The 2020 Ä°stanbul Cup (also known as the TEB BNP Paribas Tennis Championship Ä°stanbul for sponsorship reasons) was a
tennis tournament played on outdoor
clay court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Clay courts are made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate depending on the tournament.
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s. It was the 13th edition of the
Ä°stanbul Cup, and part of the
WTA International tournaments of the
2020 WTA Tour
The 2020 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2020 tennis season. The 2020 WTA Tour calendar originally comprised the Grand Slam tournaments supervised by the International ...
. It took place in
Istanbul, Turkey, from 8 through 13 September 2020.
Points and prize money
Prize money
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
* Rankings are as of August 31, 2020.
Other entrants
The following players received
wildcards into the singles main draw:
*
Çağla Büyükakçay
*
Berfu Cengiz
*
Pemra Özgen
The following players received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:
*
Kateryna Bondarenko
*
Anna KarolÃna Schmiedlová
Anna KarolÃna Schmiedlová (; born 13 September 1994) is a Slovak tennis player.
She has won three singles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as 12 singles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 12 October 201 ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
*
Eugenie Bouchard
*
Olga Danilović
*
Tereza Martincová
*
Ellen Perez
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
*
Marie Bouzková → replaced by
Kateryna Bondarenko
*
Sorana Cîrstea → replaced by
Greet Minnen
*
Hsieh Su-wei → replaced by
Patricia Maria Èšig
Patricia Maria Èšig (born 27 July 1994) is a Romanian tennis player.
Èšig 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. Èšig has won o ...
*
Veronika Kudermetova → replaced by
Margarita Gasparyan
*
Magda Linette → replaced by
Aliaksandra Sasnovich
*
Elise Mertens → replaced by
Katarina Zavatska
*
Kristina Mladenovic → replaced by
Jasmine Paolini
*
Jeļena Ostapenko → replaced by
Viktória Kužmová
*
Yulia Putintseva → replaced by
Stefanie Vögele
*
Anastasija Sevastova → replaced by
Kaja Juvan
*
Laura Siegemund → replaced by
Viktoriya Tomova
*
Ajla Tomljanović → replaced by
Danka Kovinić
*
Tamara Zidanšek → replaced by
Anna KarolÃna Schmiedlová
Anna KarolÃna Schmiedlová (; born 13 September 1994) is a Slovak tennis player.
She has won three singles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as 12 singles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 12 October 201 ...
Doubles main-draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings as of August 31, 2020.
Other entrants
The following pairs received
wildcards into the doubles 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 Öz
İpek Öz (born 8 July 1999) is a Turkish tennis player.
Öz achieved her first professional title in the singles event at the ITF tournament held at Manavgat, Turkey in 2017, defeating her Czech, Belgian, Brazilian and Italian opponents, and ...
*
Eugenie Bouchard /
Başak Eraydın
The following pair received entry as alternates:
*
Anna KarolÃna Schmiedlová
Anna KarolÃna Schmiedlová (; born 13 September 1994) is a Slovak tennis player.
She has won three singles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as 12 singles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 12 October 201 ...
/
Katarina Zavatska
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
*
Heather Watson
Champions
Singles
*
Patricia Maria Èšig
Patricia Maria Èšig (born 27 July 1994) is a Romanian tennis player.
Èšig 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. Èšig has won o ...
def.
Eugenie Bouchard 2–6, 6–1, 7–6
(7–4)
Doubles
*
Alexa Guarachi
Alexa Guarachi Mathison (; born 17 November 1990) is an American-born Chilean tennis player who specialises in doubles.
She reached her career-high doubles ranking of world No. 11 in September 2021, and has won five titles on the WTA Tour, most ...
/
Desirae Krawczyk def.
Ellen Perez /
Storm Sanders
Storm Hunter (née Sanders; born 11 August 1994) is an Australian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 119, on 18 October 2021, and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 8, on 24 October 2022.
...
, 6–1, 6–3
References
External links
Official page
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