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

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tournament held in

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, Turkey, organised for professional female tennis players. It was classified as an International-level tournament on the

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. Held annually since May 2005, it was played on outdoor

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s until 2009, after which the organisers decided to switch the surface to outdoor

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s. It was not held in between 2011–2013, due to the

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moving to Istanbul for those years. It resumed for the 2014 WTA season. In 2016, the tournament surface was changed back to clay. It was played at the TTF Istanbul Tennis Center, located in the

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neighborhood.

Past finals

Singles

Doubles

External links

Official site
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Past finals

Singles

Doubles

See also

External links