İpek Şenoğlu

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**İpek Şenoğlu**

Country	Turkey
Residence	Istanbul, Turkey
Date of birth	June 8, 1979 (1979-06-08) (age 29)
Place of birth	Eskisehir, Turkey
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	70 kg (150 lb)
Turned pro
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$102,173
Singles
Career record:	142-134
Career titles:	0 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking:	No. 293 (July 5, 2004)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	-
French Open	-
Wimbledon	-
US Open	-
Doubles
Career record:	192-107
Career titles:	0 WTA, 18 ITF
Highest ranking:	No. 85 (February 7, 2005)
Infobox last updated on: April 21, 2008.

İpek Şenoğlu (born June 8, 1979, in Eskisehir), nickname "Ipeko", is a Turkish tennis player. Şenoğlu first made history in June 2004 when she was accepted into the women's doubles qualifying for Wimbledon. Though she did not advance into the main draw of Wimbledon, she became the first Turk ever to play in a qualifying tournament for a Grand Slam event.

On 15 May 2005 at 7.00 local time, Venus Williams played a show game with Şenoğlu on the Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, the first tennis match ever to be played across two continents. The event was organized as a promotion ahead of the 2005 Istanbul Cup and lasted five minutes only on the north side of the bridge. After the exhibition, they both threw a tennis ball into the Bosporus.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] WTA Tour finals (1)

[edit] Doubles runner-up (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	April 19, 2008	Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Mervana Jugić-Salkić	Maria Kirilenko Flavia Pennetta	6-4, 6-4