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Zeynep Sönmez
Sönmez at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports) Turkey
Born (2002-04-30) 30 April 2002 (age 23)
Istanbul, Turkey
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
PlaysRight (two-handed backhand)
Prize money$ 950,400
Singles
Career record219–146
Career titles1
Highest rankingNo. 74 (14 July 2025)
Current rankingNo. 74 (14 July 2025)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open1R (2025)
French Open1R (2024, 2025)
Wimbledon3R (2025)
US OpenQ3 (2024)
Doubles
Career record13–32
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 382 (14 July 2025)
Current rankingNo. 382 (14 July 2025)
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open1R (2025)
Wimbledon2R (2025)
Team competitions
Fed Cup5–3
Last updated on: 14 July 2025.

Zeynep Sönmez (born 30 April 2002) is a Turkish professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings of No. 76 in singles and No. 382 in doubles by the WTA, achieved in 2025. Sönmez has won one singles title on the WTA Tour and four singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She is the current No. 1 Turkish player.

Sönmez competes for Turkey in the Billie Jean King Cup, where she has a win/loss record of 5–3 as of February 2025.[1]

Career

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2023: WTA Tour debut, Turkish No. 1

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In June 2023, Sönmez made her WTA Tour debut at the Rosmalen Open in the Netherlands as a qualifier.[2] She reached her first WTA 125 final at the Zavarovalnica Sava Ljubljana, but lost to Marina Bassols Ribera in straight sets.[3]

2024: First WTA Tour title, major & top 100 debuts

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Sönmez made her WTA 1000 debut as a wildcard into the Qatar Ladies Open but lost to Lesia Tsurenko.[4] Ranked No. 157, she qualified for her first major main draw at the French Open by defeating Dejana Radanović, Aliaksandra Sasnovich, and Jana Fett in qualifying. She was the first Turkish woman to play in the main draw of the French Open since Çağla Büyükakçay and İpek Soylu in 2017.[5][6][7]

In the beginning of the grass-court season, she qualified for the main draw at the Berlin Ladies Open with upset wins over two qualifying seeds, top seed Dayana Yastremska, her first top 30 win, and ninth seed Emina Bektas. She then defeated lucky loser Arantxa Rus in the first round, recording her first WTA main-draw win.[8] She lost to Victoria Azarenka in the round of 16.[9] As a result, she reached a new career-high singles ranking of No. 136 on 24 June 2024 before the Wimbledon Championships, where she reached the third round of qualifying.[10]

In September, Sönmez reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinal at the Jasmin Open, going through qualifying, and defeated Rebeka Masarova[11] and sixth seed Greet Minnen.[12] She was the first Turkish player to reach a quarterfinal on the tour since 2017, after both Çağla Büyükakçay and Başak Eraydın made quarterfinals in Istanbul.[13] She lost in the last eight to Eva Lys.[14] Ranked No. 148, at the WTA 500 Pan Pacific Open, she qualified for the main draw and upset seventh seed Magdalena Fręch for her second top 30 win.[15]

In November, at the Mérida Open, Sönmez defeated sixth seed María Lourdes Carlé,[16][17] Elsa Jacquemot,[18] top seed Renata Zarazúa, reaching her first WTA semifinal,[19] and finally Alina Korneeva, making her first final.[20][21] She defeated Ann Li in straight sets to win her first tour-level singles title and became the first player from Turkey to win a WTA singles title since Çağla Büyükakçay in Istanbul in 2016 and only the second overall.[22] As a result, she reached the top 100 for the first time in her career, at world No. 91 on 4 November 2024.[23][24][25]

2025: First Turkish player in a Grand Slam third round

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Making her debut at the Australian Open, Sönmez lost in the first round to wildcard entrant Talia Gibson in three sets.[26]

Defending her title at the Mérida Open, which had been upgraded to a WTA 500 event and switched from October to February, she recorded wins over eighth seed Maria Sakkari[27] and Magda Linette[28] to make it through to the quarterfinals, where she lost to top seed and eventual champion Emma Navarro.[29]

In May at the Rabat Open, Sönmez overcame third seed Lucia Bronzetti,[30] before losing to wildcard entrant Anastasija Sevastova in the second round.[31] The following week at the French Open, she lost in the first round to 13th seed Elina Svitolina in straight sets.[32]

At Wimbledon, Sönmez defeated Jaqueline Cristian[33] and Wang Xinyu to become the first player from Turkey to reach the third round of a Grand Slam tournament in the Open Era.[34][35] Her run was ended in the third round by 18th seed Ekaterina Alexandrova.[36]

Performance timeline

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Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.[37]

Singles

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Tournament 2022 2023 2024 2025 W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A Q3 1R 0–1
French Open A A 1R 1R 0–2
Wimbledon A Q1 Q3 3T 2–1
US Open A Q1 Q3 0–0
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–1 2–3 2–4
WTA 1000
Qatar Open[a] A A 1R 1R 0–2
Dubai[a] A A Q1 A 0–0
Indian Wells Open A A A Q2 0–0
Miami Open A A A Q1 0–0
Madrid Open A A A 1R 0–1
Italian Open A A A Q1 0–0
Canadian Open A A A A 0–0
Cincinnati Open A A A 0–0
Wuhan Open NH A 0–0
China Open NH A Q2 0–0
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–1 0–2 0–3
Career statistics
2022 2023 2024 2025 W–L
Tournaments 0[b] 0 7 7 Career total: 14
Titles 0 0 0 0 Career total: 0
Finals 0 0 0 0 Career total: 0
Overall win–loss 0–0 0–0 4–7 5–7 9–14
Year-end ranking 345 159 90 $632,640

WTA Tour finals

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Singles: 1 (title)

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Legend
Grand Slam (0–0)
WTA 1000 (0–0)
WTA 500 (0–0)
WTA 250 (1–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Oct 2024 Mérida Open, Mexico WTA 250 Hard United States Ann Li 6–2, 6–1

WTA Challenger finals

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Singles: 1 (runner-up)

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Result W–L Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Sep 2023 Ljubljana Open, Slovenia Clay Spain Marina Bassols Ribera 0–6, 6–7(2–7)

ITF Circuit finals

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Singles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner-ups)

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Legend
W40 tournaments (1–0)
W25 tournaments (1–1)
W15 tournaments (2–3)
Finals by surface
Hard (3–1)
Clay (1–3)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Nov 2018 ITF Antalya, Turkey W15 Hard Ukraine Daria Snigur 6–3, 6–7(3), 3–6
Loss 0–2 May 2019 ITF Antalya, Turkey W15 Clay Luxembourg Eléonora Molinaro 5–7, 4–6
Win 1–2 Jan 2020 ITF Antalya, Turkey W15 Clay Greece Sapfo Sakellaridi 6–3, 2–6, 6–3
Loss 1–3 Mar 2020 ITF Antalya, Turkey W15 Clay Luxembourg Eléonora Molinaro 2–6, 2–6
Win 2–3 Jul 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard Indonesia Priska Madelyn Nugroho 6–2, 4–6, 7–6(1)
Loss 2–4 Aug 2022 Verbier Open, Switzerland W25 Clay Italy Matilde Paoletti 2–6, 6–3, 6–7(2)
Win 3–4 Oct 2022 ITF Sozopol, Bulgaria W25 Hard Darya Astakhova 7–5, 6–4
Win 4–4 Jan 2023 ITF Tallinn, Estonia W40 Hard (i) Slovakia Viktória Kužmová 7–6(5), 3–6, 6–3

Personal life

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Her family is from Arhavi district of Artvin.[38]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Ladies Open since 2009 until 2024. Dubai was classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009 to 2011 before being succeeded by Doha for the 2012–2014 period. In 2015, Dubai regained its Premier 5 status while Doha was demoted to Premier status. The Premier 5 tournaments were reclassified as WTA 1000 tournaments in 2021.
  2. ^ During the season, she did not play in the main draw of any WTA Tour-level tournaments. However, she played in the Billie Jean King Cup, which is not counted as a played tournament but matches count.

References

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  14. ^ "Lys overcomes Sonmez in Monastir to make second WTA semifinal of 2024". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
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  31. ^ "Wild card Sevastova defeats Sonmez to make Rabat quarterfinals". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 4 July 2025.
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