Can Fucsovics work himself out of reverse?

In the summer of 2021, Márton Fucsovics made his way to the quarter-finals of the Wimbledon Championship. Never before had he gone so deep into a Grand Slam event, with a professional glass ceiling appearing to have been smashed.

Unfortunately for the experienced Hungarian, in four outings at major tournaments since catching the eye at SW19, first-round exits have been endured on three occasions.

Rise and fall

One of those came on American soil, and tennis odds during the US Open are not expecting him to make much of an impact at Flushing Meadows some 12 months on. Fucsovics’ form would need to be found from nowhere in order for another run to the second week of a slam to be made.

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Marton Fucsovics’ dream run at #Wimbledon takes another step as he becomes the 3rd Hungarian man to reach the quarter-finals at The Championships, knocking out the No.5 seed Andrey Rublev pic.twitter.com/Vh7zUzZ2IF

— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) July 5, 2021

That is not to say that Fucsovics is not capable of making an impact in New York, but hard courts have not been kind to him over the years. He has previously made the third round in the States and the fourth in Australia, but those runs have been exceptions to the norm.

In 2022, Novak Djokovic once again tops the betting markets at +138, with the likes of Daniil Medvedev and Rafael Nadal clinging to the Serbian’s coattails. Nick Kyrgios has, however, come in with odds of +800 as the enigmatic Aussie offers hope to all of those that may have feared that a day in the sun had passed them by.

Momentum can be a wonderful thing and it only takes a pinch of that special sporting recipe in order for positive progress to be made. Fucsovics has stumbled across that formula before, so why not again?