Evgeny Donskoy

Evgeny Evgenyevich Donskoy (; born 9 May 1990) is a Russian former professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 65, achieved on 8 July 2013 and a doubles ranking of No. 161, achieved on 5 November 2012.

Personal life He was born and currently resides in Moscow, Russia. Donskoy was mentored by former player and two-time Grand Slam champion Marat Safin. His favourite surface is hard courts.

Career In 2010, Donskoy played doubles with the British player Morgan Phillips at the Seville Challenger, losing in the first round.

By 2013, Marat Safin had built a coaching team for Donskoy that included Morgan Phillips.

Donskoy entered 2013 Australian Open's main draw for the first time, reaching the third round and defeating 23rd seed Mikhail Youzhny en route. He also pushed Andy Murray to three sets in the Indian Wells Masters 1000 event.

Consequently, Donskoy made his Davis Cup debut in Europe/Africa Zone Group I match against Great Britain in Coventry. Donskoy won the first rubber against James Ward, 4–6, 4–6, 7–5, 6–2, 8–6, to help give Russia a 2–0 lead heading into the doubles rubber the following day. Great Britain won the doubles rubber, where Ward opened the day. Ward defeated Dmitry Tursunov, 6–4, 5–7, 5–7, 6–4, 6–4, to level the tie. Dan Evans ranked No. 325 would eventually complete a turnaround, with a straight sets victory over world No. 80 Donskoy.

Also for the first time, Donskoy entered the 2013 French Open's main draw, beating Jan-Lennard Struff in the first round. At the 2013 TOPSHELF Open held in 's-Hertogenbosch, he took out third seed John Isner in the first round and beat Robin Haase in the second to reach his first ATP Tour quarterfinals.

In December 2014, Donskoy decided to join the team of Boris Sobkin, coach of Mikhail Youzhny.

In 2016, Donskoy debuted at the Summer Olympics. He defeated 7th seed David Ferrer in the second round, but then lost to Steve Johnson in the third.

In 2017, Donskoy beat Australian Open champion Roger Federer in the second round of the Dubai Tennis Championships, having saved three match points in the second set, trailing 5–2 in the final set and down 5–1 in the final set tie-breaker. This was Donskoy's first career win over a top-ten player.

At the 2021 US Open he qualified for his ninth consecutive main draw appearance at this Major. He lost to Félix Auger-Aliassime in the first round.

Donskoy retired from professional tennis after the 2024 season and started coaching Karen Khachanov.

Style of play Donskoy has very powerful, flat groundstrokes, especially his forehand, which can produce spectacular points but also a lot of unforced errors.

ATP Challenger Tour finals

Singles: 21 (12 titles, 9 runner-ups) LegendATP Challenger Tour (12–9)Finals by surfaceHard (10–7)Clay (2–1)Grass (0–1)Carpet (0–0)

Doubles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups) LegendATP Challenger Tour (3–2)Finals by surfaceHard (3–0)Clay (0–1)Grass (0–1)Carpet (0–0)

ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 7 (4 titles, 3 runner-ups) LegendITF Futures/WTT (4–3)Finals by surfaceHard (2–3)Clay (2–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)

Doubles: 6 (2 titles, 4 runner-ups) LegendITF Futures (2–4)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (1–3)Grass (0–0)Carpet (1–1)

Performance timeline

Current through the 2022 Australian Open.

Singles

Doubles

National representation

Davis Cup (5–6)

Group membershipWorld Group (0–0)WG Play-off (0–3)Group I (5–3)Group II (0–0)Group III (0–0)Group IV (0–0)Matches by surfaceHard (5–6)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)Matches by TypeSingles (3–4)Doubles (2–2) indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, and the court surface.

ATP Cup (0–2) Matches by surfaceHard (0–2)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0) Matches by typeSingles (0–0)Doubles (0–2)

Wins over top 10 players

Record against top 10 players Donskoy's match record against those who have been ranked in the top 10. Players who have been No. 1 are in boldface.

As of 21 July 2021

Mikhail Youzhny 2–1 Marcos Baghdatis 1–0 Roger Federer 1–0 Stefanos Tsitsipas 1–0 Jürgen Melzer 1–1 Lucas Pouille 1–1 Tommy Robredo 1–1 David Ferrer 1–2 John Isner 1–2 James Blake 0–1 Mardy Fish 0–1 Richard Gasquet 0–1 David Goffin 0–1 Tommy Haas 0–1 Lleyton Hewitt 0–1 Andy Murray 0–1 Milos Raonic 0–1 Gilles Simon 0–1 Dominic Thiem 0–1 Pablo Carreño Busta 0–2 Kei Nishikori 0–2 Alexander Zverev 0–2 Marin Čilić 0–3 Kevin Anderson 0–5

Team titles 2021 Davis Cup winner with Russia ATP Cup winner with Russia

Awards 2019 The Russian Cup in the nomination Team of the Year