Alexander Donski (; born 1 August 1998) is a Bulgarian tennis player.
Donski has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 563 achieved on 13 January 2020 and a career high doubles ranking of No. 424 achieved on 18 November 2019.
Donski made his ATP main draw debut at the 2018 Diema Xtra Sofia Open, receiving a wildcard into both the singles and doubles tournament.
YouTube
Alexander is known for his YouTube channel called Operation Liftoff with Lazar Dokov, his cousin and fellow professional player/coach.
The duo travel Europe to play in futures tournaments in a vlog style of video.
They showcase the life an ITF Junior has to endure to succeed.
The channel has nearly 5000 subscribers.
Junior career
Donski reached a career high ITF junior ranking of 92 on 24 October 2016.He has compiled a Win/Loss record of 50-39 in Singles and 33-40 in Doubles.
Professional career
Donski turned professional in 2017 and finished the year ranked No. 1578 in the ATP singles rankings.
By the end of 2018 Donski jumped 147 places to finish the 2018 season ranked No. 1431 in the ATP Singles rankings while finishing the year ranked 1061 in the ATP Doubles rankings.
In singles, his breakthrough on the ITF Futures circuit came in 2019, when he reached the final of the Bulgaria F1 Futures, losing in a narrow three-set match against Turk Altuğ Çelikbilek.
After reaching two Futures Singles finals Donski finally won his first professional singles title at the South Africa F2 Futures beating Frenchman Arthur Cazaux 7-6(3), 6-7(5), 7-6(6).
With a couple of more good runs in Futures tournaments, Donski reached a career high ATP ranking of No. 563 in singles on 13 January 2020.
In doubles, Donski has thus far won two Futures tournaments at the M15 Telavi 04A and the South Africa F2 Futures.
He reached his career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 424 on 18 November 2019.
Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals
Singles: 4 (1–3)
Doubles: 10 (5–5)
Davis Cup
Alexander Donski debuted for the Bulgaria Davis Cup team in 2019.
Since then he has 3 nominations with 2 ties played, his singles W/L record is 1–0 and doubles W/L record is 0–1 (1–1 overall).
Singles (1–0)
Doubles (0–1)
RPO = Relegation Play–off
PPO = Promotion Play–off
RR = Round Robin
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