İpek Soylu (born 15 April 1996) is a Turkish former tennis player. On 31 October 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 151. On 17 April 2017, she peaked at No. 63 in the WTA doubles rankings. She won a major junior title in 2014 with Jil Teichmann in doubles at the US Open.

In her career, Soylu won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, her biggest coming at the 2016 year-end Elite Trophy. She also won 12 singles and 18 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

Playing for Turkey Fed Cup team, Soylu has accumulated a win–loss record of 13–10. She has been a member of the Enkaspor tennis team.

Soylu announced her retirement from professional tennis September 2022.

Personal life and background Soylu was born on 15 April 1996 in Istanbul and began playing tennis at the age of six. Her favorite shot is forehand, while her favourite surface is clay. Her favorite players were Roger Federer and Li Na.

Career 2016: Elite Trophy doubles title In 2016, Soylu won her first three WTA Tour titles, all in the doubles discipline, the biggest coming at the Elite Trophy in Zhuhai where she partnered with Xu Yifan. That year, she also won two other doubles titles, one on home soil at the İstanbul Cup and the other at the Tashkent Open, partnering Andreea Mitu and Raluca Olaru, respectively.

That same year, she also made her Grand Slam main-draw debut, after qualifying for the French Open. She drew wildcard Virginie Razzano in the first round and lost to the French veteran, in three sets.

2017

At Wimbledon, Soylu made her first match win at a Grand Slam championship, reaching the second round together with Varatchaya Wongteanchai in which they lost to Chan Hao-ching/Monica Niculescu. In August at the US Open, Soylu lost in the first round to Carla Suárez Navarro.

Significant finals WTA Elite Trophy Doubles: 1 (title) ResultYearLocationSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 2016 Zhuhai, China Hard (i) Xu Yifan Yang Zhaoxuan You Xiaodi 6–4, 3–6, [10–7]

WTA Tour finals Doubles: 3 (3 titles) LegendWTA Elite Trophy (1–0)Premier M & Premier 5PremierInternational (2–0)Finals by surfaceHard (2–0)Clay (1–0)Grass (0–0) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1–0 İstanbul Cup, Turkey International Clay Andreea Mitu Xenia Knoll Danka Kovinić w/oWin 2–0 Tashkent Open, Uzbekistan International Hard Raluca Olaru Demi Schuurs Renata Voráčová 7–5, 6–3Win 3–0 WTA Elite Trophy, ZhuhaiElite Hard (i) Xu Yifan Yang Zhaoxuan You Xiaodi 6–4, 3–6, [10–7]

WTA Challenger finals Doubles: 1 (runner–up) ResultW–LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 0–1 Bol Open, Croatia Clay Raluca Olaru Xenia Knoll Petra Martić 3–6, 2–6

ITF Circuit finals Legend$75,000 tournaments$50/60,000 tournaments$25,000 tournaments$10/15,000 tournaments

Singles: 21 (12 titles, 9 runner–ups) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss 0–1 Dec 2012 ITF İstanbul, Turkey10,000 Hard (i) Isabella Shinikova 4–6, 2–6Win 1–1 May 2013ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt10,000 Hard Camilla Rosatello 7–5, 6–1Win 2–1 Aug 2013ITF İzmir, Turkey10,000 Hard Gabriela van de Graaf 7–5, 6–3Win 3–1 Sep 2013ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt10,000 Hard Giulia Bruzzone 4–6, 6–0, 6–2Loss 3–2 Oct 2013ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt10,000 Hard Anna Morgina 3–6, 6–3, 5–7Win 4–2 Jan 2014ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt10,000 Hard Despina Papamichail 6–3, 7–6(0)Win 5–2 Apr 2014ITF Antalya, Turkey10,000 Hard Deniz Khazaniuk 7–5, 4–6, 6–1Win 6–2 Jun 2014ITF Adana, Turkey10,000 Hard Başak Eraydın 4–6, 6–1, 6–2Win 7–2 Jun 2014ITF İstanbul, Turkey10,000 Hard Melis Sezer 6–3, 6–4Loss 7–3 Aug 2014ITF İstanbul, Turkey10,000 Hard Yang Zhaoxuan 6–7(4), 1–6Loss 7–4 Aug 2014ITF Antalya, Turkey10,000 Hard Clothilde de Bernardi 4–6, 6–2, 3–6Loss 7–5 May 2015ITF Caserta, Italy25,000 Clay Daria Kasatkina 6–7(4), 1–6Win 8–5 Jul 2015Bursa Cup, Turkey50,000 Clay Anastasija Sevastova 7–5, 3–6, 6–1Loss 8–6 Jun 2016ITF Padua, Italy25,000 Clay Xu Shilin 7–5, 4–6, 3–6Loss 8–7 Sep 2016Zhuhai Open, China50,000 Hard Olga Govortsova 1–6, 2–6Loss 8–8Jul 2017Bursa Cup, Turkey60,000 Clay Sofya Zhuk 6–4, 3–6, 6–7(5)Win 9–8 Mar 2019ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt15,000 Hard Nadja Gilchrist 6–3, 6–3Win 10–8 Apr 2019ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt15,000 Hard Magali Kempen 7–6(2), 6–4Win 11–8 May 2019ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand25,000 Hard Yuan Yue 7–6(2), 6–1Win 12–8 Jun 2019ITF Figueira da Foz, Portugal25,000+H Hard Katherine Sebov 6–7(2), 7–6(5), 6–3Loss 12–9 Jul 2019ITS Cup, Czech Republic25,000 Clay Jesika Malečková 3–6, 4–6

Doubles: 29 (18 titles, 11 runner–ups) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1–0 May 2012ITF İstanbul, Turkey10,000 Clay Başak Eraydın Liu Chang Zhang Nannan 3–6, 6–2, [10–5]Win 2–0 Jun 2013ITF İstanbul, Turkey10,000 Hard Melis Sezer Başak Eraydın Jasmina Tinjić 6–4, ret.Loss 2–1 Aug 2013ITF İzmir, Turkey10,000 Hard Julia Stamatova Khristina Kazimova Christina Shakovets 4–6, 1–6Win 3–1 Dec 2013ITF İstanbul, Turkey10,000 Hard (i) Elise Mertens Yuuki Tanaka Ekaterina Yashina 6–0, 7–6(3)Win 4–1 Jan 2014ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt10,000 Hard Melis Sezer Despina Papamichail Gaia Sanesi 4–6, 6–4, [10–3]Loss 4–2 Jan 2014ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt10,000 Hard Melis Sezer Valentyna Ivakhnenko Veronika Kapshay 6–3, 4–6, [5–10]Loss 4–3 Mar 2014ITF Antalya, Turkey10,000 Hard Barbora Krejčíková Susanne Celik Kotomi Takahata 4–6, 3–6Loss 4–4 Apr 2014ITF Antalya, Turkey10,000 Hard Melis Sezer Denisa Allertová Chantal Škamlová 2–6, 1–6Win 5–4 Jun 2014ITF Adana, Turkey10,000 Hard Başak Eraydın Alona Fomina Ekaterina Tsiklauri 6–3, 6–1Win 6–4 Jun 2014ITF İstanbul, Turkey10,000 Hard Ayla Aksu Elke Lemmens Julia Stamatova 4–6, 6–3, [10–4]Win 7–4 Oct 2014ITF İstanbul, Turkey25,000 Hard (i) Xenia Knoll Ayla Aksu Müge Töpsel 6–2, 6–4Loss 7–5 Dec 2014ITF Istanbul, Turkey10,000 Hard (i) Ayla Aksu Jana Fett Adrijana Lekaj 3–6, 4–6Loss 7–6 Feb 2015Rancho Santa Fe Open, United States25,000 Hard Nina Stojanović Samantha Crawford Asia Muhammad 0–6, 3–6Win 8–6 May 2015ITF La Marsa, Tunisia25,000 Clay Pemra Özgen Sofia Shapatava Anastasiya Vasylyeva 3–6, 6–3, [10–4]Loss 8–7 May 2015ITF Caserta, Italy25,000 Clay Alice Matteucci Ekaterine Gorgodze Sofia Shapatava 0–6, 6–7(6)Win 9–7 Jul 2015ITF Denain, France25,000 Clay Elise Mertens Xenia Knoll Florencia Molinero 7–6(3), 6–3Loss 9–8 Nov 2015Dubai Tennis Challenge, UAE75,000 Hard Elise Mertens Çağla Büyükakçay Maria Sakkari 6–7(6), 4–6Win 10–8 Feb 2016ITF Beinasco, Italy25,000 Clay (i) Arantxa Rus Lina Gjorcheska Dea Herdželaš 6–4, 6–2Loss 10–9 May 2016Nana Trophy, Tunisia50,000 Clay Irina Khromacheva Arina Rodionova Valeriya Strakhova 1–6, 2–6Win 11–9 Jul 2016Internazionale di Roma, Italy50,000 Clay Xu Shilin Réka Luca Jani Sofia Shapatava 7–5, 6–1Win 12–9 Apr 2017Lale Cup, Turkey60,000 Hard Veronika Kudermetova Ksenia Lykina Polina Monova 4–6, 7–5, [11–9]Win 13–9 Aug 2017ITF Bad Saulgau, Germany25,000 Clay Anna Kalinskaya Nicoleta Dascalu Cristina Dinu 6–2, 6–2Win 14–9 Jun 2018ITF Padua, Italy25,000 Clay Anastasia Zarycká Dea Herdželaš Tereza Mrdeža 6–4, 6–1Loss 14–10 Aug 2018ITF Las Palmas, Spain25,000 Clay Başak Eraydın Yana Sizikova Ulrikke Eikeri 2–6, 4–6Win 15–10 Jan 2019ITF Monastir, Tunisia15,000 Hard Zhang Ying Claudia Hoste Ferrer Julia Terziyska 6–3, 6–3Win 16–10 Mar 2019ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt15,000 Hard Jacqueline Cabaj Awad Gozal Ainitdinova Ekaterina Kazionova 6–2, 6–4Win 17–10 May 2019ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand25,000 Hard Aleksandrina Naydenova Haruka Kaji Risa Ozaki 6–1, 6–3Win 18–10 Jun 2019ITF Akko, Israel25,000 Hard Silvia Njirić Shelly Bereznyak Yekaterina Dmitrichenko 6–2, 6–0Loss 18–11 Aug 2019Verbier Open, Switzerland25,000 Clay Kathinka von Deichmann Xenia Knoll Simona Waltert 4–6, 3–6

Junior Grand Slam finals Girls' doubles: 1 (title) ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 2014 US Open Hard Jil Teichmann Vera Lapko Tereza Mihalíková 5–7, 6–2, [10–7]

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