Turkmen tennis players have advanced to the quarterfinals of the ongoing Davis Cup Juniors -Asia/Oceania, U16 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The team secured this achievement ahead of schedule by winning their second consecutive match.
In the first round of Group B, the Turkmenistan team, seeded sixth in the tournament, confidently defeated Oman 3–0, and today earned a hard-fought victory over Myanmar, 2–1.
The match proved challenging for our players. In the first singles match, which lasted 1 hour and 44 minutes, Suleyman Hudayberdiyev lost to Phyo Sar Sei in a tiebreak, 3–6, 6–7 (5). In the second match, Ali Geldiyev leveled the score at 1–1, defeating Da Wu in 1 hour and 10 minutes, 6–4, 6–1.
The outcome of the match was decided in the doubles, which lasted 1 hour and 24 minutes. In the first set, Ali Geldiyev and Kerimgeldi Guldurdyyev lost to Phyo Sar Sei and Da Wu, 4–6. In the second set, they took revenge, 6–3, and in the third, decisive set, they secured victory in a super tiebreak, 10–7.
In another match of the second day in this group, the second-seeded team of Singapore defeated Oman 3–0 and also secured an early place in the quarterfinals.
In the final round, the junior teams of Turkmenistan and Singapore will face each other to determine which team advances to the playoffs from first place and which from second.
A total of 15 teams are participating in the DCJ Asia/Oceania Pre-Qualifying Event, organized under the auspices of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) in cooperation with the Asian Tennis Federation (ATF). In the first stage, the teams are divided into four groups.
Results of the second round in other groups: Group A: Sri Lanka – Saudi Arabia 3–0; Group C: Malaysia – Laos 2–1, Guam – Philippines 0–3; Group D: Vietnam – Mongolia 3–0, Nepal – Oceania 0–3. Following these matches, it became known that, along with Turkmenistan and Singapore, the following teams also advanced early to the quarterfinals: Sri Lanka (No. 1 seed), Malaysia (No. 4 seed), the Philippines (No. 5 seed), Vietnam (No. 3 seed), and Oceania (No. 7 seed).
It should be recalled that the Davis Cup Juniors was launched by the ITF in 1985 as the World Youth Cup (Under 16) and was renamed to its current title in 2002. Each year, countries compete in regional qualifying tournaments, the winners of which advance to the finals to compete for the championship title.
