Pemra Özgen

Pemra Özgen

Özgen at the 2014 Kivennapa Ladies' Cup
Full name	Pemra Özgen
Country	Turkey
Born	(1986-05-08) 8 May 1986 Istanbul, Turkey
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Prize money	$173,522
Singles
Career record	302–260
Career titles	9 ITF
Highest ranking	207 (26 May 2014)
Current ranking	258 (23 March 2015)
Grand Slam Singles results
US Open	Q2 (2013)
Doubles
Career record	241–189
Career titles	20 ITF
Highest ranking	179 (14 October 2013)
Current ranking	297 (23 March 2015)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	36–35
Medal record Competitor for  Turkey Mediterranean Games Gold 2013 Mersin women's doubles Silver 2009 Pescara women's doubles
Last updated on: 23 March 2015.

Pemra Özgen (born 8 May 1986 in Istanbul^[1]) is a Turkish tennis player.

Özgen has won nine singles and 20 doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 26 May 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 207. On 14 October 2013, she peaked at world number 179 in the doubles rankings.

Playing for Turkey at the Fed Cup, Özgen has a win–loss record of 36–35.^[2]

Özgen is an alumna of Istanbul Bilgi University.^[3]

Career

Özgen, born in Istanbul, began playing tennis at the age of 8, and later trained at local clubs Taçspor Kulübü and Dağcılık Tenis Spor Kulübü.^[1]

Özgen made her WTA tour debut at the 2007 Istanbul Cup, partnering Çağla Büyükakçay in doubles.^[4] The Turkish pair lost their first round match against Mervana Jugić-Salkić and Romina Oprandi.^[4]

ITF finals (29–27)

Singles (9–4)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	11 July 2005	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Radana Holušová	6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	1.	21 November 2005	Ashkelon, Israel	Hard	Sharon Fichman	1–6, 1–6
Runner-up	2.	26 May 2008	Gaziantep, Turkey	Hard	Çağla Büyükakçay	5–7, 4–6
Winner	2.	2 June 2008	Izmir, Turkey	Hard	Vivian Segnini	6–2, 7–6(7–5)
Winner	3.	9 June 2008	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Ekaterine Gorgodze	6–4, 7–6(7–1)
Winner	4.	13 July 2009	Izmir, Turkey	Hard	Sandra Zaniewska	6–0, 6–4
Winner	5.	2 August 2010	Gaziantep, Turkey	Hard	Jade Hopper	6–4, 6–4
Winner	6.	9 August 2010	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Magali de Lattre	6–2, 5–0, ret.
Runner-up	3.	11 February 2013	Leimen, Germany	Hard (i)	Julia Kimmelmann	4–6, 3–6
Winner	7.	15 July 2013	Woking, United Kingdom	Hard	Tara Moore	3–6, 7–5, 7–6(12–10)
Winner	8.	18 August 2014	Saint Petersburg, Russia	Clay	Ema Mikulčić	6–1, 7–5
Runner-up	4.	12 January 2015	Stuttgart, Germany	Hard (i)	Antonia Lottner	6–3, 3–6, 2–6
Winner	9.	16 March 2015	Oslo, Norway	Hard (i)	Justyna Jegiołka	2–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–5)

Doubles (20–23)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	4 August 2003	Wrexham, United Kingdom	Hard	İpek Şenoğlu	Yvonne Doyle Karen Nugent	3–6, 3–6
Winner	1.	10 May 2004	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Gabriela Velasco Andreu	Kateryna Avdiyenko Oxana Lyubtsova	6–0, 6–2
Winner	2.	17 May 2004	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Gabriela Velasco Andreu	Kateryna Avdiyenko Oxana Lyubtsova	6–1, 6–4
Runner-up	2.	8 November 2004	Ramat HaSharon, Israel	Hard	Gabriela Velasco Andreu	Tzipora Obziler Danielle Steinberg	5–7, 3–6
Runner-up	3.	4 April 2005	Ramat HaSharon, Israel	Hard	Jessie De Vries	Irina Buryachok Charlène Vanneste	1–6, 2–6
Runner-up	4.	6 June 2005	Nazaré, Portugal	Hard	Nana Urotadze	Joana Cortez Silvia Disderi	7–6(7–3), 1–6, 4–6
Winner	3.	11 July 2005	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Gabriela Velasco Andreu	Irina Buryachok Vasilisa Davydova	6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	5.	12 September 2005	Tbilisi, Georgia	Clay	Vasilisa Davydova	Irina Kotkina Olga Panova	2–6, 6–3, 4–6
Runner-up	6.	28 November 2005	Ramat HaSharon, Israel	Hard	Gabriela Velasco Andreu	Marrit Boonstra Nicole Thijssen	2–6, 3–6
Winner	4.	23 January 2006	Grenoble, France	Hard (i)	Simona Matei	Florence Haring Virginie Pichet	6–3, 7–5
Winner	5.	12 June 2006	Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal	Hard	Anna Koumantou	Neuza Silva Karoline Steiro	w/o
Runner-up	7.	19 March 2007	Athens, Greece	Hard	Anna Koumantou	Neuza Silva Nicole Thijssen	2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	8.	9 April 2007	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Ria Dörnemann	Kateryna Avdiyenko Kristina Grigorian	2–6, 1–6
Runner-up	9.	5 May 2008	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Oksana Kalashnikova	Melanie Klaffner Ksenia Milevskaya	2–6, 5–7
Winner	6.	26 May 2008	Gaziantep, Turkey	Hard	Çağla Büyükakçay	Volha Duko Ana Jikia	2–0, ret.
Winner	7.	2 June 2008	Izmir, Turkey	Hard	Çağla Büyükakçay	Emilia Arnaudovska Yuliana Umanets	6–2, 6–0
Runner-up	10.	9 June 2008	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Dessislava Mladenova	Chen Astrogo Volha Duko	5–7, 6–1, [5–10]
Winner	8.	18 August 2008	Trecastagni, Italy	Hard	Emily Hewson	Valeria Casillo Lilly Raffa	w/o
Runner-up	11.	27 October 2008	Istanbul Turkey	Hard (i)	Çağla Büyükakçay	Melanie Klaffner Sandra Martinović	4–6, 7–6(7–5), [6–10]
Runner-up	12.	2 March 2009	Lyon, France	Hard (i)	Zhang Shuai	Lu Jingjing Sun Shengnan	4–6, 5–7
Winner	9.	13 April 2009	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Çağla Büyükakçay	Tetyana Arefyeva Anastasiya Lytovchenko	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	13.	27 April 2009	Namangan, Uzbekistan	Hard	Çağla Büyükakçay	Albina Khabibulina Ksenia Palkina	4–6, 7–6(8–6), [5–10]
Runner-up	14.	8 June 2009	Qarshi, Uzbekistan	Hard	Çağla Büyükakçay	Kristina Antoniychuk Oksana Kalashnikova	7–5, 0–6, [6–10]
Runner-up	15.	15 June 2009	İstanbul, Turkey	Hard	Çağla Büyükakçay	Galina Fokina Anna Morgina	4–6, 6–4, [8–10]
Winner	10.	20 July 2009	İstanbul, Turkey	Hard	Manana Shapakidze	Sofia Kvatsabaia Avgusta Tsybysheva	6–2, 6–2
Winner	11.	26 April 2010	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Sandra Zaniewska	Indire Akiki Martina Kubičíková	6–1, 6–2
Runner-up	16.	24 May 2010	Izmir, Turkey	Hard	Çağla Büyükakçay	Maria Fernanda Alves Tamira Paszek	1–6, 2–6
Winner	12.	14 June 2010	Cologne, Germany	Clay	Kateryna Avdiyenko	Sarah Urbanek Alina Wessel	6–0, 6–2
Runner-up	17.	21 June 2010	Kristinehamn, Sweden	Clay	Julia Glushko	Mervana Jugić-Salkić Emma Laine	2–6, 3–6
Winner	13.	14 March 2011	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Sandra Zaniewska	Réka-Luca Jani Martina Kubičíková	2–6, 7–5, [10–7]
Winner	14.	4 July 2011	Aschaffenburg, Germany	Clay	Yurika Sema	Hana Birnerová Stephanie Vogt	6–4, 7–6(7–5)
Runner-up	18.	18 July 2011	Samsun, Turkey	Hard	Çağla Büyükakçay	Mihaela Buzărnescu Tadeja Majerič	1–6, 4–6
Winner	15.	24 October 2011	Netanya, Israel	Hard	Çağla Büyükakçay	Nicole Clerico Julia Glushko	7–5, 6–3
Winner	16.	17 September 2012	Saint-Malo, France	Clay	Alyona Sotnikova	Aleksandrina Naydenova Teliana Pereira	6–4, 7–6(8–6)
Winner	17.	29 October 2012	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard (i)	Çağla Büyükakçay	Nigina Abduraimova Ksenia Palkina	6–2, 6–1
Runner-up	19.	21 January 2013	Eilat, Israel	Hard	Ilona Kremen	Alla Kudryavtseva Raluca Olaru	3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	20.	3 June 2013	Ağrı, Turkey	Carpet	Çağla Büyükakçay	Melis Sezer Jasmina Tinjić	4–6, 6–3, [8–10]
Runner-up	21.	17 June 2013	Ystad, Sweden	Clay	Monique Adamczak	Kristina Barrois Lina Stančiūtė	4–6, 5–7
Winner	18.	16 September 2013	Shrewsbury, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Çağla Büyükakçay	Samantha Murray Jade Windley	4–6, 6–4, [10–8]
Winner	19.	23 September 2013	Loughborough, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Çağla Büyükakçay	Magda Linette Tereza Smitková	6–2, 5–7, [10–6]
Winner	20.	28 October 2013	İstanbul, Turkey	Hard (i)	Çağla Büyükakçay	Sofia Shapatava Anastasiya Vasylyeva	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	22.	2 June 2014	La Marsa, Tunisia	Clay	Xenia Knoll	Andrea Gámiz Valeria Savinykh	6–1, 6–7(6–8), [9–11]
Runner-up	23.	3 November 2014	Bath, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Barbara Bonić	Lesley Kerkhove Xenia Knoll	3–6, 1–6

See also

• Turkish women in sports

References

External links

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