[Helevorn]

http://www.okstate.com/sports/m-tenn...eksandr00.html

I have been quite surprised about Nedovyesov in the last weeks, actually. 25 years old, reached two times the R2 of a Challenger tournament in his whole career until 2012 (Tulsa 2008 def. Yani 7-5 6-4, Tulsa 2010 def. Dent 6-4 3-0 ret.) plus a QF in Kiev 2005 (def. Sitak 6-7 6-3 5-1 ret., def. Labadze w/o), played no Challenger tournaments between 2010 and 2012, ranked 1498 in February, 601 in May, 302 in August.

His 2012 results:
Penza
R1 lost against Marchenko 2-6 6-1 6-7
Astana
R1 def. F. Martin 6-4 7-6
R2 def. Stebe 7-6 5-7 6-4
QF lost against Donskoy 7-6 4-6 4-6
Samarkand
R1 def. Baluda 6-0 6-1
R2 def. Klein 6-3 6-4
QF def. G. Melzer 6-4 7-6
SF lost against Lajovic 3-6 4-6

Does anyone know him? .

[The Bulldog]

He was a good college player, I believe. If he's good enough, looks like it from what we've seen, his reasonably advanced age (for a newcomer) won't be a problem as he'll climb the rankings extremely quickly.

Serve and volleyer, too.

[v-money]

He actually made the QF of Kiev Challenger in 2005.

I've never seen him play but I know that he played college tennis in Oklahoma State University. So, maybe the poster that follow college tennis like out_here_grindin, skome944, Ozone, or others, can fill us in.

[Helevorn]

Originally Posted by v-money

He actually made the QF of Kiev Challenger in 2005.

I'm sorry, I read them as if they were qualification matches .

[SKozak]

Oleksandr was considered as a very promising player in 2005-2006 years in Ukraine, but then his father preferred to direct him to the OSU and he was a good student and player a few years in USA. After graduating and returning to Ukraine, firstly I guessed he retire from prof tennis, but after some pause he has started to play futures in the first half of the year (he has 4 won finals) and recently entered a challenger circle. Some people still consider him as a potential top 100 player in spite of his age...

[out_here_grindin]

Nedovyesov was a very good college player at Oklahoma State(their last good player before that program went into the tubes). He was always a top 5 player. He was taken to the cleaners by Brugues-Davi(who played for rival Tulsa) a few times so I never really thought much of him until his results started to get consistent in the pros. I have never actually seen him play, so I can't comment on his style.

[Sanya]

My friend told me about this guy, he said that with the level Sasha had shown on the last few monthes TOP-200 is very realistic goal. As I understood he is no way a pusher - try to dictate game with his forehand, prefer hard to clay. Well, I hope to watch his game by myself with the first opportunity appeared. New face, may be intresting.

[Helevorn]

Thank you all for the info!

Tomorrow he plays seed #1 Kunitsyn and he really has a chance to play his third QF in a row, considering that some days ago in Samarkand Kunitsyn lost 6-1 6-2 against G. Melzer and Nedovyesov gave Melzer a 6-4 7-6 in the same week.

So far he's already largely into the top-300.

[The Bulldog]

His gamestyle might get him so far, it's intimidating and effective on the lower levels of the challenger tour, and at futures level. However most of the guys in the early 100s and above, who will contest for the bigger challenger titles, have really solid groundies and can pick off net rushers. Obviously there's a novelty factor, but I want to see a bit of a baseline game developed, and then he can go places.

[SKozak]

Nedovyesov's 2012 challenger tour results:

Penza
R1 lost against Marchenko 2-6 6-1 6-7(4) (Marchenko is eventual winner)
Astana
R1 def. F. Martin 6-4 7-6(4)
R2 def. Stebe 7-6(4) 5-7 6-4
QF lost against Donskoy 7-6(6) 4-6 4-6 (Donskoy is eventual winner)
Samarkand
R1 def. Baluda 6-0 6-1
R2 def. Klein 6-3 6-4
QF def. G. Melzer 6-4 7-6(7)
SF lost against Lajovic 3-6 4-6 (Lajovic is eventual winner)
Karshi
R1 def. Dustov 4-6 6-1 6-0
R2 lost against Kunitsyn 6-7(2) 4-6 (Kunitsyn is eventual winner)
Brasov
R1 lost against Haider-Maurer 5-7 4-6 (HM is eventual winner)
Seville
R1 Nedovyesov def Machado 7-5 ret'd
R2 Nedovyesov def Mertens 6-4 3-6 7-6(5)
QF ON lost against Cervantes 1-6 6-7(1)
Szczecin
Was ill and lost in the 2nd qualifying round
Lermontov
1R Nedovyesov (UKR) def. Radu Albot (MDA) 6-4 6-4
2R Nedovyesov (UKR) def. (3) Horacio Zeballos (ARG) 6-4 6-4
QF Nedovyesov (UKR) def. (q) Yuri Schukin (KAZ) 7-6(3) 6-7(6) 6-2
SF ON lost against Andrey Kuznetsov 7-5 6-7(5) 2-6 (Kuznetsov is eventual winner)

Do you see any regularity? Sooner or later Nedovyesov caught the event winner He is really lucky man these months, isn't?

Olek has nothing to defend from last year, so last months his ranking was:
June - 464 (new career best)
July - 349 (new career best)
August - 282 (new career best)
September - 261 (new career best)
October 1st, 2012 - 227 (new career best)

This week he starts in Mons as a SE