Alex Bogdanovic

Bogdanovic was drawn to play against American world 735 in the 1st round, Jesse Levine.

He won this match 6–4 7–5, his first ATP tour victory of the season.

Alex 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 to the 6th seed from Austria, Jürgen Melzer in 3 sets after having won the first set.

Bogdanovic 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 Frédéric Niemeyer in this encounter.

Aleksa Bogdanovic (Алекса Богдановић, Aleksa Bogdanović; born 22 May 1984) is a retired Serbian-born English tennis player and former UK no 2.

On the professional tour, he won 9 Challenger titles and 4 Futures events, but never managed to break into the top 100.

Bogdanovic was born in Belgrade to parents Dušan and Emilija, who left 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.

He is nicknamed 'Boggo' and 'A-Bog' (Bog means God in Serbian)

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.

He received a wildcard into the Wimbledon main draw eight consecutive years (from 2002 to 2009), but lost in the first round every time (winning a total of just three sets in eight matches).

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.

He also competed in 22 Grand Slam qualification draws, only managing to qualify one time for the main draw (the 2004 US Open where he lost in the first round).

At a Sarajevo challenger event in March 2004, Bogdanovic withdrew from his quarterfinal match, due to food poisoning.

The next week, he was scheduled thereafter to play in a futures event in Greece but, for the same reasons, stated he was unable to do so.

In April 2004, the Lawn Tennis Association accused Bogdanovic of having an attitude problem; they withdrew his £80,000 per year funding and LTA coach (Martin Bohn), and stopped his free use of the practice courts at their headquarters at Queen's Club.

Bogdanovic also lost his place in Great Britain's Davis Cup squad following just one victory in eight singles rubbers.

Bogdanovic was runner-up in the Bournemouth Futures (to Gael Monfils) in May, and the Nottingham Challenger (to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga) in July, but won the Manchester Challenger in July.

Bogdanovic lost to Roger Federer in the first round at Wimbledon in June, but qualified for the US Open in September and lost to Álex Calatrava in the first round in five sets.

During Wimbledon 2004, the LTA met with Bogdanovic and offered to let him rejoin the LTA training squad.

Bogdanovic declined, preferring to work with a coach he had hired himself, initially Mike Raphael, then Paul Hand.

The 2006 Grass court season was disappointing, seeing Bogdanovic going out in first rounds of the Surbiton Trophy, Queens and the Nottingham Open ATP tournaments.

As well at Wimbledon.

He drew strong opponents in all three ATP events.

At Queens he took World number 33 Dmitry Tursunov to a tie- break, in Nottingham he took a set off world 52 Max Mirnyi and at Wimbledon he made a credible showing against world number 2 Rafael Nadal.

Alex received Wild Card entry into all three.

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 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Newport, Rhode Island the week after Wimbledon, which his compatriot Greg Rusedski had won the previous two years.

Bogdanovic beat Mark Hilton in the final of the Nottingham Challenger, the last all-British Challenger final until the 2016 RBC Tennis Championships of Dallas, when Kyle Edmund beat Daniel Evans.