2.10.2016
Turkish Ipek Soylu and Romanian Raluca Olaru won the doubles' event of the WTA 2016 Tashkent Open tennis tournament held on September 26 – October 1, 2016 in Tashkent (Uzbekistan).
Soylu and Olaru, seeded fourth, defeated the third seeds Demi Schurs (the Netherlands) and Renata Voracova (Czechia) by 7-5, 6-3 in the finals.
20 years old and # 82 in WTA in the doubles' rankings, Ipek Soylu has thus put her and Turkey’s second WTA doubles' title in her track record, the first being won this year in TEB BNP Paribas İstanbul Cup, together with another Romanian player Andrea Mitu.
Olaru and Soylu received for their success in Tashkent a check worth 12.300 dollars and 280 WTA points.