# Zeynep Sönmez

Zeynep Sönmez (born 30 April 2002) is a Turkish professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings of No. 77 in singles and No. 584 in doubles by the WTA, achieved in 2024. 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.

## Career
### 2023: WTA Tour debut, Turkish No. 1

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

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

Sönmez made her WTA 1000 debut as a wildcard into the Qatar Ladies Open but lost to Lesia Tsurenko. 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.
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. She lost to Victoria Azarenka in the round of 16. 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.
In September, Sönmez reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinal at the Jasmin Open, going through qualifying, and defeated Rebeka Masarova and sixth seed Greet Minnen. 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. She lost in the last eight to Eva Lys. 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.
In November, at the Mérida Open, Sönmez defeated sixth seed María Lourdes Carlé, Elsa Jacquemot, top seed Renata Zarazúa, reaching her first WTA semifinal, and finally Alina Korneeva, making her first final. 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. As a result, she reached the top 100 for the first time in her career, at world No. 91 on 4 November 2024.

## Performance timeline

Key :
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | P# | DNQ | A | Z# | PO | G | S | B | NMS | NTI | P | NH |
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

### Singles

Current through the 2025 Qatar TotalEnergies Open.
| Tournament | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | W–L |
| Grand Slam tournaments ||||||
| Australian Open | A | A | Q3 | 1R | 0–1 |
| French Open | A | A | 1R | | 0–1 |
| Wimbledon | A | Q1 | Q3 | | 0–0 |
| US Open | A | Q1 | Q3 | | 0–0 |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 |
| WTA 1000 ||||||
| Qatar Open | A | A | 1R | 1R | 0–2 |
| Dubai | A | A | Q1 | A | 0–0 |
| Indian Wells Open | A | A | A | Q2 | 0–0 |
| Miami Open | A | A | A | | 0–0 |
| Madrid Open | A | A | A | | 0–0 |
| Italian Open | A | A | A | | 0–0 |
| Canadian Open | A | A | A | | 0–0 |
| Cincinnati Open | A | A | A | | 0–0 |
| Wuhan Open | NH | NH | A | | 0–0 |
| China Open | NH | A | Q2 | | 0–0 |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 |
| Career statistics ||||||
| | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | W–L |
| Tournaments | 0 | 2 | 7 | 2 | Career total: 11 |
| Titles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Career total: 0 |
| Finals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Career total: 0 |
| Overall win–loss | 0–0 | 0–2 | 4–7 | 0–2 | 4–11 |
| Year-end ranking | 345 | 159 | 90 | | $632,640 |

## WTA Tour finals
### Singles: 1 (title)

* 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 | Ann Li | 6–2, 6–1 |

## WTA Challenger finals
### Singles: 1 (runner-up)

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

## ITF Circuit finals
### Singles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner-ups)

* 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 | Daria Snigur | 6–3, 6–7$^{(3)}$, 3–6 |
| Loss | 0–2 | May 2019 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | W15 | Clay | Eléonora Molinaro | 5–7, 4–6 |
| Win | 1–2 | Jan 2020 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | W15 | Clay | Sapfo Sakellaridi | 6–3, 2–6, 6–3 |
| Loss | 1–3 | Mar 2020 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | W15 | Clay | Eléonora Molinaro | 2–6, 2–6 |
| Win | 2–3 | Jul 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Priska Madelyn Nugroho | 6–2, 4–6, 7–6$^{(1)}$ |
| Loss | 2–4 | Aug 2022 | Verbier Open, Switzerland | W25 | Clay | 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) | Viktória Kužmová | 7–6$^{(5)}$, 3–6, 6–3 |