Márton Fucsovics

Márton Fucsovics (Fucsovics Márton, ; born 8 February 1992) is a Hungarian professional tennis player.

In 2003 Fucsovics won his age group National Championship and the Nike Junior Tour.

With that he got the chance to represent Hungary on the World Final in Sun City, South Africa.

Fucsovics also showed talent in basketball as a youth, but chose to make tennis his career path.

Fucsovics's first major success came in 2009, when he won the US Open Boys' Doubles title, with Hsieh Cheng-peng of Chinese Taipei.

In 2010 he reached the semi-final of the Australian Open Boys' Singles, and a few months later he won the Wimbledon Boys' Singles, defeating qualifier Benjamin Mitchell in a straight-sets final.

Fucsovics did not lose a set throughout the entire tournament.

He also participated in the doubles' event alongside Czech Libor Salaba, and reached the quarter-finals.

Later that year he also reached the semi-final of the 2010 US Open – Boys' singles, in which he lost to Jack Sock.

Fucsovics was also an integral part of the Hungarian U-18 national tennis team.

The team won the prestigious Galea/Valerio Cup in Venice to claim Hungary's first ever boys' European Summer Cups title.

The other members of the team were Máté Zsiga and Levente Gödry.

Fucsovics worked his way to No. 1 in the ITF Junior Rankings in July 2010 and as a result entered the Youth Olympics as tournament's top seed.

He suffered a surprise loss, however, in the first round, to eventual quarterfinalist Oliver Golding.

In 2013 Fucsovics won two Challenger titles, the first in May at the Kunming Open and at the Andria Challenger in November.

In the second round, he upset 13th seed, Sam Querrey, in four sets.

He ended up reaching the fourth round where he fell to world No. 2, five-time champion, and eventual champion, Roger Federer.

Representing Hungary in the Davis Cup tie against Belgium, Fucsovics lost both of his matches to Ruben Bemelmans and David Goffin.

Hungary ended up losing the tie to Belgium 2–3.

As the top seed at the Hungarian Challenger Open, he made it to the semifinals where he was defeated by Nicola Kuhn.

In March, he competed at the Indian Wells Masters.

He was eliminated in the second round by second seed and world No. 3, Marin Čilić.

Seeded fourth at the Irving Classic, he reached the semifinals where he was beaten by Matteo Berrettini.

In Miami, he lost in the first round to Maximilian Marterer.

Fucsovics started his clay-court season at the Grand Prix Hassan II.

He lost in the first round to Malek Jaziri.

At the Monte-Carlo Masters, he was defeated in the first round by Daniil Medvedev.

In 2016 he qualified for his first Grand Slam at the US Open losing to Nicolás Almagro in three sets in the round of 128.

In 2017 he won two challengers for the first time since 2013 in June, the first during the Internazionali di Tennis Città di Vicenza and the second at Ilkley Challenger.

His success at Ilkley saw him win a wildcard into 2017 Wimbledon Championships main draw where he lost to the 16th seed Gilles Müller in the opening round.

He also reached a career high ranking of 99, breaking into the top 100 for the first time.

In September 2017 he played a pivotal role in Hungary's promotion to the World Group winning 3 rubbers against favorites Russia.

Fucsovics started his 2018 season at the Tata Open Maharashtra in Pune, India.

He lost in the second round to fourth seed Benoît Paire.

Seeded sixth at the Canberra Challenger, he reached the final, but he ended up losing to seventh seed Andreas Seppi.

Ranked 80 at the Australian Open, he won his first match in a Grand Slam main draw by defeating Radu Albot in the first round.

He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 31 on 4 March 2019.

He is currently the No. 2 Hungarian player.

Fucsovics started to play tennis at the age of five.

He came through the ranks quickly and at the age of 8 he played in a field 3–4 years older.