Thirty-five-year-old Master of Sports Eziz Dovletov has been re-elected Chairman of the Turkmenistan Tennis Federation (TTF) for a new four-year term. All 35 delegates from the country’s velayats and the capital unanimously voted for his candidacy during the reporting and election conference held in Ashgabat, The Turkmenistan: Golden age electronic newspaper reports.

Since 2018, E. Dovletov has served as Secretary General of the Turkmenistan Tennis Federation, and from 2021 until mid-2022 he was Vice Chairman of the TTF. Earlier, as an athlete, he became the winner of the zonal Davis Cup tournament (Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV) in 2013 as part of the Turkmenistan national team.

In 2012, Eziz Dovletov graduated from the Turkmen Polytechnic Institute. In 2015, he earned an MBA degree from Moscow State University, and in 2021 he graduated from the Russian International Olympic University under the “Master of Sports Administration” program.

Since 2020, Dovletov has been a member of the international working group under the President of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) responsible for organizing the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup worldwide.

On June 29, 2022, at a conference in Ashgabat, Eziz Dovletov was elected Chairman of the Turkmenistan Tennis Federation for the first time. In December 2023, he was appointed Vice President of the Asian Tennis Federation (ATF) and joined the Board of Directors of this continental organization.

Participants of the conference also unanimously voted to admit new members into the Turkmenistan Tennis Federation and elected a new Board, Deputy Chairpersons, and the Secretary General of the TTF. Ezizmyrat Annamyradov, Nikolai Shegunts, Ata Eyeberdiyev and Mirali Gasanov were elected Deputy Chairmen of the Turkmenistan Tennis Federation, while Ogultach Kurbanberdiyeva was elected Secretary General of the TTF.