Denys Molchanov

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Ukrainian tennis player

Gender:

Male

Places:

Moldova Ukraine

Is:

Athlete Tennis player

Work field:

Sports

Birth:

16 May 1987(Chișinău, Moldova)

Star sign:

Taurus

Residences

Kiev, Ukraine

The details

Biography

Introduction

Denys Petrovych Molchanov (Ukrainian: Денис Петрович Молчанов) (born 16 May 1987) is a Ukrainian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 5 January 2015 he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 169, whilst his highest doubles ranking of 63 was reached on 22 July 2019. He also played for the Ukraine Davis Cup team.

In February 2015, he faced allegations of match-fixing after suspicious betting patterns and unforced errors were noticed during a defeat to Agustín Velotti.

ATP career finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Titles by setting
Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (0–1)
Titles by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Titles by setting
Outdoor (0–1)
Indoor (0–0)
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (0–1)
Hard (0–0)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Outdoor (0–1)
Indoor (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss		Jul 2018	Swiss Open, Switzerland	250 Series	Clay	Igor Zelenay	Matteo Berrettini Daniele Bracciali	6–7, 6–7

Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 26 (15–11)

Titles by Surface
Legend (Singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)
ITF Futures Tour (15–11)
Titles by Surface
Hard (13–8)
Clay (2–3)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)
ITF Futures Tour (15–11)
Hard (13–8)
Clay (2–3)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	Jun 2008	Ukraine F2, Cherkassy	Futures	Clay	Luca Vanni	4–6, 3–6
Loss	Jun 2008	Ukraine F3, Illichevsk	Futures	Clay	Evgeny Donskoy	7–6, 6–7, 4–6
Win	May 2009	Poland F2, Kraków	Futures	Clay	Błażej Koniusz	6–3, 6–2
Loss	Sep 2009	Turkey F9, Istanbul	Futures	Hard	Uladzimir Ignatik	2–6, 2–6
Loss	May 2010	Uzbekistan F2, Namangan	Futures	Hard	Alexander Kudryavtsev	4–6, 4–6
Loss	Jun 2010	Slovenia F2, Rogaška Slatina	Futures	Clay	Nikola Mektić	3–6, 2–4 ret.
Loss	Oct 2010	Turkey F11, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Radu Albot	3–6, 6–4, 5–7
Loss	Feb 2011	Turkey F5, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Cedrik-Marcel Stebe	4–6, 3–6
Win	May 2011	Turkey F17, Adana	Futures	Clay	Carlos Calderón Rodríguez	6–3, 6–0
Win	May 2011	Turkey F18, Samsun	Futures	Hard	Alexandre Folie	7–5, 7–6
Win	May 2011	Turkey F19, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Paris Gemouchidis	6–0, 7–5
Loss	Aug 2011	Kazakhstan F4, Almaty	Futures	Hard	Malek Jaziri	3–6, 2–6
Loss	Oct 2012	Kazakhstan F8, Almaty	Futures	Hard (i)	Marcin Gawron	5–7, 4–6
Win	Oct 2012	Kazakhstan F9, Astana	Futures	Hard (i)	Alexander Rumyantsev	6–4, 6–4
Win	Mar 2014	Russia F2, Yoshkar-Ola	Futures	Hard (i)	Mikhail Biryukov	6–4, 6–0
Win	Apr 2014	Uzbekistan F2, Namangan	Futures	Hard	Volodymyr Uzhylovskyi	6–3, 7–6
Win	May 2014	Uzbekistan F3, Andijan	Futures	Hard	Richard Muzaev	6–1, 6–2
Win	Jun 2014	Ukraine F8, Petrovske	Futures	Hard	Vladyslav Manafov	6–1, 2–0 ret.
Win	Jun 2014	Ukraine F9, Petrovske	Futures	Hard	Sébastien Boltz	7–5, 6–2
Win	Aug 2014	Kazakhstan F9, Astana	Futures	Hard	Chen Ti	6–3, 6–4
Win	Jun 2015	Uzbekistan F3, Andijan	Futures	Hard	Nikola Milojević	2–6, 7–6, 6–4
Win	Aug 2015	Belarus F1, Minsk	Futures	Hard	Egor Gerasimov	6–4, 7–5
Win	Nov 2015	Egypt F40, Sharm El Sheikh	Futures	Hard	Aldin Šetkić	4–6, 6–4, 6–2
Loss	Nov 2015	Egypt F41, Sharm El Sheikh	Futures	Hard	Aldin Šetkić	2–6, 3–6
Win	Dec 2015	Egypt F42, Sharm El Sheikh	Futures	Hard	Mikołaj Jędruszczak	6–1, 6–2
Loss	Feb 2018	Kazakhstan F1, Aktobe	Futures	Hard (i)	Mikhail Fufygin	6–4, 3–6, 4–6

Doubles: 85 (57–28)

Titles by Surface
Legend (Doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (27–16)
ITF Futures Tour (30–12)
Titles by Surface
Hard (37–16)
Clay (19–12)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (1–0)
ATP Challenger Tour (27–16)
ITF Futures Tour (30–12)
Hard (37–16)
Clay (19–12)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (1–0)

Result	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	May 2006	Ukraine F1, Illyichevsk	Futures	Clay	Alexandr Dolgopolov	Bastian Knittel Alexander Satschko	4–6, 3–6
Loss	Jul 2006	Romania F10, Focșani	Futures	Clay	Bogdan-Victor Leonte	Teodor-Dacian Crăciun Victor Ioniță	6–7, 5–7
Win	Aug 2006	Romania F15, Craiova	Futures	Clay	Oleksandr Nedovyesov	Cătălin-Ionuț Gârd Marcel-Ioan Miron	6–4, 6–1
Win	Aug 2006	Romania F15, Arad	Futures	Clay	Oleksandr Nedovyesov	Adrian Cruciat Marcel-Ioan Miron	6–4, 6–2
Win	Jun 2007	Ukraine F1, Cherkassy	Futures	Clay	Andrei Gorban	Sergey Betov Vladyslav Klymenko	5–7, 6–3, 6–2
Win	Aug 2007	Russia F4, Moscow	Futures	Clay	Alexander Krasnorutskiy	Artem Sitak Dmitri Sitak	6–4, 6–2
Loss	Sep 2007	Russia F7, Balashikha	Futures	Clay	Vladyslav Klymenko	Mikhail Elgin Vladimir Karusevich	6–7, 6–4, [8–10]
Loss	Dec 2007	Israel F5, Ramat HaSharon	Futures	Hard	Sergey Betov	Amir Hadad Harel Levy	7–6, 4–6, [3–10]
Win	Jan 2008	Portugal F1, Albufeira	Futures	Hard	Érik Chvojka	Bas van der Valk Boy Westerhof	6–4, 5–7, [14–12]
Win	Mar 2008	Ivory Coast F2, Abidjan	Futures	Hard	Boy Westerhof	Ivan Anikanov Alexander Satschko	7–6, 7–6
Win	Jun 2008	Ukraine F2, Cherkassy	Futures	Clay	Artem Smirnov	Ilya Belyaev Sergei Krotiouk	7–6, 6–4
Win	Jun 2008	Ukraine F3, Illichevsk	Futures	Clay	Artem Smirnov	Evgeny Donskoy Victor Kozin	6–3, 6–7, [12–10]
Loss	Aug 2008	Russia F4, Moscow	Futures	Clay	Alexander Krasnorutskiy	Alexandr Dolgopolov Artem Smirnov	0–6, 6–3, [8–10]
Win	Aug 2008	Almaty, Kazakhstan	Challenger	Clay	Alexander Krasnorutskiy	Syrym Abdukhalikov Alex Bogomolov Jr.	3–6, 6–3, [10–2]
Loss	Nov 2008	United Arab Emirates F1, Dubai	Futures	Hard	Alexey Kedryuk	Marco Chiudinelli Ivo Klec	1–6, 6–2, [6–10]
Win	Nov 2008	United Arab Emirates F2, Fujairah	Futures	Hard	Ivan Sergeyev	Thomas Kromann Filip Prpic	2–6, 7–5, [10–5]
Loss	May 2009	Poland F2, Kraków	Futures	Clay	Uladzimir Ignatik	Martin Emmrich Hans Podlipnik Castillo	4–6, 6–7
Win	May 2009	Slovenia F3, Koper	Futures	Clay	Milos Raonic	Roman Jebavý David Novák	7–5, 5–7, [10–5]
Win	Aug 2009	Almaty, Kazakhstan	Challenger	Hard	Yang Tsung-hua	Pierre-Ludovic Duclos Alexey Kedryuk	4–6, 7–6, [11–9]
Loss	Sep 2009	Turkey F8, Istanbul	Futures	Hard	Pavel Šnobel	Alexey Kedryuk Junn Mitsuhashi	6–2, 3–6, [8–10]
Loss	Sep 2009	Turkey F9, Istanbul	Futures	Hard	Pavel Šnobel	Alexey Kedryuk Junn Mitsuhashi	3–6, 6–7
Loss	Mar 2010	Kazakhstan F2, Almaty	Futures	Hard (i)	Alexey Kedryuk	Evgeny Kirillov Alexander Kudryavtsev	5–7, 4–6
Win	Apr 2010	Uzbekistan F1, Andijan	Futures	Hard	Alexander Kudryavtsev	Mikhail Elgin Alexey Kedryuk	6–2, 6–1
Loss	Aug 2010	Saransk, Russia	Challenger	Clay	Artem Smirnov	Ilya Belyaev Mikhail Elgin	6–3, 6–7, [9–11]
Win	Oct 2010	Turkey F11, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Kamil Čapkovič	Barış Ergüden Philip Orno	6–4, 7–6
Win	Jan 2011	Turkey F1, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Artem Smirnov	Marin Draganja Dino Marcan	6–2, 6–2
Win	Feb 2011	Turkey F4, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Sergey Betov	Michal Konečný Ruan Roelofse	6–4, 6–1
Win	Mar 2011	Turkey F8, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Radu Albot	Roman Jebavý Adrian Sikora	6–7, 6–3, [12–10]
Loss	May 2011	Turkey F16, Tarsus	Futures	Clay	Mikhail Vasiliev	Carlos Calderón Rodríguez Marc Giner	w/o
Win	May 2011	Turkey F18, Samsun	Futures	Hard	Andrei Ciumac	Sam Barry Barry King	7–6, 2–6, [10–8]
Win	May 2011	Turkey F19, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Andrei Ciumac	Daniel Glancy Barry King	7–5, 7–6
Win	Jun 2011	Spain F20, Martos	Futures	Hard	Harri Heliövaara	Ilya Belyaev Steven Diez	6–3, 6–4
Loss	Jul 2011	Pozoblanco, Spain	Challenger	Hard	Illya Marchenko	Mikhail Elgin Alexander Kudryavtsev	w/o
Win	Jul 2011	Astana, Kazakhstan	Challenger	Hard (i)	Konstantin Kravchuk	Arnau Brugués Davi Malek Jaziri	7–6, 6–7, [10–3]
Win	Aug 2011	Kazakhstan F5, Astana	Futures	Hard	Roman Jebavý	Vitali Reshetnikov Ilia Starkov	6–4, 6–4
Loss	Aug 2011	Karshi, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Konstantin Kravchuk	Mikhail Elgin Alexander Kudryavtsev	6–3, 3–6, [9–11]
Loss	Aug 2011	Astana, Kazakhstan	Challenger	Hard (i)	Harri Heliövaara	Karan Rastogi Vishnu Vardhan	6–7, 6–2, [8–10]
Win	Sep 2011	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Harri Heliövaara	John Paul Fruttero Raven Klaasen	7–6, 7–6
Win	Apr 2012	Mersin, Turkey	Challenger	Clay	Radu Albot	Alessandro Motti Simone Vagnozzi	6–0, 6–2
Loss	Jul 2012	Braunschweig, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Harri Heliövaara	Tomasz Bednarek Mateusz Kowalczyk	5–7, 7–6, [8–10]
Win	Jul 2012	Astana, Kazakhstan	Challenger	Hard (i)	Konstantin Kravchuk	Karol Beck Kamil Čapkovič	6–4, 6–3
Win	Aug 2012	Pozoblanco, Spain	Challenger	Hard	Konstantin Kravchuk	Adrian Mannarino Maxime Teixeira	6–3, 6–3
Win	Sep 2012	Lermontov, Russia	Challenger	Clay	Konstantin Kravchuk	Andrey Golubev Yuriy Schukin	6–3, 6–4
Win	Oct 2012	Kazakhstan F8, Almaty	Futures	Hard (i)	Jaan-Frederik Brunken	Marcin Gawron Andriej Kapaś	3–6, 6–0, [10–7]
Loss	Nov 2012	Tyumen, Russia	Challenger	Hard (i)	Konstantin Kravchuk	Ivo Klec Andreas Siljeström	3–6, 2–6
Win	Apr 2013	Savannah, USA	Challenger	Clay	Teymuraz Gabashvili	Michael Russell Tim Smyczek	6–2, 7–5
Loss	Feb 2014	Bergamo, Italy	Challenger	Hard (i)	Konstantin Kravchuk	Karol Beck Michal Mertiňák	6–4, 5–7, [6–10]
Win	Mar 2014	Russia F2, Yoshkar-Ola	Futures	Hard (i)	Mikhail Biryukov	Denis Matsukevitch Stanislav Vovk	7–6, 6–7, [10–5]
Win	May 2014	Uzbekistan F3, Andijan	Futures	Hard	Denis Matsukevitch	Daniiar Duldaev Volodymyr Uzhylovskyi	7–5, 7–5
Win	Jun 2014	Ukraine F9, Petrovske	Futures	Hard	Sergei Bubka	Olexiy Kolisnyk Alexander Lebedyn	6–3, 6–2
Win	Nov 2014	Brescia, Italy	Challenger	Carpet (i)	Illya Marchenko	Roman Jebavý Błażej Koniusz	7–6, 6–3
Win	Feb 2015	Dallas, USA	Challenger	Hard (i)	Andrey Rublev	Hans Hach Luis Patiño	6–4, 7–6
Win	Jun 2015	Uzbekistan F3, Andijan	Futures	Hard	Denis Matsukevitch	Markos Kalovelonis Shonigmatjon Shofayziyev	3–6, 7–6, [14–12]
Loss	Jun 2015	Fergana, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Franko Škugor	Sergey Betov Mikhail Elgin	3–6, 5–7
Win	Aug 2015	Astana, Kazakhstan	Challenger	Hard	Konstantin Kravchuk	Chung Yun-seong Jurabek Karimov	6–2, 6–2
Win	Aug 2015	Segovia, Spain	Challenger	Hard	Alexander Kudryavtsev	Alexander Bury Andreas Siljeström	6–2, 6–4
Win	Sep 2015	Russia F7, Vsevolozhsk	Futures	Clay	Yaraslav Shyla	Alexander Bublik Richard Muzaev	6–2, 7–6
Loss	Sep 2015	İzmir, Turkey	Challenger	Hard	Malek Jaziri	Saketh Myneni Divij Sharan	6–7, 6–4, [1–0] ret.
Win	Oct 2015	Ağrı, Turkey	Challenger	Hard	Konstantin Kravchuk	Alexander Igoshin Yaraslav Shyla	6–3, 7–6
Win	Nov 2015	Suzhou, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Lee Hsin-han	Gong Maoxin Peng Hsien-yin	3–6, 7–6, [10–4]
Loss	Jan 2016	Happy Valley, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Aleksandr Nedovyesov	Matteo Donati Andrey Golubev	6–3, 6–7, [1–10]
Win	Mar 2016	Guangzhou, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Alexander Kudryavtsev	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	6–2, 6–2
Win	Apr 2016	Ra'anana, Israel	Challenger	Hard	Konstantin Kravchuk	Jonathan Erlich Philipp Oswald	4–6, 7–6, [10–4]
Loss	Apr 2016	Nanjing, China, P.R.	Challenger	Clay	Aleksandr Nedovyesov	Saketh Myneni Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	3–6, 3–6
Loss	May 2016	Anning, China, P.R.	Challenger	Clay	Aleksandr Nedovyesov	Bai Yan Riccardo Ghedin	6–4, 3–6, [6–10]
Win	Oct 2016	Ukraine F5, Kiev	Futures	Hard	Igor Karpovets	Oleg Prihodko Daniil Zarichanskyy	6–4, 6–3
Loss	Mar 2017	Wrocław, Poland	Challenger	Hard (i)	Mikhail Elgin	Adil Shamasdin Andrei Vasilevski	3–6, 6–3, [19–21]
Win	Mar 2017	Egypt F9, Sharm El Sheikh	Futures	Hard	Artem Smirnov	Lloyd Harris Nicolaas Scholtz	w/o
Win	Mar 2017	Egypt F10, Sharm El Sheikh	Futures	Hard	Artem Smirnov	Gijs Brouwer Jelle Sels	6–1, 6–2
Win	May 2017	Karshi, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Sergiy Stakhovsky	Kevin Krawietz Adrián Menéndez Maceiras	6–4, 7–6
Loss	Jun 2017	Caltanissetta, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Franko Škugor	James Cerretani Max Schnur	3–6, 6–3, [6–10]
Loss	Sep 2017	Ukraine F4, Kiev	Futures	Clay	Vladyslav Manafov	Artem Smirnov Volodymyr Uzhylovskyi	5–7, 2–6
Win	Sep 2017	Ukraine F5, Kremenchuk	Futures	Clay	Vladyslav Manafov	Dmytro Kamynin Daniil Zarichanskyy	5–7, 6–4, [10–8]
Loss	Sep 2017	İzmir, Turkey	Challenger	Hard	Sergiy Stakhovsky	Scott Clayton Jonny O'Mara	w/o
Win	Feb 2018	Kazakhstan F2, Shymkent	Futures	Hard (i)	Vladyslav Manafov	Vladimir Ivanov Evgenii Tiurnev	7–6, 3–6, [10–6]
Win	Mar 2018	Zhuhai, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Igor Zelenay	Aliaksandr Bury Peng Hsien-yin	7–5, 7–6
Loss	Mar 2018	Shenzhen, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Igor Zelenay	Hsieh Cheng-peng Rameez Junaid	6–7, 3–6
Win	Apr 2018	Barletta, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Igor Zelenay	Ariel Behar Máximo González	6–1, 6–2
Win	Apr 2018	Tunis, Tunisia	Challenger	Clay	Igor Zelenay	Jonathan Eysseric Joe Salisbury	7–6, 6–2
Win	Jun 2018	Prostějov, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Igor Zelenay	Pablo Cuevas Martín Cuevas	4–6, 6–3, [10–7]
Win	Aug 2018	Cordenons, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Igor Zelenay	Andrej Martin Daniel Muñoz de la Nava	3–6, 6–3, [11–9]
Win	Nov 2018	Bratislava, Slovakia	Challenger	Hard (i)	Igor Zelenay	Ramkumar Ramanathan Andrei Vasilevski	6–2, 3–6, [11–9]
Win	Apr 2019	Barletta, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Igor Zelenay	Tomislav Brkić Tomislav Draganja	7–6, 6–4
Win	Apr 2019	Francavilla, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Igor Zelenay	Guillermo Durán David Vega Hernández	6–3, 6–2
Win	Jan 2020	Bendigo, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Nikola Cacic	Marcelo Arevalo Jonny O'Mara	7–6, 6–4