The unseeded Sorana Cirstea stormed to her second career WTA title - and first in 13 years, since Tashkent 2008 - at the TEB BNP Paribas Tennis Championship Istanbul without dropping a set. Why not ...
Qualifier Julia Grabher took out No.5 seed Jil Teichmann in the second round of the TEB BNP Paribas Tennis Championship Istanbul - the Austrian's second ... putting her into her first WTA quarterfinal ...
In 2012, Istanbul had attendance of 73,072, the highest of any WTA year-end championships since 2000, and in 2013 drew 69,983 spectators. The 2013 final had more than 16,000 spectators.