İpek Soylu

İpek Soylu

Soylu at the 2015 US Open
Full name	İpek Soylu
Country (sports)	Turkey
Residence	Istanbul
Born	(1996-04-15) 15 April 1996 Adana
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Plays	Right (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Goran Prpić
Prize money	$370,949
Official website	ipeksoylu.com
Singles
Career record	201–142 (58.6%)
Career titles	0 WTA, 8 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 151 (31 October 2016)
Current ranking	No. 362 (1 October 2018)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q1 (2016, 2017, 2018)
French Open	1R (2016)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2017)
US Open	1R (2017)
Doubles
Career record	140–81 (63.35%)
Career titles	3 WTA, 14 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 63 (17 April 2017)
Current ranking	No. 361 (1 October 2018)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2017)
French Open	1R (2017)
Wimbledon	2R (2017)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	13–8 (61.9%)
Last updated on: 9 October 2018.

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

Soylu has won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, her biggest coming at the 2016 WTA Elite Trophy. She has also won eight singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 31 October 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 151. On 17 April 2017, she peaked at world No. 63 in the doubles rankings.

Soylu's sole Grand Slam title as a junior came in 2014, when she partnered Jil Teichmann of Switzerland to win the doubles title at the US Open.^[1]

Playing for Turkey at the Fed Cup, Soylu has accumulated a win–loss record of 13–8.^[2] She is also a member of the Enkaspor tennis team.^[3]

Career

Soylu at the 2017 Aegon Classic Birmingham.

In 2016, Soylu won her first three WTA titles, all in the doubles discipline, the biggest coming at the WTA Elite Trophy where she partnered Xu Yifan.^[4] That year, she also won two other doubles titles, one on home soil at the İstanbul Cup and the other at the Tashkent Open, both partnering Romania's Andreea Mitu and Raluca Olaru respectively.

That same year, she also made her Grand Slam tournament main-draw debut after qualifying for the French Open. She drew wildcard Virginie Razzano in the first round and lost to the French veteran in three sets.

WTA career finals

Doubles: 3 (3 titles)

Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) WTA Tour Championships (0–0) WTA Elite Trophy (1–0) Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0) Premier (0–0) International (2–0)

Finals by surface Hard (2–0) Clay (1–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Apr 2016	İstanbul Cup, Turkey	International	Clay	Andreea Mitu	Xenia Knoll Danka Kovinić	w/o
Win	2–0	Sep 2016	Tashkent Open, Uzbekistan	International	Hard	Raluca Olaru	Demi Schuurs Renata Voráčová	7–5, 6–3
Win	3–0	Oct 2016	WTA Elite Trophy, China	Elite	Hard (i)	Xu Yifan	Yang Zhaoxuan You Xiaodi	6–4, 3–6, [10–7]

WTA 125 Series finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner–up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	May 2016	Bol Open, Croatia	Clay	Raluca Olaru	Xenia Knoll Petra Martić	3–6, 2–6

ITF finals

Singles: 16 (8–8)

Legend $100,000 tournaments $75,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $15,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (7–5) Clay (1–3) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	28 December 2012	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard (i)	Isabella Shinikova	4–6, 2–6
Winner	1.	12 May 2013	Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Camilla Rosatello	7–5, 6–1
Winner	2.	25 August 2013	Izmir, Turkey	Hard	Gabriela van de Graaf	7–5, 6–3
Winner	3.	29 September 2013	Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Giulia Bruzzone	4–6, 6–0, 6–2
Runner-up	2.	6 October 2013	Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Anna Morgina	3–6, 6–3, 5–7
Winner	4.	19 January 2014	Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Despina Papamichail	6–3, 7–6(7–0)
Winner	5.	13 April 2014	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Deniz Khazaniuk	7–5, 4–6, 6–1
Winner	6.	8 June 2014	Adana, Turkey	Hard	Başak Eraydın	4–6, 6–1, 6–2
Winner	7.	22 June 2014	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Melis Sezer	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	3.	16 August 2014	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Yang Zhaoxuan	6–7(4–7), 1–6
Runner-up	4.	24 August 2014	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Clothilde de Bernardi	4–6, 6–2, 3–6
Runner-up	5.	23 May 2015	Caserta, Italy	Clay	Daria Kasatkina	6–7(4–7), 1–6
Winner	8.	12 July 2015	Bursa, Turkey	Clay	Anastasija Sevastova	7–5, 3–6, 6–1
Runner-up	6.	12 June 2016	Padua, Italy	Clay	Xu Shilin	7–5, 4–6, 3–6
Runner-up	7.	18 September 2016	Zhuhai, China	Hard	Olga Govortsova	1–6, 2–6
Runner-up	8.	22 July 2017	Bursa, Turkey	Clay	Sofya Zhuk	6–4, 3–6, 6–7(5–7)

Doubles: 24 (14–10)

Legend $100,000 tournaments $75,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $15,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (7–7) Clay (7–3) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	20 May 2012	Istanbul, Turkey	Clay	Başak Eraydın	Liu Chang Zhang Nannan	3–6, 6–2, [10–5]
Winner	2.	16 June 2013	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Melis Sezer	Başak Eraydın Jasmina Tinjić	6–4, ret.
Runner-up	1.	23 August 2013	Izmir, Turkey	Hard	Julia Stamatova	Khristina Kazimova Christina Shakovets	4–6, 1–6
Winner	3.	27 December 2013	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard (i)	Elise Mertens	Yuuki Tanaka Ekaterina Yashina	6–0, 7–6(7–3)
Winner	4.	18 January 2014	Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Melis Sezer	Despina Papamichail Gaia Sanesi	4–6, 6–4, [10–3]
Runner-up	2.	25 January 2014	Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Melis Sezer	Valentyna Ivakhnenko Veronika Kapshay	6–3, 4–6, [5–10]
Runner-up	3.	29 March 2014	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Barbora Krejčíková	Susanne Celik Kotomi Takahata	4–6, 3–6
Runner-up	4.	5 April 2014	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Melis Sezer	Denisa Allertová Chantal Škamlová	2–6, 1–6
Winner	5.	7 June 2014	Adana, Turkey	Hard	Başak Eraydın	Alona Fomina Ekaterina Tsiklauri	6–3, 6–1
Winner	6.	20 June 2014	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Ayla Aksu	Elke Lemmens Julia Stamatova	4–6, 6–3, [10–4]
Winner	7.	31 October 2014	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard (i)	Xenia Knoll	Ayla Aksu Müge Topsel	6–2, 6–4
Runner-up	5.	26 December 2014	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard (i)	Ayla Aksu	Jana Fett Adrijana Lekaj	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	6.	28 February 2015	Rancho Santa Fe, United States	Hard	Nina Stojanović	Samantha Crawford Asia Muhammad	0–6, 3–6
Winner	8.	16 May 2015	La Marsa, Tunisia	Clay	Pemra Özgen	Sofia Shapatava Anastasiya Vasylyeva	3–6, 6–3, [10–4]
Runner-up	7.	22 May 2015	Caserta, Italy	Clay	Alice Matteucci	Ekaterine Gorgodze Sofia Shapatava	0–6, 6–7(6–8)
Winner	9.	3 July 2015	Denain, France	Clay	Elise Mertens	Xenia Knoll Florencia Molinero	7–6(7–3), 6–3
Runner-up	8.	14 November 2015	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Elise Mertens	Çağla Büyükakçay Maria Sakkari	6–7(6–8), 4–6
Winner	10.	26 February 2016	Beinasco, Italy	Clay (i)	Arantxa Rus	Lina Gjorcheska Dea Herdželaš	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	9.	8 May 2016	Tunis, Tunisia	Clay	Irina Khromacheva	Arina Rodionova Valeriya Strakhova	1–6, 2–6
Winner	11.	1 July 2016	Rome, Italy	Clay	Xu Shilin	Réka Luca Jani Sofia Shapatava	7–5, 6–1
Winner	12.	15 April 2017	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Veronika Kudermetova	Ksenia Lykina Polina Monova	4–6, 7–5, [11–9]
Winner	13.	6 August 2017	Bad Saulgau, Germany	Clay	Anna Kalinskaya	Nicoleta Dascalu Cristina Dinu	6–2, 6–2
Winner	14.	15 June 2018	Padova, Italy	Clay	Anastasia Zarycká	Dea Herdželaš Tereza Mrdeža	6–4, 6–1
Runner-up	10.	10 August 2018	Las Palmas, Spain	Clay	Başak Eraydın	Yana Sizikova Ulrikke Eikeri	2–6, 4–6

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

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