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Alexander Blockx (born 8 April 2005) is a Belgian tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking ofNo. 351 achieved on 20 November 2023. He also reached a career-high junior ranking of No. 1 in singles and doubles on 1 May 2023after winning the 2023 Australian Open in the boys singles and reaching the final in the 2023 boys doubles.
Early life
Blockx is from Antwerp in Belgium. He has trained since childhood with Philippe Cassiers at his Forest Hills tennis academy in Belgium. By 2022, he was training at the Tennis Vlaanderen centre in Wilrijk, Antwerp alongside the likes of Tibo Colson, Zizou Bergs and Ruben Bemelmans.
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.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.
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 and, alongside Brazilian João Fonseca, the boys' doubles, which they lost to Learner Tien and Cooper Williams. 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.
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 theAntwerp 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
He received a wildcard for the qualifying competition at the 2024 Australian Open.
ATP Challenger and ITF World Tennis Tour finals
Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)
| Finals by surface |
|---|
| Legend |
| ATP Challenger (0–0) |
| ITF World Tennis Tour (2–2) |
| Finals by surface |
| Hard (2–2) |
| Clay (0–0) |
| Grass (0–0) |
| Carpet (0–0) |
| ATP Challenger (0–0) |
| ITF World Tennis Tour (2–2) |
| Hard (2–2) |
| Clay (0–0) |
| Grass (0–0) |
| Carpet (0–0) |
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | Mar 2023 | M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Saba Purtseladze | 3–6, 4–6 | |
| Loss | Sep 2023 | M25 Falun, Sweden | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Tibo Colson | 5–7, 6–4, 3–6 | |
| Win | Oct 2023 | M25 Glasgow, United Kingdom | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Anton Matusevich | 5–7, 6–4, 6–2 | |
| Win | Nov 2023 | M25 Sunderland, United Kingdom | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Tibo Colson | 4–6, 6–2, 6–4 |
Junior Grand Slam finals
Singles: 1 (1 title)
| Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 2023 | Australian Open | Hard | Learner Tien | 6–1, 2–6, 7–6 |
Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)
| Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | 2023 | Australian Open | Hard | João Fonseca | Learner Tien Cooper Williams | 4–6, 4–6 |
Performance timeline
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |
Singles
| Tournament | 2024 | SR | W–L | Win % | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Slam tournaments | |||||||||||||
| Australian Open | Q1 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |||||||||
| French Open | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | ||||||||||
| Wimbledon | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | ||||||||||
| US Open | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | ||||||||||
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |||||||||