Alexander Slabinsky
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Alexander Slabinsky is a tennis player who plays under the flag of Great Britain. Slabinsky's career high ATP singles ranking was #266 (October 2008) and highest doubles ranking is #276 (May 2010), and has previously been ranked as the British Mens No.4 in 2008 and 2009.

Slabinsky has plays predominantly on the "Futures" and "Challengers" circuits. His favourite courts are hard and clay courts, but he does just as well on grass as he produced good form at both Wimbledon Championships and Queens ATP. He has a very strong serve, and gets a large amount of aces in matches. His serve is backed up by good ground strokes and he is solid from both sides. His usual doubles partner is Chris Eaton
Chris Eaton (tennis)
Christopher Philip Eaton is an English tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of #319 in June, 2009 and his career-high doubles ranking of #365 in February, 2009 and is the current British #9...

, another Brit. Alex trains at Roehampton NTC as part of the British Team together with Andy Murray, Alex Bogdanovic
Alex Bogdanovic
Aleksa Bogdanovic , also known as his British nickname Alex, is a Serbian-British tennis player born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Alex was brought to England by his parents Dušan and Amelija when he was seven and took up tennis as a means of making new friends.Bogdanovic turned professional in 2002...

 and James Ward
James Ward (tennis)
James Ward is a British tennis player, and British no. 2 behind Andy Murray. As of 22 August 2011 he is ranked 139 in the ATP singles rankings and 234 in doubles...

.

Early life

Alex is originally from Ukraine, but moved to Britain with his family at the age of 10 to London. Alex started playing tennis in Ukraine at the age of 8. In the UK Globe LTC showed support for young Alex and gave him a complimentary membership at the club and a few hours with a professional coach, he is now a life member.

At 16 Slabinsky had knee surgery which took him out of tennis for over a year. When he recovered Sutton Tennis Academy let him train at the centre. Alex has played for the Sutton squad in every age group. His overall ambition, like most, is to play on the ATP tour regularly and reach the top 10.

2007

Slabinsky played on the Futures tour for the most part of the year. Alex was given a wildcard into the main draw of the Shrewsbury Challenger, and took advantage of it. He beat Ladislav Chramosta 6-1 6-3 before upsetting Richard Bloomfield
Richard Bloomfield
Richard Bloomfield is an English professional male tennis player. He turned professional in 2002 and reached a peak world ranking of 176 in March 2007. 'Bloomers', as he is known to the tennis world, is from the small Norfolk village of Alpington.Bloomfield won the 2001 British Junior Tennis...

 7-6(7-5) 7-6(7-5). He was stopped in his tracks in the quarter finals by Frenchman David Guez
David Guez
David Guez is a French tennis player. He has a career high-ranking of 116 .-Career:Guez has played six major singles tournaments at professional level. At the 2009 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon he won with Rajeev Ram and reached to the second round, where he lost with Gilles Simon...

 4-6 4-6. In late December Alex won in the Nigeria F4 futures tournament, beating Cătălin Gârd
Cătălin Gârd
Cătălin-Ionuţ Gârd is a Romanian tennis player. On February 18, 2008, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 224 whilst his highest doubles ranking was 528 achieved on April 20, 2009.-External links:...

 6-4 6-3. Later that month he received the ITF World Player Of The Month Award for his achievements in Africa. This was his second tournament win in his career, first coming in 2006 where he won a Satellite Event in Wrexham, UK.

2008

Alex made good progress being solid on both futures and challengers reaching the quarter-finals in most tournaments.
Slabinsky made his ATP tour debut on 16 June 2008 when he played at the 2008 Nottingham Open
2008 Nottingham Open
The 2008 Nottingham Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 20th edition of the Nottingham Open, and was part of the International Series of the 2008 ATP Tour...

 against experienced American Vince Spadea
Vince Spadea
Vincent Spadea [SPAY-dee-ya] is an ATP Tour professional tennis player from the United States. He is one of only four players in history to defeat Roger Federer 6–0 in set, at a major event....

 but was beaten in straight sets 6-1, 7-5. Alex then played Queens ATP qualifying event where he defeated world number 59 Gilles Müller
Gilles Müller
Gilles Müller is a Luxembourgish professional tennis player. He was a US Open junior champion and is the most successful male tennis player in the history of his country...

 7-6 7-6, and only narrowly lost to world number 77 Danai Udomchoke
Danai Udomchoke
Danai Udomchoke is a professional tennis player from Thailand. He was born in Bangkok, where he still resides.Udomchoke turned professional in 1997, and is coached by Jan Stoce. He is sponsored by Dunlop Sport for his racquets and apparel. His career-best ranking is World No...

 63 46 36. He was later awarded entry into the men's doubles tournament
2008 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Doubles
Arnaud Clément and Michaël Llodra were the defending champions, but were forced to withdraw due to a left arm injury for Llodra.Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić won in the final 7–6, 6–7, 6–3, 6–3, against Jonas Björkman and Kevin Ullyett.-Seeds:...

 at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships
2008 Wimbledon Championships
The 2008 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 122nd edition of the Wimbledon Championships, and the third Grand Slam event of the year...

, partnering Chris Eaton
Chris Eaton (tennis)
Christopher Philip Eaton is an English tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of #319 in June, 2009 and his career-high doubles ranking of #365 in February, 2009 and is the current British #9...

 they were defeated in 1st round of the championships by the world number 1 pair Bob and Mike Bryan
Bob and Mike Bryan
Twin brothers Robert Charles Bryan and Michael Carl Bryan are American professional tennis double players. They have been the World No. 1 doubles player for over 270 weeks and have finished the ATP year-end number 1 doubles team a record 7 times...

 5-7 2-6 4-6. Slabinsky reached the final of Sweden F2 Futures tournament before losing to Michael Ryderstedt
Michael Ryderstedt
Michael Ryderstedt is a professional tennis player from Sweden.In August 2001, at the Fischer Junior Open he captured the doubles title with Dudi Sela of Israel....

 1-6 4-6. Slabinsky suffered a lacklustre season after that as he moved up onto the more difficult Challenger Circuits and failed to win a single title, but stll managed to increase his ranking by 68 places.

2009

At the start of the year Alex played in the Singles qualifying for the $75,000+H Challenger tournament held in Nouméa, New Caledonia. He qualified for the main draw by beating Mathieu Meyzen (6-0 6-1), Matteo Marrai (6-4 6-4), and Alexander Flock (6-3 6-4). In the main draw, Alex overcame world number 211 Scoville Jenkins
Scoville Jenkins
Scoville Jenkins is a former professional tennis player on the ATP Tour . He is sometimes referred to by his nickname "Sco"...

 5-7 6-2 6-4 to set up a match against compatriot Alex Bogdanovic
Alex Bogdanovic
Aleksa Bogdanovic , also known as his British nickname Alex, is a Serbian-British tennis player born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Alex was brought to England by his parents Dušan and Amelija when he was seven and took up tennis as a means of making new friends.Bogdanovic turned professional in 2002...

 in the second round. Despite losing 3-6 5-7, Slabinsky's rank increased to 331 the subsequent week, nine places from the entry list cut off for the Australian Open qualifying tournament. Following a number of withdrawals Slabinsky was able to enter the Australian Open qualifying event. He lost in the first round of qualifying to Alexandre Kudryavtsev
Alexandre Kudryavtsev
Alexandre Kudryavtsev is a Russian professional tennis player who has played professionally since 2003. He made his breakthrough in 2008, playing in his first top-level international tournaments on the ATP tour, having spent time playing in "Challenger" and "Futures" events...

 4-6 0-6.

Slabinsky later participated at the Davis Cup
Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Britain and the United States. By...

 playoffs for the tie against Ukraine. He missed out on a place in the team after losing a 5 set match to Joshua Goodall
Joshua Goodall
Joshua Jake Goodall is a British tennis player and the current British No.12 in Doubles, His ATP Doubles world ranking is 293...

, who later played as the British Number 1 singles player following the withdrawal of Andy Murray.

In June, Slabinsky was awarded a wildcard into the qualifying events of the both the singles and men's doubles events at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships
2009 Wimbledon Championships
The 2009 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, from Monday 22 June through to Sunday 5 July 2009...

. Slabinsky recorded his first singles win in a Grand Slam
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...

 qualifying tournament by beating Adrian Cruciat
Adrian Cruciat
Adrian Cruciat is a Romanian tennis player. On June 16, 2008, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 148.-ATP Challenger Tour singles finals: 1 :- Runner-ups :-External links:...

 of Romania 6-4 6-3, before losing to Croatian Roko Karanušić
Roko Karanušic
Roko Karanušić is a Croatian professional tennis player. He turned pro in 2000, and his career high was on February 2, 2009, when he reached No. 88 in the ATP rankings.-Singles Titles:...

 in round two. However, when partnering Chris Eaton
Chris Eaton (tennis)
Christopher Philip Eaton is an English tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of #319 in June, 2009 and his career-high doubles ranking of #365 in February, 2009 and is the current British #9...

, the pair managed to successfully qualify for the main draw of the men's doubles tournament, and later won in the first round defeating the Top 50 pair of Santiago Ventura
Santiago Ventura Bertomeu
Santiago Ventura is a retired tennis player from Spain. He was born in Castellón, Spain and lives in Burriana, Spain. He is a clay court specialist and is known for the considerable use of drop-shots during his matches.-Singles :...

 and Marcel Granollers
Marcel Granollers
Marcel Granollers i Pujol is a professional tennis player from Spain who turned professional in 2003. He reached his highest singles ranking of World Number 33 on August 1, 2011, and his highest doubles ranking of World Number 5.-2006:Granollers made the first round of the Wimbledon tournament in...

, 6-3 6-4 6-2. Slabinsky and Eaton later fell to the experienced Czech team of Leoš Friedl
Leoš Friedl
Leoš Friedl is a Czech professional tennis player best known for his doubles play with František Čermák. He is coached by Lubomir Gerla. In his career, he has won 15 top-level doubles titles and $1,027,625 in prize money...

 and David Škoch
David Škoch
David Škoch is a professional doubles tennis player from the Czech Republic. , he has a good doubles rank and his usual doubles partner is his countryman Jaroslav Levinský.-Wins :...

 in the 2nd round.

Slabinsky suffered a knee injury during the post-Wimbledon grass season. He underwent surgery which kept him out of the tour for three months, before returning to competitive tennis at the $15k Futures tournament held in Glasgow in October 2009. In his first match back, Slabinsky recorded a good win over fellow Brit Matthew Illingworth, winning 7-6 7-6. However, Alex was on the receiving end of a 6-1 6-1 defeat by Italian seed Claudio Grassi in the second round. At the $15k Cardiff Futures tournament, held a week later, Slabinsky was drawn against No.2 seed Uladzimir Ignatik of Belarus in the first round. Following a 1-6 2-6 defeat by Ignatik, Slabinsky focused on the doubles event, where he reached the final with partner Tim Bradshaw, finishing runner-up to the Irish pair of Barry King and James McGee
James McGee (tennis)
James McGee is an Irish professional tennis player. He was born in Dublin, Ireland. He attended Belvedere College in Dublin, Co. Dublin. He currently is the second highest ranked Irish tennis player and has been playing for the Ireland Davis Cup team since 2009.-Career:McGee has spent most of...

 following a 4-6 6-7(3) loss.

In November, Slabinsky was seeded fourth in the $15k El Salvador
El Salvador
El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...

 Futures tournament held in Santa Tecla
Santa Tecla
Santa Tecla may mean:* A saint: see Thecla* Santa Tecla, El Salvador, formerly named Nueva San Salvador...

. Slabinsky eased through his first two rounds before losing to Slovenian Borut Puc (5-7, 6-3, 6-2) in the quarter finals http://www.itftennis.com/mens/tournaments/drawsheetbyround.asp?tournament=1100020776&event=1100116202&round=3. Slabinsky failed to get past the second round in the singles at his next three tournaments, the Dominican Republic Futures series, losing to American Adam El Mihdawy twice and Belgian Yannick Vandenbulcke once http://www.itftennis.com/mens/tournaments/drawsheetbyround.asp?tournament=1100020777&event=1100116205&round=2 http://www.itftennis.com/mens/tournaments/drawsheetbyround.asp?tournament=1100020778&event=1100116212&round=2 http://www.itftennis.com/mens/tournaments/drawsheetbyround.asp?tournament=1100020779&event=1100116215&round=2. Slabinsky partnered Israeli Amir Weintraub in the doubles at the second Dominican Republic Futures tournament and finished runner-up to Adam El Midhawy and partner Blake Strode losing 3-6, 6-2, 7-10 in the final http://www.itftennis.com/mens/tournaments/drawsheetbyround.asp?tournament=1100020778&event=1100116214&round=4. Although Slabinsky was knocked out of the second round in the singles tournament at the $15k Brazil Futures held in Sorocaba, he did finish runner-up with Spaniard Guillermo Alcaide in the doubles http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2009/5034/mdd.pdf.

2011

At the 2011 AEGON International
2011 AEGON International
The 2011 AEGON International was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 36th edition of the event for the women and the 3rd edition for the men. It was classified as a WTA Premier tournament on the 2011 WTA Tour and as an ATP World Tour 250 series...

 ATP tour event, Alex qualified for the main draw by beating fellow Brits James Feaver (7-6(3), 6-1) and Sean Thornley
Sean Thornley
Sean Thornley is a British tennis player. In 2011 Thornley qualified for the Men's Doubles at Wimbledon.-References:...

 (7-6(5), 6-3), followed by Russian Denis Matsukevich (6-1, 6-2, 7-6(4)) http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2011/741/qs.pdf.

Singles Titles (3)

Legend (Singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0)
ITF Futures (3)

No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score
1. 8 November 2005   Wrexham Satellite 05 Hard   Sergei Bubka
Sergei Bubka (tennis)
Sergei Bubka is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. He is a member of the Ukraine Davis Cup team and is coached by Tibor Toth, who is also the coach of Sergiy Stakhovsky...

7–6, 2–6, 6–4
2. 17 December 2007   Nigeria F4 Hard   Cătălin Gârd
Cătălin Gârd
Cătălin-Ionuţ Gârd is a Romanian tennis player. On February 18, 2008, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 224 whilst his highest doubles ranking was 528 achieved on April 20, 2009.-External links:...

6–4, 6–3
3. 8 May 2010   Edinburgh, Great Britain F6 Clay   Mathieu Rodrigues
Mathieu Rodrigues
Mathieu Rodrigues is a French professional tennis player. He competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 221 on 24 October 2011, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 549, on 3 October 2011.-External...

7–6(4), 7–5


Runner-up
No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score
1. 18 June 2007 Ireland F1 Carpet   Colin Ebelthite
Colin Ebelthite
Colin Ebelthite is a professional Australian tennis player.Ebelthite's highest ATP singles ranking is World 209, which he reached on 23 June 2008. His career high in doubles was at 463 set at 28 January 2008. The South Australian won three Futures titles including Sorrento , Perth and Wellington...

2–6, 3–6
2. 27 August 2007   Great Britain F16 Hard   Satoshi Iwabuchi
Satoshi Iwabuchi
is a retired professional tennis player from Japan.Iwabuchi won one ATP Tour doubles title in his career, the 2005 Japan Open, where he and Takao Suzuki defeated Simon Aspelin and Todd Perry in straight sets 7-6, 7-6.As of May 17, 2009, Iwabuchi's highest singles ranking was world number 223, which...

3–6, 2–6
3. 22 September 2008   Sweden F2 Hard   Michael Ryderstedt
Michael Ryderstedt
Michael Ryderstedt is a professional tennis player from Sweden.In August 2001, at the Fischer Junior Open he captured the doubles title with Dudi Sela of Israel....

1–6, 4–6
4. 29 August 2010   Poznan, Poland F6 Clay   Marcin Gawron
Marcin Gawron
Marcin Gawron is a Polish tennis player. He is 72 kg and is 5.8 ft tall. He made the final of the 2006 Wimbledon Junior Championship, but lost to Thiemo de Bakker 2-6, 6-7.-External links:...

3–6, 4–6

Doubles Titles (3)

No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponent in the final Score
1. 5 June 2006   Italy F7 Clay   Konstantinos Oliver Kalaitzis   Simone Appio
  Mauro Commisso
6–3, 6–4
2. 10 December 2007   Nigeria F3 Hard   Navdeep Singh
Navdeep Singh
Captain / Major Navdeep Singh is an author, activist, lawyer and a member of the Indian Territorial Army.-Achievements:Captain /Major Navdeep Singh is the most decorated officer in the history of the Indian Territorial Army, a volunteer force in which gainfully employed and self employed...

  Idan Mark
  Amir Weintraub
Amir Weintraub
Amir Weintraub is an Israeli professional tennis player. He is the current Israeli champion, and is currently ranked No...

7–6(2), 3–6, [10–7]
3. 14 January 2011   Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

, Great Britain F1
Hard   Chris Eaton
Chris Eaton (tennis)
Christopher Philip Eaton is an English tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of #319 in June, 2009 and his career-high doubles ranking of #365 in February, 2009 and is the current British #9...

  Harri Heliövaara
Harri Heliövaara
Harri Heliövaara is a Finnish tennis player. His highest ranking is 215th which was achieved on 7 November 2011. He won the 2007 Australian Open boys' doubles title with Graeme Dyce. In singles he has won five ITF Futures tournaments. In doubles he has won one ATP Challenger tournament in...

 
  Juho Paukku
Juho Paukku
Juho Paukku is a professional Finnish tennis player.Paukku reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour on January 17, 2011, when he became World number 379...

6–7(3), 6–1, [10–2]


Runner-Up
No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents in the final Score
1. 20 March 2006   Australia F4 Clay   Robert Haybittel   Damian Patriarca
  Joseph Sirianni
Joseph Sirianni
Joseph Sirianni is an Australian tennis player from Melbourne, Victoria. Sirianni was born to father Joseph and mother Ida. Sirianni turned professional in 1996 and he plays right-handed. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of World Number 138 on 20 October 2008...

6–7(4), 1–6
2. 7 April 2008   Russia F1 Hard   Chris Eaton
Chris Eaton (tennis)
Christopher Philip Eaton is an English tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of #319 in June, 2009 and his career-high doubles ranking of #365 in February, 2009 and is the current British #9...

  Sergei Demekhine
  Konstantin Kravchuk
Konstantin Kravchuk
Konstantin Kravchuk is a Russian professional tennis player.Kravchuk competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 129, on November 8, 2010, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No...

1–6, 2–6
3. 30 October 2009   Cardiff, Great Britain F16 Hard   Tim Bradshaw   Barry King 
  James McGee
James McGee (tennis)
James McGee is an Irish professional tennis player. He was born in Dublin, Ireland. He attended Belvedere College in Dublin, Co. Dublin. He currently is the second highest ranked Irish tennis player and has been playing for the Ireland Davis Cup team since 2009.-Career:McGee has spent most of...

4–6, 6–7(3)
4. 4 December 2009   Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic F2 Hard   Amir Weintraub
Amir Weintraub
Amir Weintraub is an Israeli professional tennis player. He is the current Israeli champion, and is currently ranked No...

  Adam El Mihdawy 
  Blake Strode
3–6, 6–2, [7–10]
5. 26 December 2009   Sorocaba, Brazil F32 Clay   Guillermo Alcaide
Guillermo Alcaide
Guillermo Alcaide Justel is a Spanish professional tennis player.-Titles :-External links:...

  Alexandre Bonatto
  Rodrigo-Antonio Grilli
2–6, 4–6
6. 3 January 2010   Sao Paolo, Brazil F34 Hard   Guillermo Alcaide
Guillermo Alcaide
Guillermo Alcaide Justel is a Spanish professional tennis player.-Titles :-External links:...

  Juan-Pablo Amado
  Rodrigo-Antonio Grilli
4–6, 5–7
7. 19 March 2010   Astana
Astana
Astana , formerly known as Akmola , Tselinograd and Akmolinsk , is the capital and second largest city of Kazakhstan, with an officially estimated population of 708,794 as of 1 August 2010...

, Kazakhstan F1
Hard   Alexander Peya
Alexander Peya
Alexander Peya is an Austrian male tennis player. He reached a career high singles ranking of No. 92 on April 30, 2007. His career high doubles ranking was No. 48 on January 15, 2007. He was born in Vienna, Austria, and currently resides there.In September 2008 Peya helped Austria to a Davis Cup...

  Evgeny Kirillov
Evgeny Kirillov
Evgeny Kirillov is a Russian professional tennis player. On July 26, 2010, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 206.-Titles :-External links:...

 
  Alexandre Kudryavtsev
Alexandre Kudryavtsev
Alexandre Kudryavtsev is a Russian professional tennis player who has played professionally since 2003. He made his breakthrough in 2008, playing in his first top-level international tournaments on the ATP tour, having spent time playing in "Challenger" and "Futures" events...

3–6, 4–6
8. 10 September 2010   Cumberland, London, Great Britain F13 Hard   Claudio Grassi   David Rice
David Rice (tennis)
David Rice is an English tennis player currently ranked 412 in the world. In 2011 Rice qualified for Wimbledon for the first time.-Bebo controversy:...

 
  Sean Thornley
Sean Thornley
Sean Thornley is a British tennis player. In 2011 Thornley qualified for the Men's Doubles at Wimbledon.-References:...

6–2, 3–6, [0–10]
9. 29 January 2011   Kaarst, Germany F3 Carpet   Chris Eaton
Chris Eaton (tennis)
Christopher Philip Eaton is an English tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of #319 in June, 2009 and his career-high doubles ranking of #365 in February, 2009 and is the current British #9...

  Kevin Krawietz
Kevin Krawietz
Kevin Krawietz is a professional tennis player from Germany. His career high in singles with No. 323 came in November 2011, while his career high in doubles was reached with No. 251 in November 2011...

 
  Marcel Zimmermann
3–6, 5–7
10. 29 April 2011   Bournemouth, Great Britain F5 Clay   Carlos Poch-Gradin
Carlos Poch-Gradin
Carles Poch Gradin is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has won two ATP Challenger events, both in doubles....

  David Rice
David Rice (tennis)
David Rice is an English tennis player currently ranked 412 in the world. In 2011 Rice qualified for Wimbledon for the first time.-Bebo controversy:...

 
  Sean Thornley
Sean Thornley
Sean Thornley is a British tennis player. In 2011 Thornley qualified for the Men's Doubles at Wimbledon.-References:...

3–6, 4–6

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