The 2015 Family Circle Cup was a women's tennis event 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 Fe ...

. It took place between April 6–12, 2015. It was the 43rd edition of the tournament and a Premier level tournament. The event was hosted at the Family Circle Tennis Center, on Daniel Island,

Charleston Charleston most commonly refers to: * Charleston, South Carolina * Charleston, West Virginia, the state capital * Charleston (dance) Charleston may also refer to: Places Australia * Charleston, South Australia Canada * Charleston, Newfoundlan ...

, United States. It was the only event of the

clay court A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Clay courts are made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate depending on the tournament. ...

season played on green clay.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings as of 23 March 2015.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw: * Eugenie Bouchard * Varvara Lepchenko * Bethanie Mattek-Sands * Sachia Vickery The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw: * Edina Gallovits-Hall The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Kateryna Bondarenko * Lucie Hradecká * Sesil Karatancheva * Danka Kovinić * Kristína Kučová * Jessica Pegula * Laura Siegemund * Sara Sorribes Tormo

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament * Jarmila Gajdošová →replaced by Stefanie Vögele *

Sabine Lisicki Sabine Katharina Lisicki (; born 22 September 1989) is a German professional tennis player. Lisicki turned professional in 2006, and her breakthrough came in 2009 when she reached the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon Championships, and also won h ...

→replaced by Andreea Mitu * Peng Shuai →replaced by Grace Min * Lucie Šafářová →replaced by Çağla Büyükakçay * Lesia Tsurenko →replaced by

Evgeniya Rodina Evgeniya Sergeyevna Rodina (russian: Евгения Сергеевна Родина, born 4 February 1989) is a Russian tennis player. On 6 May 2019, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of 67. Rodina has won 13 singles titles on the ITF ...

* Taylor Townsend →replaced by Tatjana Maria * Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová →replaced by Edina Gallovits-Hall * Zheng Saisai →replaced by Irina Falconi ;During the tournament * Jelena Janković (right foot injury) * Ekaterina Makarova (gastrointestinal illness)

Retirements

* Mona Barthel (dizziness) * Varvara Lepchenko (lower back injury) * Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (left shoulder injury)

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings as of March 23, 2015.

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: * Madison Keys / Lisa Raymond * Alison Riske / Shelby Rogers

Champions

Singles

* Angelique Kerber defeated Madison Keys, 6–2, 4–6, 7–5

Doubles

* Martina Hingis / Sania Mirza defeated

Casey Dellacqua Casey Dellacqua ( ; born 11 February 1985) is a retired Australian professional tennis player and current commentator. Her best singles results on the WTA Tour have been semifinal appearances at the 2012 Texas Tennis Open and 2014 Birmingham ...

/ Darija Jurak, 6–0, 6–4

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Family Circle Cup, 2015 2015 WTA Tour Family Circle Cup Family Circle Cup Family Circle Cup Charleston Open