The 2021 Tennis Championship Istanbul is a WTA 250 event that will run from April 19th to April 25th.
The event is one of those rare events that was held in 2020 and it will return in 2021 with a solid field of play headlined by world number 21 Martic. It will the 13th edition of this event that started in 2005 with Tig defending the title she won in 2020 vs Eugenie Bouchard.
Besides Martic who won the event in 2018 as the number one seed, we will also get to see Putintseva, Kuznetsova, Kudermetova, Wang, Krejcikova, Teichmann, and many more. The field is dominated by players who enjoy playing on clay as this event has always been held on clay.
The title in 2020 was won by Tig who will attend the event once more to try and defend her title. It will be a tough task against the abundance of clay-court specialists that will attend this event such as Mladenovic. Check out the full entry list below.
2021 Tennis Championship Istanbul Entry List:
1 MARTIC, PETRA (CRO) 21
2 PUTINTSEVA, YULIA (KAZ) 28
3 KUZNETSOVA, SVETLANA (RUS) 35
4 KUDERMETOVA, VERONIKA (RUS) 37
5 WANG, QIANG (CHN) 38
6 KREJCIKOVA, BARBORA (CZE) 39
7 TEICHMANN, JIL (SUI) 41
8 KASATKINA, DARIA (RUS) 42
9 FERRO, FIONA (FRA) 44
10 PAVLYUCHENKOVA, ANASTASIA (RUS) 46
11 LINETTE, MAGDA (POL) 50
12 ZHENG, SAISAI (CHN) 53
13 MLADENOVIC, KRISTINA (FRA) 56
14 SEVASTOVA, ANASTASIJA (LAT) 57
15 SORRIBES TORMO, SARA (ESP) 58
16 HERCOG, POLONA (SLO) 60
17 CORNET, ALIZÉ (FRA) 61
18 TIG, PATRICIA MARIA (ROU) 63
19 KANEPI, KAIA (EST) 64
20 CIRSTEA, SORANA (ROU) 66
21 PERA, BERNARDA (USA) 68