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2015 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell

tennis tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2023
Entity authorityQ19799406 ↗
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The 2015 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell (also known as the Torneo Godó) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 63rd edition of the event and part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2015 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, from 20 April until 26 April 2015. First-seeded Kei Nishikori won the singles title.

Points and prize money

Points distribution

Prize money

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

1 Rankings as of April 13, 2015.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw:

Roberto Carballés Baena

Nick Kyrgios

Albert Montañés

Elias Ymer

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Thiemo de Bakker

Márton Fucsovics

Jaume Munar

Andrey Rublev

Yūichi Sugita

James Ward

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

Kenny de Schepper

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

Alexandr Dolgopolov →replaced by Kenny de Schepper

Richard Gasquet →replaced by Andrey Kuznetsov

Jerzy Janowicz →replaced by Benoît Paire

Vasek Pospisil →replaced by Teymuraz Gabashvili

Milos Raonic →replaced by Thomaz Bellucci

Retirements

Paolo Lorenzi

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Rankings are as of April 13, 2015.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Barcelona, Banc and Sabadell can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “2015 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.