Prep/Personal: Four-year letterwinner for the Patriots of Stevenson...All-North Suburban honoree...IHSA sectional champion in 2007 who then went on to place 8th in the state finals...led his team to a second place finish in his senior campaign...has the second most doubles wins in Stevenson's history...was a semi-finalist at the Ann Arbor Junior Open...born June 21, 1989...son of Aleksey and Nadezhda Shlyakhta...majoring in business.