2015 Korea Open – Singles
Karolína Plíšková was the defending champion, but chose to compete in Tokyo instead. Irina-Camelia Begu won the title, defeating Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the final, 6–3, 6–1. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half Qualifying Seeds Qualifiers Qualifying draw First qualifier Second qualifier Third qualifier Fourth qualifier External links Main drawQualifying draw {{DEFAULTSORT:2015 Korea Open - Singles 2015 Singles Fifteen or 15 may refer to: *15 (number) *one of the years 15 BC, AD 15, 1915, 2015 Music * Fifteen (band), a punk rock band Albums * ''15'' (Buckcherry album), 2005 * ''15'' (Ani Lorak album), 2007 * ''15'' (Phatfish album), 2008 * ... Korea Open Singles Korea Open Singles ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Irina-Camelia Begu
Irina-Camelia Begu (born 26 August 1990) is a Romanian tennis player. She reached a career-high WTA ranking, WTA singles ranking of world No. 22 , in August 2016. Two years later, she reached her highest ranking in doubles, also No. 22. She is currently the No. 2 Romanian player. Begu has won five singles titles and nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She also has won three singles titles on the WTA 125 tournaments, WTA Challenger Tour, with 12 singles and 19 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. As a junior, she reached semifinal at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships, partnering with Oksana Kalashnikova. Later, as a senior, she continued with Grand Slam doubles success. She reached the semifinal at the 2018 Australian Open and quarterfinals of the 2017 French Open and 2018 Wimbledon Championships. In singles, she has the round of 16 as her best Grand Slam result at the 2015 Australian Open, 2016 French Open and 2022 French Open. In singles, she reached one Premier final, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Paula Badosa Gibert
Paula Badosa Gibert () (born 15 November 1997) is a Spanish professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 2 in singles by the WTA and No. 124 in doubles, achieved on 25 April 2022. She has won four WTA Tour singles titles, including a WTA 1000 event in Indian Wells, and reached a major semifinal at the 2025 Australian Open. As a junior, Badosa was ranked as high as No. 8 in the world and was the 2015 French Open junior champion. As a professional, she broke into the top 100 in 2019. The next year, a fourth round berth at the French Open brought her into the top 70. Badosa made new strides in 2021 after a breakthrough clay swing when she won her first career title in Belgrade. She entered the top ten following a WTA 1000 title at Indian Wells, and peaked at world No. 2 in early 2022. Subsequent injury struggles led Badosa dropping out of the world's top 100 in early 2024 before resurging in the latter half of the season, returning to the top 15 and bei ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mariana Duque Mariño
Mariana Duque Mariño (; born 12 August 1989) is a Colombian former tennis player. Having turned professional in 2005, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 66 in October 2015. Duque debuted on the ITF Junior Circuit in 2004. As a junior, she reached the final of the girls' singles tournament at the 2007 French Open. She defeated the tenth-seeded Ksenia Pervak in the first round, and ousted juniors' world No. 1, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, in the semifinals. Duque lost in the final to Alizé Cornet in three sets. She had some setbacks during the tournament, due to losing her tennis rackets at the airport. Without money to buy replacements, she had to play with borrowed rackets. She won her first professional tournament in May 2006, in Mazatlán, Mexico. Her biggest win in senior competition is defeating 26th seed Anna Chakvetadze in the opening round of the 2009 French Open, in three sets. Professional career 2005–2006 In 2005, she appeared in her first W ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kiki Bertens
Kiki Bertens (; born 10 December 1991) is a Dutch former professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA rankings#Current rankings, singles ranking was world No. 4, which she reached on 13 May 2019, becoming the highest-ranked Dutch female player ever. Her career-high doubles ranking of world No. 16, she achieved in April 2018. She won ten singles and ten doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including 2018 Western & Southern Open – Women's singles, 2018 Cincinnati Open and 2019 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's singles, 2019 Madrid Open. Bertens was widely regarded as a clay court specialist, but also was successful on hardcourt. Early life and background Bertens was born on 10 December 1991 in Wateringen near The Hague, but grew up in the town of Berkel en Rodenrijs. She has two sisters, one older and one younger. Bertens started playing tennis at age six at ATV Berkenrode, a tennis club where her aunt and uncle played. She has been coached by Martin van der Brugghen at the club since ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jang Su-jeong
Jang Su-jeong (; born 13 March 1995) is a South Korean professional tennis player. On 11 July 2022, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 114. On 22 May 2023, she peaked at No. 82 in the WTA doubles rankings. Jang has won one singles and one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. She has also won 12 tournaments in singles and 17 in doubles on the ITF Circuit. Playing for South Korea in the Billie Jean King Cup, Jang has a win-loss record of 18–11 as of February 2025. Career Jang won her first ITF Circuit title in Bundaberg, Australia in March 2013, winning the doubles tournament alongside Lee So-ra, defeating Miki Miyamura and Varatchaya Wongteanchai in the final in three sets. At the 2013 Korea Open she reached the quarterfinals with a three-set win over Ons Jabeur Jang lost in the last eight to Lara Arruabarrena. She qualified into the singles main draw of the 2022 Australian Open for her major debut, losing in the first round to Danka Ko ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Han Na-lae
Han Na-lae (; born 6 July 1992) is a South Korean former professional tennis player. Han has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 149, achieved June 2019, and a doubles ranking of No. 95, set on 7 November 2022. Han won one doubles title on the WTA Tour and two doubles titles on the Challenger Tour, along with 13 singles titles and 28 doubles titles (nine alongside Yoo Mi and four with Jang Su-jeong, both fellow Korean players) on the ITF Circuit. A left-hander, she hits both forehand and backhand with two hands. Career Han made her WTA Tour main-draw singles debut at the 2014 Korea Open. She made her Grand Slam tournament main-draw debut at the 2020 Australian Open having received a wildcard, but lost in the first round to Tamara Zidanšek. At the 2017 Korea Open, Han defeated top 50 player Kristýna Plíšková as one of her biggest victories. Partnering Choi Ji-hee, she won the doubles title at the 2018 Korea Open, defeating Hsieh Shu-ying and Hsieh Su-wei i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ajla Tomljanović
Ajla Tomljanović ( ; ; born 7 May 1993) is an Australian professional tennis player. On 3 April 2023, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 32. On 5 January 2015, she peaked at No. 47 in the doubles rankings. She has won four singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In November 2023, she won her first WTA 125 tournament, in Florianópolis. Tomljanović was an accomplished junior player, having won the 2009 Australian Open girls' doubles title with Christina McHale. She reached a combined career-high junior ranking of world No. 4, on 30 March 2009. Before 2014, Tomljanović played for her country of birth, Croatia. She began competing for Australia at the 2014 US Open after obtaining permanent residency in Australia. For the next four years she was required to represent Croatia at all non-Grand Slam events, until she was granted Australian citizenship in January 2018, allowing her to represent the country at all events on the WTA Tour. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kimiko Date-Krumm
is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She reached the semifinals of the 1994 Australian Open, the 1995 French Open and the 1996 Wimbledon Championships, and won the Japan Open a record four times. She reached a career-high ranking of world No. 4 in 1995, and retired from professional tennis in November 1996. She returned to tennis nearly 12 years later, announcing an unexpected comeback in April 2008. She then won her eighth WTA title at the 2009 Korea Open, becoming the second-oldest player in the Open era, after Billie Jean King, to win a singles title on the WTA Tour. In 2013, she won three WTA Tour titles in doubles and at the 2014 US Open, aged 43, she reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam doubles tournament for the first time in her career. Date announced her final retirement in September 2017. Professional career 1989–1996 Date began 1990 by reaching the fourth round at the Australian Open, where she was defeated by fourth seed Helena Suková. The foll ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Magdaléna Rybáriková
Magdaléna Rybáriková (; born 4 October 1988) is a Slovak former professional tennis player. In her career, she won four singles titles and one doubles title on the WTA Tour. Rybáriková reached the semifinals of the 2017 Wimbledon Championships and broke into the top 30 for the first time in September 2017, and reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 17, in March 2018. Early life Rybáriková started tennis at the age of eight. She was born in Piešťany to father Anton, a business manager, and mother Mária. She has two older siblings, Filip and Naďa. She moved to Bratislava at age 15 to train at the national tennis centre. Her favourite surfaces were grass and hardcourts. Career summary 2006–2009 In 2006, Rybáriková reached the girls' singles final at Wimbledon. On her way there, she defeated the future top-30 ranked players Tamira Paszek and Alisa Kleybanova. In the final, she lost to the long time world No. 1, Caroline Wozniacki. The same year, she won two ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Klára Koukalová
Klára Koukalová (formerly Zakopalová; born 24 February 1982) is a Czech former tennis player. She was born and still lives in Prague. Having turned professional in 1999, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 20, on 15 April 2013. In doubles, she reached a career-high ranking of 31, on 19 May 2014. Koukalová won three WTA singles titles and four doubles titles during her career. Career 2003–2009 Koukalová made her Grand Slam debut at the 2003 Australian Open, defeating fellow qualifier and Grand Slam debutante Maria Sharapova in the first round, before going on to upset sixth-seed Monica Seles. Her run ended in the third round. In January 2006, she played comeback player Martina Hingis, at the WTA Tour tournament in 2006 Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts, Gold Coast, where she lost in the second round. Koukalová was seeded 29th at the 2006 Australian Open, Australian Open, but lost in the first round to Ekaterina Bychkova. In that year, she had ten fi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Andreea Mitu
Cristina-Andreea Mitu (born 22 September 1991) is a professional tennis player from Romania. She achieved her career-high singles ranking of 68 on 8 June 2015, and her highest doubles ranking of world No. 69 on 24 October 2016. Mitu is a member of the Romania Fed Cup team. On 19 April 2015, she beat then world No. 7 Eugenie Bouchard in a Fed Cup match. Personal life and background She is coached by Adrian Marcu. Her parents are Petre and Ania. She also has a brother named Alex, who is a soccer player. She has an aggressive style of play. Andreea's favorite surface is hard (but loves grass too), while her favorite shot is forehand. She started playing tennis at age 7. Her tennis idols growing up were Jelena Dokic, Patty Schnyder, the Williams sisters, Jennifer Capriati and Martina Hingis. She also enjoys shopping, hanging out with friends and getting nails done. She stated that if weren't a tennis player, she would be a lawyer. In 2018, she gave birth to a son named Adam. Ca ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Irina Falconi
Irina Falconi Hartman (; born Irina Alejandra Falconi; May 4, 1990) is an Ecuadorian-born United States, American former professional tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 63, which she reached in May 2016. Her career-high in doubles is world No. 70, set in June 2013. Born Irina Alejandra Falconi in Portoviejo, Ecuador, she moved to Manhattan, New York, as a toddler. At the age of 14, she and her family moved to Florida. In 2021, Falconi married Travis Hartman and their daughter Isabella was born. Professional career Falconi played college tennis at Georgia Tech where she was a two times ITA All-American and 2010 ACC Player of the Year. She was given a wildcard into the 2010 US Open (tennis), 2010 US Open qualifying tournament and managed to qualify defeating Mona Barthel, Anastasia Pivovarova and Stéphanie Dubois. She went out in the first rounds of the Australian Open, the French Open, and Wimbledon. The 2011 US Open (tennis), 2011 US Open was more successful f ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |