The 2017 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

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s. It was the 10th edition of the İstanbul Cup, and part of the

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of the

2017 WTA Tour The 2017 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2017 tennis season. The 2017 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Fed ...

. It took place in

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

, Turkey, from 24 April through 30 April 2017.

Points and prize money

Prize money

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of April 17, 2017.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main 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, ...

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 ...

* Dayana Yastremska The following player received entry as a special exempt: * ~~Markéta Vondroušová~~ The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Alexandra Cadanțu Alexandra () is the feminine form of the given name Alexander (, ). Etymologically, the name is a compound of the Greek verb (; meaning 'to defend') and (; GEN , ; meaning 'man'). Thus it may be roughly translated as "defender of man" or "prot ...

Başak Eraydın Başak Eraydın (born 21 June 1994) is a Turkish professional tennis player. She has won 15 singles and 18 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 2 April 2018, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 156. On 6 June 2016, she peaked at ...

* Fiona Ferro *

Viktoria Kamenskaya Viktoria Vladimirovna Kamenskaya (russian: Виктория Владимировна Каменская; born 26 November 1991) is a Russian former tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 182 in singles, achieved on 17 July 2017, and ...

* Elizaveta Kulichkova *

Conny Perrin Conny Perrin (born 25 December 1990) is a Swiss tennis player. Perrin has won 13 singles titles and 23 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Circuit, is a series of pro ...

The following players received entry as a lucky loser: *

Anna Kalinskaya Anna Nikolayevna Kalinskaya ( rus, Анна Николаевна Калинская, , ˈanːə kɐˈlʲinskəjə, Ru-Anna_Kalinskaya.ogg; born 2 December 1998) is a Russian professional tennis player. Ranked by the Women's Tennis Association (WT ...

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament * Lara Arruabarrena → replaced by

Sara Sorribes Tormo Sara Sorribes Tormo (; born 8 October 1996) is a Spanish professional tennis player. Sorribes Tormo has won one singles title and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. On the ITF Circuit, ...

* Vania King → replaced by Chang Kai-chen *

Magda Linette Magda Linette (born 12 February 1992) is a Polish professional tennis player. Having made her tour debut in 2009, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 33 in February 2020. Linette has reached five finals on the WTA Tour, winning ...

→ replaced by

Kateryna Kozlova Kateryna Baindl ( uk, Катерина Ігорівна Баіндль, née Kozlova; born 20 February 1994) is a Ukrainian tennis player. On 19 February 2018, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 62. On 22 October 2012, she ...

Yulia Putintseva Yulia Antonovna Putintseva ( rus, Ю́лия Анто́новна Пути́нцева; , ''puh-TEEN-tseh-vah''; born 7 January 1995) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani professional tennis player. She is a three-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist (twic ...

→ replaced by Çağla Büyükakçay *

Patricia Maria Țig Patricia Maria Țig (born 27 July 1994) is a Romanian tennis player. Țig has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 56, achieved on 26 October 2020. Her best doubles ranking of world No. 155, she achieved on 14 November 2016. Țig has won o ...

→ replaced by Maryna Zanevska * Markéta Vondroušová → replaced by

* Wang Qiang → replaced by Sara Errani

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of April 17, 2017.

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: *

/ Dayana Yastremska *

Pemra Özgen Pemra Özgen (born 8 May 1986) is a Turkish tennis player. Özgen has won 18 singles and 23 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 26 August 2019, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 182. On 14 October 2013, she peaked at No. 179 ...

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 ...

Champions

Singles

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 ...

def. Elise Mertens, 6–2, 6–4

Doubles

Dalila Jakupović Dalila Jakupović (born 24 March 1991) is a Slovenian tennis player of Bosnian descent. Jakupović to date has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour along with two WTA Challenger doubles titles. She also has won five singles and ten doubles ti ...

/ Nadiia Kichenok def. Nicole Melichar / Elise Mertens, 7–6^(8–6), 6–2

References

External links

Official website

Players list
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