in july, saville sustained a lower back issue in the quarterfinals of the granby challenger. this injury sidelined him from the us open and competition for almost three months. saville returned from injury in october and made the final of the australia futures f8 event, but lost to jarmere jenkins in straight sets. saville reached the quarterfinals of the 2014 traralgon challenger 1, going down to john-patrick smith, after taking the first set. he then reached the semifinals of the 2014 traralgon challenger 2, before losing to eventual champion john millman. this result gave him a career high ranking of world no. 158. he lost in the first round of the toyota challenger in a third set tiebreak to mao-xin gong. saville finished the year at the australian open wildcard playoff where he reached the semifinal. he was forced to withdraw from his match with jordan thompson with a hamstring injury. saville finished the year with a ranking of world no. 164.