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

Kálmán Markovits

Kálmán Markovits is a Hungarian water polo player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics, 1956 Summer Olympics, and 1960 Summer Olympics.He was born in Budapest....

. He was the winner of Hungarian National Tennis Championships

Hungarian National Tennis Championships

The Hungarian National Championships is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts...

 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 He represented his native country as a lucky loser at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics

Tennis at the 1992 Summer Olympics

These are the final results for the tennis competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.American teenager Jennifer Capriati stunned German Steffi Graf in the women's singles final to win the gold medal...

 in Barcelona in singles and partnered with Sándor Noszály

Sandor Noszaly

Sándor Noszály is an active tennis player from Hungary, who is a five times Hungarian Champion in singles and 16 times adding the doubles.-Career:...

 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

Tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Tennis returned to the Summer Olympic Games at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, having been left out since the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. Tennis had been a demonstration sport at the 1984 Summer Olympics....

 and 1996 Atlanta Olympics

Tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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 teamed up with Gábor Köves

Gábor Köves

Gábor Köves is a retired Hungarian Olympian tennis player. Seoul gold medalists Ken Flach and Robert Seguso stopped him and partner László Markovits in the second round in the 1988 Summer Olympics.-Doubles :...

. 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

Morocco

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  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

Vasas SC

Vasas SC is one of Hungary's major sports clubs. Most of its facilities are situated in Budapest's 13th district in the north of the town. Members of the Hungarian Union of Iron Workers founded the club as Vas-és Fémmunkások Sport Clubja, the "Sport Club of Iron and Steel Workers", on 16 March 1911...

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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 Budapest Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...  II	Clay	Attila Sávolt Attila Savolt Attila Sávolt is a tennis player from Hungary, who represented his native country at the 2000 Sydney Olympics where he was losing to Paradorn Srichaphan in his very first match. Starting his professional career in 1995, he peaked the ATP-ranking on May 20, 2002, reaching 68 on the world rankings...	Tuomas Ketola Tuomas Ketola Tuomas Ketola is a Finnish former professional tennis player on the ATP Tour.Ketola was the number two tennis player in Finland behind Jarkko Nieminen and as of April 14, 2006 is the 716th ranked player in the world. In 2004, he reached the first round of Wimbledon in singles by defeating three...   /   Borut Urh Borut Urh Borut Urh is a former professional tennis player from Slovenia. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 281 in 1999 and a career-high doubles ranking of World No...	Walkover
2.	August 25, 1996	Graz Graz The more recent population figures do not give the whole picture as only people with principal residence status are counted and people with secondary residence status are not. Most of the people with secondary residence status in Graz are students...	Clay	Pablo Albano Pablo Albano Pablo Albano , is a former professional tennis player from Argentina.Albano enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 9 doubles titles. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 25 in 1997.-Doubles titles :-Runner-ups :-External links:...	Filippo Messori Filippo Messori Filippo Messori is a former professional tennis player from Italy. He was born in Modena, Italy.Messori enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 1 doubles title. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 63 in 1997.-Doubles titles...   /   Cristian Brandi Cristian Brandi Cristian Brandi , is a former professional tennis player from Italy.Brandi enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 2 doubles titles and finished runner-up an additional 9 times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No...	6-4, 6-1
3.	November 5, 1995	Aachen Aachen Aachen has historically been a spa town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Aachen was a favoured residence of Charlemagne, and the place of coronation of the Kings of Germany. Geographically, Aachen is the westernmost town of Germany, located along its borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, ...	Carpet	David Ekerot David Ekerot David Ekerot is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 2 doubles titles. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 52 in 1997.-Doubles titles :-Runner-ups :-External links:...	Alexander Mronz Alexander Mronz Alexander Mronz is a former tennis player from Germany, who turned professional in 1987.Mronz played right-handed, and won one doubles title in his career. Mronz reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour on April 8, 1991, when he became the World Number 73.Mronz dated Steffi Graf in...   /   Lars Rehmann	6-7, 6-4, 7-6
4.	June 11, 1995	Medellin Medellín Medellín , officially the Municipio de Medellín or Municipality of Medellín, is the second largest city in Colombia. It is in the Aburrá Valley, one of the more northerly of the Andes in South America. It has a population of 2.3 million...	Clay	Wayne Black Wayne Black Wayne Hamilton Black is a former professional male tennis player from Zimbabwe.Black is the son of Don and Velia Black and the brother of Cara Black and Byron Black, also professional tennis players. He attended the University of Southern California and was an All-American in singles and doubles...	Leander Paes Leander Paes Leander Adrian Paes, pronounced pās, is an Indian professional tennis player who currently features in the doubles events in the ATP tour and the Davis Cup tournament...   /   Maurice Ruah Maurice Ruah Maurice Ruah , is a former professional tennis player from Venezuela. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 82 in 1994....	7-5, 6-4

Runner-ups (5)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
1.	August 3, 1997	Poznan Poznan Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...	Clay	Jordi Burillo Jordi Burillo Jordi Burillo Puig is a retired professional tennis player from Spain. He won one singles title and a doubles title on the ATP Tour in his career...	David Rikl David Rikl David Rikl is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. The left-handed Rikl turned professional in 1989. The Czech's success came mostly in doubles, having been a runner-up at the 2004 US Open and 2001 Wimbledon Championships. However, Rikl did achieve a top-100 singles...   /   Tomáš Zdražila	6-3, 6–2
2.	September 17, 1996	Budapest Budapest Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...  II	Clay	Gábor Köves Gábor Köves Gábor Köves is a retired Hungarian Olympian tennis player. Seoul gold medalists Ken Flach and Robert Seguso stopped him and partner László Markovits in the second round in the 1988 Summer Olympics.-Doubles :...	Emanuel Couto Emanuel Couto Emanuel Couto , is a former professional tennis player from Portugal. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No...   /   João Cunha e Silva	4-6, 7-5, 6-4
3.	August 27, 1995	Umag Umag Umag is a coastal city in Istria, Croatia.The city hosts the yearly Croatia Open ATP tennis tournament on clay courts.-Geography:It is the westernmost city of Croatia, and the municipality includes Savudrija which is westernmost point of Croatia....	Clay	David Ekerot David Ekerot David Ekerot is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 2 doubles titles. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 52 in 1997.-Doubles titles :-Runner-ups :-External links:...	Luis Lobo Luis Lobo Luis Lobo is a professional male tennis player from Argentina, who won the gold medal in the men's doubles competition at the 1995 Pan American Games....   /   Javier Sánchez Javier Sánchez Javier Sánchez Vicario is a former professional tennis player from Spain.Sánchez won the US Open junior title in 1986, and then turned professional. He won his first professional doubles titles in 1987. His first top-level singles title came in 1988 at Buenos Aires. During his career he won a...	6-4, 6-0
4.	June 26, 1994	Braunschweig Braunschweig Braunschweig , is a city of 247,400 people, located in the federal-state of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser....	Clay	Gábor Köves	Horacio de la Peña Horacio de la Peña Horacio de la Peña, born August 1, 1966 and nicknamed "el Pulga" , is a tennis coach and a former tennis player from Argentina, who reached a top singles world rank of 31 during his career....   /   Javier Sánchez	6-4, 7-6
5.	May 22, 1994	Budapest Budapest Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...  I	Clay	Gábor Köves	João Cunha e Silva /   Nuno Marques Nuno Marques Nuno Miguel Bacelar de Vasconcelos Marques is a former Portuguese tennis player. He was the first Portuguese to reach the top 100 ATP rankings and held the record of highest ranked Portuguese player in history until Frederico Gil surpassed him in 2009...	6-7, 6-4, 7-6

External links

• László Markovits at the International Tennis Federation
  International Tennis Federation
  The International Tennis Federation is the governing body of world tennis, made up of 205 national tennis associations.It was established as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by 12 national associations meeting at a conference in Paris, France on 1 March 1913...