Zsombor Piros

Zsombor Piros (born 13 October 1999) is a Hungarian professional tennis 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. 2 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 Yshai Oliel in the final.

He made headlines at 2017 Wimbledon Championships when he and doubles partner Wu Yibing 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.

Professional career 2018-2020: 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, Julien Benneteau of France, 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 Bjorn Fratangelo of the United States in the second round.

2021: First Challenger final, Top 300 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. He won his second title at the 2022 Gwangju Open Challenger defeating Emilio Gómez. As a result, he reached a new career-high singles ranking of No. 138 on 10 October 2022. He won back-to-back titles in Oeiras and reached a new career-high ranking of No. 118 on 24 April 2023.

Piros qualified for his first Grand Slam main draw at the 2025 US Open.

National representation Piros has represented Hungary at Davis Cup, where he has a win–loss record of 6–5, including a five-set victory over top 100 player Jiří Veselý.

Performance timeline

Singles

ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals

Singles: 25 (16 titles, 9 runner-ups) LegendATP Challenger Tour (11–6)ITF Futures/WTT (5–3)Finals by surfaceHard (3–4)Clay (13–5)

Davis Cup

Participations: (12–5)

Group membershipWorld Group / Finals (3–1)Qualifying Round (4–3)WG Play-off (1–1)Group I (4–0)Group II (0–0)Group III (0–0)Group IV (0–0)Matches by surfaceHard (8–4)Clay (4–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)Matches by typeSingles (11–4)Doubles (1–1) indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, and the court surface.

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (title)

Doubles: 1 (title)