28 Facts About Alex Bogdanovic

Aleksa Bogdanovic is a retired Serbian-born English tennis player and former UK no 2.

Alex Bogdanovic competed in 22 Grand Slam qualification draws, only managing to qualify one time for the main draw.

Alex Bogdanovic received a wildcard into the Wimbledon main draw eight consecutive years, but lost in the first round every time.

Alex Bogdanovic is nicknamed 'Boggo' and 'A-Bog'.

Alex Bogdanovic 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.

Alex Bogdanovic finished runner-up in the U18 national championships in 2001 to Richard Bloomfield.

Alex 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.

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

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

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

Alex 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.

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

Alex Bogdanovic drew strong opponents in all three ATP events.

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

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

Alex Bogdanovic had a slow start to the season with his ranking dropping to 150.

Alex Bogdanovic followed this up with another consecutive challenger final in Cardiff, but failed to beat Frederic Niemeyer in this encounter.

Alex Bogdanovic then had a poor clay court season with 2 first-round challenger exits and failing to qualify for the French Open main draw.

Alex Bogdanovic competed at two ATP tour events, Queen's and the Nottingham Open, before Wimbledon, where he had been granted entry via a wildcard.

Alex Bogdanovic's impressive run at Queen's meant a career high of 108.

Alex Bogdanovic's projected entry into the World's Top 50 did not materialise.

In January 2009, Alex Bogdanovic was dropped from Great Britain's Davis Cup squad.

Alex Bogdanovic continued to compete largely on the Challenger circuit, winning in Kolding, Denmark, which helped him to retain his place in the world top 200.

Alex Bogdanovic didn't receive his usual wildcard into the Wimbledon main draw and he had to qualify.

Alex Bogdanovic was in the semi-final of the Champaign Challenger, USA.

Elsewhere on the Futures circuit, Alex Bogdanovic made the final of the Irvine, USA Futures F26, two semifinals and a quarterfinal.

Alex Bogdanovic is generally regarded as a player who has never fulfilled his potential.

Alex Bogdanovic said my intensity wasn't good enough and that hurt a lot because I've been trying to give it my best shot for the last eight years.