Timofey Skatov

Timofey Dmitriyevich Skatov (Russian: Тимофей Дмитриевич Скатов; born 21 January 2001) is a Kazakh tennis 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. 3 Kazakh player.

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.

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. He lost in the first round to Slovakian qualifier Norbert Gombos.

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.

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

He made his 2023 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. He also made his debut at the 2023 US Open defeating twelfth seed James Duckworth in the last round of the qualifying competition. He lost to another Australian Alex de Minaur in the first round in four sets.