İpek Şenoğlu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

İpek Şenoğlu

Turkish tennis player

Date of Birth: 08-Jun-1979

Place of Birth: Eskişehir, Turkey

Profession: tennis player

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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Ipek Senoglu (born 8 June 1979), nicknamed Ipeko, is a former Turkish tennis player. She first made history in June 2004 when she was accepted into the women's doubles qualifying for Wimbledon.
Though Senoglu 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. On 15 May 2005, Venus Williams played a show game with Senoglu on the Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, 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.She and partner Yaroslava Shvedova reached the semifinals of the 2009 Italian Open, a WTA Premier event.
Following this event, Ipek's WTA doubles rank rose to No.
76.
Her peak doubles rank has been No.
53.