Feliciano López will play the next Wimbledon tournament and will match the 81 participations in Grand Slams of the Swiss Roger Federer. Also, will become the first player in history with 20 appearances in all four Majors.
The absence of Dominic Thiemwho preferred to continue looking for rhythm on brick dust instead of playing a tournament in which he has not won a match since 2017, has allowed Feliciano López to enter the final draw, who lost this week in the Queen’s qualifier.
The Spaniard fell to 212th place in the ranking, but will be able to play at Wimbledon for the twentieth time in his career. The double champion at Queen’s (2017 and 2019) He has three times reached the quarterfinals in the third Grand of the season, his best result there, in 2005, 2008 and 2011.
With this participation, Feliciano will add 81 appearances in Grand Slams, the same as Federer, who hasn’t played at Wimbledon since last year. The next active tennis players with the most appearances in the Majors are Fernando Verdasco, who is 69, the German Philipp Kohlschreiber, who is 68, and the Italian Andreas Seppi and the Serbian Novak Djokovic, who are 68.
In the past Roland Garros, Feliciano broke the streak of consecutive Grand Slam appearances, a mark he left at 79, with the tournaments played between 2002 and 2022. Nobody has chained more ‘majors’ in history than him.
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