Pemra Özgen
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Pemra Özgen is a Turkish
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 tennis player.

Career

Özgen had begun her career at the age of 8 when she was emulating her friends to play tennis in 1994. She kept training at İstanbul based clubs; respectively at Taçspor Kulübü and Dağcılık Tenis Spor Kulübü. She had been invloved in tournaments at the age of 12. Begun her professional career in 2002, she had shown a rapid improvement as ascending from 1099th to 471th place at World Ranking. However, she could not reach enough scale to play at Grand Slam
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...

s.

In Doubles, she attended Istanbul Cup
2007 Istanbul Cup
The 2007 Istanbul Cup is a WTA Tour tennis tournament played on May 19–26, 2007. Aravane Rezaï had a run of wins over Venus Williams and Maria Sharapova before going down in the final to Elena Dementieva.-Singles:# Maria Sharapova ...

 with Çağla Büyükakçay
Çağla Büyükakçay
Çağla Büyükakçay , is a Turkish tennis player. She is a member of the Enkaspor tennis team.She is the most successful Turkish player in singles women tennis with a career high WTA ranking of 168 ....

 with wild card
Wild card (sports)
The term wild card refers broadly to a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play.-International sports:...

 and eliminated in the first round in 2007. Özgen won various titles both in domestic and foreign tournaments in Greece, France, Portugal and, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

.

Miscellaneous

  • She studies at Bilgi University, but she failed her first year lectures due to busy tournament schedule and paused her education in 2006.
  • Her coach is Erhan Oral.

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