2015 Bank of the West Classic

2015 Bank of the West Classic
Date	3 – 9 August
Edition	44th
Category	WTA Premier
Draw	28S / 16D
Prize money	$731,000
Surface	Hard
Location	Stanford, United States
Champions
Singles
Angelique Kerber
Doubles
Xu Yifan / Zheng Saisai

The 2015 Bank of the West Classic was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 44th edition of the tournament, which was part of the WTA Premier tournaments of the 2015 WTA Tour, making it the longest-running women's only tennis tournament.^[1] It took place in Stanford, United States between 3 and 9 August 2015. It was the first women's event on the 2015 US Open Series.

Points and Prize Money

Point distribution

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Q	Q2	Q1
Women's Singles	470	305	185	100	55	30	1	25	13	1
Women's Doubles					1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Prize money

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Q2	Q1
Women's Singles	$124,000	$66,000	$35,455	$19,050	$10,220	$5,580	$2,920	$1,555
Women's Doubles	$39,000	$20,650	$11,360	$5,875	$3,140	N/A	N/A	N/A

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank^1	Seed
DEN	Caroline Wozniacki	5	1
POL	Agnieszka Radwańska	7	2
ESP	Carla Suárez Navarro	10	3
CZE	Karolína Plíšková	12	4
GER	Angelique Kerber	13	5
GER	Andrea Petkovic	16	6
USA	Madison Keys	18	7
UKR	Elina Svitolina	20	8

• ¹ Rankings are as of July 27, 2015.

Other Entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

• Catherine Bellis
• Agnieszka Radwańska
• Caroline Wozniacki
• Carol Zhao

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Kateryna Bondarenko
• Kimiko Date-Krumm
• Misaki Doi
• Nicole Gibbs

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

• Garbiñe Muguruza →replaced by Tatjana Maria
• Kateřina Siniaková →replaced by Ajla Tomljanović
• Serena Williams →replaced by Aleksandra Krunić

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank^1	Seed
TPE	Chan Hao-ching	TPE	Chan Yung-jan	55	1
ESP	Anabel Medina Garrigues	ESP	Arantxa Parra Santonja	66	2
CAN	Gabriela Dabrowski	POL	Alicja Rosolska	84	3
USA	Raquel Kops-Jones	USA	Maria Sanchez	94	4

• ¹ Rankings are as of July 27, 2015.

Other entrants

The following pair received wildcards into the main draw:

• Catherine Bellis / Jacqueline Cako

Champions

Singles

• Angelique Kerber def. Karolína Plíšková, 6–3, 5–7, 6–4

Doubles

• Xu Yifan / Zheng Saisai def. Anabel Medina Garrigues / Arantxa Parra Santonja, 6–1, 6–3

References

1. "2015 Tournament Preview: Bank of the West Classic". United States Tennis Association. January 29, 2015. Retrieved May 19, 2015.

External links

• Official Website