ChallengerHardChallenger2026-10-09 → 2026-10-11
Samsun (Women) 2026
8 players, 7 singles matches on our card, hard court. Title chances, the field, who is in form and who is carrying something - with a preview of every match.
Title chances
| Player | Our rating |
|---|---|
| L. Stefanini | 1795 |
| A. Blinkova | 1782 |
| B. Andreescu | 1771 |
| P. Iatcenko | 1743 |
| S. Waltert | 1719 |
| A. Aksu | 1699 |
| H. Sakatsume | 1691 |
| F. Crawley | 1688 |
The draw is not published yet, so this is the field ranked by our rating. Title chances appear here once the bracket is out.
Conditions
Hard court · Turkey
Slow. Servers win 59% of points here (-1.7 points against the level average); 9% of sets reach a tiebreak; 9.5 games a set. Measured from 119 matches played here, not a surface label.
Last year
K. Juvan beat N. Bartunkova 2 - 0
The champion is not in this year's field.
Players to watch
In form
A. Aksu6-3 · +2.8
A. Blinkova11-4 · +0.7
P. Iatcenko5-3 · +0.7
F. Crawley9-4 · +0.4
H. Sakatsume3-2 · +0.1
Wins above what the prices expected, last 35 days
Carrying something
Retirements, walkovers, medical timeouts and long layoffs
Results so far
| Date | Match | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-11 | A. AksuvL. Stefanini | 2 - 1 | |
| 10-10 | L. StefaninivA. Blinkova | 2 - 0 | |
| 10-10 | A. AksuvH. Sakatsume | 2 - 0 | |
| 10-09 | B. AndreescuvA. Blinkova | 0 - 2 | |
| 10-09 | S. WaltertvH. Sakatsume | 1 - 2 | |
| 10-09 | A. AksuvF. Crawley | 2 - 1 | |
| 10-09 | L. StefaninivP. Iatcenko | 2 - 0 |