László Markovits
Count László Markovits of Spizza and Kisterpest ( born April 4, 1970) is a former Hungarian tennis player and currently President of Vasas Budapest.
Career
Markovits was especially successful on the second-rate Challenger Tour. In doubles, he won in his career four Challenger titles. On the ATP tour him his best result achieved in 1995, when he celebrated his first and only finals in Umag. However, together with David Ekerot he defeated Javier Sánchez and Luis Lobo smooth with 4:6, 0:6. At Grand Slam tournaments he never got beyond the first round.
He participated in three Summer Olympics, in part: 1988 Seoul, 1992 Barcelona and 1996 in Atlanta. In 1988 he took up only in the doubles competition with Gábor Köves and won just the opening game against the Mexicans Leonardo Lavalle and Agustín Moreno. In the second round they lost to later gold medal winners Ken Flach and Robert Seguso from the United States. In 1992 he moved as a substitute according to the individual competition field, was defeated in the opening round but the Dutchman Mark Koevermans in four sets. Markovits was injured in this game, so he could not compete for the double game on the side of Sándor Noszály. In 1996, he took up as already in Seoul only in the doubles competition, also with Köves. They divorced in the first round against the South Africans Ellis and Wayne Ferreira.
Markovits played between 1987 and 1997 a total of 18 matches for the Hungarian Davis Cup team. While its individual balance is negative with 1:7 victories, his double balance with 9:8 victories is just positive.
Personal
He is the son of Count Kálmán Markovits, an Olympic gold medalist in water polo, and Márta Balogh, with the Hungarian women's national handball team in 1965 world champion.
Markovits is the current President of the Hungarian first division soccer Vasas Budapest.