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Balázs Taróczy (; born 9 May 1954) is a retired
tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
player from Hungary. The right-hander won 13 singles titles in his career, and achieved a career-high singles
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of world No. 12 in April 1982.


Tennis career

Taróczy was six times a Hungarian national champion. He also won the Dutch Open on six occasions (1976, 1978–82), which made up nearly half of his total number of singles titles. One of the game's premier doubles players, Balazs and partner Heinz Günthardt won the 1985 Wimbledon doubles title. Though never especially proficient on the grass, the duo defeated the Australian pair Pat Cash and John Fitzgerald in four sets. He became the Hungarian No. 1 player in 1973 and was a member of the Hungary Davis Cup team from 1973 to 1985. Despite playing part-time, still managed to finish top 50 in the doubles world rankings at No. 45 in 1989 From September 1989 to the end of 1990, he was the coach of Goran Ivanišević.


Career finals


Singles: 20 (13 wins, 7 losses)


Doubles: 59 (26 wins, 33 losses)


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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Taroczy, Balazs 1954 births Living people Hungarian male tennis players Hungarian tennis coaches Tennis players from Budapest Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles Summer World University Games medalists in tennis FISU World University Games silver medalists for Hungary FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Hungary French Open champions Wimbledon champions Medalists at the 1973 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 1977 Summer Universiade 21st-century Hungarian people 20th-century Hungarian sportsmen