Marton Fucsovics is a famous tennis star popularly known as the Ironman of Tennis, find out 13 interesting facts about him below and know his ranking
Marton Fucsovics is reportedly a huge fan of Swiss tennis legend Roger Federer considered one of the best tennis players.
Who is Marton Fucsovics, his age, height, nationality, family, parents, ranking, career stats, net worth
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Read below to learn 13 interesting personal facts about professional tennis player Marton Fucsovics.
Who Is Marton Fucsovics?
Marton Fucsovics is a professional tennis player currently on the ATP Tour. His name is pronounced as (ˈfut͡ʃovit͡ʃ ˈmaːrton or Ma-rton Fuk-cho-vich).
Age
Marton Fucsovics was born on February 8, 1992, as such, he is currently 30 years old with his height at 1.88m.
Nationality
Marton Fucsovics is a Hungarian citizen. He was born in Nyiregyhaza, which is the seventh-largest city in Hungary, and currently resides in Budapest. Both his parents, Joszef and Edit, are from Hungary and work as accountants.
When did he start playing tennis
Fucsovics, who also goes by the nickname of ‘Marci’, first started playing tennis at the early age of 5. He first started playing with his father back at his local club in Nyiregyhaza. Besides tennis, the Hungarian also played several different sports, like football and basketball as a kid.
Marton Fucsovics junior record
Marton Fucsovics’ junior record peaked at No. 1 in the ITF world junior rankings back in July 2010. The Hungarian star won the 2009 US Open Boys’ Doubles title, with Hsieh Cheng-peng of Chinese Taipei and the Wimbledon Boys’ Singles title.
Marton Fucsovics’ Coach
Two fellow Hungarians Zoltan Nagy, and Miklos Jancso, currently coach Fucsovics. Fucsovics has been working with the pair since November 2019. Nagy and Jancso were both professional tennis players. Nagy peaked at World No. 297 in the singles rankings in 1997, while Jancso peaked at World. No 318 in the doubles rankings back in 1998.
ATP tour tournaments wins
So far, Marton Fucsovics has won one ATP Tour singles title in his career. He won the Geneva Open in 2018 after beating Peter Gojowczyk in the final. He is the first Hungarian player to win the title since former world No 12 Balazs Taroczy.
Best Ranking
Marton Fucsovics reached his best career-high ATP Tour ranking of No 31 back in March 2019. Ever since October 23, 2017, Marton has always been ranked inside the Top 100 every week. His current ranking is 78 in men’s singles with 687 points.
Career-total prize money won
Throughout his entire career, Fucsovics has won a total of $5,459,651 prize money from both singles and doubles combined.
Marton Fucsovics’ Grand Slams record
Fucsovics has so far played in the main draw at 15 Grand Slam events. In those 15 events, he has managed to reach the round of 16 three times.
Fucscovics also reached the fourth round once at the Roland-Garros 2020. His best performance at Wimbledon was a second round appearance in 2019, and a third round appearance at the 2020 US Open.
Meaning behind “Ironman of tennis”
Marton Fucsovics, stands at a height of is 6ft 2in (1.88m) and weighs around 82 kgs (181lbs). He has an incredible physique, which as you can guess earned him the nickname of “Ironman of Tennis”.
Idols and rivals
Marton Fucsovics considers players like Marat Safin, Lleyton Hewitt and Roger Federer as his idols. Currently, Andrey Rublev is Fucsovics biggest rival, having lost his four of his last matches to the Russian since October 2020.
Following a recent defeat, Fucsovics told Rublev:
I hope I don’t play you anymore this year
However, just 11 days he met Rublev in the Miami Open.
Hobbies
Fucsovics likes to spend his free time by travelling, and spending time with his dog, watching movies, and hanging out with his friends. He is also a big fan Spanish football club FC Barcelona.
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