Team Hungary will arrive in Montreal for their Davis Cup Qualifiers 1st Round clash against Canada with a team all over the spectrum when it comes to age and experience.
Their veteran leader, Marton Fucsovics, has more Davis Cup matches under his belt than the rest of his team combined and is 14 years older than the youngest member of the squad. But the former world No. 31 is not his team’s top player anymore.
Let’s meet the men who will be wearing red, white, and green for Hungary across the net in Montreal.
Fabian Maroszan
The Hungarian No. 1 arrives in Montreal fresh off matching his career-best result at a major, reaching the third round of the Australian Open. He has a 4-2 record to start the season including a pair of impressive victories over Top 20 opponents. He upset world No. 8 Andrey Rublev in the first week of 2025 and then took out No. 16 Frances Tiafoe in five sets in Melbourne.
Despite currently being his nation’s top player, Maroszan is still relatively inexperienced at the Davis Cup. He only has 11 total matches under his belt, just four in singles. He has scored just one singles win in his career, coming back in the 2023 World Group 1st Round against Turkey.
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Maroszan has made steady progress since making his main tour debut in 2021. In 2024, he participated in the main draw of all four Grand Slam events for the first time and reached the quarter-finals in Miami, which was actually his second Masters 1000 quarter-final. Maroszan reached at least the round of sixteen in his first four Masters 1000 events and upset Carlos Alcaraz in just his second-ever match at that level in Rome in 2023.
He arrives in Montreal ranked 58th in the world.
Marton Fucsovics
If there is a player on the Hungarian squad fans are likely to recognize, it is probably the 32-year-old Fucsovics. The veteran leader for Hungary has participated in 25 ties for his country and played more than 50 matches in Davis Cup competition.
Or maybe fans are familiar with his exuberant celebrations that have been known to involve him hulking out of his shirt…
In any case, Fucsovics is a two-time titlist on the ATP Tour, including last year on clay in Bucharest, and reached the quarter-finals of Wimbledon in 2021. While he is currently clinging to a spot in the Top 100, the Hungarian has the ability to blast any opponent off of the court on any given day with his humungous groundstrokes.
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He made his debut for Hungary in Davis Cup all the way back in 2010 and boasts an overall record of 33-20, 25-13 in singles. The veteran has played Davis Cup every year since first joining the national team. Fucsovics won his lone match during the 2024 campaign over Jan-Lennard Struff in Hungary’s qualifying round loss to Germany, the same opponent that went on to vanquish Canada in the Final 8.
It is worth noting that just last week, Fucsovics was the top seed at an ATP Challenger event in Portugal but was upset in the second round by Alexis Galarneau, a member of this week’s Canadian team.
Peter Fajta
Fajta, the world No. 524, was the last member added to Team Hungary for the Qualifiers 1st Round tie, subbing in last week for Zsombor Piros. The 22-year-old has played two matches in his career for Hungary at the Davis Cup, a pair of doubles losses including in last year’s World Group 1st Round tie with Egypt.
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In 2024, Fajta reached four finals on the ITF Tour, winning a pair of them. Both of his titles came in the comforts of his home nation. He has won at least one singles title on the ITF tour each of the last four years.
Mate Valkusz
Valkusz has been a consistent member of the Hungarian team for the last three years, having participated in five of the country’s six ties over that span. He has a 4-5 record overall. Despite not having a doubles ranking, his best results in Davis Cup have come in doubles as he owns a 3-1 record.
It is thanks to Valkusz that Hungary is making the trip to Montreal, as his singles victory in the fifth and decisive match during the Hungarian’s World Group 1st Round tie with Egypt clinched the team’s spot in the 2025 qualifiers. That win is Valkusz’s only singles victory in Davis Cup play.
The current world No. 1093 has one ATP Challenger Tour title to his name back in 2023.
Adam Jilly
The youngest member of Team Hungary, the 18-year-old Jilly will be making his Davis Cup debut this week in Montreal. Currently ranked No. 1421 on the ATP singles rankings, the teen has never played a tour-level match.
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He has made a handful of appearances at M15 events on the ITF tour, with his best result coming on home soil last September in Budapest when he reached the semifinals. He has also reached a few doubles semifinals at the M15 level. Jilly is a four-time singles titlist and nine-time doubles champion on the ITF junior circuit.
The draw for the 2025 Davis Cup Qualifiers 1st Round tie between Canada and Hungary will take place on Friday, Jan. 31.
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