İstanbul Cup

İstanbul Cup
WTA Tour
Location	İstanbul  Turkey
Category	International
Surface	Hard / Outdoors
Draw	32M/32Q/16D
Prize Money	220,000
Website	istanbulcup.com

The İstanbul Cup is a tennis tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey. Held since 2005, this WTA Tour event is a WTA International Tournaments and is played on outdoor clay courts. From 2009, it switched to outdoor hard courts. It closed after its 2010 edition, due to the WTA Tour Championships moving to Istanbul for 2011-2013.

History

The first edition, held in 2005, was won by American Venus Williams. In the final she beat the young Czech talent Nicole Vaidišová in straight sets: 6–3, 6–2.

The following year the young Israeli player Shahar Pe'er beat Russian Anastasia Myskina to win the Istanbul title.

Russian Elena Dementieva won the 2007 event, leading Frenchwoman Aravane Rezaï 7–6(5), 3–0 before she retired, allowing Dementieva to win the title.

In 2008 Dementieva failed to defend her title, losing in the final match to second-seeded Agnieszka Radwańska of Poland in straight sets.

In 2009 Vera Dushevina won her first WTA singles title with a straight sets victory in the final over Lucie Hradecká.

Past finals

Singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
2005	Venus Williams	Nicole Vaidišová	6–3, 6–2
2006	Shahar Pe'er	Anastasia Myskina	1–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–3)
2007	Elena Dementieva	Aravane Rezaï	7–6(7–5), 3–0, retired
2008	Agnieszka Radwańska	Elena Dementieva	6–3, 6–2
2009	Vera Dushevina	Lucie Hradecká	6–0, 6–1
2010	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	Elena Vesnina	5–7, 7–5, 6–4

Doubles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
2005	Marta Marrero Antonella Serra Zanetti	Daniela Klemenschits Sandra Klemenschits	6–4, 6–0
2006	Alyona Bondarenko Anastasiya Yakimova	Sania Mirza Alicia Molik	6–2, 6–4
2007	Agnieszka Radwańska Urszula Radwańska	Yung-Jan Chan Sania Mirza	6–1, 6–3
2008	Jill Craybas Olga Govortsova	Marina Erakovic Polona Hercog	6–1, 6–2
2009	Lucie Hradecká Renata Voráčová	Julia Görges Patty Schnyder	2–6, 6–3, [12–10]
2010	Eleni Daniilidou Jasmin Wöhr	Maria Kondratieva Vladimíra Uhlířová	6–4, 1–6, [11–9]

See also

• List of tennis tournaments

External links

• Official site