László Markovits

László Markovits de Spizza et Kisterpest
Country	Hungary
Born	April 4, 1970 (age 41)
Turned pro	1995
Plays	Right-handed
Career prize money	US$67,898
Singles
Career record	12–16
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	604 (October 19, 1987)
Doubles
Career record	107–93
Highest ranking	118 (April 15, 1996)
Grand Slam Doubles results
French Open	1r (1996)
Wimbledon	1r (1996)

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The native form of this personal name is Markovits László. This article uses the Western name order.

Count László Markovits de Spizza et Kisterpest (born April 4, 1970) is a former tennis player from Hungary, son of water polo player and national team captain Kálmán Markovits and World champion handballer Márta Balogh.^[1] He was the winner of Hungarian National Tennis Championships in singles in 1986 (the youngest winner in seniors category in Hungarian tennis history with his age of 16) and has won it two times.^[2] He represented his native country as a lucky loser at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics in Barcelona in singles and partnered with Sándor Noszály for the doubles, but both ended in the first round, losing in four sets and being forced to retire respectively. He reached the second round in the 1988 Seoul Olympics and 1996 Atlanta Olympics teamed up with Gábor Köves. In the 1991 Davis Cup Euro/African Group I 1st Round Play-offs he defended Hungary to be relegated to Group II by winning the second and third match (singles and doubles) against Morocco resulting in the irreversible 3–0 lead (5–0 in total). He was a member as a reserve of the 1993 team, whose victory over Argentina resulted in advancing to the World Group and an active member of the 1995 team who shocked Australia by knocking them out in the World Group play-offs. He was a recurring member of the team over a decade (1987–97) clinching a 9–8 win-loss record in doubles but being less successful in singles (1–7 in overall). He has later become the chairman of Vasas SC.

[edit] Doubles finals (9)

[edit] Wins (4)

Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (0)
ATP International Series Gold / ATP World Tour 500 Series (0)
ATP Tour (0)
Challengers (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
1.	September 15, 1996	Budapest II	Clay	Attila Sávolt	Tuomas Ketola / Borut Urh	Walkover
2.	August 25, 1996	Graz	Clay	Pablo Albano	Filippo Messori / Cristian Brandi	6–4, 6–1
3.	November 5, 1995	Aachen	Carpet	David Ekerot	Alexander Mronz / Lars Rehmann	6–7, 6–4, 7–6
4.	June 11, 1995	Medellin	Clay	Wayne Black	Leander Paes / Maurice Ruah	7–5, 6–4

[edit] Runner-ups (5)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
1.	August 3, 1997	Poznan	Clay	Jordi Burillo	David Rikl / Tomáš Anzari	6–3, 6–2
2.	September 17, 1996	Budapest II	Clay	Gábor Köves	Emanuel Couto / João Cunha e Silva	4–6, 7–5, 6–4
3.	August 27, 1995	Umag	Clay	David Ekerot	Luis Lobo / Javier Sánchez	6–4, 6–0
4.	June 26, 1994	Braunschweig	Clay	Gábor Köves	Horacio de la Peña / Javier Sánchez	6–4, 7–6
5.	May 22, 1994	Budapest I	Clay	Gábor Köves	João Cunha e Silva / Nuno Marques	6–7, 6–4, 7–6