“I know that it's a new thing in Turkey, but I don't want to stop here. I want to keep going," she declared after reaching the third round.

"It was just my instinct to help her," said the Turkish qualifier, who upset No. 11 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova in three sets.

The 23-year-old, already a WTA title-winner, is on the brink of something big—not just for herself, but for Turkish tennis.