2015 Hong Kong Tennis Open Explained

The 2015 Hong Kong Tennis Open (also known as the Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open for sponsorship reasons) was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament, and part of the 2015 WTA Tour. It took place in Victoria Park, Hong Kong, from October 12 to 18.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	width=85	Q	width=85	Q2	width=85	Q1
Singles	280	180	110	60	30	1	18	12	1
Doubles	280	180	110	60	1

Prize money

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32¹	width=85	Q2	width=85	Q1
Singles	$43,000	$21,400	$11,500	$6,200	$3,420	$2,220	$1,285	$750
Doubles *	$12,300	$6,400	$3,435	$1,820	$960

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

per team

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank¹	Seed
~~Spain~~	~~Garbiñe Muguruza~~	5	1
	Angelique Kerber	10	2
	Venus Williams	14	3
Serbia	Jelena Janković	24	4
Australia	Samantha Stosur	25	5
Russian Federation	Daria Gavrilova	35	6
France	Caroline Garcia	39	7
France	Alizé Cornet	44	8

¹ Rankings are as of October 5, 2015

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

The following players received entry as lucky losers:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

Victoria Azarenka^[1] →replaced by Wang Yafan
Eugenie Bouchard^[2] (concussion) →replaced by Anastasia Rodionova
Casey Dellacqua (concussion)→replaced by Yuliya Beygelzimer
Zarina Diyas →replaced by Risa Ozaki
Sabine Lisicki (knee injury) →replaced by Francesca Schiavone
Garbiñe Muguruza (left ankle injury)→replaced by Anastasiya Komardina
Ajla Tomljanović →replaced by Zhang Kailin
CoCo Vandeweghe →replaced by Luksika Kumkhum

Retirements

Christina McHale (left elbow injury)