2015 Malaysian Open

2015 Malaysian Open
Date	28 February – 8 March
Edition	6th
Category	WTA International tournaments
Draw	32S / 16D
Prize money	$250,000
Surface	Hard
Location	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2014 Champions
Singles
Donna Vekić
Champions
Doubles
Liang Chen / Wang Yafan

The 2015 BMW Malaysian Open will be a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It will be the 6th edition of the Malaysian Open and will be an International tournament on the 2015 WTA Tour. The tournament will take place from 28 February to 8 March 2015 at the Royal Selangor Golf Club. This tournament had been discontinued, but was restarted when the rights were bought off the tournament in Palermo, Italy.

Points and prize money distribution

Points distribution

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Q	Q3	Q2	Q1
Women's Singles	280	180	110	60	30	1	18	14	10	1
Women's Doubles					1	—	—	—	—	—

Prize money

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Q3	Q2	Q1
Women's Singles	$43,000	$21,400	$11,300	$5,900	$3,310	$1,925	$1,005	$730	$530
Women's Doubles	$12,300	$6,400	$3,435	$1,820	$960	—	—	—	—

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Ranking1	Seeds
DEN	Caroline Wozniacki	5	1
GER	Sabine Lisicki	28	2
AUS	Casey Dellacqua	34	3
AUS	Jarmila Gajdošová	54	4
CZE	Klára Koukalová	58	5
JPN	Kurumi Nara	60	6
SRB	Bojana Jovanovski	63	7
GER	Julia Görges	67	8

• ¹ Rankings are as of February 23, 2015.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

• Hsieh Su-wei
• Jawairiah Noordin
• Sabine Lisicki

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Yuliya Beygelzimer
• Elizaveta Kulichkova
• Magda Linette
• Junri Namigata
• Wang Yafan
• Xu Yifan

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

• Zarina Diyas →replaced by Patricia Mayr-Achleitner
• Marina Erakovic →replaced by Çağla Büyükakçay
• Romina Oprandi →replaced by Misa Eguchi
• Carla Suárez Navarro →replaced by Zhu Lin

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank	Seed
CRO	Darija Jurak	CZE	Klára Koukalová	110	1
UKR	Lyudmyla Kichenok	UKR	Nadiia Kichenok	139	2
UKR	Yuliya Beygelzimer	UKR	Olga Savchuk	155	3
CHN	Xu Yifan	CHN	Zhang Kailin	171	4

• Rankings are as of February 23, 2015.

Other entrants

The following pair received wildcard into the doubles main draw:

• Jawairiah Noordin / Theiviya Selvarajoo

Champions

Singles

Main article: 2015 Malaysian Open – Singles

• Caroline Wozniacki vs. Alexandra Dulgheru

Doubles

Main article: 2015 Malaysian Open – Doubles

• Liang Chen / Wang Yafan def. Yuliya Beygelzimer / Olga Savchuk, 4–6, 6–3, [10–4]

External links

• Official Website