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Alex Bogdanovic

Alex Bogdanovic
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Country (sports) United Kingdom Great Britain
Residence London, England
Born (1984-05-22) 22 May 1984 (age 32)
Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro 2002
Retired 15 July 2013
Plays Left-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money $695,395
Singles
Career record 11–36 (at ATP Tour and Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles 0
Highest ranking No. 108 (25 June 2007)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open Q2 (2008, 2009)
French Open Q2 (2007, 2008, 2009)
Wimbledon 1R (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
US Open 1R (2004)
Doubles
Career record 2–10 (at ATP Tour and Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles 0
Highest ranking No. 336 (12 January 2009)
Last updated on: 5 April 2014.

Aleksa "Alex" Bogdanovic (Serbian: Алекса Богдановић, Aleksa Bogdanović; 22 May 1984) is a Serbian-born British tennis player. He became a professional in 2002, with a career-high ranking of World No. 108, which he achieved in June 2007. Bogdanovic has competed mainly in the Challenger Tour. He qualified for the 2004 US Open, losing in the first round. He received wildcards to Wimbledon every year from 2002 to 2009, losing in the first round each time.

Bogdanovic was born in Belgrade to parents Dušan and Amelia, who fled war-torn Belgrade for the UK in 1992 with their eight-year-old son Alex and daughter Olga. At school, he started playing socially at the urging of a best friend.

Nicknamed 'Boggo' and 'A-Bog'

Started playing regularly on the international junior circuit in 1999. 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 semifinal of the US Junior Open in United States in 2001, the first British player ever to do so. He finished runner-up in the U18 national championships in 2001 to Richard Bloomfield.

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.

Bogdanovic made his debut in the Davis Cup for Great Britain in February 2003 against Australia, playing against the then world number 1, Lleyton Hewitt. Bogdanovic, then ranked at 457 in the world, made a great start on the clay court surface against a surprisingly lacklustre Hewitt and led 5–3 in the first set, but Hewitt then found his form and cruised to victory in straight sets, 7–5, 6–1, 6–2. Bogdanovic beat Todd Woodbridge 6–2, 7–6, in a dead-rubber to prevent a whitewash.


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