Alex Alexandrowitsch Bogomolow
Alex Bogomolov Jr., nicknamed Bogie, (born April 23, 1983), is a right-handed American professional tennis player who plays with a two-handed backhand.
Tennis career
His father, Alex, Sr., was a former Soviet national tennis coach who worked with Larisa Neiland, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, and Andrei Medvedev. Born in Moscow, Russia, the 5' 10" Bogomolov was the number one ranked USTA player for the 18s section in 2000 [1], and had a career-high ranking of World No. 97 on November 3, 2003, but had dropped to #198 in the world as of May 26, 2008 (ATP ranking).
In 1998, Bogomolov won the USTA National Boys’ 16 Championships, defeating Andy Roddick in the final. As of July 2005, he had won three singles championships and one doubles title on the USTA circuit.
After getting surgery on his handVorlage:Fact, Bogomolov left and began work at a tennis academy called Gotham Tennis Academy.
In 2005 he was suspended for three months due to a positive doping test during the Australian Open. The banned substance found was salbutamol, which Bogomolov admitted taking through an inhaler to treat exercise-induced asthma. However, he had not filed the proper paperwork and was not covered by an exemption.
Bogomolov is Anna Kournikova's former hitting partner, and was married to American tennis player Ashley Harkleroad. The two, however were split up as of 2006.