İpek Şenoğlu
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İpek Şenoğlu, nickname "Ipeko" is a Turkish tennis player born on 8 June 1979. Şenoğlu first made history in June 2004 when she was accepted into the women's doubles qualifying for the Wimbledon championships. Though she did not advance into the main draw of Wimbledon, she did make it into the history books as the first Turk ever to play in a qualifying tournament for a Grand Slam event.
On 15 May 2005 at 7.00 local time, U.S. tennis star Venus Williams played a show game with Turkish standout İpek Şenoğlu on the Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, the first tennis match ever to be played on two continents. The event was organized as a promotion ahead of the 2005 WTA’s Istanbul Cup and lasted five minutes only on the north side of the bridge. After the exhibition, they both threw a tennis ball into the Bosphorus.
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