The 2015
Qatar Total Open
The Qatar Ladies Open, currently sponsored by TotalEnergies and called the Qatar TotalEnergies Open, is a women's tennis tournament held in Doha, Qatar. Held since 2001, this WTA Tour event was a Tier I-tournament in 2008, and was played on outdoo ...
was a professional women's
tennis tournament played on
hard courts. It was the 13th edition of the event and part of the
WTA Premier series of 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 at the
International Tennis and Squash Complex
The Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex is a tennis and squash complex in Doha, Qatar. The center is owned and operated by the Qatar Tennis Federation. It is the home venue of the ATP World Tour's Qatar ExxonMobil Open and WTA e ...
in
Doha,
Qatar from 23 February to 28 February.
Points and prize money
Point distribution
Prize money
*per team
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings as of February 16, 2015.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
*
Victoria Azarenka
*
Ons Jabeur
*
Caroline Wozniacki
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
*
Alexandra Dulgheru
*
Kirsten Flipkens
*
Daria Gavrilova
*
Stefanie Vögele
The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
*
Zheng Saisai
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
*
Dominika Cibulková → replaced by
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 ...
*
Simona Halep (right rib injury) → replaced by
Zheng Saisai
*
Peng Shuai → replaced by
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 ...
Retirements
*
Alexandra Dulgheru (upper respiratory tract infection)
*
Jelena Janković (right hip injury)
*
Garbiñe Muguruza (viral illness)
Doubles main-draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings as of February 16, 2015.
Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
*
Fatma Al-Nabhani /
Zheng Saisai
*
Victoria Azarenka /
Kirsten Flipkens
The following pairs received entry as alternates:
*
Yuliya Beygelzimer /
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 ...
*
Jarmila Gajdošová /
Andrea Petkovic
*
Darija Jurak /
Klára Koukalová
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
*
Kristina Mladenovic (viral infection)
*
Garbiñe Muguruza (viral illness)
*
Karolína Plíšková (viral illness)
;During the tournament
*
Kirsten Flipkens (viral illness)
Champions
Singles
*
Lucie Šafářová def.
Victoria Azarenka, 6–4, 6–3
Doubles
*
Raquel Kops-Jones /
Abigail Spears def.
Hsieh Su-wei /
Sania Mirza, 6–4, 6–4
External links
Official Website
{{2015 WTA Tour
Qatar Total Open
The Qatar Ladies Open, currently sponsored by TotalEnergies and called the Qatar TotalEnergies Open, is a women's tennis tournament held in Doha, Qatar. Held since 2001, this WTA Tour event was a Tier I-tournament in 2008, and was played on outdoo ...
Qatar Ladies Open
2015 in Qatari sport