Alex Lebedev 2017-18 Men's Tennis Roster

HIGHLIGHTS

• 2017 ITA National Summer Champion
• 2017 ITA All-American Championships participant
• 2017 ITA National Fall Championships participant
• 2018 All-ACC Second Team
• 2018 ITA Midwest Region Player to Watch
• 2018 NCAA Singles Championships participant
• 2018 ITA All-American Championships participant
• 2018 ITA Fall Nationals Consolation Champion
• 2019 All-ACC Third Team

AS A SENIOR:

• Posted a 15-10 record in singles competition, including an undefeated (3-0) record in the ACC
• Ranked as high as 15th at singles, earning a bid to the NCAA Individual Tournament in May
• Against ranked opponents he went 8-9, including 5-3 in the fall
• Played on the top court in singles and No. 2 in doubles
• He and partner Axel Nefve posted a 3-3 record on the second court in the spirng and went 5-4 overall in 2018-19
• Won the 2018 ITA Fall National Consolation Championship
• Advanced to the quarterfinals of the ITA All-American Championships with wins over Shane Monroe of LSU and Jake Van Emburgh of Oklahoma
• Named All-ACC Third Team honoree

AS A JUNIOR:

• Won the 2017 ITA National Summer Championship to kickstart a stellar junior campaign
• Earned a wild-card entry into the ITA All-American Championships, where he advanced to the Round of 16
• Also advanced to the Round of 16 at the ITA National Fall Championships
• Turned in a 9-11 record against ranked opponents
• Went 19-14 in singles matches, primarily competing at the No. 1 singles spot
• Added a record of 11-10 in dual singles meets
• Reached a career high singles ranking of No. 28 from Feb. 7-Feb. 20, 2018
• Finished the season ranked No. 40 in the Oracle/ITA Division I Men’s Singles Rankings
• Went 15-12 in doubles, including 10-10 in dual matches
• Partnered with William Howells to tally a doubles record of 8-4, playing No. 2 doubles for the Irish
• Made first career appearance in the NCAA Singles Championship at Wake Forest
• Named to the All-ACC Second Team
• Named the ITA Midwest Region Player to Watch

AS A SOPHOMORE:

• Returned from injury and entered the starting lineup playing mostly in the top half of the singles slate and at No. 2 doubles
• Tied for the team lead in overall singles wins, going 23-17 on the year, including 12-11 in dual play
• Partnered with Matt Gamble to go 17-11 (11-6 dual) in doubles; went 21-13 (12-6) overall
• With Gamble, advanced to the doubles semifinal at the ITA Midwest Regional Championship in October 2016
• Earned a monogram

AS A FRESHMAN:

• Played exclusively during the fall season, missing the spring slate due to injury
• Recorded a 2-4 singles mark and a 3-1 doubles record
• Defeated Tennessee’s Jack Heslin/Igor Smelyanski (8-5), Harvard’s Nicky Hu/Brian Yeung (8-7), and Dartmouth’s Aman Agarwal/Brendan Tannenbaum (8-4) at the Ivy Plus Tournament with partners Grayson Broadus and Drew Dawson
• Recorded a victory against Ricardo Pabon of East Tennessee State at the ITA All-American Championships (6-4, 6-2)

PREP AND PERSONAL:

• Graduated from Laurel Springs High School in June 2015
• A blue-chip recruit according to Tennisrecruiting.net
• Accumulated a 74-24 singles record in ITF and USTA events as a junior
• Reached a high ITF ranking of 167 in January 2015
• Won the prestigious Safina Cup (ITF Grade 4) in Prague
• Played center court at the Kalamazoo B16 and B18 National Championships four times from 2013-15
• Speaks fluent Russian and Spanish
• Son of Alexander Sr. and Yelena Lebedev
• Has an older sister, Julia, who played tennis at Siena College
• Enrolled in the College of Arts & Letters in the Program of Liberal Studies and Film, Television and Theatre.