Zsombor Piros (born 13 October 1999) is a Hungarian professional

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player. Piros has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 106, achieved on 4 March 2024. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 991, achieved on 8 August 2022. He is currently the No. 3 Hungarian player.

Junior career

On the junior tour Piros had a career-high ranking of 3 achieved on 4 September 2017. Piros won the 2017 Australian Open boys' singles championships, defeating Israeli

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in the final. He made headlines at Wimbledon 2017 when he and doubles partner Yibing Wu fell foul of Wimbledon's pants police, and were required to change their underpants from black to white to comply with regulations. Even without their lucky pants they won the subsequent match 6–4 6–1. Piros won the

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on 1 October 2017.

Professional career

2018: First Challenger win, first Top 100 win

Piros began his year at the Nouméa Challenger, where he came through qualifying to reach the 2nd round, losing to eventual champion Noah Rubin. In the first round, he defeated the top seed,

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, in three sets, 3–6, 7–5, 6–1, to record his first Challenger win as well as his first win against a Top 100 player. Next, he entered the Australian Open singles qualifying, falling to

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of the

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in the second round.

2021: First Challenger final and top 300 debut

He reached his maiden Challenger final at the 2021 Slovak Open II as a qualifier and moved 58 positions up in the rankings to a new career-high ranking of No. 282 on 15 November 2021.

2022: Top 200, Maiden Challenger title

He made his top 200 debut on 25 April 2022 at World No. 189 in the singles rankings following his second Challenger final at the 2022 Split Open in Croatia. Following his maiden Challenger title at the

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he reached the top 150 at world No. 139 in the rankings on 25 July 2022. He won his second title at the

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Challenger defeating Emilio Gómez. As a result, he reached a new career-high singles ranking of No. 138 on 10 October 2022.

2023-2025: Top 125

Following his third Challenger title in

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he reached a new career high ranking of No. 134 on 17 April 2023. He won back-to-back titles in Oeiras and reached a new career-high ranking of No. 118 on 24 April 2023. In May 2025, Piros won his seventh challenger title in

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defeating

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National representation

Piros has represented

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, where he has a win–loss record of 6–5, including a five-set victory over top 100 player Jiri Vesely.

ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals

Singles: 19 (12 titles, 7 runner-ups)

Davis Cup

Participations: (10–5)

* indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup match followed by

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, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, and the court surface.

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Piros, Zsombor 1999 births Living people Hungarian male tennis players Australian Open (tennis) junior champions French Open junior champions Tennis players from Budapest Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles 21st-century Hungarian sportsmen