The unseeded Sorana Cirstea stormed to her second career WTA title - and first in 13 years, since Tashkent 2008 - at the TEB BNP Paribas Tennis Championship Istanbul without dropping a set. Why not ...

Qualifier Julia Grabher took out No.5 seed Jil Teichmann in the second round of the TEB BNP Paribas Tennis Championship Istanbul - the Austrian's second ... putting her into her first WTA quarterfinal ...

The Istanbul Cup is a women's tennis tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey. Until 2020 it was part of the International category, to then be classified as WTA 250. Until 2008 it was played on clay ...

In 2012, Istanbul had attendance of 73,072, the highest of any WTA year-end championships since 2000, and in 2013 drew 69,983 spectators. The 2013 final had more than 16,000 spectators.