İpek Şenoğlu

İpek Şenoğlu

Country	Turkey
Residence	İstanbul, Turkey
Born	(1979-06-08) June 8, 1979 Eskişehir, Turkey
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	70 kg (150 lb)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$150,089
Singles
Career record	143–139
Career titles	0 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking	293 (July 5, 2004)
Doubles
Career record	223–145
Career titles	0 WTA, 20 ITF
Highest ranking	55 (August 31, 2009)
Current ranking	78 (March 1, 2011)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2005)
French Open	1R (2009), (2010)
Wimbledon	3R (2009)
US Open	3R (2004)
Last updated on: March 1, 2011.

İpek Şenoğlu (born June 8, 1979, in Eskişehir), nicknamed İpeko, is a Turkish tennis player. Şenoğlu first made history in June 2004 when she was accepted into the women's doubles qualifying for Wimbledon. Though İpek did not advance into the main draw of Wimbledon, she became the first Turk ever to play in a qualifying tournament for a Grand Slam event. Later that year, she became the first Turk to appear in the main draw of a Grand Slam event, when she and partner Laura Granville reached the third round of the US Open doubles.

On May 15, 2005 at 7.00 local time, Venus Williams played a show game with Şenoğlu on the Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, the first tennis match ever to be played across two continents. The event was organized as a promotion ahead of the 2005 Istanbul Cup and lasted five minutes only on the north side of the bridge. After the exhibition, they both threw a tennis ball into the Bosporus.^{[citation needed]}

She and partner Yaroslava Shvedova reached the semifinals of the 2009 Rome Masters tournament, a WTA Premier event. Following this event, İpek's WTA doubles rank rose to # 76. Her peak doubles rank to date has been #62, following the 2009 Wimbledon Championships.

WTA Tour finals (1)

Doubles: 1 (0–1)

Wins (0)

Legend: Before 2009	Legend: Starting in 2009
Grand Slam tournaments (0)
Olympic Gold (0)
WTA Championships (0)
Tier I (0)	Premier Mandatory (0)
Tier II (0)	Premier 5 (0)
Tier III (0)	Premier (0)
Tier IV & V (0)	International (0)

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Tournament

Surface

Partner

Opponent in the final

Score in the final

Runner-ups (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	19 April 2008	Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Mervana Jugić-Salkić	Maria Kirilenko Flavia Pennetta	6-4, 6–4

External links

• Ipek Senoglu at the Women's Tennis Association
• İpek Şenoğlu at the International Tennis Federation
• İpek Şenoğlu at the Fed Cup
• Her official website (English) (Turkish)