Players
Further information: List of Turkmenistan Fed Cup team representativesTwelve players have represented Fed Cup for Turkmenistan since its inception in 2004. Anastasiya Prenko and Jenneta Halliyeva share the record for most ties played, having appeared in eighteen ties during their respective four and five year career. Halliyeva, with five years, also holds the record for most years played in the Turkmenistani Fed Cup team. Ummarahmat Hummetova is third for most ties played, at thirteen, and is also equal second for number of years at four. With these statistics, Hummetova is the only player aside from Prenko and Halliyeva to have played in more than five ties and two years. Prenko holds the record for most matches in a year, with eight, having gained the record in 2013. She also shares the record with Jahana Bayramova for most ties in a year at five.
Prenko holds the record for most singles wins at nineteen. She acquired her first win over Singapore's Carolyn Ann Lim Hui in 2008. in what was in fact the team's first singles win after Hummetova defeated Hazar Sidki of Syria in 2005. Prenko is also the team's most prolific singles player holding a 10–7 win–loss ratio from four years of competition, and the youngest person to win a singles match for Turkmenistan having defeated Lim Hui aged 14 years, 10 months; six months younger than her closest contender Bayramova.
In addition to her singles accomplishments, Prenko is also Turkmenistan's most efficacious doubles player, having accumulated the most doubles wins at nine (four more than the second, Halliyeva) and also holding the best doubles win–loss ratio at 9–6. She managed her first doubles win, and setting of the record of youngest doubles winner for Turkmenistan's Fed Cup team, alongside Halliyeva having defeated Sri Lanka's Jithmie Jayawickrema and Mahesha Seneviratne in straight sets. Prenko and Halliyeva also hold the record for most doubles wins for Turkmenistan as a pair, with five. Hummetova and Veronika Babayan won the team's first doubles win over Hazar Sidki and Nivin Kezbari in 2004.
The youngest person to play for Turkmenistan in Fed Cup was Inna Gavrilenko, who played one singles match in which she was defeated by Denise Dy in 2005. Halliyeva is the oldest woman to play for team, at thirty years, and the oldest person to win a match for the team, defeating Hannah En Xin Chew five days after her twenty-ninth birthday.
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