2015 Baku Cup

The 2015 Baku Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. This was the fifth edition of the tournament, and part of the 2015 WTA Tour. It took place in Baku, Azerbaijan between 27 July and 2 August 2015.

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

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	—	—	—	—

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	—	—	—

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
• Magda Linette
• Zuleykha Šafářová

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Nigina Abduraimova
• Olga Ianchuk
• Valentyna Ivakhnenko
• Olga Savchuk
• Patricia Maria Țig
• Yang Zhaoxuan

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

• Yuliya Beygelzimer

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

• Denisa Allertová → replaced by Kateryna Bondarenko
• Klára Koukalová → replaced by Donna Vekić
• Andreea Mitu → replaced by Alexandra Panova
• Monica Niculescu → replaced by Barbora Krejčíková
• Yaroslava Shvedova → replaced by Margarita Gasparyan
• Kateřina Siniaková → replaced by Elizaveta Kulichkova
• Tereza Smitková → replaced by Çağla Büyükakçay
• Lesia Tsurenko (right wrist injury) → replaced by Yuliya Beygelzimer
• Roberta Vinci → replaced by Misa Eguchi
• Yanina Wickmayer → replaced by Zhu Lin

Retirements

• Yuliya Beygelzimer (neck injury)
• Kateryna Bondarenko (right lower leg injury)
• Danka Kovinić (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 / Zuleykha Šafářová

Champions

Singles

Main article: 2015 Baku Cup – Singles

• Margarita Gasparyan def. Patricia Maria Țig, 6–3, 5–7, 6–0

Doubles

Main article: 2015 Baku Cup – Doubles

• Margarita Gasparyan / Alexandra Panova def. Vitalia Diatchenko / Olga Savchuk, 6–3, 7–5

External links

• Official website