2015 Western & Southern Open

2015 Western & Southern Open
Date August 15 – 23
Edition 114th (men) / 87th (women)
Category ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (men)
WTA Premier 5 (women)
Surface Hard
Location Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Venue Lindner Family Tennis Center
Champions
Men's Singles
Switzerland Roger Federer
Women's Singles
United States Serena Williams
Men's Doubles
Canada Daniel Nestor / France Édouard Roger-Vasselin
Women's Doubles
Chinese Taipei Chan Hao-ching / Chinese Taipei Chan Yung-jan

The 2015 Western & Southern Open was a men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts August 15–23, 2015. It was part of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 of the 2015 ATP World Tour and of the WTA Premier 5 tournaments of the 2015 WTA Tour, as well as a 2015 US Open Series event. The 2015 tournament was the men's 114th edition and the women's 87th edition of the Cincinnati Masters. The tournament is held annually at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio (a northern suburb of Cincinnati), United States.

Roger Federer and Serena Williams were the defending champions and both successfully defended their titles.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Round of 64 Q Q2 Q1
Men's Singles[1] 1000 600 360 180 90 45 10 25 16 0
Men's Doubles[1] 0 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Women's Singles[2] 900 585 350 190 105 60 1 30 20 1
Women's Doubles[2] 5 N/A N/A N/A N/A

Prize money

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Round of 64 Q2 Q1
Men's Singles[3][4] $731,000 $358,375 $180,370 $91,715 $47,625 $25,110 $13,555 $3,125 $1,590
Women's Singles[5][6] $495,000 $240,500 $120,500 $57,380 $27,640 $14,160 $7,640 $3,105 $1,880
Men's Doubles[7] $226,350 $110,820 $55,580 $28,530 $14,750 $7,780 N/A N/A N/A
Women's Doubles[8] $141,600 $71,530 $35,410 $17,825 $9,035 $4,460 N/A N/A N/A

ATP singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Ranking Seed
 SRB Novak Djokovic 1 1
  SUI Roger Federer 3 2
 GBR Andy Murray 2 3
 JPN Kei Nishikori 4 4
  SUI Stan Wawrinka 5 5
 CZE Tomáš Berdych 6 6
 CRO Marin Čilić 8 7
 ESP Rafael Nadal 9 8
 CAN Milos Raonic 10 9
 FRA Gilles Simon 11 10
 USA John Isner 12 11
 FRA Richard Gasquet 13 12
 BEL David Goffin 14 13
 FRA Gaël Monfils 15 14
 RSA Kevin Anderson 16 15
 BUL Grigor Dimitrov 17 16

Other entrants

The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:

The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

ATP doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
 USA Bob Bryan  USA Mike Bryan 2 1
 CRO Ivan Dodig  BRA Marcelo Melo 7 2
 NED Jean-Julien Rojer  ROU Horia Tecău 11 3
 ITA Simone Bolelli  ITA Fabio Fognini 16 4
 IND Rohan Bopanna  ROU Florin Mergea 18 5
 POL Marcin Matkowski  SRB Nenad Zimonjić 23 6
 GBR Jamie Murray  AUS John Peers 31 7
 CAN Vasek Pospisil  USA Jack Sock 32 8

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

WTA singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Ranking Seeds
 USA Serena Williams 1 1
 RUS Maria Sharapova 2 2
 ROU Simona Halep 3 3
 CZE Petra Kvitová 4 4
 DEN Caroline Wozniacki 5 5
 SRB Ana Ivanovic 6 6
 CZE Lucie Šafářová 7 7
 CZE Karolína Plíšková 8 8
 ESP Garbiñe Muguruza 9 9
 ESP Carla Suárez Navarro 10 10
 GER Angelique Kerber 11 11
  SUI Timea Bacsinszky 13 12
 POL Agnieszka Radwańska 14 13
 UKR Elina Svitolina 15 14
 GER Andrea Petkovic 16 15
 ITA Sara Errani 17 16

Other entrants

The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:

The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament
During the tournament

Retirements

WTA doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
  SUI Martina Hingis  IND Sania Mirza 3 1
 HUN Tímea Babos  FRA Kristina Mladenovic 19 2
 SLO Katarina Srebotnik  FRA Caroline Garcia 31 3
 AUS Casey Dellacqua  KAZ Yaroslava Shvedova 31 4
 USA Raquel Kops-Jones  AUS Anastasia Rodionova 32 5
 RUS Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova  CZE Lucie Šafářová 34 6
 CZE Andrea Hlaváčková  CZE Lucie Hradecká 36 7
 ESP Garbiñe Muguruza  ESP Carla Suárez Navarro 38 8

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

Champions

Men's singles

Women's singles

Men's doubles

Women's doubles

References

  1. 1 2 "Rankings explained". atpworldtour.com. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Rankings explained". WTA. Archived from the original on 14 December 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  3. ↑ "ATP Main Draw Singles" (PDF). atpworldtour.com. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "ATP Qualifying Singles" (PDF). atpworldtour.com. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "WTA Main Draw Singles" (PDF). wtatennis.com. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "WTA Qualifying Singles" (PDF). wtatennis.com. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "ATP Main Draw Doubles" (PDF). atpworldtour.com. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  8. ↑ "WTA Main Draw Doubles" (PDF). wtatennis.com. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
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