2015 Japan Women's Open
# 2015 Japan Women's Open

The 2015 Japan Women's Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the seventh edition of the Japan Women's Open, and part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2015 WTA Tour. It was held at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan, from September 14 through September 20, 2015. The tournament was moved from Osaka to Tokyo starting this year.

## Point distribution

| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Q | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Singles | 280 | 180 | 110 | 60 | 30 | 1 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 1 |
| Doubles | 280 | 180 | 110 | 60 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |

### Prize money

| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of $32^1$ | Q2 | Q1 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Singles | $43,000 | $21,400 | $11,500 | $6,175 | $3,400 | $2,100 | $1,020 | $600 |
| $Doubles^2$ | $12,300 | $6,400 | $3,435 | $1,820 | $960 | — | — | — |

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## Singles main-draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - |
| ESP | Carla Suárez Navarro | 10 | 1 |
| KAZ | Zarina Diyas | 35 | 2 |
| USA | Madison Brengle | 47 | 3 |
| USA | Alison Riske | 57 | 4 |
| SWE | Johanna Larsson | 58 | 5 |
| USA | Christina McHale | 59 | 6 |
| CRO | Ajla Tomljanović | 63 | 7 |
| SLO | Polona Hercog | 64 | 8 |

* Rankings are as of August 31, 2015.

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

* Kimiko Date-Krumm
* Nao Hibino
* Carla Suárez Navarro

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

* Hiroko Kuwata
* Naomi Osaka
* Risa Ozaki
* Alexandra Panova

### Withdrawals

**Before the tournament**

* Jana Čepelová → replaced by Kiki Bertens
* Margarita Gasparyan → replaced by Bojana Jovanovski
* Karin Knapp → replaced by Misaki Doi
* Anna Karolína Schmiedlová → replaced by Hsieh Su-wei
* Barbora Strýcová → replaced by Kateryna Bondarenko

## Doubles main-draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| TPE | Chan Hao-ching | TPE | Chan Yung-jan | 42 | 1 |
| TPE | Chuang Chia-jung | CHN | Liang Chen | 78 | 2 |
| CAN | Gabriela Dabrowski | POL | Alicja Rosolska | 90 | 3 |
| CHN | Xu Yifan | CHN | Zheng Saisai | 99 | 4 |

* $^1$ Rankings are as of August 31, 2015.

### Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

* Misaki Doi / Kurumi Nara
* Eri Hozumi / Miyu Kato

## Champions

### Singles

* Yanina Wickmayer def. Magda Linette, 4–6, 6–3, 6–3

### Doubles

* Chan Hao-ching / Chan Yung-jan def. Misaki Doi / Kurumi Nara, 6–1, 6–2
