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2015 Aegon Classic
Date	15?21 June
Edition	34th
Category	WTA Premier
Draw	56S / 16D
Prize money	$731,000
Surface	Grass
Location	Birmingham , United Kingdom
Venue	Edgbaston Priory Club
Champions
Singles
Angelique Kerber
Doubles
Garbine Muguruza Carla Suarez Navarro
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The 2015 Aegon Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts . It was the 34th edition of the event , and the second edition of the event as a Premier tournament on the 2015 WTA Tour . It took place at the Edgbaston Priory Club in Birmingham , United Kingdom, from 15 June until 21 June 2015. Fourth-seeded Angelique Kerber won the singles title.

Sabine Lisicki set the WTA Tour record for the most aces hit in a women's singles match at this tournament, hitting 27 aces in her second-round win over Belinda Bencic on 17 June 2015. ^[1]

Points and prize money [ edit ]

Point distribution [ edit ]

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Q	Q2	Q1
Singles	470	305	185	100	55	30	1	25	13	1
Doubles					1	?	?	?	?	?

Prize money [ edit ]

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Q2	Q1
Singles	$124,000	$66,000	$32,525	$16,725	$8,670	$4,440	$2,280	$1,035	$620
Doubles	$39,000	$20,650	$11,360	$5,785	$3,140	?	?	?	?

Singles main draw entrants [ edit ]

Seeds [ edit ]

Country	Player	Rank 1	Seed
ROU	Simona Halep	3	1
SRB	Ana Ivanovic	6	2
ESP	Carla Suarez Navarro	9	3
GER	Angelique Kerber	10	4
CAN	Eugenie Bouchard	11	5
CZE	Karolina Pli?kova	12	6
GER	Andrea Petkovic	14	7
GER	Sabine Lisicki	19	8
ESP	Garbine Muguruza	21	9
CZE	Barbora Strycova	22	10
FRA	Alize Cornet	25	11
BLR	Victoria Azarenka	26	12
RUS	Svetlana Kuznetsova	28	13
ROU	Irina-Camelia Begu	29	14
SRB	Jelena Jankovi?	30	15
FRA	Caroline Garcia	31	16

• ¹ Rankings as of June 8, 2015.

Other entrants [ edit ]

The following players received wildcards into the main draw:

• Eugenie Bouchard
• Naomi Broady
• Jelena Jankovi?
• Johanna Konta
• Katie Swan

The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw:

• Petra Cetkovska

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Timea Babos
• Kateryna Bondarenko
• Misaki Doi
• Marina Erakovic
• Klara Koukalova
• Aleksandra Kruni?
• Michelle Larcher de Brito
• Tatjana Maria

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

• Zheng Saisai

Withdrawals [ edit ]

Before the tournament

• Timea Bacsinszky →replaced by Tereza Smitkova
• Mona Barthel →replaced by Ajla Tomljanovi?
• Madison Brengle →replaced by Monica Niculescu
• Dominika Cibulkova →replaced by Mirjana Lu?i?-Baroni
• Camila Giorgi (right hip injury) →replaced by Zheng Saisai
• Madison Keys →replaced by Kate?ina Siniakova
• Peng Shuai →replaced by Lauren Davis
• Lucie ?afa?ova →replaced by Christina McHale
• Yaroslava Shvedova →replaced by Bojana Jovanovski

During the tournament

• Victoria Azarenka (left foot injury)

Doubles main draw entrants [ edit ]

Seeds [ edit ]

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank 1	Seed
AUS	Casey Dellacqua	IND	Sania Mirza	17	1
HUN	Timea Babos	FRA	Kristina Mladenovic	17	2
USA	Raquel Kops-Jones	USA	Abigail Spears	28	3
ESP	Garbine Muguruza	ESP	Carla Suarez Navarro	36	4

• ¹ Rankings as of June 8, 2015.

Other entrants [ edit ]

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

• Eugenie Bouchard / Svetlana Kuznetsova
• Simona Halep / Heather Watson
• Jocelyn Rae / Anna Smith

Withdrawals [ edit ]

During the tournament

• Simona Halep (right arm strain)
• Kristina Mladenovic (low back injury)

Finals [ edit ]

Singles [ edit ]

• Angelique Kerber defeated Karolina Pli?kova , 6?7 ^(5?7) , 6?3, 7?6 ^(7?4)

Doubles [ edit ]

• Garbine Muguruza / Carla Suarez Navarro defeated Andrea Hlava?kova / Lucie Hradecka , 6?4, 6?4

References [ edit ]

• http://www.lta.org.uk/major-events/aegon-classic-birmingham/aegon-classic-news/ Archived 9 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine

External links [ edit ]

• Official website Archived 16 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine