Early career Ten began skating at an open-air rink in
Almaty in winter and later practiced at an indoor rink in a shopping mall. Following the eighth and final Junior Grand Prix event, Ten became the first skater from Kazakhstan to qualify for the ISU Junior Grand Prix Final, for which he was the seventh qualifier. Ten mentioned in interviews that he had landed the quad jump at the end of 2008, but an injury forced him to scale down training of the jump. After he made his Senior debut in the
2009–10 Grand Prix series, where he was assigned to the
2009 Cup of China and the
2009 Skate Canada International. He placed tenth at the 2009 Cup of China with 182.63 points, and seventh at the 2009 Skate Canada scoring 193.33 overall. At the
2010 Four Continents, he earned 70.50 points in the short program, where he placed fourth. He came in fourteenth position in the free skate scoring 102.15 after falling on two of his jumps. He finished tenth with a combined score of 172.65 points. At the
2010 Winter Olympics, Ten received a score of 76.24 points in the short program, placing tenth. He was fourteenth in the free skate with 135.01 points to finish eleventh overall with a total score of 211.25. At Skate America, he also placed sixth in the short program but dropped to 11th overall after the long program. Ten won the gold medal at the
2011 Asian Winter Games with a first place in the short program and third in the long.
2011–2012 season Ten was assigned to
2011 Skate America and
2011 Skate Canada International.
2012–2013 season Ten placed 6th at
2012 Skate Canada International, 9th at
2012 Rostelecom Cup and 12th at the
2013 Four Continents Championships. Later he explained that he had a series of injuries during the earlier part of the season, which prevented him from performing to his capacity. In June 2013, Carroll and Ten moved to the Toyota Sports Center in
El Segundo, California. In February 2014, Ten competed at the
2014 Winter Olympics in
Sochi. He placed ninth in the short program, third in the free skate, and won the bronze medal
2015–2016 season Ten planned to start the season at the
2015 Skate Canada Autumn Classic, but had to withdraw due to an injury. Ten withdrew from the
2016 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, again due to an injury. After that, he placed 2nd at the 2016
Coupe du Printemps competition with a new free skating program,
Romeo and Juliet. At the competition, he attempted a
quad salchow jump in his free skating.
2016–2017 season Ten withdrew from the
2016 Skate America. He placed tenth at the
Asian Winter Games, and ended the season with a sixteenth-place finish at the
World Championships. During this season, Ten mainly worked with
Nikolai Morozov.
2018–2019 season According to
Lori Nichol, Ten had a plan to create his short program with her in Toronto at the end of July. He was going to reuse his free skating from the 2017–2018 season, after rearranging it in the updated ISU format (30 seconds shorter) with
David Wilson. ==Personal life==