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Turkey gets tennis lesson at WTA championship

Turkey gets tennis lesson at WTA championship

By Stephanie Myles, Postmedia News October 31, 2011

The WTA Tour’s year-end championship, held for the first time in Istanbul, Turkey last week, was a major success.

The total attendance of 70,824 for the five-day event was by far the highest since the event’s ill-fated move a decade ago out of New York’s Madison Square Garden, and off to whatever city dangled the biggest cheque.

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