The 29-year-old hasn't tasted a lot of success in those years; after all, he's only won the 1 singles title and no doubles titles.
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Marton Fucsovics is a Hungarian tennis player who has been a consistent presence on the ATP tour for over a decade now. The 29-year-old hasn’t tasted a lot of success in those years; after all, he’s only won the 1 singles title and no doubles titles. However, he has shown enough on a number of occasions to prove a thorn in the sides of some. And that is reflected in his rankings during recent years.
Fucsovics has been in the top 100 since 2017 and in the top 50 since 2018. He might lack the consistency to be a regular title winner, but on his day is unbeatable. His sole title win came at the 2018 Geneva Open. Incidentally, it was the first final he had ever reached in his career till that point. Since then, he has reached two more – the 2019 Sofia Open and 2021 Rotterdam Open – but on both occasions finished as the runner-up.
Fucsovics’ career began at the age of 5 and he was what one would call an early bloomer. By the age of 8, he was playing age groups where he was the youngest player by 3-4 years. Interestingly, he could have had another career path had he so chosen – he was also good at basketball early in his life. But when the time came for him to make a choice, he chose to pursue tennis. And his journey through the junior ranks was definitely a successful one. In 2009, he won the US Open boys doubles title and would follow that by reaching the semis of the boys singles Australian Open.
His biggest success came when he won the boys singles title at Wimbledon in 2010; he won that Grand Slam without dropping a set. He would then turn pro in 2009 and won two Challenger titles; the first in May 2013 at the Kunming Open and at the Andria Challenger in November that same year. By 2016 he made it to his first Grand Slam main draw at the US Open. He lost out in the first round to Nicolas Almagro in straight sets. That led to more success in 2017; two more Challenger titles followed, as did a wildcard entry at that year’s Wimbledon. He ended the year breaking into the top 100 of the ATP rankings.
More success followed in 2018; he reached the Australian Open fourth round and won the Geneva Open, his only title win. 2019 saw him reach another ATP event final but lose. However, 2020 was a better year for him; he made it to fourth round of both the Australian and French Open. He even made it to the US Open third round. 2021 saw him make it to a Grand Slam quarterfinal for the first time; he achieved the feat in Wimbledon. He also made it to the finals of the Rotterdam Open – it was his first final appearance in an ATP 500 event.
Marton Fucsovics is coached by Hungarians Zoltan Nagy and Miklos Jancso. He joined them in November of this year. In the singles rankings for 1997, Nagy peaked at No. 297, while Jancso rose to No. 318 in the doubles rankings. Fucsovics’ collaboration with Miklos Jancso and Zoltan Nagy is now paying off after dealing with personal issues in 2019.
