Oscar needs to start producing now. Nikitin has played 3 ITF events this year, beating 3 unranked players and losing to 3 world ranked players. He is 19 and reached a career high of 660 in juniors. He played his first ITF in 2003 and has played 16 tournaments, as yet failng to qualify for a main draw, although he did gain a wildcard into Ukraine F3 last year, losing in the first round to Eric Scherer. Nikitin has spent 4 years playing ITF's every now and then and has never gained a ranking point. Will be very disappointing if Oscar doesn't win this match.
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