Berfu Cengiz (born 18 October 1999) is a Turkish
tennis
Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
player.
She has a career-high
WTA rankings of 195 in singles, achieved on 9 December 2024, and 214 in doubles, set on 15 July 2019.
Cengiz won her first big
ITF title ($80k) at the
2018 President's Cup in Astana.
She made her
WTA Tour
The WTA Tour (also known as the Hologic WTA Tour for sponsorship reasons) is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women and organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125 series, and third-tier is the ITF Wome ...
main draw debut as a wildcard entrant at the
2020 İstanbul Cup
The 2020 İstanbul Cup (also known as the TEB BNP Paribas Tennis Championship İstanbul for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 13th edition of the İstanbul Cup, and part of the WTA International ...
, losing in the first round to third seed
Polona Hercog
Polona Hercog (, born 20 January 1991) is a Slovenian professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA rankings are 35 in singles and 56 in doubles. She has won five titles on the WTA Tour, three in singles and two in doubles. Hercog also has had ...
.
Cengiz defeated eighth seed
Noma Noha Akugue
Noma Noha Akugue (born 2 December 2003) is a German professional tennis player of Nigerian descent.
Noha Akugue has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 142, achieved in July 2023, and a best doubles ranking of No. 169, reached in Apri ...
to reach the second round at the
2023 WTA 125 Open delle Puglie, where she lost to wildcard entrant Jennifer Ruggeri.
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 14 (8 titles, 6 runner-ups)
Doubles: 21 (8 titles, 13 runner-ups)
Junior finals
ITF Junior Circuit
Singles (5–3)
Doubles (3–6)
References
External links
*
*
*
*
1999 births
Living people
Turkish female tennis players
Sportspeople from Adana
21st-century Turkish sportswomen
Long stubs with short prose
{{Turkey-tennis-bio-stub