# 2015 Baku Cup > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/2015_Baku_Cup > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/2015_Baku_Cup.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Baku_Cup > Source revision: 1077921736 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Tennis tournament 2015 Baku Cup Date 27 July – 2 August Edition 5th Category WTA International Draw 32S / 16D Prize money $250,000 Surface Hard Location Baku, Azerbaijan Champions Singles Margarita Gasparyan Doubles Margarita Gasparyan / Alexandra Panova ← 2014 · Baku Cup · 2016 → The **2015 [Baku Cup](/source/Baku_Cup)** was a professional tennis tournament played on [hard courts](/source/Hardcourt). This was the fifth edition of the tournament, and part of the [2015 WTA Tour](/source/2015_WTA_Tour). It took place in [Baku](/source/Baku), [Azerbaijan](/source/Azerbaijan) between 27 July and 2 August 2015. ## Points and prize money ### Point distribution Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Q Q2 Q1 Women's singles 280 180 110 60 30 1 18 12 1 Women's doubles 1 —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 $43,000 $21,400 $11,500 $6,175 $3,400 $2,100 $1,020 $600 Women's doubles $12,300 $6,400 $3,435 $1,820 $960 —N/a —N/a —N/a ## Singles main-draw entrants ### Seeds Country Player Rank1 Seed RUS Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 41 1 ITA Karin Knapp 43 2 SVK Dominika Cibulková 56 3 JPN Kurumi Nara 60 4 SRB Bojana Jovanovski 67 5 UKR Lesia Tsurenko 71 6 RUS Vitalia Diatchenko 74 7 ITA Francesca Schiavone 85 8 MNE Danka Kovinić 86 9 - 1 Rankings are as of July 20, 2015 ### Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: - [Oleksandra Korashvili](/source/Oleksandra_Korashvili) - [Magda Linette](/source/Magda_Linette) - [Zuleykha Šafářová](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zuleykha_%C5%A0af%C3%A1%C5%99ov%C3%A1&action=edit&redlink=1) The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: - [Nigina Abduraimova](/source/Nigina_Abduraimova) - [Olga Ianchuk](/source/Olga_Ianchuk) - [Valentyna Ivakhnenko](/source/Valentyna_Ivakhnenko) - [Olga Savchuk](/source/Olga_Savchuk) - [Patricia Maria Țig](/source/Patricia_Maria_%C8%9Aig) - [Yang Zhaoxuan](/source/Yang_Zhaoxuan) The following player received entry as a lucky loser: - [Yuliya Beygelzimer](/source/Yuliya_Beygelzimer) ### Withdrawals **Before the tournament** - [Denisa Allertová](/source/Denisa_Allertov%C3%A1) → replaced by [Kateryna Bondarenko](/source/Kateryna_Bondarenko) - [Klára Koukalová](/source/Kl%C3%A1ra_Koukalov%C3%A1) → replaced by [Donna Vekić](/source/Donna_Veki%C4%87) - [Andreea Mitu](/source/Andreea_Mitu) → replaced by [Alexandra Panova](/source/Alexandra_Panova) - [Monica Niculescu](/source/Monica_Niculescu) → replaced by [Barbora Krejčíková](/source/Barbora_Krej%C4%8D%C3%ADkov%C3%A1) - [Yaroslava Shvedova](/source/Yaroslava_Shvedova) → replaced by [Margarita Gasparyan](/source/Margarita_Gasparyan) - [Kateřina Siniaková](/source/Kate%C5%99ina_Siniakov%C3%A1) → replaced by [Elizaveta Kulichkova](/source/Elizaveta_Kulichkova) - [Tereza Smitková](/source/Tereza_Smitkov%C3%A1) → replaced by [Çağla Büyükakçay](/source/%C3%87a%C4%9Fla_B%C3%BCy%C3%BCkak%C3%A7ay) - [Lesia Tsurenko](/source/Lesia_Tsurenko) (right wrist injury) → replaced by [Yuliya Beygelzimer](/source/Yuliya_Beygelzimer) - [Roberta Vinci](/source/Roberta_Vinci) → replaced by [Misa Eguchi](/source/Misa_Eguchi) - [Yanina Wickmayer](/source/Yanina_Wickmayer) → replaced by [Zhu Lin](/source/Zhu_Lin_(tennis)) ### Retirements - [Yuliya Beygelzimer](/source/Yuliya_Beygelzimer) (neck injury) - [Kateryna Bondarenko](/source/Kateryna_Bondarenko) (right lower leg injury) - [Danka Kovinić](/source/Danka_Kovini%C4%87) (gastrointestinal illness) ## Doubles main-draw entrants ### Seeds Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed RUS Margarita Gasparyan RUS Alexandra Panova 132 1 RUS Vitalia Diatchenko UKR Olga Savchuk 162 2 JPN Hiroko Kuwata NED Demi Schuurs 201 3 GEO Oksana Kalashnikova MNE Danka Kovinić 226 4 - 1 Rankings are as of July 20, 2015 ### Other entrants The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw: - [Amina Dik](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amina_Dik&action=edit&redlink=1) / [Zuleykha Šafářová](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zuleykha_%C5%A0af%C3%A1%C5%99ov%C3%A1&action=edit&redlink=1) ## Champions ### Singles Main article: [2015 Baku Cup – Singles](/source/2015_Baku_Cup_%E2%80%93_Singles) - **[Margarita Gasparyan](/source/Margarita_Gasparyan)** def. [Patricia Maria Țig](/source/Patricia_Maria_%C8%9Aig), 6–3, 5–7, 6–0 ### Doubles Main article: [2015 Baku Cup – Doubles](/source/2015_Baku_Cup_%E2%80%93_Doubles) - **[Margarita Gasparyan](/source/Margarita_Gasparyan)** / **[Alexandra Panova](/source/Alexandra_Panova)** def. [Vitalia Diatchenko](/source/Vitalia_Diatchenko) / [Olga Savchuk](/source/Olga_Savchuk), 6–3, 7–5 ## External links - [Official website](https://web.archive.org/web/20120713050138/http://www.bakucup.az/?lang=2) v t e Baku tournaments 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 v t e 2015 WTA Tour « 2014 2016 » Grand Slam events Australian Open (S, D, X) French Open (S, D, X) Wimbledon (S, D, X) US Open (S, D, X) WTA Premier Mandatory tournaments Indian Wells (S, D) Miami (S, D) Madrid (S, D) Beijing (S, D) WTA Premier 5 tournaments Dubai (S, D) Rome (S, D) Toronto (S, D) Cincinnati (S, D) Wuhan (S, D) WTA Premier tournaments Brisbane (S, D) Sydney (S, D) Antwerp (S, D) Doha (S, D) Charleston (S, D) Stuttgart (S, D) Birmingham (S, D) Eastbourne (S, D) Stanford (S, D) New Haven (S, D) Tokyo (S, D) Moscow (S, D) WTA International tournaments Auckland (S, D) Shenzhen (S, D) Hobart (S, D) Pattaya City (S, D) Rio de Janeiro (S, D) Acapulco (S, D) Monterrey (S, D) Kuala Lumpur (S, D) Katowice (S, D) Bogotà (S, D) Marrakech (S, D) Prague (S, D) Strasbourg (S, D) Nuremberg (S, D) Nottingham (S, D) 's-Hertogenbosch (S, D) Bucharest (S, D) Båstad (S, D) Bad Gastein (S, D) Istanbul (S, D) Baku (S, D) Florianópolis (S, D) Washington D.C. (S, D) Quebec City (S, D) Tokyo (S, D) Seoul (S, D) Guangzhou (S, D) Tashkent (S, D) Linz (S, D) Hong Kong (S, D) Tianjin (S, D) Luxembourg City (S, D) Team events Fed Cup World Group I + World Group II WG I play-offs WG II play-offs Americas Asia/Oceania Europe/Africa WTA Finals, Singapore (S, D) WTA Elite Trophy, Zhuhai (S, D) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [2015 Baku Cup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Baku_Cup) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Baku_Cup?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.