The 2015 İstanbul Cup (also known as the TEB BNP Paribas İstanbul Cup for sponsorship reasons) was a

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 8th edition of the İstanbul Cup, and part of the

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of the

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. It took place in İstanbul, Turkey, from July 20 through July 27, 2015.

Points and prize money

Prize money

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of July 13, 2015.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Çağla Büyükakçay *

Alizé Cornet Alizé Cornet (; born 22 January 1990) is a French professional tennis player. Cornet has won six singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as three singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Circu ...

İpek Soylu İpek Soylu (born 15 April 1996) is a professional Turkish female tennis player. Soylu has won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, her biggest coming at the 2016 year-end Elite Trophy. She has also won 12 singles and 18 doubles titles on the ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Kateryna Bondarenko Kateryna Volodymyrivna Volodko (née Bondarenko; uk, Катерина Володимирівна Бондаренко; born 8 August 1986) is a tennis player from Ukraine. She was the doubles champion in 2008 at the Australian Open, partnering ...

* Margarita Gasparyan *

Jeļena Ostapenko Jeļena Ostapenko (born 8 June 1997), also known as Aļona Ostapenko, is a Latvian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 5 in singles, achieved on 19 March 2018, and world No. 9 in doubles, reached on 22 Augus ...

* Alexandra Panova *

Olga Savchuk Olga Mykolayivna Savchuk ( uk, Ольга Миколаївна Савчук; born 20 September 1987) is a retired tennis player from Ukraine. Savchuk grew up in the city of Makiyivka in Donetsk province. She resides in Nassau, Bahamas. Her best ...

Anna Tatishvili Anna Tatishvili ( ka, ანა ტატიშვილი, tr, ; born February 3, 1990) is a Georgian-American former professional tennis player. In her career, Tatishvili won eleven singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. ...

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament * Belinda Bencic → replaced by Yaroslava Shvedova * Alexandra Dulgheru → replaced by Yanina Wickmayer * Kristina Mladenovic → replaced by Kirsten Flipkens *

Monica Niculescu Monica Niculescu (born 25 September 1987) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association as high as 28 in singles and 11 in doubles. Niculescu has won several titles: three singles and ten doubles ...

→ replaced by Elizaveta Kulichkova *

Flavia Pennetta Flavia Pennetta (; born 25 February 1982) is an Italian former professional tennis player. She became Italy's first top-ten female singles player on 17 August 2009 and the first Italian to be ranked world No. 1 in doubles, on 28 February 2011. ...

→ replaced by Vitalia Diatchenko

Retirements

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of July 6, 2015.

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doublesmain draw: *

Ayla Aksu Ayla Aksu (born 15 July 1996) is a Turkish tennis player. She represented Turkey from 2010 to 2012 before choosing to represent the United States in 2013, but switching back to Turkey in 2014. Aksu has a career-high WTA singles ranking of 214, ...

Melis Sezer Melis Sezer (born 2 June 1993) is a Turkish tennis player. On 3 March 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 336. On 19 May 2014, she peaked at No. 219 in the doubles rankings. Sezer has won nine singles and 37 doubles titles on ...

* Anett Kontaveit / Elizaveta Kulichkova The following pair received entry as alternates: * Daria Gavrilova /

Elina Svitolina Elina Mykhailivna Svitolina ( uk, Еліна Михайлівна Світоліна, ; born 12 September 1994) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She reached career-high rankings of world No. 3 in singles and 108 in doubles. Svitolina ...

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament *

Champions

Singles

* Lesia Tsurenko def. Urszula Radwańska, 7–5, 6–1

Doubles

* Daria Gavrilova /

def. Çağla Büyükakçay / Jelena Janković, 5–7, 6–1, 0–4

References

External links

Official website
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