Serena Williams finished the year as world No. 1 for the fifth time in her career. She won five tournaments during the season, including three majors at the Australian Open, the French Open, and the Wimbledon Championships (completing a non-calendar year Grand Slam). She also won two Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 events.
Details
Duration
4 January – 8 November 2015
Edition
45th
Tournaments
59
Categories
Grand Slam (4) WTA Finals WTA Elite Trophy WTA Premier Mandatory (4) WTA Premier 5 (5) WTA Premier (12) WTA International (32)
Achievements (singles)
Most tournament titles
Serena Williams (5)
Most tournament finals
Karolína Plíšková (6)
Prize money leader
Serena Williams (US$10,582,642)[1]
Points leader
Serena Williams (9,945)[2]
Awards
Player of the year
Serena Williams
Doubles team of the year
Martina Hingis Sania Mirza
Most improved player of the year
Timea Bacsinszky
Newcomer of the year
Daria Gavrilova
Comeback player of the year
Venus Williams
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Serena Williams won the first three Majors of the year, the Australian Open, French Open, and Wimbledon, and was on course for the Grand Slam until she lost in the semifinals of the US Open to Roberta Vinci; Flavia Pennetta went on to win her maiden Major singles title by defeating Vinci in the US Open final. Pennetta then retired from professional tennis at the WTA Finals in Singapore.
The 2015 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2015 tennis season. The 2015 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the WTA Premier tournaments (Premier Mandatory, Premier 5, and regular Premier), the WTA International tournaments, the Fed Cup (organized by the ITF), and the year-end championships (the 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]
^"Women's Tennis Scores | WTA Tennis". Women's Tennis Association. Archived from the original on 26 January 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
^"The Official Home of the Women's Tennis Association | WTA Tennis". Women's Tennis Association. Archived from the original on 8 February 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
^"2015 WTA calendar" (PDF). wtatennis.com. WTA Tour, Inc. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
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Serena Williams (5)
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Martina Hingis 
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