The 2015 BMW Malaysian Open was a women's

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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

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. The tournament took place from 28 February to 8 March 2015 at the

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. This tournament had been discontinued, but was restarted when the rights were bought off the tournament in

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, Italy.

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defeated

Alexandra Dulgheru Alexandra Dulgheru (; born 30 May 1989) is a professional tennis player from Romania. On 11 April 2011, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 26. Her best ranking in doubles is No. 41, reached on 4 July 2011. She is coached b ...

in the championship match for her 1st title of the year and 23rd of her career.

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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The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Yuliya Beygelzimer Yuliya Markovna Beygelzimer ( ua, Юлія Марківна Бейгельзимер; born 20 October 1983) is a retired tennis player from Ukraine. Career She is perhaps best known for nearly defeating Jennifer Capriati at the 2004 French Op ...

Elizaveta Kulichkova Elizaveta Dmitrievna Kulichkova (russian: Елизавета Дмитриевна Куличкова; 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 si ...

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Withdrawals

;Before the tournament *

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→replaced by

Patricia Mayr-Achleitner Patricia Mayr-Achleitner (née Mayr; born 8 November 1986 in Rum, Tyrol, Rum) is a retired Austrian tennis player. Mayr-Achleitner won 17 singles and seven doubles titles on the International Tennis Federation, ITF Circuit in her career. On 4 May ...

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→replaced by

Çağla Büyükakçay Çağla Büyükakçay (; born 28 September 1989) is a Turkish professional tennis player. She has won 11 singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In September 2016, she reached her highest singles ranking of world No. 6 ...

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→replaced by

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Carla Suárez Navarro Carla Suárez Navarro (; born 3 September 1988, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) 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 be ...

→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: *

Theiviya Selvarajoo Theiviya Selvarajoo (born 20 June 1994) is a Malaysian tennis player. Selvarajoo made her WTA tour debut at the 2013 Malaysian Open, having received a wildcard with Yus Syazlin Nabila Binti Yusri into the doubles tournament. At the 2015 Mala ...

Finals

Singles

defeated

, 4–6, 6–2, 6–1

Doubles

Liang Chen Liang Chen (; born 25 February 1989) is an inactive Chinese tennis player. Liang has a singles career-high ranking of No. 342, achieved on 21 September 2009. Her WTA doubles career-high ranking of No. 35, she reached on 26 October 2015. Liang ...

defeated

Olga Savchuk Olga Mykolayivna Savchuk ( uk, Ольга Миколаївна Савчук; 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 ...

, 4–6, 6–3, 0–4

References

External links

Official website
{{2015 WTA Tour Malaysian Open Malaysian Open (tennis) 2015 in Malaysian tennis 2015 in Malaysian women's sport