In 1973 Billie Jean King founded the Women's Tennis Association, uniting all of women's professional tennis in one tour. The WTA was borne out of a meeting held in a room at the Gloucester Hotel in London the week before Wimbledon; the US Open, for the first time, offered equal prize money to the men and women.
Sony Ericsson WTA Tour realized its first tournament and was accepted by the tennis community as women's tennis association. Today, 63 tournaments are being organized in 32 countries and 60 million US Dollars amount of prize money is being offered.
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Istanbul Cup is one of the 63 tournaments on the Sony Ericsson WTA. The first has been organized in 2005. The first tournament has attracted attention from tennis authorities and tennis lover's because of the show games and the matches. The tournament champion Venus Williams played an intercontinental match with Turkish tennis player Ipek Senoglu on the Bosphorus Bridge, this match had took its place in the world sport history as the first tennis match played between two continents. Istanbul Cup that is being organized by Garanti Koza Insaat, is one of the two international sports events hosted by Turkey. This year Istanbul Cup will take place at the sport facilities in Yesilköy that Garanti Koza Insaat had started the construction. This year 57 tennis player will play in the Istanbul Cup and the attendance of 4 out of 20 best tennis player on the world has been expected. This year the show matches will take place on the Maiden's Tower along the Bosphorus Bridge.
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Our Mission
To place Turkey among the few powerful countries of Tennis and to become one of the tennis organizations that being interested worldwide. |
Vision
To become a tournament that the world best tennis players would like to participate
To create opportunities for Tennis champions plays with Turkish tennis players
To organize Istanbul Cup in the sport facilities that internationally qualified
To upgrade the Istanbul Cup's tournament level
To increase the players attendance / participation to the tournament
To create opportunities for successful Turkish tennis players will step ahead on the tournament
To have Turkish tennis champions.
To increase the number of the public attendance to the tournament
To ensure that the tournament will be watched worldwide
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Take a look at WTA Tour site for more information.
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