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By Nazrin Gadimova

Baku Cup international tennis tournament ended in the Azerbaijani capital on July 28.

Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina won the Baku Cup by beating Shahar Peer from Israel in the final with the score of 280:200. Thus, Svitolina got the highest prize in the amount of $40,000 and Peer won $20,000 out of the prize pool.

In the deciding doubles match the Ukrainian-Georgian duo Irina Buryachok - Oksana Kalashnikova defeated the Greek-Serbain duo Eleni Daniilidou and Aleksandra Krunic. The winners got cash prize in amount of $11,500 each.

Azerbaijani Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports Ismayil Ismayilov, Head of Baku Cup International tournament Leila Meskhi, WTA's Supervisor Chen Shu, Secretary General of Azerbaijan Tennis Federation Ilham Guliyev and Representative of Pasha Bank Shahin Mammadov spoke at the closing ceremony of the tournament.

Baku Cup is an international women's professional tennis tournament being held since 2011 on hard courts of the Baku Tennis Academy, which has a 10,000-seat capacity main stadium. There is also a 3,000-seat central court and 12 additional courts. Baku Cup belongs to the category of international tournaments of the WTA with standard prize pool of $235,000.

The 2013 WTA Tour is the elite professional tennis circuit organized by the Women's Tennis Association for the 2013 tennis season. The 2013 WTA Tour schedule comprises the Grand Slam tournaments, which are supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the WTA Premier tournaments, including Premier Mandatory, Premier 5, and regular Premier, the WTA International tournaments, the Fed Cup organized by the ITF, and the year-end championships (the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tournament of Champions).