2015 Wuhan Open | |
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Date | September 27 – October 3 |
Edition | 2nd |
Category | WTA Premier 5 |
Draw | 56S / 28D |
Prize money | $2,513,000 |
Surface | Hard / outdoor |
Location | Wuhan, China |
Venue | Optics Valley Int'l Tennis Center |
Champions | |
Singles | |
Venus Williams | |
Doubles | |
Martina Hingis / Sania Mirza |
The 2015 Wuhan Open (also known as 2015 Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open for sponsorship reasons) was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts between September 27 and October 3, 2015. It was part of the WTA Premier 5 tournaments of the 2015 WTA Tour. The 2015 tournament was the 2nd edition of the Wuhan Open. The tournament was held at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center in Wuhan, China.
Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Q | Q2 | Q1 |
Singles [1] | 900 | 585 | 350 | 190 | 105 | 60 | 1 | 30 | 20 | 1 |
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Doubles [1] | 1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Q2 | Q1 |
Singles [2] [3] | $456,000 | $227,700 | $113,860 | $52,430 | $26,000 | $13,335 | $6,855 | $3,825 | $1,970 |
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Doubles [4] | $130,300 | $65,930 | $32,250 | $16,425 | $8,320 | $4,115 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Country | Player [5] | Ranking | Seeds |
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ROU | Simona Halep | 2 | 1 |
RUS | Maria Sharapova | 3 | 2 |
CZE | Petra Kvitová | 4 | 3 |
DEN | Caroline Wozniacki | 6 | 4 |
ESP | Garbiñe Muguruza | 8 | 5 |
GER | Angelique Kerber | 9 | 6 |
ESP | Carla Suárez Navarro | 10 | 7 |
CZE | Karolína Plíšková | 11 | 8 |
SRB | Ana Ivanovic | 12 | 9 |
POL | Agnieszka Radwańska | 13 | 10 |
SUI | Belinda Bencic | 15 | 11 |
UKR | Elina Svitolina | 16 | 12 |
GER | Andrea Petkovic | 17 | 13 |
USA | Madison Keys | 18 | 14 |
ITA | Roberta Vinci | 19 | 15 |
ITA | Sara Errani | 21 | 16 |
The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:
The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the main singles draw:
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:
The following players received entry as a lucky loser:
Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
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SUI | Martina Hingis | IND | Sania Mirza | 3 | 1 |
HUN | Tímea Babos | FRA | Kristina Mladenovic | 19 | 2 |
FRA | Caroline Garcia | SLO | Katarina Srebotnik | 25 | 3 |
TPE | Chan Hao-Ching | TPE | Chan Yung-Jan | 3- | 4 |
USA | Raquel Kops-Jones | USA | Abigail Spears | 32 | 5 |
CZE | Andrea Hlaváčková | CZE | Lucie Hradecká | 37 | 6 |
ESP | Garbiñe Muguruza | ESP | Carla Suárez Navarro | 46 | 7 |
TPE | Chuang Chia-jung | TPE | Hsieh Su-wei | 60 | 8 |
The following pairs received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:
The following pair received entry as alternates:
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