The U12 Ashgabat Open Tennis Championship started at the Olympic Village in the Turkmen capital. The tournament was launched after the musical and sports performances.

The players participating in the competition were registered on May 1. Later on, the first meetings began. About 100 young athletes from the capital and regions of the country competed in the doubles and singles events. The first matches demonstrated that the young athletes intensively prepared for the tournament.

The competition became an important stage of preparation for the Central Asian Youth Tennis Championship, which will be held at the Ashgabat Olympic Village in the first days of June this year. In recent years, the Turkmen tennis players, especially the youth and teenagers, have achieved great success at the international tournaments. The medals won at the tennis tournaments in the year ‘Happy Youth with Arkadag Serdar’ indicate the above-mentioned fact. These achievements have been made thanks to the excellent opportunities created by the President of Turkmenistan.