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The twin of a top British tennis star has posed as his famous brother to try and net a ­girlfriend.

Andraz Bedene, 26, pretended to be Britain’s number two Alijaz and sent flirty messages to a young ­woman via a ­dating site.

He asked for pictures of her in a bikini and sent a revealing snap with his trousers down. He even offered to visit her flat in Monaco.

But the woman smelt a love rat as she knew engaged Alijaz was due to play Rafael Nadal at the Monte Carlo Masters just 12 hours later.

Today Alijaz’s agent said Andraz, who manages his twin’s social media accounts, had admitted sending the saucy messages.

The agent said: “To me it’s crazy. Andy has crossed the line here.

“It’s one thing to try and impersonate your brother and pull a girl off the back of it, but going to this length was very silly.”

“I’ve known Alijaz for nine years. He’s lived in our house. This is not like him at all.

"I didn’t know Andy was with him in Monaco, but this just stinks of Andraz.”

The woman said: “I was shocked – this guy is engaged, and he was trying to come and meet up with me behind his ­fianceé’s back?

“He was quite open about it – he even admitted she struggled to come and watch him play, so he spoke to other girls while he was away.”

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After arriving in Monaco for the tournament, Andraz found the woman living nearby on dating app Tinder .

After they “matched” he claimed he was a top tennis player in Monte Carlo for the competition. Then, using WhatsApp, ­bombarded her with messages.

The girl said: “You hear about this with footballers all the time, but ­tennis players? I thought they were more responsible than that.”

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He boasted he was ranked 57 in the world but had reached 45.

Andraz then explained he used Tinder as he was “looking for a woman to share some fun with”, and offered her the chance to “date me for a few days”.

He became bolder and asked for shots of her in a bikini and sent a snap of his own with trousers down and his shirt hitched up. He added: “Like this for a good night.”

Andraz even seemed to own up to ­being in a relationship after the woman spotted on Facebook that Alijaz is ­engagement to Kimalie, an ex singer with Slovenian group Foxy Teens.

He told the woman: “I am never at home. She has her own work to do”.

Even when she warned he had to play former world number one Nadal the next day, Andraz tried to talk her into having sex with him.

He asked for directions to her flat but she put him off by complaining of a migraine.

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When the Sunday People contacted Aljaz he denied all knowledge of the claims – before the penny dropped and he called his sibling.

Before shifting his allegiances from Slovenia to Britain, Aljaz was taken in by War of the Worlds composer Jeff Wayne, 72, now a tennis coach.

After three years he was given a British passport – while he and his fianceé lived in a rented home in Hertfordshire.

During an interview last summer she revealed: “We want to buy our dream home here. We want to have kids here.”