Emin Ağayev (born 14 May 1979) is a former professional

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player from

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Biography

Ağayev was born in the Uzbek city of

Tashkent Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Chach is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of ...

, then part of the Soviet Union, but represented Azerbaijan in his tennis career. As a youngster on the juniors circuit, he was ranked in the world's top 50 and made the boys' doubles semi-finals of the

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, with Israeli

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. He turned professional in the 1999 season. In 2002, he qualified for the main draw of his only ATP Tour level tournament, the

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, held in Indianapolis. He came up against 13th seed

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in the first round and lost in straight sets. In 2003, he beat

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at a

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tournament in Istanbul, got to the final round of qualifying for the US Open and won a Challenger doubles title in Helsinki. As the most-capped player for the

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, he holds a number of records, including most singles wins (19) and most overall wins (30), from a total of 25 ties.

Challenger titles

Doubles: (1)

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