WTA - Istanbul

Back to Europe for the WTA Tour, and it’s found its way to Turkey. 

2020 TEB BNP Paribas Tennis Championship Istanbul - a WTA international tournament, on Red Clay, in Istanbul, Turkey, 7-13 September 2020.

2019 champion (not defending):

Petra Martić (6) who defeated Markéta Vondroušová 1-6 6-4 6-1

The following players withdrew after entering but before the main draw was published:

 

- Marie Bouzkova replaced by Kateryna Bondarenko 

- Sorana Cirstea replaced by Greet Minnen 

- Hsieh Su-Wei replaced by Patricia Maria Tig

- Veronika Kudermetova replaced by Margarita Gasparyan

- Magda Linette replaced by Aliaksandra Sasnovich 

- Elise Mertens replaced by Katarina Zavatska 

- Kristina Mladenovic replaced by Jasmine Paolini 

- Jelena Ostapenko replaced by Viktoria Kuzmova 

- Yulia Putintseva replaced by Stefanie Voegele 

- Anastasija Sevastova replaced by Kaja Juvan 

- Laura Siegemund replaced by Viktoriya Tomova 

- Ajla Tomljanovic replaced by Danka Kovinic 

- Tamara Zidansek replaced by Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 

Svetlana Kuznetsova, world number 34, is top seed.

The other 7 seeds are all in the top 81

The top two seeds have first round byes.