Zsombor Piros


Zsombor Piros 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. 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 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.
Piros won the Hungarian Tennis Championships on 1 October 2017.

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.

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 2022 Tampere Open he reached the top 150 at world No. 139 in the rankings on 25 July 2022.
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.

2023-2025: Top 125 and Grand Slam debuts

Following his third Challenger title in Split 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 Tunis defeating Titouan Droguet.
Piros qualified for his first Grand Slam main draw at the 2025 US Open.

National representation

Piros has represented Hungary [Davis Cup team|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.

ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals

Singles: 20 (12 titles, 8 runner-ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1Hungary F6, BudapestFuturesClaydts|Sep 2017

Davis Cup

Participations: (12–5)