14-year-old Turkmen tennis player Ilima Huseynova won a silver medal in doubles at the Selangor Asian 14 & Under Grade A tournament (Southeast Asia) 2024 in Malaysia. The 9th grade student of Ashgabat specialized secondary school No. 42 achieved this success in a duet with Hana Shabanpour from Iran.

Ilima Huseynova is No. 1 Turkmen tennis ranking. She is among the top four tennis players in Asia under 14 years old. Ilima hones her sports skills at the Ashgabat Tennis Academy under the guidance of Turkmenistan's national team head coach Mirali Gasanov.

I.Guseynova's track record includes numerous awards from international tournaments. This year alone she won three medals of various distinctions. Ilima won bronze in singles and gold in doubles with Indian athlete Karthika Padmakumar at the International Tournament Asian 14 & Under Grade A in Hyderabad (India), and she won silver at another similar Tournament in Shymkent (Kazakhstan) losing in the final to Iranian H.Shabanpour 2:6, 2:6.

Turkmen sporty newspaper