![]() Skatov at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships | |
Full name | Timofey Dmitriyevich Skatov |
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Country (sports) | ![]() |
Residence | Valencia, Spain |
Born | Petropavl, Kazakhstan | 21 January 2001
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Turned pro | 2019 |
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
Coach | José Francisco Altur |
Prize money | US $563,220 |
Singles | |
Career record | 6–6 (50.0% in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup) |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 123 (18 September 2023) |
Current ranking | No. 273 (18 March 2024) |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open | 1R (2022) |
French Open | 1R (2023) |
Wimbledon | Q1 (2023) |
US Open | 1R (2023) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 0–1 (0% in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup) |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 627 (17 July 2023) |
Current ranking | No. 881 (15 January 2024) |
Last updated on: 20 March 2024. |
Timofey Dmitriyevich Skatov (Russian: Тимофей Дмитриевич Скатов; born 21 January 2001) is a Kazakhstani tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 123, achieved on 18 September 2023 and No. 627 in doubles, achieved on 17 July 2023. Skatov had a career-high ITF junior combined ranking of No. 1 achieved on 1 January 2018.[1]
Skatov made his ATP debut at the 2020 Astana Open in Nur-Sultan as a wildcard where he lost to Emil Ruusuvuori.
In June 2021, he reached his first Challenger final as a wildcard in Almaty where he lost to Zizou Bergs.
He won his first ATP match also as a wildcard at the 2021 Astana Open in Kazakhstan defeating Andreas Seppi.[2][3]
Skatov made his first Grand Slam main draw appearance after successfully making it all the way through in the 2022 Australian Open qualifications, defeating Hugo Grenier, Dane Sweeny, and Gastão Elias.[4] He lost in the first round to Slovakian qualifier Norbert Gombos.[5]
He reached his second Challenger final as an alternate at the 2022 Parma Challenger and won the title. As a result, he moved 57 positions up and reached a new career-high just outside the top 150 at No. 152 on 10 October 2022.[6]
He reached the top 125 on 13 February 2023 after making the Concepción final in January, losing against Federico Coria.
He made his French Open main draw debut after defeating Gabriel Diallo, Otto Virtanen and Felipe Meligeni Alves, where he lost against Grigor Dimitrov in the first round. [7] He also made his debut at the US Open defeating James Duckworth in the last round of the qualifying competition.
Skatov was born in Petropavl, Kazakhstan to Russian parents, and moved to Tula, Russia at the age of 1. He represented Russia internationally from 2015 to 2018.[8] In May 2018, Skatov switched nationalities to represent his birth country, Kazakhstan. He lives in Valencia and has been training at the Lozano Altur Tennis Academy in Valencia since 2017. [9]
W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |
Current through the 2023 French Open
Tournament | 2022 | 2023 | SR | W–L | Win % | |||
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Grand Slam tournaments | ||||||||
Australian Open | 1R | Q2 | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% | |||
French Open | Q2 | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% | |||
Wimbledon | A | Q1 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |||
US Open | A | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% | |||
Win–loss | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0 / 3 | 0–3 | 0% | |||
Year-end ranking | 146 | 222 |
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Loss | 0–1 | Jun 2021 | Almaty Challenger, Kazakhstan | Challenger | Clay | ![]() |
6–4, 3–6, 2–6 |
Win | 1–1 | Oct 2022 | Parma Challenger, Italy | Challenger | Clay | ![]() |
7–5, 6–7(2–7), 6–4 |
Loss | 1–2 | Jan 2023 | Challenger Concepción, Chile | Challenger | Clay | ![]() |
4–6, 3–6 |
Win | 2–2 | May 2024 | Schwaben Open, Germany | Challenger | Clay | ![]() |
3–6, 7–5, 6–3 |
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Loss | 0–1 | Jul 2019 | M25 Dénia, Spain | WTT | Clay | ![]() |
4–6, 3–6 |
Loss | 0–2 | Sep 2019 | M15 Melilla, Spain | WTT | Clay | ![]() |
5–7, 4–6 |
Win | 1–2 | Jan 2020 | M15 Antalya, Turkey | WTT | Clay | ![]() |
6–3, 4–6, 6–3 |
Win | 2–2 | Sep 2020 | M15 Bucharest, Romania | WTT | Clay | ![]() |
6–4, 6–4 |
Win | 3–2 | Sep 2020 | M15 Melilla, Spain | WTT | Clay | ![]() |
3–6, 6–0, 6–1 |