The İstanbul Cup is a WTA tennis tournament held in Istanbul , Turkey , organised for professional female tennis players. It is classified as an International-level tournament on the WTA Tour . Held annually since May 2005, it was played on outdoor clay courts until 2009, after which the organisers decided to switch the surface to outdoor hard courts . It was not held in between 2011–2013, due to the WTA Tour Championships moving to Istanbul for those years. It resumed for the 2014 WTA season . In 2016, the tournament surface was changed back to clay.
Past finals [ edit ] Singles [ edit ]
Year
Champion
Runner-up
Score
2005 Venus Williams Nicole Vaidišová 6–3, 6–2
2006 Shahar Pe'er Anastasia Myskina 1–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–3)
2007 Elena Dementieva Aravane Rezaï 7–6(7–5) , 3–0, retired
2008 Agnieszka Radwańska Elena Dementieva 6–3, 6–2
2009 Vera Dushevina Lucie Hradecká 6–0, 6–1
2010 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Elena Vesnina 5–7, 7–5, 6–4
2011–2013
Not held because of the WTA Tour Championships
2014 Caroline Wozniacki Roberta Vinci 6–1, 6–1
2015 Lesia Tsurenko Urszula Radwańska 7–5, 6–1
2016 Çağla Büyükakçay Danka Kovinić 3–6, 6–2, 6–3
2017 Elina Svitolina Elise Mertens 6–2, 6–4
2018 Pauline Parmentier Polona Hercog 6–4, 3–6, 6–3
2019 Petra Martić Markéta Vondroušová 1–6, 6–4, 6–1
Doubles [ edit ]
Year
Champions
Runners-up
Score
2005 Marta Marrero Antonella Serra Zanetti Daniela Klemenschits Sandra Klemenschits 6–4, 6–0
2006 Alona Bondarenko Anastasiya Yakimova Sania Mirza Alicia Molik 6–2, 6–4
2007 Agnieszka Radwańska Urszula Radwańska Chan Yung-jan Sania Mirza 6–1, 6–3
2008 Jill Craybas Olga Govortsova Marina Erakovic Polona Hercog 6–1, 6–2
2009 Lucie Hradecká Renata Voráčová Julia Görges Patty Schnyder 2–6, 6–3, [12–10]
2010 Eleni Daniilidou Jasmin Wöhr Maria Kondratieva Vladimíra Uhlířová 6–4, 1–6, [11–9]
2011–2013
Not held because of the WTA Tour Championships
2014 Misaki Doi Elina Svitolina Oksana Kalashnikova Paula Kania 6–4, 6–0
2015 Daria Gavrilova Elina Svitolina (2) Çağla Büyükakçay Jelena Janković 5–7, 6–1, [10–4]
2016 Andreea Mitu İpek Soylu Xenia Knoll Danka Kovinić Walkover
2017 Dalila Jakupović Nadiia Kichenok Nicole Melichar Elise Mertens 7–6(8–6) , 6–2
2018 Liang Chen Zhang Shuai Xenia Knoll Anna Smith 6–4, 6–4
2019 Tímea Babos Kristina Mladenovic Alexa Guarachi Sabrina Santamaria 6–1, 6–0
See also [ edit ] External links [ edit ] 2009–current 2011–current 2013–current 2014–current 2015–current 2016–current 2017–current 2019–current Defunct
Petra Martić
Tímea Babos 
Kristina Mladenovic
Venus Williams
Nicole Vaidišová
Shahar Pe'er
Anastasia Myskina
Agnieszka Radwańska
Caroline Wozniacki
Roberta Vinci
Lesia Tsurenko
Çağla Büyükakçay
Danka Kovinić
Elise Mertens
Polona Hercog
