang.


2014 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election, Polling, Voter turnout
Total 80.97% of electorate including 80.57% males and 81.40% females cast their vote.


2014 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election, Results
Votes were counted and results were declared on 16 May 2014. SDF lost 10 seats to SKM resulting in formation of opposition in the assembly which did not exist in previous assembly.


2014 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election, Results
The candidates elected to seventh legislative assembly are listed below:


2014 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election, Government formation
SDF led by Chamling secured majority by winning 22 out of 32 seats. SKM won the rest ten seats.


2014 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election, Government formation
Pawan Kumar Chamling was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Sikkim for the fifth time on 21 May 2014 by Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil, the Governor of Sikkim. He became the chief minister fifth time, a record previously held by Jyoti Basu who ruled West Bengal from 1977 to 2000.


2014 Silverstone GP2 Series round
The 2014 Silverstone GP2 Series round was a pair of motor races held on 5 and 6 July 2014 at the Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone, United Kingdom as part of the GP2 Series. It is the fifth round of the 2014 season. The race weekend supported the 2014 British Grand Prix.


2014 Simcoe County municipal elections
Elections were held in Simcoe County, Ontario on October 27, 2014 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.


2014 Simcoe County municipal elections, Simcoe County Council
The county council consists of the mayors and deputy mayors of the municipalities.


2014 Simferopol incident
On 18 March 2014, a Ukrainian soldier and the member of quasi "Crimean self-defense forces" were killed in the first case of bloodshed during the Russian military intervention in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation.


2014 Simferopol incident
After the attack, the Crimean interior ministry stated that a militant from Right Sector had been detained, according to Russian media Gazeta.ru. Right Sector had previously stated (on February 27, 2014) that it did not have any intention to go to Crimea. On March 20, Crimean prosecution denied that the detention had happened.


2014 Simferopol incident
None of the accounts of this event could be verified independently. The Ukrainian and the Crimean authorities provided conflicting reports of the event. The two casualties had a joint funeral attended by both Crimean and Ukrainian authorities. The event continues to be under investigation by both the Crimean authorities and the Ukrainian military.


2014 Simferopol incident, Ukrainian version, Storming of Ukrainian military facility
On March 18, 2014, at 3 p.m, 15 masked gunmen attired in Russian uniforms without insignia, stormed the 13th Photogrammetric Center of the Central Military-Topographic and Navigation Administration in Simferopol, Crimea. The base was administered by Ukrainian soldiers and had been completely surrounded by pro-Russian and Crimean Self-Defense troops since 13 March. Pro -Russian forces demanded that the garrison surrender the base or otherwise they will take the center with force.


2014 Simferopol incident, Ukrainian version, Storming of Ukrainian military facility
Although it is unclear how the incident initially began, reports emerged of a pro-Russian self-defense member attempting to scale a wall into the base compound, and being told to get back by Ukrainian guards. The argument escalated into live gunfire being exchanged by both sides and the storming of the base itself. However, civilian testimonies indicated seeing self-defense troops and militiamen preparing for a possible storming of the base prior any confrontation.


2014 Simferopol incident, Ukrainian version, Storming of Ukrainian military facility
Soldier Serhiy Kokurin, a Ukrainian junior officer manning a watchtower overseeing a vehicle pool at the base, was fatally injured in the neck during the shoot-out. A second Ukrainian serviceman was shot in the neck and evacuated by several ambulances. The ambulances were granted entrance to the scene by self-defense troops, who sealed off the base to journalists. This death marked the first military fatality in the Russian takeover of Crimea. In addition to the officer, an ethnic Russian volunteer was reported killed per Crimean authorities, though it was unclear if he was killed by resisting Ukrainian troops or by accidental friendly fire (both were reported).


2014 Simferopol incident, Ukrainian version, Storming of Ukrainian military facility
The storming followed with the takeover of the park located within the base's compound and the Ukrainian command center. According to civilians and journalists at the scene, a total of 15 unmarked soldiers, armed with shotguns and AK-47s, participated in the assault, supported by two military vehicles bearing the Russian flag. A Ukrainian soldier on patrol at the park was beaten by self-defense soldiers with a pair of iron rods during the capture. The soldier's condition was reported as serious, according to military accounts.


2014 Simferopol incident, Ukrainian version, Storming of Ukrainian military facility
Shooting continued until the Ukrainian commander, Colonel Andriy Andryushyn, was captured. He was taken hostage, along with several other soldiers, in order to gain entry into the base's nautical building, where the remaining Ukrainian personnel had barricaded themselves on the second floor, refusing to surrender. The Ukrainian commander was interrogated by Russian troops, and allegedly declared his defection to the "People of Crimea" afterwards.


2014 Simferopol incident, Ukrainian version, Storming of Ukrainian military facility
Negotiations over the surrender of the nautical building, and the Ukrainian troops inside, continued until late Tuesday evening, when talks were met over their surrender. A total of 18 remaining Ukrainian soldiers were detained and placed under arrest by gunmen. The soldiers were placed in rows and had all identification marks, weapons, and money confiscated at the behest of Crimean police. By March 24, the remaining Ukrainian troops who had been captured during the altercation were freed, unharmed.


2014 Simferopol incident, Ukrainian version, Government reactions
Ukrainian interim prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk accused Russia of a war crime over the incident. "Today, Russian soldiers began shooting at Ukrainian servicemen and this is a war crime without any expiry under a statute of limitations." Acting Ukrainian president Oleksandr Turchynov suggested that the Russian annexation of Crimea was moving from a political phase to a military phase, following the announcement of the death of a servicemen. He issued orders on the night of 18 March, allowing Ukrainian soldiers to use their weapons to defend themselves. The Ukrainian government released a statement declaring that the steps Russia was reminiscent to those taken by Nazi Germany and its annexations of territories before the start of World War 2.


2014 Simferopol incident, Ukrainian version, Government reactions
The Treaty on Accession of the Republic of Crimea to Russia was signed on the same day by Vladimir Putin and the self-declared Crimean republic, formally joining the independent Republic of Crimea to the Russian Federation as two federal subjects - the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol.


2014 Simferopol incident, Ukrainian version, International reactions
British prime minister David Cameron said: "The steps taken by President Putin today to attempt to annexe Crimea to Russia are in flagrant breach of international law and send a chilling message across the continent of Europe. Russia will face more serious consequences and I will push European leaders to agree further EU measures."


2014 Simferopol incident, Russian version, Alleged Right Sector sniper
On March 19, 2014 Russian media, citing Crimean police, reported that authorities had detained a 17-year-old nationalist Right Sector marksman from Western Ukraine in connection to the killings. Sergey Aksyonov, de facto Head of Crimea, confirmed it in Twitter. Later, however, Crimean prosecutors denied detaining any gunmen, according to Interfax. "The information on the shooter's detention has not been confirmed. It is untrue. Unfortunately, no one has been detained yet," Natalia Boyarkina, press officer for the Crimean prosecutors, told Interfax-Ukraine on March 20.


2014 Simferopol incident, Igor Strelkov participation
Igor Strelkov, the commander of pro-Russian forces in the War in Donbass in 2014, admitted in his interview he gave on November 20, 2014, he was in charge of the Center's assault.


2014 Simferopol incident, Igor Strelkov participation
I was in charge of the only unit of Crimean militia, the spetsnaz company, which carried out combat missions. But after the combat for cartography base when 2 people died (I was that battle's commander), the company was disbanded and its members parted.


2014 Simferopol incident, Igor Strelkov participation
(Russian: Я командовал единственным подразделением крымского ополчения: рота специального назначения, которая выполняла боевые задачи. Но после боя за картографическую часть, когда двое погибло (а я этим боем командовал), рота была расформирована, люди разъезжались.)


2014 Simferopol incident, Investigation by Crimean Prosecutor General, Initial statement of Crimean Prosecutor General
The day after the incident, Poklonskaya reported that pre-trial investigation services had determined the following:


2014 Simferopol incident, Investigation by Crimean Prosecutor General, Initial statement of Crimean Prosecutor General
Several unarmed officials of the Russian Defense Ministry came to the Ukrainian military base to discuss cartography issues. This meeting had been agreed upon by both the base's Commander and Kyiv. While they were inside the base, Crimean self-defense forces were shot outside the base.


2014 Simferopol incident, Investigation by Crimean Prosecutor General, Initial statement of Crimean Prosecutor General
A series of shots were fired both at Ukrainian soldiers and members of Crimean self-defence forces. There were victims on both sides: a Cossack self-defense soldier was killed, and another was injured. One Ukrainian soldier from the military base was killed and another was injured.


2014 Simferopol incident, Investigation by Crimean Prosecutor General, Initial statement of Crimean Prosecutor General
At the time of Poklonskaya's initial statement, the exact position and number of shooters were unknown.


2014 Simferopol incident, Investigation by Crimean Prosecutor General, Initial statement of Crimean Prosecutor General
The scene was examined by six investigation groups, including criminologists, detectives from the Crimean Republic attorney office, detectives from the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs [of Ukraine or Russia? ], and members of related departments. Poklonskaya stated that according to these experts, the incident was very similar to the snipers' attacks on Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Kyiv's central square, from February 18 to 21, 2014. Their goal was allegedly to provoke conflict between soldiers of Ukraine and the Crimean Republic.


2014 Simferopol incident, Investigation by Crimean Prosecutor General, Initial statement of Crimean Prosecutor General
Several expert examinations were completed, including forensic medical examinations. Ballistic examinations were continuing, along with witness interviews.


2014 Singapore Charity Shield
The 2014 Singapore Charity Shield was the 7th Singapore Charity Shield, 21 February 2014 at Jalan Besar Stadium, between the winners of the previous season's 2013 S.League and 2013 Singapore Cup competitions. The match was contested by the champions of the 2013 S.League, Tampines Rovers, and the 2013 Singapore Cup winners, Home United.


2014 Singapore Charity Shield
Tampines Rovers won the Shield for a record 4th time in consecutive seasons after a 1–0 win over Home United, with Miljan Mrdaković scoring the only goal.


2014 Singapore Cup
The 2014 Singapore Cup is the 17th season of Singapore's annual premier club football tournament organised by Football Association of Singapore. Due to sponsorship reasons, the Singapore Cup is also known as the RHB Singapore Cup. Home United are the defending champions, having won the trophy six times.


2014 Singapore Cup, Teams
A total of 16 teams participate in the 2014 Singapore Cup. Eleven of the teams are from domestic S.League and the other five are invited from the Philippines, Cambodia and Laos. Courts Young Lions will not participate in this year's edition of Singapore Cup.


2014 Singapore Cup, Format
The sixteen teams were drawn into two distinct pools for the preliminary round. They will play against one another in a single-legged knockout basis. Winners of this round will progress and advance to the quarter-finals. Thereafter, matches are played in two legs with the exception of the one-match finals. Unlike the previous season, away goals rule does not apply.


2014 Singapore Cup, Format
For any match in the knockout stage, a draw after 90 minutes of regulation time is followed by two 15 minute periods of extra time to determine a winner. If the teams are still tied, a penalty shoot-out is held to determine a winner.


2014 Singapore Cup, Knockout phase, Preliminary round
In the preliminary round, teams were drawn into two distinct pools. They will play against one another in a single leg knockout basis. The draw for the preliminary round was held on 3 May 2014. The matches will played from 25 May to 1 June 2014. Winners of this round will progress and advance to the quarter-finals.


2014 Singapore Darts Masters
The 2014 Singapore Darts Masters was the inaugural staging of the tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation, as a second entry in the 2014 World Series of Darts. The tournament took place at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, Singapore on 15–16 August 2014. The tournament featured eight players, of which two players were wildcard choices.


2014 Singapore Darts Masters
Michael van Gerwen won the title by defeating Simon Whitlock 11–8 in the final.


2014 Singapore Darts Masters, Qualifiers
The top six in the Order of Merit as of June 2014 qualified for the event, with the top 4 seeded, with the exception of Adrian Lewis, who rejected the invitation. The top six included:


2014 Singapore Darts Masters, Broadcasting
The Singapore Darts Masters was broadcast live on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom and Ireland, on RTL 7 in the Netherlands, on Fox Sports in Australia and on Sky New Zealand.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix
The 2014 Singapore Grand Prix (formally the 2014 Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 21 September at the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Marina Bay, Singapore. It was the 14th round of the 2014 Formula One World Championship and the 7th Singapore Grand Prix held as part of the series. Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton won the 60-lap race from pole position. Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo were second and third. It was Hamilton's seventh victory of the season, his second in Singapore, and the 29th of his career.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix
Hamilton won the pole position by posting the fastest lap in qualifying and maintained the lead into the first corner. His teammate Nico Rosberg had a wiring loom steering problem and began from the pit lane. Hamilton remained in the lead after the first round of pit stops before ceding it to Ricciardo for one lap in the second pit stop phase. In the final laps, Hamilton made his final pit stop to switch tyres and rejoined just ahead of Ricciardo. Vettel led for one lap until Hamilton passed him on lap 54 to win. There were four lead changes among three different drivers during the course of the race.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix
The result returned Hamilton to the lead of the World Drivers' Championship with 241 points, three ahead of teammate Rosberg who retired after 14 laps after his problem could not be rectified. Ricciardo maintained third place, with Fernando Alonso and Vettel passing the non-scoring Valtteri Bottas to move into fourth and fifth. Mercedes further extended their lead in the Constructors' Championship to 182 points over Red Bull in second. Williams and Ferrari maintained third and fourth and Force India overtook McLaren for fifth with five races left in the season.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Background
The 2014 Singapore Grand Prix was the 14th of the 19 rounds in the 2014 Formula One World Championship, and the seventh Formula One Singapore race. It was held on 21 September at the 23-turn 5.065 km (3.147 mi) Marina Bay Street Circuit in Marina Bay. The official name was the 2014 Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix, and was scheduled to last 61 laps. Tyre supplier Pirelli brought the red-banded super-soft "options" and yellow-marked soft "primes" dry tyre compounds to the race. There were 11 teams (each representing a different constructor) fielding two race drivers for the Grand Prix.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Background
The drag reduction system (DRS) had two activation zones for the race; one was from turns five and seven, and the second was on the start/finish straight from the final to first corners. Parts of the track parts of the circuit were resurfaced with a mandatory track jet sweeper used to ensure the grip on the new asphalt equalled that from the old surface following the 2013 race. The outside turn seven barrier on the run-off area was realigned to allow traffic to drive behind it and the pit lane's fast section was resurfaced.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Background
Before the race Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg led the Drivers' Championship with 238 points, 22 ahead of teammate Lewis Hamilton in second. Daniel Ricciardo was a further 50 points behind in third place. Valtteri Bottas was fourth on 122 points, one ahead of Fernando Alonso in fifth. Mercedes led the Constructors' Championship with 454 points, and Red Bull were second on 272 points. Williams in third had 172 points, Ferrari in fourth had 162 and McLaren were fifth with 110 points.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Background
At the previous race in Italy, the gap between Rosberg and Hamilton closed to seven points. Hamilton started from pole position ahead of Rosberg, but a poor start dropped him to fourth. He retook the lead after Rosberg braked late and went straight on at the first turn and used the escape road to rejoin the track. Hamilton remained in the lead for the rest of the race to win.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Background
With six races left in the season, Hamilton said he was aware he could not lose any further ground to Rosberg in the championship and was pleased to have improved after winning at Monza: "Despite the highs and lows, I'm still well and truly in the hunt for the championship and that is something that gives me huge motivation for the final six races – starting in Singapore."


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Background
Rosberg admitted Hamilton's form and past experience in championship battles could possibly be advantageous but was unconcerned about it and focused on himself: "At the moment, I am enjoying the moment more than I ever have in the sport because I get to a race and I have a car where I know I can be on pole and I can win," Ricciardo stated that while he was aware he had an unrealistic chance of winning the championship, he would take a race-by-race approach, and hoped to win one of the next two races to draw closer in the title battle: "All it takes is a couple of wins and a couple of bad races for the championship leader, and all of a sudden everything's possible again. So let's see what happens."


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Background
In the weeks before the race, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA; Formula One's governing body) race director Charlie Whiting, introduced a ban on certain pit-to-car communications, with a particular emphasis on banning driver "coaching"—such as describing their sector times relative to another competitor—under the sporting regulations stating a driver must drive the car "alone and unaided". Additionally, in the week of the race, the FIA banned teams from sending drivers coded messages either by radio or pit board, and decided that at the following round in Japan, they would be prohibited from sending information concerning tyres and brake wear.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Background
After team principals raised concerns about the extent of the ban three days before the race, the FIA revised what teams could tell their drivers by radio, including car performance and safety concerns. After persistent media speculation about his future at Caterham, the team confirmed that Kamui Kobayashi would enter the race.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Practice
Three practice sessions—two on Friday and a third on Saturday—were held before the Sunday race. The Friday evening and night sessions lasted ninety minutes each; the third, one-hour session was held on Saturday evening. In the first practice session, Alonso set the fastest lap of 1 minute, 49.056 seconds, one-tenth of a second faster than Hamilton in second. Rosberg, Vettel, Ricciardo, Jean-Éric Vergne, Kimi Räikkönen, Jenson Button, Daniil Kvyat and Sergio Pérez rounded out the session's top ten drivers. Although several drivers narrowly avoided damaging their cars, the session passed relatively smoothly.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Practice
Vergne's battery was changed, causing him to miss the first hour. After setting his fastest lap, he stopped with an energy recovery system failure, ending his session early. Räikkonen's session also ended early with brake fire. Vettel stopped at the pit lane exit with a sudden loss in oil pressure; he avoided a ten-place grid penalty because he used an older engine.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Practice
Hamilton, who had brake vibrations, set the day's fastest lap of 1 minute, 47.490 seconds on the super soft compound tyres in the second practice session; Alonso, Ricciardo, Räikkönen, Vettel, the McLaren pair of Kevin Magnussen and Button, Pérez, Nico Hülkenberg and Kvyat followed in the top ten. The session was disrupted halfway through when Pastor Maldonado overdrove through turn 10, lost control of his car's rear, and slid into the right-hand exit barriers, damaging his vehicle's front-right hand corner. After the session, Lotus constructed a new E22 chassis overnight for Maldonado for the remainder of the event.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Practice
In the final practice session, held in cloudy weather, Alonso set the fastest lap of the weekend so far at 1 minute, 47.299 seconds, 0.051 seconds faster than Ricciardo in second. Rosberg was third after a slow first third of the lap and went over the turn 11 kerbs. Vergne, Vettel, Hamilton, Felipe Massa, Bottas, Räikkönen and Esteban Gutiérrez completed the top ten.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Qualifying
Saturday afternoon's qualifying session was divided into three parts. The first session ran for 18 minutes, eliminating cars that finished 17th or below. The 107% rule was in effect, requiring drivers to reach a time within 107 per cent of the quickest lap to qualify. The second part lasted 15 minutes, eliminating cars that finished 11th to 16th. The final session ran for 12 minutes determined pole position to tenth. Cars in the final session were not allowed to change tyres, using the tyres with which they set their quickest lap times in the second session.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Qualifying
Although Hamilton lost two-tenths of a second locking his tyres entering turn one and subsequently missing its apex, he set the fastest time in the final session to achieve his sixth pole position of the season, his third in Singapore, and the 37th of his career with a lap of 1 minute, 45.681 seconds. He was joined on the grid's front row by Rosberg, who called it "the most difficult qualifying of my career so far" because he had difficulty finding a rhythm and changed his brakes for qualifying.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Qualifying
Ricciardo took third and had pole position until both Mercedes drivers went faster in the session's final seconds. He was ahead of teammate Vettel in fourth who believed pole position could have been his after feeling he overdrove. Alonso made a minor set-up change, giving him confidence and qualified fifth. Massa took sixth, ahead of Räikkönen, who was quickest in the first session, and was satisfied with his car's handling, but his engine shut down while preparing for a second timed lap in the final session.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Qualifying
Bottas's preparation for his final timed lap was slightly compromised, and an error in the first turn left him eighth. Magnussen took ninth and Kvyat was tenth after only having the super soft compound tyre available. Button was the fastest driver not to qualify for the final session; he locked his front tyres at the turn 13 hairpin on his final timed lap and went wide, losing him time, and struggled with front grip despite a change of engine and differential settings. Vergne had front grip issues, and locked his tyres, putting him 12th.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Qualifying
Force India's Hülkenberg and Pérez qualified 13th and 15th respectively after being unable to improve on their second attempts; Gutiérrez's faster Sauber car separated them. Romain Grosjean was the slowest driver in the second session; a turbocharger wastegate problem slowed him and he radioed his frustration to Lotus after being eliminated. Adrian Sutil failed to advance beyond the first session due to energy management and engine problems. Maldonado had the same turbocharger issue as his teammate and qualified 18th. Minor errors on Jules Bianchi's first timed lap left him 19th. Bianchi was ahead of Kamui Kobayashi in 20th. Max Chilton, 21st, could not extract full engine power on his first attempt because of mapping problems and had to prepare for another lap. Marcus Ericsson ventured onto the track late in the first session after his team worked quickly to rectify an electrical issue and qualified 22nd.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Qualifying, Qualifying classification
The fastest lap in each of the three sessions are denoted in bold.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
The weather at the start was dry and clear, with the air temperature between 28 to 30 °C (82 to 86 °F) and a track temperature from 33 to 37 °C (91 to 99 °F). All drivers started on the super soft compound tyre. Rosberg's car had a faulty steering wheel control due to a wiring loom problem. Although he made the starting grid after a steering wheel change and computer reset, the problem persisted and he began from the pit lane.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
Kobayashi's car developed an oil pressure issue on the formation lap and pulled off the circuit, preventing him from starting. When the race began at 20:00 Singapore Standard Time (UTC+08:00), Hamilton led the field into the first corner. Ricciardo's engine briefly lost power, preventing him from passing teammate Vettel. Alonso attempted to pass the Red Bull cars to their right but entered turn one too quickly, locked his front-left tyre, and drove onto the run-off area, falling to third.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
Magnussen passed Massa for sixth outside of track limits at turn five, but slid sideways at turn seven while holding off teammate Button, dropping to ninth. Button gained four positions by the end of the first lap, while Rosberg fell to 22nd over the same distance. At the end of the first lap, Hamilton led Vettel, Alonso, Ricciardo, Räikkönen, Massa, Button, Bottas, Magnussen and Kvyat. The stewards investigated Alonso's start but took no further action. Rosberg left the pit lane on the second lap but was initially unable to keep up with Chilton's Marussia.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
DRS was enabled on the third lap as the field spread out. The stewards investigated Magnussen for violating track limits. McLaren teammates Magnussen and Button avoided a collision on lap four and the Williams duo passed them. Vettel kept Hamilton's lead constant, causing the latter to go faster by 1⁄2 a second while conserving fuel.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
Rosberg overtook Chilton to move into 20th on lap five, while Kvyat was told by radio to battle Magnussen after lapping 0.3 seconds faster than Magnussen in the first sector on the next lap. Rosberg could not pass Ericsson and was more than 40 seconds behind Hamilton by that lap. It was announced on lap seven that there would be no further action against Magnussen. Magnussen, Kvyat and Vergne were within one second of each other and battled for ninth place. Vergne encouraged his teammate Kvyat to cede a position to him but Kvyat insisted he could pass Magnussen.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
Vergne overtook teammate Kvyat for tenth on lap eight and began gaining on Magnussen. Rosberg was limited to two gears and was five seconds slower than teammate Hamilton. Hamilton led by five seconds by the start of lap ten despite car balance problems over a single lap. Massa ran close behind Räikkönen until his first pit stop at the end of the lap as part of the Williams' team plan to pass the latter through strategy. Räikkönen made his stop on the following lap and emerged behind Massa.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
Bottas entered the pit lane on lap eleven with Vettel, Alonso and Ricciardo stopping on the next lap. After Kvyat made his stop, he rejoined behind Rosberg but overtook him shortly after. Hamilton made his pit stop from the lead on lap 14, and retained it, narrowly in front of Button. Rosberg was informed by radio that he could not go past 6,500 revolutions per minute in first gear because of a faulty pit lane limiter. He slowly entered the pit lane on lap 14 and purposely stalled his car as his tyres and steering wheel were changed.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
Mechanics switched Rosberg's car off and he selected multiple buttons on his steering wheel to try and change gear. After almost two minutes, Rosberg's car was pushed into his garage to be retired. Massa overtook Pérez for sixth place on the 15th lap. Vergne incurred a five-second stop-and-go penalty on the following lap after he was deemed to have exceeded track limits. On lap 19 Gutiérrez retired in his garage with an engine electrical problem. Two laps later, Chilton made an unscheduled pit stop after a wheel value punctured his front-right tyre.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
On lap 23, Räikkönen drew closer to Massa and the Williams team responded by bringing the latter into the pit lane for soft compound tyres for a potential strategic overtake. He rejoined in ninth behind teammate Bottas. Hamilton pulled away from Vettel who was caught by Alonso. By the 24th lap, Alonso had the potential to pass Vettel after the pit stops. That lap, Ferrari brought Alonso into the pit lane for super soft compound tyres. Vettel made his pit stop on lap 25 for soft compound tyres and emerged in third behind Alonso's faster Ferrari.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
Massa overtook Hülkenberg on the main straight for eighth on the same lap. Hamilton made his stop for super soft compound tyres on the following lap, giving the lead to Ricciardo; his team used a large time gap to remove rubber debris on his front wing. Ricciardo took his pit stop on lap 27 returning the lead to Hamilton. Grosjean was close behind Pérez but he could not pass him. Pérez attempted an overtake Sutil on the straight on the 30th lap, and Sutil squeezed Pérez into a wall, clipping the left-front nose cone section. It slid under Pérez's wheel, littering the track with debris, and prompting the safety car's deployment, to allow marshals to remove debris from the track.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
Some drivers elected to make pit stops to switch onto the soft compound tyres; Ferrari brought their drivers in to enable them to reach the end of the race without the need for another pit stop. Hamilton's race engineer Peter Bonnington cautioned him about the debris but Hamilton did not receive the warning in time and drove over shards of wing. He inquired about tyre pressures and was told no issues had been discovered. Sutil incurred a five-second stop-and-go penalty for the collision with Pérez.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
The safety car was withdrawn at the end of the 37th lap and racing resumed with Hamilton in first. Hamilton set the race's fastest lap of 1 minute and 50.417 seconds on lap 39 to lead Vettel by 5.8 seconds. Sutil's car developed a water leak and retired two laps later to prevent the risk of an engine failure.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
Hamilton led Vettel by 24 seconds by the next lap and wanted to make a pit stop because he was worried about tyre wear but was advised to further grow his advantage over the next three laps. Hamilton made his final pit stop for the soft compound tyres on lap 52. He rejoined in second behind Vettel and narrowly ahead of Ricciardo. Hamilton quickly caught Vettel, used DRS leaving turn five, and turned right to reclaim the lead two corners later on lap 54.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
Button stopped at the side of the track to retire with a power box failure on the same lap. His retirement promoted Räikkönen to seventh and Bottas' worn tyres slowed him, enabling Hülkenberg, Vergne and Pérez to run close behind him. Maldonado's aspiration for his first point of 2014 was not realised when Magnussen passed him for tenth place on lap 56. Three laps later, Vergne passed Hülkenberg for eighth place. Vergne overtook Räikkönen for seventh on the left into the first corner and then Bottas for sixth. Pérez had better traction than teammate Hülkenberg and passed him between turns 17 and 18.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
Pérez passed Räikkönen into turn 10 and took seventh when Bottas lost all tyre grip and fell from the top ten quickly. Because of the safety car period, the race ended under a two-hour time limit. In the remaining eight laps, Hamilton distanced himself from Vettel and crossed the start/finish line after 60 laps for his seventh victory of the season, his second in Singapore, and the 29th of his career. Vettel finished second in his best result of the season, 13.534 seconds behind, and successfully held off teammate Ricciardo and Alonso in the final laps. Massa finished fifth.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
Vergne's five-second time penalty did not affect his sixth-place finish. Pérez, Räikkönen, Hülkenberg and Magnussen were seventh through tenth. Bottas, Maldonado, Grosjean, Kvyat and Ericsson, Bianchi and Chilton were the final finishers. There were four lead changes in the race; three drivers reached the front of the field. Hamilton led three times for a total of 58 laps, more than any other driver.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
At the podium interviews, conducted by former team owner Eddie Jordan, Hamilton said he did not feel any pressure at his final pit stop because he felt comfortable with his large lead. Vettel said his team altered their strategy before the safety car and the final laps on worn tyres were "very, very much borderline" and emphasised the challenge of the track in hot and humid weather. Ricciardo said the event felt like a "home race" and that he would watch Alonso's first lap to see whether he should have ceded another position to Vettel.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
In the later press conference, Hamilton felt the race would have been "hardcore" had Rosberg not retired and knew Mercedes would not be "100 percent happy" because they aspired to secure victories collectively and be the series' most dominant team. Vettel revealed how uncomfortable he felt that he could not reach the end of the race on worn tyres but stated second was the best possible result for Red Bull. Ricciardo was satisfied to pressure his teammate Vettel but felt it was a processional event for the top three.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
Rosberg called his race "the toughest of the year" and deemed it worse than the British Grand Prix where he retired with a gearbox failure. He stated that his car's reliability needed the most attention and wanted to understand the problem: "It’s tough not even leaving the grid. I was hoping the team could fix it [after the race had started] because it was going on and off, sometimes working, sometimes not. There's no point in shouting, it's a reliability issue, and it's happened again."


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff apologised to Rosberg immediately following the driver's retirement, saying it was "a bitter moment" to lose ground in the Drivers' Championship. He stated he did not want to see the championship decided on reliability and Mercedes needed to discover the origin of their problems. The team's technical director Paddy Lowe added reliability concerns worried him throughout the season and hoped it would not be repeated in the future.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
Post-race, trainer Antti Vierula treated Magnussen for dehydration and minor burns on his lower back with an iced towel and McLaren sought a doctor who tended to Magnussen in its hospitality building. His condition was caused by a broken radiator seal possibly loosened after mounting the turn seven kerbs early in the race, causing hot air to be directed into his cockpit, warming his seat and drinks bottle. He found the water in his drink bottle very hot to consume and radioed his team it burned his mouth.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
Magnussen raised his arms out of the cockpit to direct cool air down his sleeves and onto his back to alleviate the pain. He called his tenth-place finish "the hardest-earnt point I've ever had" and the McLaren team principal Éric Boullier said his performance under the circumstances was a "scant consolidation" and praised Magnussen for being "indicative of his tremendous fighting spirit". Magnussen posted on Twitter reports of his condition were exaggerated and said he felt "just hot and sweaty." Kvyat also suffered from dehydration when his water supply malfunctioned after 2⁄3 race distance.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
Alonso said he believed the timing of the safety car and not a strategy error prevented him from finishing on the podium: "The moment of the safety car was probably not good, but sometimes it helps and sometimes it doesn't help. Today it didn't help." Ferrari team principal Marco Mattiacci defended his team's strategy and did not believe anything specific prevented them from finishing on the podium: "Definitely the safety car didn't do any better for us, but the race is made of 60 laps.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
We squeezed the car as much as we could; the strategy from the pits was excellent. There were other variables we know we cannot control. We did our best." Boullier suggested Red Bull used coded messages to assist Ricciardo when they told Ricciardo to stay off the kerbs but stressed it was the FIA's task to investigate. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner asked Whiting for clarification because Ricciardo had battery damage from mounting the kerbs. The governing body confirmed it were satisfied with Red Bull's radio messages and said the team abided by the rules.


2014 Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
The result regained Hamilton the lead of the World Drivers' Championship with 241 points. Rosberg's retirement dropped him to second, three points behind Hamilton. Ricciardo consolidated third place with 181 points, and Alonso and Vettel moved ahead of Bottas for fourth and fifth. Mercedes further extended their lead in the World Constructors' Championship to 182 points over of Red Bull in second place. Williams and Ferrari remained in third and fourth places and Force India moved in front of McLaren to move into fifth position with five races left in the season.


2014 Singapore League Cup
The 2014 Singapore League Cup was the eighth season of Singapore's premier club football tournament organised by Football Association of Singapore, and also known as the 2014 StarHub League Cup for sponsorship reasons.


2014 Singapore League Cup
For the second year in succession, National Football League clubs will participate in the tournament. Unlike the previous season where NFL sides had to compete in play-offs to earn the right to represent the league against the professionals, the representatives in this edition qualified through the league positions from last season.


2014 Singapore League Cup
The 2014 Singapore League Cup plate final was played between Tampines Rovers and Balestier Khalsa at the Jalan Besar Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. Miljan Mrdaković, who scored a hat-trick in the semi-finals against Police Sports Association, reproduced another hat-trick to clinch the plate for Tampines. He becomes the first player in history to score two hat-tricks in the tournament, and consecutively.


2014 Singapore League Cup
The 2014 Singapore League Cup final was played between Tanjong Pagar United and Brunei DPMM at the Jalan Besar Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. Brunei DPMM eliminated Tanjong Pagar United by a score of 2–0 to lift the League Cup trophy.


2014 Singapore League Cup, Teams
The top ten clubs from 2013 S.League were divided into three pots based on their final league positions. Developmental sides Harimau Muda and Young Lions have opted out of participation in this year's edition as they will be on a training tour in Austria. League positions of the previous season are shown in parentheses.


2014 Singapore League Cup, Round and draw dates
The schedule of the competition was as follows. The draw took place on 20 June at the Jalan Besar Stadium, during which the teams were drawn by various club representatives.


2014 Singapore League Cup, Format
The preliminary phase was a competition between the 12 teams divided among four groups of three, where each group engaged in a round-robin tournament within itself. The two highest ranked teams in each group advanced to the knockout phase. The third-placed team in each group entered the plate knockout phase. Teams were awarded 3 points for a win and one for a draw.


2014 Singapore League Cup, Format
The ranking of teams in each group was based on the following criteria:


2014 Singapore League Cup, Format
The knockout phase involved the eight teams that qualified from the preliminary phase of the tournament, while the plate knockout phase involved the four teams that finished third in the preliminary phase of the tournament. For the knockout phase, there were three rounds of matches, with each round eliminating half of the teams entering that round, whereas for the plate knockout phase, there were two rounds of matches, with each round eliminating half of the teams entering that round. For each game in the knockout phase, a draw was followed by thirty minutes of extra time (except the final); if scores were still level there would be a penalty shoot-out to determine who progressed to the next round.


2014 Singapore League Cup, Preliminary phase
The preliminary phase began on 7 July and will conclude on 15 July. There were some changes to the fixtures released.


2014 Singapore League Cup, Preliminary phase
All times listed below are in Singaporean official time (UTC+8).


2014 Singapore League Cup, Knockout phase
The knockout phase involved the eight teams that qualified from the preliminary phase of the tournament. There are three rounds of matches, with each round eliminating half of the teams entering that round. The successive rounds were: quarter-finals, semi-finals, and final. For each game in the knockout phase, a draw was followed by thirty minutes of extra time (except the final); if scores were still level there would be a penalty shoot-out to determine who progressed to the next round.


2014 Singapore League Cup, Plate knockout phase
The plate knockout phase involved the four teams that finished third in the preliminary phase of the tournament. There are two rounds of matches, with each round eliminating half of the teams entering that round. The successive rounds were: semi-finals and final. For each game in the plate knockout phase, a draw was followed by thirty minutes of extra time (except the final); if scores were still level there would be a penalty shoot-out to determine who progressed to the next round.


2014 Singapore Slammers season
The 2014 Singapore Slammers season (officially the 2014 DBS Singapore Slammers season pursuant to a sponsorship agreement with DBS Bank Ltd) is the inaugural season of the franchise playing in the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL).


2014 Singapore Slammers season, Season recap, Founding of franchise
On 21 January 2014, IPTL announced that one of the charter franchises for the league's inaugural 2014 season would be in Singapore. The team was founded by Indian cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar and international business executives Kishan Gehlot, Shashi Kiran Shetty and Ajay Sethi. Gehlot is the chairman of East African real estate development and healthcare conglomerate Intex Group. Shetty is chairman of Allcargo Logistics Limited. Sethi is chairman of Channel 2 in Dubai. They collectively invested US$15 million to own the franchise.


2014 Singapore Slammers season, Season recap, Inaugural draft
The Singapore franchise participated in the IPTL inaugural draft on 2 March 2014, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Players selected by Singapore were


2014 Singapore Slammers season, Season recap, Team name
By May 2014, the team was being referred to as the Singapore Lions. By June 2014, the Lions had become known as the Singapore Slammers.


2014 Singapore Slammers season, Season recap, Home venue
On 4 August 2014, the Slammers announced that their home matches would be played at Singapore Indoor Stadium.


2014 Singapore Slammers season, Season recap, First coach
On 27 October 2014, Joshua Eagle was named the Slammers' first coach.


2014 Singapore Slammers season, Television coverage
Television coverage in Singapore of Slammers matches will be provided by SingTel.


2014 Singapore Slammers season, Sponsorship
On 20 November 2014, DBS Bank Ltd announced that it had become the Slammers' title sponsor.


2014 Singapore Super Series
The 2014 Singapore Super Series was the fifth super series tournament of the 2014 BWF Super Series. The tournament took place in Singapore from 08–13 April 2014 with a total purse of $300,000.


2014 Sint Eustatius status referendum
A status referendum was held in Sint Eustatius on 17 December 2014. Sint Eustatius had become a Dutch public body upon the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010, despite this not being the status voted for, and so the 2014 referendum was supported as a way to resolve this. Although a majority of those voting opted for increased autonomy within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, voter turnout was well below the 60% required for the referendum to be binding.


2014 Sint Eustatius status referendum, Background
The decision to hold a referendum was approved by the Island Council on 8 October and supported by the United People's Party the Statia Liberal Action Movement independent MP Reuben Merkman. On 25 October the date was set for 17 December, with only the Democratic Party opposed.


2014 Sint Maarten general election
General elections were held in Sint Maarten on 29 August 2014. They were the first elections since Sint Maarten became a constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 2010, at which point the Island Council became the Estates. The result was a victory for the United People's Party, which won seven of the 15 seats in the Estates.


2014 Sint Maarten general election, Electoral system
The 15 seats in the Estates were elected by proportional representation. In order to participate in the election, a party was required to obtain at least 138 signatures; 1% of the valid votes of the 2010 Island Council elections.


2014 Sint Maarten general election, Campaign
Five parties secured the required number of signatures to contest the elections; the Democratic Party Sint Maarten (DP), the National Alliance (NA), the One St. Maarten People Party (OSPP), the United People's Party (UP) and the United St. Maarten Party (US). The DP, NA, UP and US were easily able to get the necessary signatures, whilst the OSPP only narrowly qualified.


2014 Sint Maarten general election, Campaign
The Social Reform Party led by Jacinto Mock, a former National Alliance candidate, obtained fewer than 80 signatures, and was initially declared unable to run. However, it did ultimately contest the elections.


2014 Sioux City Bandits season
The 2014 Sioux City Bandits season was the team's fifteenth season as a professional indoor football franchise, fourteenth as the Sioux City Bandits and second as a member of Champions Professional Indoor Football League (CPIFL). One of nine teams in the CPIFL, the Bandits finished the regular season 9-3 to earn the number two seed in the playoffs, in which they beat the Salina Bombers, 66-37 in the semifinals, but lost the CPIFL Champions Bowl II, 46-41 to the Wichita Wild.


2014 Sioux Falls Storm season
The 2014 Sioux Falls Storm season was the team's fifteenth season as a professional indoor football franchise and sixth in the Indoor Football League (IFL). One of nine teams that competed in the IFL for the 2014 season, the Sioux Falls Storm were members of the United Conference.


2014 Sioux Falls Storm season
Led by head coach Kurtiss Riggs, the Storm played their home games at the Sioux Falls Arena in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Sioux Falls entered the 2014 season following consecutive wins in the league's "United Bowl" championship game in 2011, 2012, and 2013.


2014 Sioux Falls Storm season, Off-field moves
In mid-April 2014, the team announced that this season would be its last at the aging Sioux Falls Arena. In 2015, the Storm will follow the Sioux Falls Stampede of the United States Hockey League to the newly constructed Denny Sanford Premier Center.


2014 Sioux Falls Storm season, Roster moves
Quarterback Chris Dixon, a three-time IFL MVP, returned to the Storm after one season in the Arena Football League. Dixon previously led the Storm to the IFL championship in 2011 and 2012.


2014 Sioux Falls Storm season, Awards and honors
On February 26, 2014, the IFL announced its Week 1 Players of the Week. Kicker Parker Douglass was named Special Teams Player of the Week. The league cited his perfect night offensively (1-1 on field goals, 7-7 on PATs) as well as his "high booming kickoffs" forcing Nebraska to start offensive drives from deep in their own territory. Several Sioux Falls players also received Honorable Mentions from the league: running back Tory Harrison for offense, linebacker Tyler Knight for defense, and wide receiver/kick returner James Terry for special teams play.


2014 Sioux Falls Storm season, Awards and honors
On March 5, 2014, the IFL announced its Week 2 Players of the Week. Sioux Falls Storm linebacker Tyler Knight was named Defensive Player of the Week. Quarterback Chris Dixon and wide receiver Judd Harrold received Honorable Mentions for offense. Kicker Parker Douglass received an Honorable Mention for special teams play. On March 12, 2014, the IFL announced its Week 3 Players of the Week. Sioux Falls Storm linebacker Tyler Knight was named as the Defensive Player of the Week for the second consecutive week. On March 19, 2014, the IFL announced its Week 4 Players of the Week. Sioux Falls Storm kicker Parker Douglass received his second Honorable Mention for special teams play.


2014 Sioux Falls Storm season, Awards and honors
On April 2, 2014, the IFL announced its Week 6 Players of the Week. Sioux Falls Storm running back/kick returner Tory Harrison and kicker Parker Douglass were jointly named as the Co-Special Teams Players of the Week. Quarterback Chris Dixon received his second Honorable Mention for offense. Linebacker Tyler Knight and defensive back Patrick Wells each received an Honorable Mention for defense. On April 16, 2014, the IFL announced its Week 8 Players of the Week. Sioux Falls Storm quarterback Chris Dixon was named as the Offensive Player of the Week.


2014 Sioux Falls Storm season, Awards and honors
Honorable mentions were awarded to wide receiver Jeremiah Oates for offense, linebacker Tyler Knight for defense, and kick returner Tory Harrison for special teams play. On April 23, 2014, the IFL announced its Week 9 Players of the Week. Sioux Falls Storm defensive back Kyle Theret received an Honorable Mention for defense.


2014 Sioux Falls Storm season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated May 29, 201425 Active, 3 Inactive


2014 Six Nations Championship
The 2014 Six Nations Championship, known as the 2014 RBS 6 Nations because of the tournament's sponsorship by the Royal Bank of Scotland, was the 15th series of the Six Nations Championship, the annual northern hemisphere rugby union championship. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. Including the competition's previous incarnations as the Home Nations Championship and Five Nations Championship, it was the 120th edition of the tournament.


2014 Six Nations Championship
Going into the final day, three teams could have still won the championship – Ireland, England and France. In the final game, Ireland hung on to win against France by just two points and secure the championship, on points difference over England. This was their first championship since 2009, and the 12th title they have won, including predecessor championships.


2014 Six Nations Championship
The final game also saw the retirement of Brian O'Driscoll from international rugby, with a record number of 141 international caps – 133 for Ireland (83 as captain), and 8 for the British and Irish Lions.


2014 Six Nations Championship
England won the Triple Crown by beating Wales, Scotland and Ireland – they became the first team to win the Triple Crown while another of the Home Nations won the championship outright.


2014 Six Nations Championship
The 2014 tournament saw 12 players earn their first cap – three English, four French, two Scottish, one Irish, one Italian and one Welsh. Sergio Parisse and Martin Castrogiovanni became the most-capped Italian players with 105 caps, with Gethin Jenkins earning the same number to become the most-capped Welsh player. In their match against Wales on 1 February, Italy broke the world record for the most-capped starting pack with 587 caps, surpassing the previous record of 546 caps as held by New Zealand.