- Who
- Feliciano López
- What
- 79 total number
- Where
- Not Applicable ()
- When
Feliciano López (Spain) took part in 79 consecutive main-draw Grand Slam singles tournaments, from the 2002 French Open to the 2022 Australian Open.
He narrowly missed out on two full calendar decades of participation at the four majors when he failed to negotiate the qualifying rounds for the 2022 French Open, bringing to an end a sequence that produced four quarter-finals – Wimbledon in 2005, 2008 and 2011 and the US Open in 2015.
López made his main-draw Grand Slam debut at the 2001 French Open, but he missed that year’s Wimbledon and US Open and the 2002 Australian Open before commencing his incredible Slam streak at Roland Garros in Paris in 2002.
After missing the 2022 French Open (he lost to Gian Marco Moroni in the first round of qualifying on 17 May), the 40-year-old left-hander (b. 20 September 1981) made the main draw of the following month’s Wimbledon Championships to take his overall tally of Grand Slam appearances to 81 – a male record shared with Roger Federer, as of 10 July 2022 (Venus Williams is the overall leader, with 90 appearances).
Fernando Verdasco (67 consecutive Grand Slams, in 2003–20), Andreas Seppi (66, in 2005–22), Roger Federer (65, in 2000–16), Ai Sugiyama (62, in 1994–2009), Alizé Cornet (62, in 2007–22; run still in progress as of Wimbledon 2022) and Francesca Schiavone (61, in 2000–15) are the other players with 60+ consecutive Grand Slam appearances under their belts.
