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2015 Western and Southern Open

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Date
  
August 15 – 23

Surface
  
Hard

Edition
  
114th (men) / 87th (women)

Category
  
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (men) WTA Premier 5 (women)

Location
  
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Venue
  
Lindner Family Tennis Center

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.

Contents

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

Seeds

  • Rankings are as of August 10, 2015

    • Other entrants

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

  • Jared Donaldson
  • Mardy Fish
  • Bjorn Fratangelo
  • Rajeev Ram

    • The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:

  • Alexandr Dolgopolov
  • Thanasi Kokkinakis
  • Denis Kudla
  • Lu Yen-hsun
  • Nicolas Mahut
  • Vasek Pospisil
  • Alexander Zverev

    • The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

  • Benoît Paire

    • Withdrawals

    Before the tournament
  • David Ferrer →replaced by João Sousa
  • Guillermo García-López →replaced by Gilles Müller
  • Tommy Haas →replaced by Jerzy Janowicz
  • Juan Mónaco →replaced by Jiří Veselý
  • Kei Nishikori →replaced by Benoît Paire

    • Seeds

  • Rankings are as of August 10, 2015

    • Other entrants

    The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

  • Eric Butorac / Scott Lipsky
  • Steve Johnson / Sam Querrey

    • Seeds

  • Rankings are as of August 10, 2015

    • Other entrants

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

  • Daniela Hantuchová
  • Alison Riske
  • Coco Vandeweghe

    • The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:

  • Tímea Babos
  • Mona Barthel
  • Kateryna Bondarenko
  • Lauren Davis
  • Casey Dellacqua
  • Julia Görges
  • Lucie Hradecká
  • Ana Konjuh
  • Christina McHale
  • Yulia Putintseva
  • Anna Karolína Schmiedlová
  • Yaroslava Shvedova

    • The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

  • Mirjana Lučić-Baroni

    • Withdrawals

    Before the tournament
  • Svetlana Kuznetsova (left lower leg injury) →replaced by Tsvetana Pironkova
  • Ekaterina Makarova (right lower leg injury) →replaced by Varvara Lepchenko
  • Maria Sharapova (right upper leg injury) →replaced by Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
    • During the tournament
  • Venus Williams (viral illness)

    • Retirements

  • Victoria Azarenka (left thigh injury)
  • Belinda Bencic (right wrist injury)

    • Seeds

  • Rankings are as of August 10, 2015

    • Other entrants

    The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

  • Madison Brengle / Alexa Glatch
  • Madison Keys / Lisa Raymond
  • Christina McHale / Coco Vandeweghe

    • Men's singles

  • Roger Federer def. Novak Djokovic, 7–6(7–1), 6–3

    • Women's singles

  • Serena Williams def. Simona Halep 6–3, 7–6(7–5)

    • Men's doubles

  • Daniel Nestor / Édouard Roger-Vasselin def. Marcin Matkowski / Nenad Zimonjić, 6–2, 6–2

    • Women's doubles

  • Chan Hao-ching / Chan Yung-jan def. Casey Dellacqua / Yaroslava Shvedova, 7–5, 6–4

    • References

    2015 Western & Southern Open Wikipedia
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