The 2015 Shenzhen Open (known as ''2015 Shenzhen Gemdale Open'' for sponsorship reason) was a

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tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the third edition of the Shenzhen Open, and part of the

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of the

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. It took place at the Shenzhen Longgang Sports Center in

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, China, from 4 to 10 January 2015.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

_{¹ Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money}
_{* per team}

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings as of January 5, 2015.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: *

Duan Yingying Duan Yingying (; born 3 July 1989) is a Chinese former professional tennis player. In her career, she won one singles title and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, and two WTA Challenger doubles titles, as well as eleven singles and three d ...

Natalia Vikhlyantseva Natalia Konstantinovna Vikhlyantseva ( Russian: Наталья Константиновна Вихлянцева; born 16 February 1997) is a Russian tennis player. Her favourite court surface is grass. Vikhlyantseva has career-high rankings of ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

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 ...

Olga Govortsova Olga Alekseyevna Govortsova ( be, Вольга Аляксееўна Гаварцова (Volha Alyakseyeuna Havartsova); ; born 23 August 1988) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. On 23 June 2008, she achieved a career-high singles ranki ...

Aleksandra Krunić Aleksandra Krunić ( sr-Cyrl, Александра Крунић; born 15 March 1993) is a Serbian professional tennis player. She has won one singles title and six doubles titles on the WTA Tour along with one singles title on WTA 125 tournament ...

* Zhu Lin

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament *

Sorana Cîrstea Sorana Mihaela Cîrstea (; born 7 April 1990) is a Romanian professional tennis player. In singles, she achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 21 on 12 August 2013. In doubles, her career-high ranking is No. 35, which she reached on 9 March ...

(shoulder injury) → replaced by

Tímea Babos Tímea Babos (; born 10 May 1993) is a Hungarian professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles. She is a four-time Grand Slam champion in women's doubles, having won the 2018 and 2020 Australian Opens, as well as the Fre ...

Retirements

Vera Zvonareva Vera Igorevna Zvonareva ( rus, Вера Игоревна Звонарёва, p=ˈvʲɛrə ˈiɡərʲɪvnə zvənɐˈrʲɵvə, a=Vera zvonareva.ogg; born 7 September 1984) is a Russian professional tennis player. She was introduced to tennis at ...

(lower back injury)

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings as of December 29, 2014

Withdrawals

;During the tournament *

(lower back injury)

Champions

Singles

Simona Halep Simona Halep (; born 27 September 1991) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles twice between 2017 and 2019, for a total of 64 weeks, which ranks eleventh in the history of the Women's Tennis Assoc ...

def.

Timea Bacsinszky Timea Bacsinszky ( hu, Bacsinszky Tímea; born 8 June 1989) is a Swiss former professional tennis player who won four singles titles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as 13 singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. A fo ...

, 6–2, 6–2

Doubles

Lyudmyla Kichenok Lyudmyla Viktorivna Kichenok ( uk, Людмила Вікторівна Кіченок; born 20 July 1992) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. On 21 July 2014, Lyudmyla reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 156. On 12 Septem ...

Nadiia Kichenok Nadiia Viktorivna Kichenok ( uk, Надія Вікторівна Кіченок, born 20 July 1992) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. On 6 January 2014, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 100. On 31 January 2022, she ...

def.

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 ...

Wang Yafan Wang Yafan (; ; born 30 April 1994) is a Chinese tennis player. In her career, she has won one singles title and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as four doubles titles on WTA 125 tournaments, plus eleven singles and six doubles ...

, 6–4, 7–6^(8–6)

References

External links

Official website
{{2015 WTA Tour

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