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2015 Malaysian Open

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2015 Malaysian Open
Date28 February – 8 March
Edition6th
CategoryWTA International tournaments
Draw32S / 16D
Prize money$250,000
SurfaceHard
LocationKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
VenueRoyal Selangor Golf Club
Champions
Singles
Denmark Caroline Wozniacki
Doubles
China Liang Chen / China Wang Yafan
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The 2015 BMW Malaysian Open was a women's tennis 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 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, Italy.[1] Caroline Wozniacki defeated Alexandra Dulgheru in the championship match for her 1st title of the year and 23rd of her career.

Finals

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Singles

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Doubles

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Points and prize money distribution

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Points distribution

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Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Q Q3 Q2 Q1
Singles 280 180 110 60 30 1 18 14 10 1
Doubles 1

Prize money

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Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Q3 Q2 Q1
Singles $43,000 $21,400 $11,300 $5,900 $3,310 $1,925 $1,005 $730 $530
Doubles $12,300 $6,400 $3,435 $1,820 $960

Singles main-draw entrants

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Seeds

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Country Player Ranking1 Seeds
 DEN Caroline Wozniacki 5 1
 GER Sabine Lisicki 28 2
 AUS Casey Dellacqua 34 3
 AUS Jarmila Gajdošová 54 4
 CZE Klára Koukalová 58 5
 JPN Kurumi Nara 60 6
 SRB Bojana Jovanovski 63 7
 GER Julia Görges 67 8
  • 1 Rankings are as of February 23, 2015.

Other entrants

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The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Withdrawals

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Before the tournament

Doubles main-draw entrants

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Seeds

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Country Player Country Player Rank Seed
 CRO Darija Jurak  CZE Klára Koukalová 110 1
 UKR Lyudmyla Kichenok  UKR Nadiia Kichenok 139 2
 UKR Yuliya Beygelzimer  UKR Olga Savchuk 155 3
 CHN Xu Yifan  CHN Zhang Kailin 171 4
  • Rankings are as of February 23, 2015.

Other entrants

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The following pair received wildcard into the doubles main draw:

References

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  1. ^ "WTA Palermo moves away from Italy". TennisWorld. 28 Sep 2013.
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