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Two Hungarians are in the top 100 in the first 2025 world ranking for men’s tennis: Fábián Marozsán is 57th and Márton Fucsovics is 100th. Furthermore, regarding the women’s ranking, Anna Bondár made it to 97th place.
The newly crowned Hungarian champion Fábián Marozsán played in the quarter-finals of the Hong Kong tournament last week, beating defending champion Andrei Rublyov of Russia among others, and as a result improved his ATP ranking by one place. Márton Fucsovics has jumped four places and is back in the top 100. Italian Jannik Sinner remains in the lead ahead of Germany’s Alexander Zverev and Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz.
As for the women’s ranking, Anna Bondár is the best Hungarian in the women’s WTA ranking, in 97th place.
Meanwhile, Fucsovics advanced to the second round of qualifying at the Australian Open,
even though he did not arrive in Melbourne with the best of omens, having only reached the quarter-finals of a challenger event in New Caledonia last week, where he was beaten by ATP No. 517 Moerani Bouzige of Australia. On the other side of the net in Tuesday’s match, was Spain’s Oriol Roca Batalla, ranked 224th, with the 32-year-old Hungarian winning. The Nyíregyháza player will face Henrique Rocha (174th) from Portugal in the second round, needing three wins to reach the main draw.
In the women’s singles, Dalma Gálfi (137th) faced Oksana Selehmetyeva, against whom she lost 6:3, 2:6, 7:5 on New Year’s Day in Canberra. In the deciding set, they reached 4:4 with two breaks, then at 4:5 Gálfi lost her serve for the sixth time, which cost the match, so after 2 hours 2 minutes, her opponent could celebrate. The third Hungarian qualifier, Panna Udvardy (157th), made it through the first round of the Australian Open on Monday, with Fábián Marozsán and Anna Bondár to be in the main draw.
Via MTI, Featured photo via Pixabay