Alexander Blockx

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Alexander Blockx
Country (sports)Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium
Residence Antwerp
Born (2005-04-08) 8 April 2005 (age 19)
Antwerp, Belgium
PlaysRight-handed
CoachPhilippe Cassiers
Prize money$71,750
Singles
Career record0–1 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 289 (6 May 2024)
Current rankingNo. 298 (27 May 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open Q1 (2024)
Australian Open  JuniorW (2023)
French Open  Junior3R (2023)
Wimbledon  Junior3R (2022)
US Open  JuniorQF (2022)
Doubles
Career record0–1 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup) [1]
Highest rankingNo. 1162 (17 July 2023)
Current rankingNo. 1313 (27 May 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open  JuniorF (2023)
French Open  Junior1R (2022)
Wimbledon  Junior1R (2022)
US Open  Junior2R (2022)
Last updated on: 28 May 2024.

Alexander Blockx (born 8 April 2005) is a Belgian tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of No. 289 achieved on 6 May 2024. He also reached a career-high junior ranking of No. 1 in singles and doubles on 1 May 2023 [2] after winning the 2023 Australian Open in the boys singles and reaching the final in the boys doubles. [3]

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Early life

Blockx is from Antwerp in Belgium. [4] He has trained since childhood with Philippe Cassiers at his Forest Hills tennis academy in Belgium. [5] By 2022, he was training at the Tennis Vlaanderen centre in Wilrijk, Antwerp alongside the likes of Tibo Colson, Zizou Bergs and Ruben Bemelmans. [6] [7]

Career

2022: ATP doubles debut

In 2022, Blockx reached the third round and then quarterfinals of the junior events at Wimbledon and the US Open, respectively. Shortly after the US Open, Blockx and sometimes junior doubles partner Gilles-Arnaud Bailly were invited to train with the Belgium Davis Cup team by captain Johan Van Herck.

Blockx made his ATP Tour qualifying debut at his home tournament, the European Open in Antwerp, Belgium, where he was given a wildcard. He lost to Swiss Dominic Stricker in straight sets. [8] He was also given a wildcard into the main draw of the doubles, playing alongside Ruben Bemelmans in what proved to be Bemelmans' last professional match. [9]

2023: Australian Open Junior Champion, ATP singles and top 500 debuts

Blockx reached the final at the 2023 Australian Open in both the boys' singles [10] [11] and, alongside Brazilian João Fonseca, the boys' doubles, which they lost to Learner Tien and Cooper Williams. [12] Blockx gained revenge over Tien by winning the boys' singles final in three sets. Although Gilles-Arnaud Bailly reached two junior Grand Slam finals in 2022, the last Belgian male to win a junior Major, prior to Blockx, was Kimmer Coppejans at the 2012 French Open. No Belgian male had previously won the boys' singles in Melbourne. [13]

In March 2023, he made his Masters 1000 qualifications debut after receiving a wildcard for the 2023 Miami Open where he lost to Yosuke Watanuki.

He received a wildcard for the qualifying competition at the Antwerp Open and qualified into the main draw on his ATP singles debut. In his very first ATP Tour singles main draw match ever in own hometown, he lost to fifth seed Yannick Hanfmann in two close sets. Just a week after his first appearance in the ATP circuit, he won his first ITF title in Glasgow. And a week later, he remained unbeatable, he won his second title in Sunderland. Partly due to his first qualification for an ATP tournament and winning two ITF titles, he entered the top 500 for the first time in his career on 6 November 2023.

2024: Top 300

He received a wildcard for the qualifying competition at the 2024 Australian Open. He reached a new career high ranking in the top 300 of No. 294 on 18 March 2024. He also received a qualifying wildcard for the 2024 Miami Open but lost to Pedro Martinez in the first round.

ITF World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Legend
ITF WTT (2–2)
ResultW–L   Date   TournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1Mar 2023M15 Sharm El Sheikh, EgyptWTTHard Flag of Georgia.svg Saba Purtseladze 3–6, 4–6
Loss0–2Sep 2023M25 Falun, SwedenWTTHard Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Tibo Colson 5–7, 6–4, 3–6
Win1–2Oct 2023M25 Glasgow, United KingdomWTTHard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Anton Matusevich 5–7, 6–4, 6–2
Win2–2Nov 2023M25 Sunderland, United KingdomWTTHard Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Tibo Colson4–6, 6–2, 6–4

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

ResultYearTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Win 2023 Australian Open Hard Flag of the United States.svg Learner Tien 6–1, 2–6, 7–6(11–9)

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss 2023 Australian Open Hard Flag of Brazil.svg João Fonseca Flag of the United States.svg Learner Tien
Flag of the United States.svg Cooper Williams 		4–6, 4–6

Performance timeline

Key
W F SFQF#RRRQ#DNQANH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Singles

Tournament 2024 SRW–LWin %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open Q1 0 / 00–0 – 
French Open A0 / 00–0 – 
Wimbledon 0 / 00–0 – 
US Open 0 / 00–0 – 
Win–loss0–00 / 00–0 – 

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