2015 WTA Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 tournaments

The WTA Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 tournaments, which are part of the WTA Premier tournaments, make up the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the WTA called the WTA Tour. There are four Premier Mandatory tournaments: Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid and Beijing and five Premier 5 tournaments: Dubai, Rome, Canada, Cincinnati and Wuhan.[1]

2015 Premier Mandatory / Premier 5
Details
DurationFebruary 16 – October 11
Edition26th
Tournaments9
Achievements (singles)
Most tournament titlesRomania Simona Halep
United States Serena Williams (2)
Most tournament finalsRomania Simona Halep (4)
2014
2016

Tournaments edit

Tournament Country Location Surface Date Prize money
Dubai Tennis Championships[2] United Arab Emirates Dubai Hard Feb 16 – 22 $2,513,000
Indian Wells Open[3] United States Indian Wells Hard Mar 9 – 22 $6,157,160
Miami Open United States Key Biscayne Hard Mar 23 – Apr 5 $6,157,160
Madrid Open[4] Spain Madrid Clay (red) May 4 – 10 €4,185,405
Italian Open[5] Italy Rome Clay (red) May 11 – 17 $2,183,600
Canadian Open Canada Toronto Hard Aug 10 – 16 $2,513,000
Cincinnati Open[6] United States Mason Hard Aug 17 – 23 $2,701,240
Wuhan Open China Wuhan Hard Sep 28 – Oct 4 $2,513,000
China Open China Beijing Hard Oct 5 – 11 $6,157,160

Results edit

* First-time champion
Tournament Singles champions Runners-up Score Doubles champions Runners-up Score
Dubai

SinglesDoubles

  Simona Halep   Karolína Plíšková 6–4, 7–6(7–4)   Tímea Babos*   Garbiñe Muguruza
  Carla Suárez Navarro
6–3, 6–2
  Kristina Mladenovic
Indian Wells

SinglesDoubles

  Simona Halep   Jelena Janković 2–6, 7–5, 6–4   Martina Hingis
  Sania Mirza
  Ekaterina Makarova
  Elena Vesnina
6–3, 6–4
Miami

SinglesDoubles

  Serena Williams   Carla Suárez Navarro 6–2, 6–0   Martina Hingis
  Sania Mirza
  Ekaterina Makarova
  Elena Vesnina
7–5, 6–1
Madrid

SinglesDoubles

  Petra Kvitová   Svetlana Kuznetsova 6–1, 6–2   Casey Dellacqua*   Garbiñe Muguruza
  Carla Suárez Navarro
6–3, 6–7(4–7), [10–5]
  Yaroslava Shvedova
Rome

SinglesDoubles

  Maria Sharapova   Carla Suárez Navarro 7–6, 7–5, 6–1   Tímea Babos
  Kristina Mladenovic
  Martina Hingis
  Sania Mirza
6–4, 6–3
Toronto

SinglesDoubles

  Belinda Bencic   Simona Halep 7–6(7–5), 6–7(4–7), 3–0, ret.   Bethanie Mattek-Sands*   Caroline Garcia
  Katarina Srebotnik
6–1, 6–2
  Lucie Šafářová
Cincinnati

SinglesDoubles

  Serena Williams   Simona Halep 6–3, 7–6(7–5)   Chan Hao-ching*   Casey Dellacqua
  Yaroslava Shvedova
7–5, 6–4
  Chan Latisha
Wuhan

SinglesDoubles

  Venus Williams   Garbiñe Muguruza 6–3, 3–0, ret.   Martina Hingis
  Sania Mirza
  Irina-Camelia Begu
  Monica Niculescu
6–2, 6–3
Beijing

SinglesDoubles

  Garbiñe Muguruza   Timea Bacsinszky 7–5, 6–4   Martina Hingis
  Sania Mirza
  Chan Hao-ching
  Chan Latisha
6–7(9–11), 6–1, [10–8]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "2015 Tournaments | WTA Official". Women's Tennis Association. Archived from the original on 2022-09-20.
  2. ^ "2015 Dubai Tennis Championships Draw" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 October 2022.
  3. ^ "2015 Indian Wells Masters Draw" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 March 2015.
  4. ^ "2015 Madrid Open Draw" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2015.
  5. ^ Bud Collins (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis (2nd ed.). New York City: New Chapter Press. pp. 740–741. ISBN 978-0-942257-70-0.
  6. ^ "Compendium 2022 Web Final". www.wsopen.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 September 2022.

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