Turkmenistan’s female tennis players will participate for the first time in the Asia U12 Team Competition, which will be held this year in Singapore. Our compatriots achieved this remarkable success at the recently concluded ATF 12U Team Competition, Central Asia in Fergana, Uzbekistan. Two tickets to the final round of the competition were contested by the national teams of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, The Turkmenistan: Golden age electronic newspaper reports.

Our girls' team at the tournament was represented by Nazli Hudaykulieva, Sahra Garahanova and Sulgun Ishankuliyeva.

The competition among the girls remained suspenseful until the very end. The intrigue was created by the Turkmen tennis players, who in the first round defeated the home team of Uzbekistan 2:1, making a significant step towards winning silver medals and securing a place in the final stage of the ATF 12U Team Competition. To realize this dream, they only needed to win the last round against the Kyrgyzstan team, provided that the Uzbekistan team lost to the tennis players of Kazakhstan.

As expected, in the parallel match, the representatives of Kazakhstan defeated their Uzbek opponents 2:1, winning the gold medals. It then became clear that the fate of the second place was in the hands of our team.

The Turkmen tennis players were determined to win. In the first singles match, Sahra Garahanova confidently defeated Aliia Mansurova 6:0, 6:1. In the second singles match, Nazli Hudaykulieva crushed Aida Abduvalieva without conceding a single game – 6:0, 6:0. The Kyrgyz team was finished off by Sulgun Ishankuliyeva and Nazli Hudaykulieva, who won the doubles match against Aliia Mansurova and Aida Abduvalieva 6:1, 6:0.

Thus, the Turkmen tennis players won silver medals for the first time and with them a ticket to the final stage of the Asia Championship, leaving behind the Uzbekistan team, which was considered the favorite in the qualifiers.

The Turkmen boys' team, represented by Yunus Annamyradov, Yegenmammet Nuryagdyyev, and Erkin Altyyev, also won awards at this tournament. By defeating the Kyrgyzstan team 3:0 in the last round, the team coached by Mirali Gasanov won the bronze medals. The first two places were taken by the tennis players from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, respectively.