Timofey Dmitriyevich Skatov (; born 21 January 2001) is a Kazakh

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player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 123, achieved on 11 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. He is the current No. 4 Kazakh player.

Professional career

2020-21: ATP debut & first win, First Challenger final, Top 250

Skatov made his ATP debut at the 2020 Astana Open in Nur-Sultan as a wildcard where he lost to

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. In June 2021, he reached his first Challenger final as a wildcard in

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where he lost to

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. He won his first ATP match also as a wildcard at the

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in Kazakhstan defeating

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2022: Major and top 150 debuts, Maiden Challenger title

Skatov made his first Grand Slam main draw appearance after successfully making it all the way through in the 2022 Australian Open qualifications, defeating

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, and

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. He lost in the first round to Slovakian qualifier

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. He won his second Challenger title as an alternate at the 2022 Parma Challenger. 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.

2023-24: Third Challenger final, Top 125 debut

He reached the top 125 on 13 February 2023 after making the Concepción final in January, losing against

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. He made his

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main draw debut after defeating

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and

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, where he lost against

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in the first round. He also made his debut at the 2023 US Open defeating twelfth seed James Duckworth in the last round of the qualifying competition. In May 2024, he won his second Challenger title at the 2024 Schwaben Open with a win over

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and returned to the top 200 in the rankings at No. 199 on 27 May 2024. Ranked No. 189, he qualified for the main draw of the 2024 US Open for a second consecutive year defeating seventh seed Billy Harris in the last round of the qualifying competition.

Personal life

Skatov was born in

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, Kazakhstan to Russian parents, and moved to

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at the age of 1. He represented Russia internationally from 2015 to 2018. In May 2018, Skatov switched nationalities to represent his birth country,

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. He lives in

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and has been training at the Lozano Altur Tennis Academy in Valencia since 2017.

Performance Timeline

''Current through the

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ATP Challenger Tour finals

Singles: 5 (2 titles, 3 runner-ups)

ITF World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups)

References

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