Evgeny Donskoy

Started to play tennis with his father, Evgeny, who gave him is his first racket aged seven…His father is a businessman and mother, Irina, is a businesswoman…Has two older brothers, Grigory, who works in a factory and Maxim, who has a start-up company…Idol growing was Yevgeny Kafelnikov…Favourite surface is hard court and favourite shot  is forehand…Hobbies include football (supports Chelsea and Dynamo) and ice-hockey (supports Dynamo and SKA St. Petersburg), music and hanging out with friends.

2012 -- The Moscow native put together his most successful Challenger season with a 39-17 match record and 4 titles in 5 finals...Won titles on clay in Meknes (d. Ungur) in February and on hard courts in Astana (d. Ilhan) in July, Segovia (d. Olivetti) in August and Loughborough (d.Struff) in November. Also runner-up at Penza (l. to Marchenko) in July...Played in 4 ATP World Tour tournaments and lost in 1R in Barcelona (l. to Stakhovsky), Belgrade (l. to Lajovic), St. Petersburg (l. to Garcia-Lopez) and Moscow (l. to Roger-Vasselin)...Tried to qualify in his 1st Grand Slam tournament at Australian Open, Roland Garros and Wimbledon but lost in 1R in each...Earned a career-high $112,576...

2011 -- Reached 2 Challenger finals, both as a qualifier, claiming title in Casablanca. Also reached 2 SF and 3 QF...

2010 -- Qualified into 2 ATP events, and earned 1st career match win in St. Petersburg (d. Kuznetsov, l. to Youzhny)...Reached 2 Challenger SF and 1 Futures final

2009 -- Made ATP main draw debut in Zagreb as a qualifier...Reached 2 Challenger QF...

2008 -- Won 1st career Futures title at event in Ukraine...Closed season with QF at Helsinki Challenger...

2013

The Russian beat compatriot Youzhny in Australian Open 2nd RD, before losing to Nishikori in 3rd RD…