Aljaž Bedene

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Aljaž Bedene Tennis player
Aljaž Bedene
Bedene 2016 in the Queen's Club
Nation: SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia
2008–2015, 2018– United Kingdom 2015–2017
United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
Birthday: July 18, 1989
Size: 183 cm
Weight: 73 kg
1st professional season: 2008
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer: Nick Cavaday
Prize money: $ 3,374,793
singles
Career record: 101: 119
Highest ranking: 43 (February 19, 2018)
Current placement: 80
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 2R (2020)
French Open 3R (2016)
Wimbledon 3R (2017)
US Open 3R (2019)
Double
Career record: 16:38
Highest ranking: 127 (October 7, 2013)
Current placement: 709
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 1R (2016, 2019, 2020)
French Open 2R (2013)
Wimbledon 1R (2013, 2015)
US Open 1R (2015)
Last update of the infobox:
August 19, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Aljaž Bedene (born July 18, 1989 in Ljubljana ) is a British - Slovenian tennis player . After playing for Great Britain in the meantime, he has been playing under the Slovenian flag again since 2018.

Life

Bedene was born and lived in Ljubljana before moving to Welwyn Garden City in the UK in 2008 . He has a twin brother who also played tennis (highest world ranking 840). Since March 31, 2015, he has also had British citizenship. He married in 2016 and then moved to Ljubljana.

Career

Bedene was active and successful mainly on the Challenger Tour until 2012 . So far, he has won six singles titles and another doubles. Bedene has been on the World Tour more and more since 2013 . With his recent successes on the Challenger Tour and his first successes on the Main Tour, he was able to work his way up to his best position in the world rankings with 71st place. He achieved his best results so far when he made it to the quarter-finals in Vienna 2012 and the semi-finals in Chennai 2013 .

Two years later he made his first final on the World Tour in Chennai . In the final he was defeated by Stan Wawrinka . He reached his second final in the 2017 season in Budapest , where he lost to Lucas Pouille .

After playing for Great Britain for three years, Bedene played again under the Slovenian flag on January 1, 2018. He justified this step by stating that he was again eligible to play for the Davis Cup and the Olympic Games . Despite his nationality, the ITF had refused him to play for Great Britain in the Davis Cup , as he had already played in three games for Slovenia , in which he only played matches that were no longer relevant to the outcome of the game.

successes

Legend (number of victories)
Grand Slam
ATP World Tour Finals
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP World Tour 500
ATP World Tour 250
ATP Challenger Tour (17)

singles

Tournament victories

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. March 28, 2011 ItalyItaly Barletta (1) sand ItalyItaly Filippo Volandri 7: 5, 6: 3
2. March 3, 2012 MoroccoMorocco Casablanca sand FranceFrance Nicolas Devilder 7: 6 6 , 7: 6 4
3. April 8, 2012 ItalyItalyBarletta (2) sand ItalyItaly Potito Starace 6: 2, 6: 0
4th 17th June 2012 SlovakiaSlovakia Košice sand GermanyGermany Simon Greul 7: 6 1 , 6: 2
5. July 29, 2012 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Wuhan Hard court FranceFrance Josselin Ouanna 6: 3, 4: 6, 6: 3
6th May 11th, 2013 ItalyItaly Rome (1) sand ItalyItaly Filippo Volandri 6: 4, 6: 2
7th 15th September 2013 Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Banja Luka sand ArgentinaArgentina Diego Schwartzman 6: 3, 6: 4
8th. July 6, 2014 ItalyItaly Todi (1) sand HungaryHungary Marton Fucsovics 2: 6, 7: 6 4 , 6: 4
9. March 22, 2015 United StatesUnited States Irving (1) Hard court United StatesUnited States Tim Smyczek 7: 6 3 , 3: 6, 6: 3
10. May 9, 2015 ItalyItalyRome (2) sand Czech RepublicCzech Republic Adam Pavlásek 7: 5, 6: 2
11. July 12, 2015 ItalyItalyTodi (2) sand ArgentinaArgentina Nicolás kicker 7: 6 3 , 6: 4
12. 19th March 2017 United StatesUnited StatesIrving (2) Hard court KazakhstanKazakhstan Mikhail Kukushkin 6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 1
13. April 9, 2017 FranceFrance Sophia Antipolis sand FranceFrance Benoît Paire 6: 2, 6: 2
14th April 16, 2017 ItalyItaly Barletta sand PortugalPortugal Gastão Elias 7: 6 4 , 6: 3
15th September 30, 2018 FranceFrance Orleans Hard court (i) FranceFrance Antoine Hoang 4: 6, 6: 1, 7: 6 6
16. 18th August 2019 SloveniaSlovenia Portorož Hard court NorwayNorway Viktor Durasovic 7: 5, 6: 3

Final participation

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. January 11, 2015 IndiaIndia Chennai Hard court SwitzerlandSwitzerland Stan Wawrinka 3: 6, 4: 6
2. April 30, 2017 HungaryHungary Budapest sand FranceFrance Lucas Pouille 3: 6, 1: 6
3. February 18, 2018 ArgentinaArgentina Buenos Aires sand AustriaAustria Dominic Thiem 2: 6, 4: 6
4th 22nd September 2019 FranceFrance Metz Hard court (i) FranceFrance Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7: 6 4 , 6: 7 4 , 3: 6

Double

Tournament victories

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. September 19, 2011 SloveniaSlovenia Ljubljana sand SloveniaSlovenia Grega Žemlja SpainSpain Roberto Bautista Agut Iván Navarro
SpainSpain  		6: 3, 6: 7 10 , [12:10]

Web links

Commons : Aljaž Bedene  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russell Fuller: Aljaz Bedene: GB to have second top-100 player in men's rankings. In: bbc.com. March 26, 2015, accessed January 5, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Aljaz Bedene is playing for Slovenia again. In: spox.com. December 15, 2017. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Aljaz Bedene's Great Britain Davis Cup switch blocked by ITF. In: BBC Sport. Retrieved June 1, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Bedene, Aljaž
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Slovenian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Ljubljana , Slovenia