Yevgeny Evgenyevich Donskoy

Yevgeny Donskoy
Yevgeny Donskoy 2016 at the US Open
Nation:	Russia
Birthday:	May 9, 1990
Size:	185 cm
Weight:	75 kg
1st professional season:	2007
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Boris Sobkin
Prize money:	$ 2,725,824
singles
Career record:	52: 104
Highest ranking:	65 (July 8, 2013)
Current placement:	115
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	16:27
Highest ranking:	161 (November 5, 2012)
Current placement:	407
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: July 22, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Evgeni Evgenyevich Donskoy ( Russian Евгений Евгеньевич Донско́й ; English transcription Evgeny Evgenyevich Donskoy ; born May 9, 1990 in Moscow , then Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a Russian tennis player .

life and career

2005–2008: Successes as a junior and first experiences as a professional

As a junior, Yevgeny Donskoy won several tournaments in 2005 and 2008 and climbed to 20th place in the junior world rankings. His best result at a Grand Slam junior tournament was reaching the quarter-finals at the 2008 French Open .

Donskoi collected his first world ranking points as a professional in August 2007 when he defeated the top 300 player Ivo Klec in the first round at the Challenger tournament in Geneva , for which he received a wildcard . In June 2008 he won an ITF Future Tour tournament in Ukraine for the first time . Thereupon he received a wildcard for the ATP tournament in his hometown Moscow in October 2008 , but had no chance against the top 100 player Viktor Troicki on his ATP debut .

2009–2012: First ATP match win and Challenger title

In 2009 Yevgeny Donskoy could not win a title, but he reached several quarter-finals in Challenger tournaments and thus climbed into the top 400 in the world rankings for the first time. In October 2009, as in the previous year, he received a wildcard for the ATP tournament in Moscow , but was defeated again in two sets against Potito Starace .

In May 2010 Donskoi qualified for the ATP tournament in Belgrade , but lost in the first main round to the later semi-finalist Filip Krajinović . After two Challenger semifinals in July 2010, he participated in the US Open in August 2010 for the first time in the qualification for a Grand Slam tournament, but was eliminated in the first round. At the end of October 2010, Yevgeny Donskoi was able to win a match at ATP level for the first time in Saint Petersburg as a qualifier against Andrei Kuznetsov, who started with a wildcard . In the second round, Donskoi won the first set against the top-seeded top 10 player Michail Juschny , but ultimately lost the match in three sets against the eventual finalist.

In February 2011, Yevgeny Donskoy celebrated his greatest success to date at the Challenger tournament in Casablanca : As a qualifier, he marched through to the final and won his first title there in three sets against Alessio di Mauro . After winning a future tournament in Spain two weeks later, his winning streak of thirteen consecutive matches ended in the first round of the Challenger tournament in Marrakech . In June 2011 Donsoky defeated at the Challenger tournament in Kosice with Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo first time a top 100 player, but then bowed out against Simon Greul from. Three weeks later he was in Braunschweig as a qualifier for the second time in a Challenger final, which he lost to Lukáš Rosol . In the further course of the year he reached another Challenger semi-final in Segovia , at ATP level there were first round defeats in Stuttgart and Moscow this year . In doubles he was able to surprisingly reach the semi-finals in Moscow together with Teimuras Gabashvili , where they were defeated by the later tournament winners František Čermák and Filip Polášek . Donskoi ended his best season to date in 144th place in the world rankings.

The first success of 2012 came Yevgeny Donskoy in February at the Challenger tournament in Quimper , where he was eliminated in the semi-finals against Malek Jaziri . Two weeks later he moved into the final in Meknes , where he won his second Challenger title against Adrian Ungur . He then won Astana , Segovia and Loughborough . Donskoi celebrated his fifth Challenger title in 2012 in Tyumen, Russia, at the Siberia Cup 2012 , where he defeated the Ukrainian Ilja Martschenko 6: 7, ⁶ , 6: 3, 6: 2.

Davis Cup

2013 Donskoi completed his first games for the Russian Davis Cup team . Against Great Britain he was used in two individual games, of which he was able to win one.

successes

Legend (number of victories)

Grand Slam

ATP World Tour Finals

ATP World Tour Masters 1000

ATP World Tour 500

ATP World Tour 250

ATP Challenger Tour (14)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 26, 2011	Casablanca	sand	Alessio di Mauro	2: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3
2.	February 25, 2012	Meknes	sand	Adrian Ungur	6: 1, 6: 3
3.	July 23, 2012	Astana (1)	Hard court	Marsel İlhan	6: 3, 6: 4
4th	20th August 2012	Segovia (1)	Hard court	Albano Olivetti	6: 1, 7: 6 11
5.	November 11, 2012	Loughborough	Hard court (i)	Jan-Lennard Struff	6: 2, 4: 6, 6: 1
6th	November 25, 2012	Tyumen	Hard court (i)	Ilya Marchenko	6: 7 6 , 6: 3, 6: 2
7th	August 9, 2015	Segovia (2)	Hard court	Marco Chiudinelli	7: 6 2 , 6: 3
8th.	3rd April 2016	Raʿanana	Hard court	Ričardas Berankis	6: 4, 6: 4
9.	July 31, 2016	Astana (2)	Hard court	Konstantin Kravchuk	6: 3, 6: 3
10.	March 12, 2017	Zhuhai	Hard court	Thomas Fabbiano	6: 3, 6: 4
11.	October 8, 2017	Kaohsiung	Hard court	Marius Copil	7: 6 0 , 7: 5
12.	July 21, 2019	Astana (3)	Hard court	Sebastian Korda	7: 6 5 , 3: 6, 6: 4

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	November 13, 2011	Geneva	Hard court (i)	Igor Andreyev	James Cerretani Adil Shamasdin	7: 6 1 , 7: 6 2
2.	29th January 2017	Rennes	Hard court (i)	Mikhail Jelgin	Julian Knowle Jonathan Marray	6: 4, 3: 6, [11: 9]

Web links

Commons : Yevgeny Donskoy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Yevgeny Donskoi (English)
• ITF profile of Yevgeny Donskoi (English)
• Davis Cup statistics from Yevgeny Donskoy (English)