The 2015 BMW Malaysian Open was a women's
tennis
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tournament played on
outdoor hard courts. It is the 6th edition of the
Malaysian Open and is an
International tournament on the
2015 WTA Tour
The 2015 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2015 tennis season. The 2015 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis ...
. The tournament took place from 28 February to 8 March 2015 at the
Royal Selangor Golf Club. This tournament had been discontinued, but was restarted when the rights were bought off the tournament in
Palermo
Palermo ( ; ; , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The ...
, Italy.
Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki (; born 11 July 1990) is an inactive Danish professional tennis player. She has been ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA, hold ...
defeated
Alexandra Dulgheru
Alexandra Dulgheru (; born 30 May 1989) is a former professional tennis player from Romania. On 11 April 2011, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 26. Her best ranking in doubles is No. 41, which she reached on 4 July 2011.
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in the championship match for her 1st title of the year and 23rd of her career.
Finals
Singles
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Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki (; born 11 July 1990) is an inactive Danish professional tennis player. She has been ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA, hold ...
defeated
Alexandra Dulgheru
Alexandra Dulgheru (; born 30 May 1989) is a former professional tennis player from Romania. On 11 April 2011, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 26. Her best ranking in doubles is No. 41, which she reached on 4 July 2011.
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, 4–6, 6–2, 6–1
Doubles
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Liang Chen
Liang Chen (; born 25 February 1989) is a former professional Chinese tennis player.
Liang has a career-high singles ranking of 342, achieved on 21 September 2009. Her career-high WTA doubles ranking of 35, she reached on 26 October 2015.
Lia ...
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Wang Yafan
Wang Yafan (; ; born 30 April 1994) is a Chinese professional tennis player. On 7 October 2019, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 47. She peaked at No. 49 in the doubles rankings on 15 February 2016.
In her career, she has won ...
defeated
Yuliya Beygelzimer
Yuliya Emanuilivna Beygelzimer (; born 20 October 1983) is a former tennis player from Ukraine.
Career
She is perhaps best known for nearly defeating Jennifer Capriati at the 2004 French Open where she was down three games to love in the sec ...
/
Olga Savchuk
Olga Mykolayivna Savchuk (; born 20 September 1987) is a retired tennis player from Ukraine. Savchuk grew up in the city of Makiyivka in Donetsk province. She resides in Nassau, Bahamas.
Her best accomplishment to date was reaching the third ro ...
, 4–6, 6–3,
0–4
Points and prize money distribution
Points distribution
Prize money
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings are as of February 23, 2015.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
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Hsieh Su-wei
Hsieh Su-wei (; ; born 4 January 1986) is a Taiwanese professional tennis player. A former List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in Doubles tennis, doubles with nine Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam titles, she is rega ...
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Jawairiah Noordin
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Sabine Lisicki
Sabine Katharina Lisicki (; born 22 September 1989) is a German inactive professional tennis player.
Lisicki turned professional in 2006, and her breakthrough came in 2009 when she reached the quarterfinals of the 2009 Wimbledon Championships � ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
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Yuliya Beygelzimer
Yuliya Emanuilivna Beygelzimer (; born 20 October 1983) is a former tennis player from Ukraine.
Career
She is perhaps best known for nearly defeating Jennifer Capriati at the 2004 French Open where she was down three games to love in the sec ...
*
Elizaveta Kulichkova
Elizaveta Dmitrievna Kulichkova (; born 12 April 1996) is a Russian former tennis player. She competed for her last pro match at the 2017 US Open.
In her career, she won seven singles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 22 February 2016, she reached ...
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Magda Linette
Magda Linette (born 12 February 1992) is a Polish professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 19, achieved in March 2023. She has reached eight finals on the WTA Tour, winning three titles, and the semifinal of ...
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Junri Namigata
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Wang Yafan
Wang Yafan (; ; born 30 April 1994) is a Chinese professional tennis player. On 7 October 2019, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 47. She peaked at No. 49 in the doubles rankings on 15 February 2016.
In her career, she has won ...
*
Xu Yifan
Xu Yifan (; ; born 8 August 1988), nicknamed Julie, is a Chinese professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 7 in doubles, on 13 January 2020. On 13 July 2015, she peaked at No. 148 in the s ...
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
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Zarina Diyas
Zarina Diyas (; ; born 18 October 1993) is a Kazakh professional tennis player. She has been WTA rankings, ranked as high as No. 31 by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA. Diyas has won one singles title on the WTA Tour, at the 2017 Japan Women' ...
→replaced by
Patricia Mayr-Achleitner
Patricia Mayr-Achleitner (née Mayr; born 8 November 1986) is a retired Austrian tennis player.
Mayr-Achleitner won 17 singles titles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit in her career. On 4 May 2009, she reached her best singles r ...
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Marina Erakovic
Marina Erakovic ( ; ; born 6 March 1988) is a former tennis player from New Zealand. She achieved career-high rankings of 39 in singles and 25 in doubles, and won a singles title at Memphis in February 2013, and eight doubles titles on the W ...
→replaced by
Çağla Büyükakçay
Çağla Büyükakçay (; born 28 September 1989) is a Turkish professional tennis player. She won her first title at her home tournament in Istanbul becoming the first Turkish woman to lift a WTA Tour title.
She has won 12 singles and 1 ...
*
Romina Oprandi
Romina Sarina Oprandi (born 29 March 1986) is a retired tennis player. She has dual Swiss-Italian citizenship and represented both countries; she first represented Italy from her professional debut in 2005 until January 2012, when she joined t ...
→replaced by
Misa Eguchi
is a former professional Japanese tennis player.
In her career, she won six singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 12 September 2016, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 109. On 17 November 2014, s ...
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Carla Suárez Navarro
Carla Suárez Navarro (; born 3 September 1988) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. A former top 10 singles player, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 6 on 29 February 2016, and a best WTA doubles ranking of 11, o ...
→replaced by
Zhu Lin
Doubles main-draw entrants
Seeds
*Rankings are as of February 23, 2015.
Other entrants
The following pair received wildcard into the doubles main draw:
*
Jawairiah Noordin /
Theiviya Selvarajoo
References
External links
Official website
{{2015 WTA Tour
Malaysian Open
Malaysian Open (tennis)
2015 in Malaysian tennis
2015 in Malaysian women's sport