128 Facts About Feliciano Lopez

Feliciano Lopez achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No 12 in March 2015 and doubles ranking of world No 9 in November 2016.

In 2005, Lopez was the first male Spanish tennis player to reach the quarterfinals of Wimbledon since 1972.

Feliciano Lopez defeated Tim Henman at the 2007 Wimbledon second round.

Feliciano Lopez reached the quarterfinals of the 2015 US Open, and won his first Grand Slam title at the 2016 French Open when he won the men's doubles title with Marc Lopez.

In 2017 at the age of 35 Feliciano Lopez won the Aegon Championship at The Queen's Club, London, beating Marin Cilic in a third set tiebreak.

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Feliciano Lopez distinguished himself by winning his ATP titles, both in singles and doubles, on all surfaces, hard, grass and clay.

Feliciano Lopez holds the record for most losses on the ATP Tour, with 486.

Feliciano Lopez is known for his strong serve and ability to play balls repeatedly on the baseline, and is a confident net player and has been known to serve and volley.

Unlike most Spanish players, who almost always prefer clay courts due to the popularity of that surface in their country, Feliciano Lopez is an exceptionally strong grass-court player, with three quarter-final runs at Wimbledon, as well as 4 titles on grass at the Eastbourne International in 2013 and 2014 and at the Queen's Club Championships in 2017 and 2019.

In 1997, Feliciano Lopez made his pro circuit debut in Mallorca on 29 September, losing in the second round to Dusan Vemic.

Feliciano Lopez then competed on the Challenger circuit, making the quarter-finals of Spain F7 and Spain F8.

Feliciano Lopez won his first Futures event in Spain F6, beating Pedro Canovas in the final.

Feliciano Lopez reached one other final, losing to Reginald Willems at the Spain F7.

In 2000, Feliciano Lopez competed in only his second ATP tournament at the 2000 Estoril Open, losing to Juan Antonio Marin.

Feliciano Lopez's performance was mediocre on the Challenger circuit, and he reached only two quarter-finals.

Feliciano Lopez made his first ATP win in the 2001 Chevrolet Cup, defeating Adrian Garcia.

Feliciano Lopez made his Grand Slam debut at the 2001 French Open, losing to Carlos Moya in straight sets.

Feliciano Lopez started the year with his first semi-final at the 2002 ATP Buenos Aires, losing to Nicolas Massu.

Feliciano Lopez followed it up with a quarter-final appearance at the 2002 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, losing to Antony Dupuis.

Feliciano Lopez reached the second round of the Miami Masters, losing to Alex Corretja in the final.

Feliciano Lopez then won his first Grand Slam match at the 2002 French Open, defeating Didac Perez in five sets, before losing to third seed Tommy Haas in straight sets.

Feliciano Lopez then gained revenge for his loss to Sa by defeating him in Lopez's US Open debut in the first round in straight sets, before losing to Gaston Gaudio in the next round.

Feliciano Lopez then reached the quarter-finals in Hong Kong and Tokyo.

Feliciano Lopez reached the third round of the 2002 Madrid Masters, losing to Andre Agassi.

In 2003, Feliciano Lopez started the year with first-round exits at Doha and Auckland.

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Feliciano Lopez made his Australian Open debut, reaching the third round, but losing to Younes El Aynaoui in four sets.

Feliciano Lopez performed badly in the first rounds in Milan, Marseille, and Rotterdam.

Feliciano Lopez then reached the quarter-finals in Dubai, losing to Tommy Robredo, and in Estoril, losing to Max Mirnyi.

Feliciano Lopez reached the second rounds of Indian Wells and Monte Carlo.

Feliciano Lopez reached the fourth round of Wimbledon, where he lost to Roger Federer in straight sets.

Feliciano Lopez then reached two straight semi-finals in Stuttgart and Kitzbuhel, losing both to eventual champion Guillermo Coria.

Feliciano Lopez continued his form by reaching the quarter-finals at the 2003 Canada Masters, losing to David Nalbandian in straight sets.

Feliciano Lopez ended the year with second-round exit at the Paris Masters, where he lost to Guillermo Coria, his fifth lost to Coria.

Feliciano Lopez reached his first final at the 2004 Dubai Open, losing to Roger Federer.

Feliciano Lopez then reached the second rounds of the 2004 Indian Wells Masters, the 2004 Miami Masters, the 2004 Open de Tenis Comunidad Valenciana, and the 2004 Monte Carlo Masters.

Feliciano Lopez reached the fourth round of the 2004 French Open, losing to Gustavo Kuerten.

Feliciano Lopez then lost in the third round of 2004 Wimbledon, losing to tall Croatian Ivo Karlovic.

Feliciano Lopez reached the quarter-finals of Kitzbuhel, losing to Fernando Verdasco.

Feliciano Lopez ended the year with a quarter-final appearance at the 2004 Paris Masters, losing to Guillermo Canas.

Feliciano Lopez started 2005 with quarter-final appearances at the 2005 Qatar ExxonMobil Open, losing to Roger Federer, and at the 2005 Medibank International, losing to Radek Stepanek.

Feliciano Lopez then reached the third round of the 2005 Indian Wells Masters, losing to Fabrice Santoro in straight sets, and the quarter-finals of the 2005 Estoril Open, losing to Gaston Gaudio in straight sets.

Feliciano Lopez then reached his first Grand Slam quarter-final at 2005 Wimbledon, losing to Lleyton Hewitt in straight sets.

Feliciano Lopez reached the quarter-finals in Kitzbuhel, losing to Mariano Zabaleta in straight sets.

Feliciano Lopez then reached the quarter-finals of the 2005 BA-CA Tennis Trophy, losing to Radek Stepanek in straight sets.

Feliciano Lopez reached the third round of the 2006 Nottingham Open, losing to Jonas Bjorkman.

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Feliciano Lopez reached the final of the 2006 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad, losing to Richard Gasquet.

Feliciano Lopez reached the third round of the 2006 Legg Mason Tennis Classic, losing to eventual runner-up Andy Murray.

Feliciano Lopez reached the quarter-finals of the 2006 PTT Thailand Open, losing to Jarkko Nieminen.

Feliciano Lopez then lost in the second round of the 2007 Indian Wells Masters, losing to eventual semi-finalist Andy Roddick.

Feliciano Lopez reached the fourth round of the 2007 Miami Masters, losing to eventual champion Novak Djokovic.

Feliciano Lopez reached the third round of the 2007 Wimbledon Championships, losing to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, after he ended Tim Henman's Wimbledon career, beating him in a five-set thriller in the second round, Henman having been two sets up.

Feliciano Lopez then reached the semi-finals of the 2007 Mercedes Cup, losing to eventual champion Rafael Nadal.

Feliciano Lopez reached the fourth round of the 2007 US Open, losing to eventual champion Roger Federer, the first set being the fewest games won by Federer in one set in the whole tournament.

Feliciano Lopez followed it up with three straight quarter-finals at the 2007 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships, losing to eventual champion David Ferrer, at the 2007 BA-CA-TennisTrophy, losing to eventual runner-up Stanislas Wawrinka, and the 2007 Madrid Masters, losing to Roger Federer.

In 2008 Feliciano Lopez had a bad start, but rebounded at the 2008 Dubai Tennis Championships by reaching the finals, losing to Andy Roddick.

Feliciano Lopez then reached the third round of the 2008 Miami Masters, losing to Dmitry Tursunov.

Feliciano Lopez suffered first-round losses at the next three Masters Series at the 2008 Monte-Carlo Masters, the 2008 Rome Masters, and the 2008 Hamburg Masters.

Feliciano Lopez lost early in the first rounds of the 2008 French Open and the 2008 Queen's Club Championships.

Feliciano Lopez reached the quarter-finals of the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, for the second time losing to Marat Safin.

Feliciano Lopez then reached the semi-finals of the 2008 Bank Austria-TennisTrophy, losing to eventual champion Philipp Petzschner, the semi-finals of the 2008 Davidoff Swiss Indoors, losing to eventual champion Roger Federer, and the quarter-finals of the 2008 Mutua Madrilena Masters Madrid, losing to Rafael Nadal.

Feliciano Lopez helped the Spanish Davis Cup team to win the title against Argentina by beating Juan Martin del Potro.

In 2009, Feliciano Lopez started the year with a string of first-round losses, in the 2009 Heineken Open to Jarkko Nieminen, in the 2009 Australian Open to Gilles Muller, and in the 2009 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament to Julien Benneteau.

Feliciano Lopez then competed in the 2009 Open 13 and made it to the quarter-finals, before losing to eventual champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Feliciano Lopez struggled after this, and at one point he suffered eight straight main-draw losses in a row.

Feliciano Lopez started his 2010 season by playing in the 2010 Medibank International Sydney, where he lost to eventual runner-up Richard Gasquet in the first round.

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Feliciano Lopez then competed in the 2010 Australian Open, where he reached the third round, defeating Pablo Cuevas and Rainer Schuttler, but lost to seventh seed Andy Roddick in a close four-setter.

Feliciano Lopez went on to win the tournament, beating the eighth seed Stephane Robert.

Feliciano Lopez lost in the first rounds of the 2010 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament and 2010 Dubai Tennis Championships.

Feliciano Lopez then reached the third round of the 2010 BNP Paribas Open, losing to sixth seed Robin Soderling, after defeating Paul-Henri Mathieu and receiving a bye.

Feliciano Lopez lost to Mardy Fish in the third round, after defeating Michael Berrer in the 2010 Sony Ericsson Open.

Feliciano Lopez then won his first clay victory of the season by reaching the third round of the 2010 Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell, losing to Robin Soderling.

At the 2010 Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Feliciano Lopez reached the quarter-finals, losing to Ernests Gulbis, but upset Marin Cilic en route.

Feliciano Lopez then played at 2010 Wimbledon, reaching the third round, but losing to Jurgen Melzer.

Feliciano Lopez reached the fourth round of the 2010 US Open, losing to eventual champion Rafael Nadal in straight sets.

Feliciano Lopez then ended the year with a five-match losing streak: in the second round of 2010 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships and the first rounds of the 2010 Shanghai Rolex Masters 1000, the 2010 If Stockholm Open, the 2010 Valencia Open 500, and the 2010 BNP Paribas Masters.

Feliciano Lopez started his 2011 pre-Australian Open preparations at the 2011 Brisbane International and 2011 Medibank International Sydney, but lost early in both tournaments.

Feliciano Lopez then was upset in the second round of the 2011 Australian Open and first round of the 2011 SA Tennis Open by 199th-ranked Bernard Tomic and 235th-ranked Frank Dancevic.

Feliciano Lopez then lost in the second rounds of the 2011 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament and the 2011 Dubai Tennis Championships.

Feliciano Lopez lost in the first round of the 2011 BNP Paribas Open, the third round of the 2011 Sony Ericsson Open, and the second round of the 2011 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters.

Feliciano Lopez then reached his first quarter-final of the year at the 2011 Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell, where he lost to Ivan Dodig.

Feliciano Lopez reached his first final in over a year at the 2011 Serbia Open in Belgrade, where he lost to Novak Djokovic.

Feliciano Lopez played a memorable match at the 2011 Mutua Madrid Open, where he lost to Roger Federer.

Feliciano Lopez made it to the third round of the 2011 Rome Open, but lost to fellow countryman Rafael Nadal.

Feliciano Lopez lost in the first round of the 2011 French Open to Roger Federer.

Feliciano Lopez started the grass court season at the 2011 Aegon Open with a second round loss to Andy Roddick.

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Feliciano Lopez helped his country in the 2011 Davis Cup by beating American Mardy Fish in five sets.

Feliciano Lopez made it to the quarter-finals of the 2011 Suisse Open by defeating Michael Lammer and Daniel Gimeno Traver in the first two rounds.

Feliciano Lopez beat Radek Stepanek in the first round of the 2011 Rogers Cup, but lost to Mardy Fish in the second.

Feliciano Lopez lost in the following round to Philipp Kohlschreiber.

At the 2011 Shanghai Rolex Masters, Feliciano Lopez beat ninth seed Janko Tipsarevic, Alex Bogomolov Jr.

Feliciano Lopez played in Sydney to tune up for the Australian Open.

Feliciano Lopez had a bye in the first round, then lost to Julien Benneteau in straight sets in the second.

Feliciano Lopez reached the semi-finals in Houston, where Isner took his revenge, beating Lopez in three sets with two tie-breakers.

Feliciano Lopez played in Sydney as a tune-up event for the 2013 Australian Open.

Feliciano Lopez beat Jeremy Chardy in the opening round in three sets, but he lost in the second round to Kevin Anderson in straight sets.

In Memphis, Feliciano Lopez made it to the final, but was turned away by Kei Nishikori.

The week before Wimbledon, Feliciano Lopez won his first grass-court title by beating Gilles Simon in three sets in the final of the Aegon International in Eastbourne.

Feliciano Lopez then continued his impressive grass-court form into the third Grand Slam of the year, Wimbledon.

Feliciano Lopez saw off both Yuichi Sugita and Ante Pavic in straight sets in the first and second rounds, respectively.

Feliciano Lopez fought back from a set down to win 3 sets to 1, securing the first break of serve in the match in the penultimate game.

Feliciano Lopez thus progressed to the fourth round, where he met Stan Wawrinka, the fifth seed.

Feliciano Lopez lost, despite having several set points in the second-set tiebreak.

Feliciano Lopez won over seeded players Tomas Berdych and Milos Raonic at the Rogers Cup to reach his third Masters 1000 semi-final, after which he lost to Roger Federer.

Feliciano Lopez made the fourth round of the 2015 Australian Open, losing to Milos Raonic in five sets.

Feliciano Lopez then entered the new ATP 250 event, the Ecuador Open in Quito, Ecuador and reached the final, losing to Victor Estrella Burgos.

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In 2016 Feliciano Lopez achieved one of the greatest highlights of his career by winning the French Open doubles championship along with compatriot Marc Feliciano Lopez.

On 6 September 2016, Feliciano Lopez was part of the last match ever played in the old Louis Armstrong Stadium at the US Open.

Feliciano Lopez started the year representing Spain in the Hopman Cup, along with Lara Arruabarrena, but didn't make it past the round robin.

Feliciano Lopez lost in the first round of the 2017 Australian Open to Fabio Fognini in straight sets, where he achieved the wooden spoon.

Feliciano Lopez appeared at the 2017 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament but lost to Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the first round.

Feliciano Lopez appeared in the 2017 Abierto Mexicano Telcel but lost in the first round to Jordan Thompson.

Feliciano Lopez then won both the singles and doubles titles at the Queens Club Championships with a three-set singles win over Gilles Simon and a champion tie-break doubles win over Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury.

At the 2021 Australian Open Feliciano Lopez reached the third round for the ninth time in his career defeating Australian wildcard Li Tu and 31st seed Lorenzo Sonego in five sets.

Feliciano Lopez was the oldest player to win a major match from two sets down since Ken Rosewall at the 1974 Wimbledon Championships.

Feliciano Lopez was the oldest player to reach the third round of the Australian Open since 1978.

Feliciano Lopez lost in the first round at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships to 26th seed Daniel Evans but attained a new record when he appeared in his 77th consecutive Grand Slam.

Feliciano Lopez played his 138th Masters 1000 tournament at the 2021 National Bank Open.

Feliciano Lopez played his 139th Masters 1000 tournament at the 2021 Indian Wells Masters.

In January, at 2022 Australian Open, Feliciano Lopez lost in the first round in four sets to home favorite John Millman.

Feliciano Lopez failed to qualify for the 2022 French Open ending his consecutive appearances streak at this Major, a record of 21, and overall in Majors.

Feliciano Lopez was beaten in the first round by the 21st seed Botic van de Zandschulp.

Feliciano Lopez has appeared as a model for the likes of Hugo Boss and Elle, and endorses Braun shavers and L'Oreal products.

Feliciano Lopez has professed to dislike being called a model and states that he wants to be seen only as a tennis player.

Feliciano Lopez has been endorsed by Ellesse tennis clothing since 2016; before that, Joma was his endorser and Nike endorses his shoes.

Feliciano Lopez grew up with his brother Victor who played professional tennis.

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Feliciano Lopez was married to model Alba Carrillo from July 2015 to March 2017.

Feliciano Lopez married model Sandra Gago in September 2019, and their first child was born in 2021.

On 30 November 2017, Feliciano Lopez was announced as the Madrid Open tournament director, commencing in 2019.