[3] Tennis began in Turkmenistan when it was a member of the Soviet Union, but it failed to grow due to its expensive and individual nature, meaning it was neglected financially by the government in favor of team sports.

[7] Ten years later, the first ITF tournament held in Turkmenistan was played as a Grade 5 junior event on during September 2003.

[8] The girls' singles edition consisted entirely of Turkmenistani players, and was won by seventeen-year-old Ummarahmat Hummetova, who defeated Almira Hallyeva in the final.

[10][11] One year later, Turkmenistan entered its first ever Fed Cup tournament[1] as a team from the country partook in Group II of the 2004 Asia/Oceania Zone.

[3][12] However, the team was ultimately unsuccessful, not winning a single set in their first three matches against Singapore, Pacific Oceania, and Kazakhstan.

[13][14][15] Although they won a match against Syria, with Hummetova and Babayan defeating Nivin Kezbari and Hazar Sidki in doubles,[16] they still finished last in the pool[12] and came into the rankings as equal No.

[3] Hummetova and Hallyeva then competed for Turkmenistan again the next year alongside fourteen-year-old[17] Inna Gavrilenko, with Halliyeva this time acting as a non-playing captain.

[3] Turkmenistan did not return to Fed Cup competition in 2006 or 2007,[1] but it was during this period that Anastasiya Prenko,[6] Marina Lidiya[22] and Ayna Ereshova[23] all played in their first tournaments in the ITF junior circuit.

[24] Following these good results, Prenko was picked for the Turkmenistan Fed Cup team,[25] which had selected to partake in competition in 2008.

[30] Lidiya lost the first rubber to Kim Sadi, but Prenko delivered again for the team by beating Line al-Ghannam in singles and Lara Alsamman and Ranim Mkahal in doubles once again with Halliyeva.

[46] Nevertheless, the team managed a clear win over Oman, Halliyeva easily defeating Maliha Al-Awaidy, Prenko made a comeback to upset Fatma Al Nabhani, despite being ranked three hundred places below her on the pro circuit,[47] and Ereshova and Mollayeva finished off the tie by winning the doubles rubber.

[48][49] The Turkmens then lost to Singapore, 1–2, by losing both singles matches,[50] but their performance was still enough for them to qualify for the fifth-place play-off, with their Pool A equivalent Pakistan.

[56] Turkmenistan was then handily defeated by India,[57] winning only six games across the three rubbers,[58] and narrowly fell to Philippines 1–2 with Hummetova suffering a double bagel to Tamitha Nguyen and Prenko and Halliyeva losing in doubles, despite Prenko managing to win against Anna Clarice Patrimonio in three sets.

[59] Turkmenistan then finished their pool strongly, managing their easiest Fed Cup win since initiation[1] by defeating the Iranians whilst only dropping six games.

[61] Despite losing their previous three meetings with the Singaporeans,[62] they won their tie fairly easily,[54] winning all three rubbers in straight sets,[63] to once again claim fifth place in the Group.

[56] These good results were, relative to the number of ties, Turkmenistan's best ever in a year since initiation,[1] and caused their ranking to ascend once again to No.

[3] Turkmenistan selected to play Fed Cup again in 2013,[64] the first time they competed in women's team tennis for three consecutive years.

[1] Prenko and Halliyeva were selected once again for competition,[65] with Maya Mammetguykyyeva and ITF junior circuit newcomer[4] and promising young player[66] Jahana Bayramova both making a debut.

[4] Prenko, the only player to put up any resistance to the Hong Kongers, also fell to Venise Chan despite winning the first set.

[69] Bayramova continued her poor run by losing to Singapore's Geraldine Ang, though Prenko performed to allow Turkmenistan to win the tie by beating Rheeya Doshi in singles and clenching the doubles rubber.

[70][71] Those two rubbers would be last that Turkmenistan would win in the pool, however, as they went down disastrously to New Zealand despite the Kiwis missing their top player due to injury,[72] with Kadyrova and Bayramova not being able to win a game in singles over Emma Hayman and Emily Fanning,[73] and the team suffering a defeat by the Vietnamese after Trần Thị Tâm Hảo and Huỳnh Phương Đài Trang beat Bayramova and Prenko in singles.

[1] Hummetova and Veronika Babayan won the team's first doubles win over Hazar Sidki and Nivin Kezbari in 2004.

[6][84] Of the other players, three achieved a top thousand junior ranking: Ummarahmat Hummetova, Almira Hallyeva and Veronika Babayan.

[67] She had previously coached the country's top player Anastasiya Prenko[7] and upcoming junior Jahana Bayramova.

[1][88] The largest margin of victory that Turkmenistan achieved was in a 2012 win over Iran, where the team won while only dropping six games across the three rubbers.