Aleksa "Alex" Bogdanovic

Country	United Kingdom
Residence	London, England, UK
Date of birth	May 22, 1984 (1984-05-22) (age 23)
Place of birth	Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	74 kg (163 lb)
Turned Pro	2002
Retired	Active
Plays	Left-handed
Career Prize Money	$320,033 (USD)
Singles
Career record:	7 - 19
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	108 (June 18, 2007)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	-
French Open	-
Wimbledon	1st (2002-2006)
U.S. Open	1st (2004)
Doubles
Career record:	0 - 2
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	622 (April 9, 2007)
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Aleksa "Alex" Bogdanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Aлeкca Бoгдaнoвић) (born May 22, 1984) is an British tennis player born in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. Alex moved to Britain when he was 7 and took up tennis as a means of making new friends. Serbian Cyrillic is the Serbian variant of the Cyrillic alphabet. ... is the 142nd day of the year (143rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar). ... Arthur Ashe Stadium at Flushing Meadows, New York Tennis is a game played between two players (singles) or between two teams of two players (doubles). ... Location of Belgrade within Serbia Coordinates: Country Serbia District City of Belgrade Municipalities 17 Government  - Mayor Nenad Bogdanović (DS) (since 2004)  - Ruling parties DS/DSS/G17+ Area  - City 3,222. ... Anthem Serbia() on the European continent() Capital (and largest city) Belgrade Official languages Serbian 1 Recognised regional languages Hungarian, Croatian, Slovak, Romanian, Rusyn 2 Albanian 3 Government Semi-presidential republic  -  President Boris Tadić  -  Prime Minister Vojislav KoÅ¡tunica Establishment  -  Formation 9th century   -  First unified state c. ... Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in the Latin alphabet, Југославија in Cyrillic; English: South Slavia) describes three political entities that existed one at a time on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the 20th century. ...

Early career

Juniors

He had a lot of success in juniors for Great Britain, reaching a high of no 8, winning the Uruguay Bowl in Montevideo and reaching the semi-final of the US Junior Open in United States in 2001, the first British player ever to do so. Department Montevideo Department Altitude 43 m Coordinates 34º 53S 56º 10W Founded 1726 Founder Bruno Mauricio de Zabala Population 1,325,968 (2004) (1st) Demonym Montevideano Phone Code +02 Postal Code 10000 Montevideo (IPA: ) is the capital, largest city, and chief port of Uruguay. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...

Early senior career in Britain

He finished runner-up in the U18 national championships in 2001 to Richard Bloomfield and also finished runner-up in the senior national championships that autumn beating top 100 player Martin Lee and British no 4 Arvind Parmar before losing in the final to Lee Childs in straight sets. In 2002, he was given a wildcard for Wimbledon, being the youngest man in the draw, however he lost in the first round. His first senior title was won this year, the Futures tournament in Nottingham. That autumn he won the senior national championships, beating Martin Lee again and defeating Jamie Delgado 7-5, 6-2 in the final. Also see: 2002 (number). ... Wimbledon logo The Championships, Wimbledon, commonly referred to as simply Wimbledon, is the oldest and arguably most prestigious event in the sport of tennis. ... Nottingham is a city, unitary authority, and county town of Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands of England. ...

Davis Cup Debut

Bogdanovic made his debut in the Davis Cup for Great Britain in 2003 against Australia, losing to Lleyton Hewitt and beating Todd Woodbridge in a dead-rubber to prevent a whitewash. The great Australians Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall with the Cup in 1953 The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in mens tennis. ... Lleyton Glynn Hewitt (born February 24, 1981), is a former World No. ... Woodbridge (back) with partner Jonas Björkman in the mens double final, Wimbledon 2004. ... Dead-rubber is a term used in sporting parlance to describe a match in a series where the series result has already been decided by earlier matches. ...

LTA Controversy

In April 2004, the Lawn Tennis Association withdrew the bulk of their funding to him because of a definite lack of commitment. At the Sarejevo challenger, Bogdanovic decided to withdraw from his quarter-final match. The next day the LTA insisted that he travelled to Greece to play a futures. Bogdanovic however responded by employing new coach Mike Raphael and within 3 months reached the final of two Challenger events (Nottingham and Manchester, winning in Manchester) and qualifying for the US Open, his first non-Wimbledon Grand Slam tournament, losing in the first round in five sets. The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) is the governing body of tennis in the United Kingdom. ... This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ...

2005 and early 2006 Challenger Success

His career began to take off again in August 2005, when he won the Nottingham and Sunderland Challenger events. This he followed with successive victories in his first two tournaments of 2006, the Challengers at Wrexham and Bergamo. He beat world number 51 Andreas Seppi en route to his Bergamo title. Coupled with quarterfinal appearances in Valencia, Cardiff and Lanzarote he brought his own ranking to a career high of 134. Bogdanovic took a break after Lanzarote because of a leg injury. Country: Italy Residence: Caldaro, ITA Height: 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) Weight: 70 Kg (156 lb) Plays: Right Turned pro: 2002 Highest singles ranking: 60 (9 January 2006) Singles titles: 0 Career Prize Money: US $430,897 Grand Slam Record Titles: 0 Andreas Seppi (born February 21, 1984, Bolzano...

2006 Activity

Roland Garros Qualifying

Alex returned for the Roland Garros Qualifiers and went out in the 2nd Qualifying round to Argentine, Marcelo Charpentier. Where he lost in 3 sets 7-5 4-6 5-7.

Grass Court Season (Surbiton, Queen's, Nottingham and Wimbledon)

The 2006 Grass court season was disappointing, seeing Bogdanovic going out in first rounds of the Surbiton Challenger, Queen's Club, Nottingham ATP tournaments as well as at Wimbledon. He drew strong opponents in all three ATP events. At Queens he took World number 33 Dmitry Tursunov to a tie- break, at Nottingham he took a set off world 52 Max Mirnyi and at Wimbledon he made a credible showing against world number 2 Rafael Nadal, having received Wild Card entry into all three. Wimbledon logo The Championships, Wimbledon, commonly referred to as simply Wimbledon, is the oldest and arguably most prestigious event in the sport of tennis. ... The Queens Club Championships is a grass-court tennis tournament for mens singles and doubles held on an annual basis in the week after the French Open, as a warm-up event for Wimbledon. ... Dmitry Igorevich Tursunov (Russian: Дми́трий И́горевич Турсу́нов ( ) (born December 12, 1982 in Moscow, Russia) is a professional male tennis player from Russia. ... Max Mirnyi (nicknamed The Beast) (Belarusian: Максім Мірны, Maksim Mirny; born July 6, 1977) is a tennis player from Belarus. ... Rafael Rafa Nadal Parera (IPA: ) (born June 3, 1986, in Manacor, Mallorca) is a Spanish professional tennis player. ... In North American professional sports leagues, the term wild card refers to a team that qualifies for the championship playoffs without winning their specific subdivision (usually called a conference or division) outright. ...

Newport, United States

For the first time in his career, his ranking was high enough for him to be granted regular entry (i.e. without having to qualify) into the Tennis Hall of Fame Championships in Newport, Rhode Island the week after Wimbledon, which his compatriot Greg Rusedski had won the previous two years. However, his automatic entry was partly due to the weak field at the event. (Many players take a mid-season break in the weeks after Wimbledon and few want to travel back across the Atlantic when alternative events are available in mainland Europe, in addition to which grass court tennis is increasingly unpopular amongst professionals.) The International Tennis Hall of Fame is a not-for-profit tennis museum at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island, USA that also has a Hall of Fame for prominent personalities and players from the tennis world. ... Newport is a city in Newport County, Rhode Island, about 30 miles (48 km) south of Providence. ... Gregory Greg Rusedski (born September 6, 1973, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a former British tennis player who turned professional in 1991, and played until his retirement on April 7, 2007 at the age of 33. ...

Bogdanovic was drawn to play against American world 735 in the 1st round, Jesse Levine. He won this match 6-4 7-5 in 1 hour 22 minutes, his first ATP tour victory of the season, and went on to beat George Bastl of Switzerland 6-1 7-6 (8-6), in the second round, to advance to the quarter finals of an ATP Tour for the first time in his career. He lost this match to the 6th seed from Austria, Jürgen Melzer having won the first set. Jesse Levine (b. ... George Bastl (b. ... Jürgen Melzer (born May 22, 1981) is a male Austrian tennis player. ...

2007

Alex had a slow start to the season with his ranking dropping to 150. However his season picked up its pace when he was victorious in the Valencia challenger raising his ranking to 132. He followed this up with another consecutive challenger final in Cardiff, but failed to beat Frederic Niemeyer in this encounter. As a result of reaching the final of the Cardiff challenger, as of 28th of May, Alex has reached his highest-ever ranking of 112. Frederic Niemeyer (born on 24 April 1976 in Campbellton, New Brunswick) is a tour and Davis Cup tennis player. ...

Alex then had a poor clay court season with 2 first-round challenger exits and failing to qualify for the French Open main draw. After this came a 2nd-round defeat to fellow Brit Richard Bloomfield at Surbiton. The French Open, officially the Tournoi de Roland-Garros (English: Roland Garros Tournament), is a tennis event held over two weeks between mid May and early June in Paris, France, and is the second of the Grand Slam tournaments on the annual tennis calendar. ... Richard Bloomfield (born 27 April 1983 in Norwich) is an English professional male tennis player. ... , Surbiton, a suburban area of London in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, is a commuter town next to the river Thames, populated with a mixture of Art-Deco courts, spacious and grand late-19th century town houses blending into a sea of semi-detached 20th century housing estates. ...

Near Future

Before Wimbledon, where he has been granted entry via a wildcard, Alex competed at Queen's on the main ATP tour and will be playing at Nottingham. Wimbledon may refer to: Wimbledon, London, a town in south-west London A constituency based around it, Wimbledon (UK Parliament constituency) Wimbledon station, a train station The Championships, Wimbledon, one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments Wimbledon (film), a movie based on the tennis championships Wimbledon F.C., a... Goran Ivanisevic and Mario Ancic playing doubles during the 2004 Queens Club Championships The Queens Club Championships is an annual tournament for male tennis players, held on grass courts at the Queens Club in London. ... ATP may refer to: Chemistry/Biochemistry Adenosine triphosphate, the universal energy currency of all known living organisms Companies Alberta Theatre Projects, a major Canadian theatre company. ...

This year at Queen's he managed to gain an impressive victory over world number 42 Hyung-Taik Lee, and beat fellow British player Jamie Baker in the second round to play Andy Roddick. He put on a superb performance against Roddick having won the first set 6-4, and pushed Roddick to a close tie-break in the second set. The performance was a clear example of Alex Bogdanovic "on fire". During the tie-break he was two points from victory, but Roddick took advantage of the Hawk-eye system and a correctly challenged call put him 6-5 up in the tie-break before winning the second set to make it one set all. Roddick broke Alex's serve for the first time in the final set making the final result 4-6 7-6(7-5) 6-4. Bogdanovic's impressive run at Queen's meant he was likely to break into the top 100 for the first time in his career. After the match Roddick complimented Bogdanovic and claimed he was "lucky to get out of there." He eagerly backed the idea Alex should easily burst into the top 4 at least by the end of 2007. Goran Ivanisevic and Mario Ancic playing doubles during the 2004 Queens Club Championships The Queens Club Championships is an annual tournament for male tennis players, held on grass courts at the Queens Club in London. ... Hyung-Taik Lee is a South Korean tennis player who reached the third round at the 2005 French Open. ... Andrew Stephen Andy Roddick (born August 30, 1982) is an American professional tennis player and a former World No. ... Goran Ivanisevic and Mario Ancic playing doubles during the 2004 Queens Club Championships The Queens Club Championships is an annual tournament for male tennis players, held on grass courts at the Queens Club in London. ...

At Wimbledon, he suffered a disappointing straight set's defeat to Australia's Chris Guccione, who, like Bogdanovic, was unseeded.

After Wimbledon, Alex has to defend his points he achieved by reaching the quarter final at Newport last year. This could severely alter his ranking. Newport (Welsh: ) is the third-largest city within Wales (after Cardiff and Swansea), in the United Kingdom. ...

External Links

Official website: http://www.alexbogdanovic.com

• ATP Tour profile for Alex Bogdanovic
• Bogdanovic Recent Match Results
• Bogdanovic World Ranking History