WTA Finals and the WTA Elite Trophy). Also included in the 2015 calendar is the Hopman Cup, which is organized by the ITF and does not distribute ranking points.[3]
Schedule
This is the complete schedule of events on the 2015 calendar, with player progression documented from the quarterfinals stage.
Key
Grand Slam tournaments
Year-end championships
WTA Premier Mandatory
WTA Premier 5
WTA Premier
WTA International
Team events
January
Week
Tournament
Champions
Runners-up
Semifinalists
Quarterfinalists
5 Jan
Hopman Cup Perth, Australia ITF Mixed Teams Championships Hard (i) – $1,000,000 – 8 teams (RR)
The players/nations are sorted by: 1) total number of titles (a doubles title won by two players representing the same nation counts as only one win for the nation); 2) cumulated importance of those titles (one Grand Slam win equalling two Premier Mandatory/Premier 5 wins, one year-end championships win equalling one-and-a-half Premier Mandatory/Premier 5 win, one Premier Mandatory/Premier 5 win equalling two Premier wins, one Premier win equalling two International wins); 3) a singles > doubles > mixed doubles hierarchy; 4) alphabetical order (by family names for players).
The points distribution was mostly the same for the 2015 season.[12] Main draw rounds usually give a little less points, but there is no change for the champion (W). Points for qualifying rounds (Q) have changed in both directions depending on the tournament category. Points earned in 2014 retain their value until they expire after 52 weeks. What changed are the distribution of points for the WTA Finals and WTA Elite Trophy.
Category
W
F
SF
QF
R16
R32
R64
R128
Q
Q3
Q2
Q1
Grand Slam (S)
2000
1300
780
430
240
130
70
10
40
30
20
2
Grand Slam (D)
2000
1300
780
430
240
130
10
–
40
–
–
–
WTA Finals (S)
1500*
1050*
690*
(+70 per round robin match; +160 per round robin win)
WTA Finals (D)
1500*
1050*
690*
(+70 per round robin match; +160 per round robin win)
WTA Premier Mandatory (96S)
1000
650
390
215
120
65
35
10
30
–
20
2
WTA Premier Mandatory (64/60S)
1000
650
390
215
120
65
10
–
30
–
20
2
WTA Premier Mandatory (28/32D)
1000
650
390
215
120
10
–
–
–
–
–
–
WTA Premier 5 (56S,64Q)
900
585
350
190
105
60
1
–
30
22
15
1
WTA Premier 5 (56/54S,48/32Q)
900
585
350
190
105
60
1
–
30
–
20
1
WTA Premier 5 (28D)
900
585
350
190
105
1
–
–
–
–
–
–
WTA Premier 5 (16D)
900
585
350
190
1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
WTA Elite Trophy (S)
700*
440*
240*
(+40 per round robin match; +80 per round robin win)
Following is a list of notable players (winners of a main tour title, and/or part of the WTA rankings top 100 (singles) or (doubles) for at least one week) who announced their retirement from professional tennis, became inactive (after not playing for more than 52 weeks), or were permanently banned from playing, during the 2015 season:
List of Retirements
Julie Coin(born 2 December 1982, in Amiens, France), joined the pro tour in 1999. Her career-high singles ranking is world no. 60, achieved on 27 July 2009. Her career-high doubles ranking is world no. 49, achieved on 19 April 2010. Coin has won 10 singles and 16 doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. Coin recorded the biggest win of her career by defeating the world no. 1 ranked female singles player, and top seed, Ana Ivanovic at the 2008 US Open. She announced November 2015 that the 2015 Open de Limoges will be her last tournament, her retirement from professional tennis.
Marta Domachowska(born 16 January 1986 in Warsaw, Poland), joined the pro tour in 2001. Her career-high singles ranking is world no. 37, achieved on 3 April 2006. Her career-high doubles ranking is world no. 62, achieved on 30 January 2006. Domachowska won one doubles title on the WTA tour. Domachowska has won 8 singles and 5 doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. In the 2008 Australian Open, she achieved her best grand slam result, reaching the fourth round, before she lost to Venus Williams. She announced December 2015 her retirement from professional tennis.
East London, South Africa), joined the pro tour in 1999, reaching a career high singles ranking of number 144 in 2005, and a career high doubles ranking of number 22 in 2012. Grandin won one doubles title on the WTA tour. In Grand Slams doubles she reached a Quarterfinals on the 2011 Australian Open
. She decided to retire in January 2015 at the age of 33.
Patricia Mayr-Achleitner(born 8 November 1986 in Rum, Austria), joined the pro tour in 2003. On 4 May 2009, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 70. On 29 September 2014, she peaked at world number 117 in the doubles rankings. Mayr-Achleitner has won 17 singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. She announced that the 2015 Generali Ladies Linz will be her last tournament, stating chronic joint pain as the reason for her retirement from professional tennis.
Yvonne Meusburger (born 3 October 1983 in Dornbirn, Austria) joined the pro tour in 1999, reaching a career high singles ranking of number 37 in 2014. Meusburger won one singles title on the WTA tour. In Grand Slams, she reached the third round on one occasion, at the 2014 Australian Open. She was an active part on the Austrian Fed Cup team, playing 29 ties between 2003 and 2014. She decided to retire after losing in the first round of US Open in August, In December 2014, Meusburger announced that she would come out of retirement to play one more tournament—the 2015 Australian Open—telling the Austria Press Agency that she wanted to end her career at the tournament because it was the first Grand Slam she contested was the 2006 Australian Open. Meusburger played her final career match against 29th seed Australian Casey Dellacqua at the following 2015 Australian Open
.
Italy. She announced her retirement at the end of the season following her victory at US Open. Pennetta played her final match at the 2015 WTA Finals
.
Ksenia Pervak(born 27 May 1991, in Chelyabinsk, Russia), turned pro in 2005, reaching a career high singles ranking of number 37 on 19 September 2011 and a career high doubles ranking of number 123 on 30 January 2012. Pervak won one WTA singles title at the 2011 Tashkent Open where she defeated Eva Birnerová in the final. Pervak has also reached the fourth round of the Wimbledon Championships in 2011, where she defeated top ten player Andrea Petkovic in the third round. Pervak has also won 9 ITF singles titles and 3 ITF doubles titles. She announced her retirement from tennis at the end of the season, stating chronic injuries as the reason. She played her last professional match at the 2015 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open and retired at the age of 24.
Lisa Raymond(born 10 August 1973, in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA), turned pro in 1989, reaching a career high singles ranking of number 15 on 20 October 1997 and high doubles ranking of number 1 on 12 June 2000. Raymond has 11 Grand Slam titles to her name: 6 in women's doubles and 5 in mixed doubles. She also won four singles titles on the WTA. Earning more than US$9 million in prize money in her career, Raymond has reached the quarterfinals in singles at the Australian Open and at Wimbledon. She also is one of the few players to win a career Grand Slam in doubles. Among her doubles partners are legends Lindsay Davenport, Martina Navrátilová and Rennae Stubbs, as well as Samantha Stosur, Květa Peschke, Cara Black and Liezel Huber among others. She is also a mixed partner of Mike Bryan, with whom she won the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, her lone medal to date. Raymond played her last professional match at the 2015 US Open.
Alison Riske
.
Comebacks
Following are notable players who will come back after retirements during the 2015 WTA Tour season:
Katalin Marosi(born 12 November 1979 in Gheorgheni, Romania), turned professional in October 1995, reaching a career high singles ranking of number 101 in May 2000 and the doubles no. 38 ranking in February 2013. Marosi lost all three WTA doubles finals she reached, but won 15 singles titles and 31 doubles titles on the ITF tour. After two years, she returned to the main tour in the doubles of Katowice Open in pair with Oksana Kalashnikova.
Anastasija Sevastova(born 13 April 1990 in Liepāja, Latvia), turned professional in 2006 (first retirement in 2013). She is a former world No. 37 in singles. Sevastova won one singles title on the WTA tour. In Grand Slams singles, she reached a fourth round on the 2011 Australian Open. She returned to the tour receiving a wildcard to compete in Sharm-El Sheik, an ITF $10,000 event, starting on January 26.
Amra Sadiković(born 6 May 1989 in Prilep, Yugoslavia), turned professional in 2007 (first retirement in 2014). She is a former world No. 179 in singles. Sadiković won eight singles titles and eleven doubles titles on the ITF tour. In Grand Slams singles, she reached a second round of qualification on the 2013 US Open. She returned to the tour receiving a wildcard to compete in Essen, an ITF $25,000 event, starting on June 8.
Patty Schnyder(born 14 December 1978 in Basel, Switzerland), turned professional in 1994 (first retirement in 2011), reaching a career high ranking of 7 in 2005 and winning 11 WTA titles. She also made the semi-finals of the 2004 Australian Open and has made the quarter-finals at the French Open and US Open twice each. She will return at an ITF circuit event in Darmstadt where she will play Sofiya Kovalets of Ukraine in the first round.[13]