2015 İstanbul Cup

2015 İstanbul Cup
2015 İstanbul Cup
Date	July 20–27
Edition	8th
Category	WTA International
Draw	32S / 16D
Prize money	$250,000
Surface	Hard
Location	Istanbul, Turkey
Champions
Singles
	Lesia Tsurenko
Doubles
	Daria Gavrilova / Elina Svitolina

The 2015 İstanbul Cup (also known as the TEB BNP Paribas İstanbul Cup for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 8th edition of the İstanbul Cup, and part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2015 WTA Tour. It took place in Istanbul, Turkey, from July 20 through July 27, 2015.^[1]

Points and prize money

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	280	180	110	60	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
USA	Venus Williams	15	1
UKR	Elina Svitolina	17	2
SRB	Jelena Janković	25	3
FRA	Alizé Cornet	28	4
ITA	Camila Giorgi	31	5
RUS	Daria Gavrilova	39	6
RUS	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	40	7
BUL	Tsvetana Pironkova	42	8

Rankings are as of July 13, 2015.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

Belinda Bencic → replaced by Yaroslava Shvedova
Alexandra Dulgheru → replaced by Yanina Wickmayer
Kristina Mladenovic → replaced by Kirsten Flipkens
Monica Niculescu → replaced by Elizaveta Kulichkova
Flavia Pennetta → replaced by Vitalia Diatchenko

Retirements

Anna Tatishvili

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank¹	Seed
CZE	Andrea Hlaváčková	RUS	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	44	1
RUS	Margarita Gasparyan	RUS	Alexandra Panova	133	2
GEO	Oksana Kalashnikova	UKR	Nadiia Kichenok	151	3
RUS	Vitalia Diatchenko	UKR	Olga Savchuk	170	4