Talk:Alex Bogdanovic

Ranking

Bogdanovic is currently British no2 as he is currently ranked above Josh Goodall as at 25 May 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/top_20_men/default.stm Kateab (talk) 17:06, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Reverted Davis Cup reference: It was Todd Woodbridge and not Wayne Arthurs he beat in Sydney 2003 - please see the ATP site: http://www.atptennis.com/en/players/playerprofiles/playeractivity/default.asp?year=2003&query=Singles&player=B929&x=7&y=6

Also added 2005-06 details.

Recent Activity

I think there should be a similar recent activity page in here for Boggo just like the one on the Andy Murray page... I'd be able to do it if no one else can like his 2006 activity and so on. :)

Like a weekly one when he does all his tournaments and give a bit of info on the matches in seperate paragraphs for each tournament..

-Vonce. 14th July 2:41 GMT

Go for it! Be bold. WP:Bold. We can always tidy it up whern it gets unwieldy. Just be prepared to have it edited, try to keep a neutral point of view, and cite sources (although not quite the number of BBC references that are now fillingthe Andy page)

Might of took me 3 months to get round to this but I finally done it, yay

- Vonce 11 October 00:46 GMT

Controversy 2010

Perhaps a Controversy section is needed? Bogdanovic has had ten years of having what, for most people, would be a playboy lifestyle. At 26, he has singularly failed to do anything in the game, and yet he has continued to make a very nice living at the LTA's expense. Some way of reflecting this in the article would be only fair. The Guardian has said: "British tennis, surely, will not gamble much longer on Alex Bogdanovic. He went on to Court Two against Tomas Berdych – one of those on‑his-day supermen, off-his-day easybeats – with seven Wimbledon wildcard entries behind him, seven first-round defeats in as many years, and buoyed by the sort of financial support from the Lawn Tennis Association that would bring a smile to the face of the laziest MP." And Greg Rusedski has been amongst his critics: "I can understand why Alex Bogdanovic had his LTA funding cut and will not get a Wimbledon wildcard this year. You need certain standards... if you have been receiving funding for a full decade by the time you reach the age of 26, you can see their point of view. There has to be a cut-off point and by 26 you should be selfsufficient... You have to say: 'If you are not good enough, go and do something else.' You could not continue for so long in any other job in the world without paying your own way. Guv2006 (talk) 09:57, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Alex Bogdanović

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No consensus to move. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:19, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Alex Bogdanovic → Alex Bogdanović – 20:46, 31 August 2011 (UTC) I think we should move article to his native name Alex Bogdanović. The same situation is with other sportpersons who are competing for country where their origin is not (Jelena Dokić, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Bojan Krkić, Nikola Karabatić, Csaba Szilágyi, Aleks Marić...). Bogdanović compete under the British flag, but he has a Serbian or Yugoslavian orgin. Alex is British nickname, but Bogdanović is his native last name. For Sasha Vujačić we use most known nickname and Serbian last name. --Aca Srbin (talk) 15:59, 31 August 2011 (CEST)

• Oppose. This one is a WTF. The subject has appeared in thousands of news accounts, and always without a diacritic. See The Independent, BBC News, The Telegraph, or Reuters. Kauffner (talk) 02:15, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose in fact Speedy Close. He has spent his entire tennis-playing life in Britain, and if you can find one reliable source that spells his name with a "ć" I'll be surprised. I certainly can't. Absconded Northerner (talk) 09:45, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
• Comment, Reliable sources in English never used a diacritice, but for articles we still using native names (Nemanja Vidić: Goal.com, Jelena Janković: WTA,Ana Ivanović: WTA...). I cited examples and for sportpersons who are competing for country where their origin is not.--Aca Srbin (talk) 11:55, 1 September 2011 (CEST)

  This is incorrect. The ATP and ITF sites do sometimes use diacritics for place names... just not for most player names. Fyunck(click) (talk) 05:27, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

• Oppose - spelling rules of the country she represents in sports should take precedent over whatever the spelling is used by her parents in their native language. Vidić, Janković and Ivanović all represent Serbia internationally. Guys like Ibrahimović and Krkić are really rare exceptions (and in their cases the spelling with diacritics is evidently in use by reliable sources printed in their sporting nation's language, unlike here). Timbouctou (talk) 21:15, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose - Nothing whatsoever to do with his name not having a "ć" in English sources, I don't use stale arguments. The point is that his name is Aleksa, so Alex is also a variation from his original but in this case, it is fair to say that Alex Bogdanovic is a full transcription and to change one part and not the other is inconsistent. Evlekis (Евлекис) (argue) 22:17, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

So if his name was "Aleksa", you would vote for a diacritic? His notability is entirely as a British tennis player. He is ranked as No. 6 among British players. He has no ranking as a Serbian player. The British press gives his name without a diacritic. So does his website. Kauffner (talk) 10:28, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

• Support If we are going to have these confusing diacritic marks for other Serbian players, why not for Bogdanovic too? English language publications usually don't bother with them. But Wikipedia has a fad for them. We might as well apply the fad consistently.--Toddy1 (talk) 14:17, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose - The ATP, ITF, and all other tennis organizations spell it in standard English without diacritics. He is notable for one thing...tennis. Fyunck(click) (talk) 05:27, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

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