İpek Soylu

İpek Soylu

Soylu at the 2016 Wimbledon qualifying tournament
Full name	İpek Soylu
Country (sports)	Turkey
Born	(1996-04-15) 15 April 1996 Adana, Turkey
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$215,791
Singles
Career record	169–94
Career titles	0 WTA, 8 ITF
Highest ranking	151 (31 October 2016)
Current ranking	160 (21 November 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q1 (2016)
French Open	1R (2016)
Wimbledon	Q1 (2016)
US Open	Q2 (2015, 2016)
Doubles
Career record	106–60
Career titles	3 WTA, 11 ITF
Highest ranking	76 (24 October 2016)
Current ranking	79 (21 November 2016)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	10–6
Last updated on: 21 November 2016.

İpek Soylu (born 15 April 1996 in Adana) is a Turkish tennis player.

Soylu has won three doubles titles on the WTA tour, as well as eight singles and 11 doubles titles on the ITF circuit in her career. On 31 October 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 151. On 24 October 2016, she peaked at world number 76 in the doubles rankings.

In 2014, she won the US Open girls' doubles title with Jil Teichmann.^[1]

Playing for Turkey at the Fed Cup, Soylu has a win–loss record of 10–6.^[2] She is also a member of the Enkaspor tennis team.^[3]

WTA finals

Doubles (3–1)

Result	No.	Date	Category	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	18 April 2016	International	İstanbul Cup, Istanbul, Turkey	Clay	Andreea Mitu	Xenia Knoll Danka Kovinić	w/o
Runner-up	1.	30 May 2016	125K series	Croatian Bol Ladies Open, Bol, Croatia	Clay	Raluca Olaru	Xenia Knoll Petra Martić	3–6, 2–6
Winner	2.	26 September 2016	International	Tashkent Open, Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Raluca Olaru	Demi Schuurs Renata Voráčová	7–5, 6–3
Winner	3.	31 October 2016	WTA Elite Trophy	WTA Elite Trophy, Zhuhai, China	Hard (i)	Xu Yifan	Yang Zhaoxuan You Xiaodi	6–4, 3–6, [10–7]

ITF finals (19–16)

Singles (8–7)

Result	No.	Date	Category	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	24 December 2012	$10,000	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard (i)	Isabella Shinikova	4–6, 2–6
Winner	1.	6 May 2013	$10,000	Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Camilla Rosatello	7–5, 6–1
Winner	2.	19 August 2013	$10,000	Izmir, Turkey	Hard	Gabriela van de Graaf	7–5, 6–3
Winner	3.	23 September 2013	$10,000	Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Giulia Bruzzone	4–6, 6–0, 6–2
Runner-up	2.	30 September 2013	$10,000	Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Anna Morgina	3–6, 6–3, 5–7
Winner	4.	13 January 2014	$10,000	Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Despina Papamichail	6–3, 7–6(7–0)
Winner	5.	7 April 2014	$10,000	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Deniz Khazaniuk	7–5, 4–6, 6–1
Winner	6.	2 June 2014	$10,000	Adana, Turkey	Hard	Başak Eraydın	4–6, 6–1, 6–2
Winner	7.	16 June 2014	$10,000	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Melis Sezer	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	3.	11 August 2014	$10,000	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Yang Zhaoxuan	6–7(4–7), 1–6
Runner-up	4.	18 August 2014	$10,000	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Clothilde de Bernardi	4–6, 6–2, 3–6
Runner-up	5.	18 May 2015	$25,000	Caserta, Italy	Clay	Daria Kasatkina	6–7(4–7), 1–6
Winner	8.	6 July 2015	$50,000	Bursa, Turkey	Clay	Anastasija Sevastova	7–5, 3–6, 6–1
Runner-up	6.	6 June 2016	$25,000	Padua, Italy	Clay	Xu Shilin	7–5, 4–6, 3–6
Runner-up	7.	12 September 2016	$50,000	Zhuhai, China	Hard	Olga Govortsova	1–6, 2–6

Doubles (11–9)

Result	No.	Date	Category	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	14 May 2012	$10,000	Istanbul, Turkey	Clay	Başak Eraydın	Liu Chang Zhang Nannan	3–6, 6–2, [10–5]
Winner	2.	10 June 2013	$10,000	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Melis Sezer	Başak Eraydın Jasmina Tinjić	6–4, ret.
Runner-up	1.	19 August 2013	$10,000	Izmir, Turkey	Hard	Julia Stamatova	Khristina Kazimova Christina Shakovets	4–6, 1–6
Winner	3.	23 December 2013	$10,000	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard (i)	Elise Mertens	Yuuki Tanaka Ekaterina Yashina	6–0, 7–6(7–3)
Winner	4.	13 January 2014	$10,000	Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Melis Sezer	Despina Papamichail Gaia Sanesi	4–6, 6–4, [10–3]
Runner-up	2.	20 January 2014	$10,000	Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Melis Sezer	Valentyna Ivakhnenko Veronika Kapshay	6–3, 4–6, [5–10]
Runner-up	3.	24 March 2014	$10,000	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Barbora Krejčíková	Susanne Celik Kotomi Takahata	4–6, 3–6
Runner-up	4.	31 March 2014	$10,000	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Melis Sezer	Denisa Allertová Chantal Škamlová	2–6, 1–6
Winner	5.	2 June 2014	$10,000	Adana, Turkey	Hard	Başak Eraydın	Alona Fomina Ekaterina Tsiklauri	6–3, 6–1
Winner	6.	16 June 2014	$10,000	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Ayla Aksu	Elke Lemmens Julia Stamatova	4–6, 6–3, [10–4]
Winner	7.	27 October 2014	$25,000	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard (i)	Xenia Knoll	Ayla Aksu Müge Topsel	6–2, 6–4
Runner-up	5.	22 December 2014	$10,000	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard (i)	Ayla Aksu	Jana Fett Adrijana Lekaj	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	6.	23 February 2015	$25,000	Rancho Santa Fe, United States	Hard	Nina Stojanović	Samantha Crawford Asia Muhammad	0–6, 3–6
Winner	8.	11 May 2015	$25,000	La Marsa, Tunisia	Clay	Pemra Özgen	Sofia Shapatava Anastasiya Vasylyeva	3–6, 6–3, [10–4]
Runner-up	7.	18 May 2015	$25,000	Caserta, Italy	Clay	Alice Matteucci	Ekaterine Gorgodze Sofia Shapatava	0–6, 6–7(6–8)
Winner	9.	29 June 2015	$25,000	Denain, France	Clay	Elise Mertens	Xenia Knoll Florencia Molinero	7–6(7–3), 6–3
Runner-up	8.	9 November 2015	$75,000	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Elise Mertens	Çağla Büyükakçay Maria Sakkari	6–7(6–8), 4–6
Winner	10.	22 February 2016	$25,000	Beinasco, Italy	Clay (i)	Arantxa Rus	Lina Gjorcheska Dea Herdželaš	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	9.	2 May 2016	$50,000	Tunis, Tunisia	Clay	Irina Khromacheva	Arina Rodionova Valeriya Strakhova	1–6, 2–6
Winner	11.	27 June 2016	$50,000	Rome, Italy	Clay	Xu Shilin	Réka Luca Jani Sofia Shapatava	7–5, 6–1

Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' Doubles

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	2014	US Open	Hard	Jil Teichmann	Vera Lapko Tereza Mihalíková	5–7, 6–2, [10–7]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to İpek Soylu.

• Official website (Turkish)
• İpek Soylu at the Women's Tennis Association
• İpek Soylu at the International Tennis Federation
• İpek Soylu at the Fed Cup
  

Women's Tennis Association: Top Turkish female singles tennis players as of 21 November 2016
1. Çağla Büyükakçay (77 ) 2. İpek Soylu (160 ) 3. Başak Eraydın (344 ) 4. Ayla Aksu (371 )
5. Pemra Özgen (402 ) 6. Melis Sezer (459 ) 7. Berfu Cengiz (573 ) 8. İnci Öğüt (916 )