The 3 tennis players with the most consecutive appearances in Grand Slam tournaments

Advances in the world of sports have raised the physical limit of athletes to unsuspected levels a few years ago. In the case of tennis players, the reign of the so-called ‘big-3’, made up of Rafa Nadal, Novak Djokovic y Roger Federer, serves as strong evidence. The Spanish, world number two, is 34 years old, the Serbian (# 1) is about to meet them and the Swiss (# 5) is 39. That is why as the years go by records that seemed from another world are falling.

The Open de Australia This 2021 has served for one of the most veteran tennis players to reach a round figure. He is Spanish and he is not Rafa Nadal, but Feliciano López. The player from Toledo, from Roger Federer’s fifth, has participated in the Melbourne event, thus reaching 75 consecutive participations in Grand Slam tournaments. An outrage that has not been available to the most illustrious players.

In fact, Federer has not been able to participate due to injury in any tournament in the last 365 days. Nadal, meanwhile, did not play the last US Open. What Feliciano López has achieved takes on the size of a feat examining one piece of information: not a single tournament of the Big Four has been lost (Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and USA Open) since he played in Paris in 2002.

Most Consecutive Grand Slam Appearances

75: @feliciano_lopez
67: Fernando Verdasco
65: Roger Federer
62: Andreas Seppi
56: Wayne Ferreira
54: Stefan Edberg

An incredible effort from Feliciano who also made it through to the #AusOpen 2R today ???? pic.twitter.com/t9DLBGgPH2

— ATP Tour (@atptour) February 9, 2021

The fact is that the second player with the most consecutive appearances in Grand Slams in also Spanish: Fernando Verdasco. El Madrileño, another of the most prominent Spanish tennis players of the 21st century, takes 67 to his 37 years. From behind it already appears Federer (65), closing the trio of tennis players with more large tournaments played in a row. From behind, men like Andreas Seppi (62), still active or those already retired Wayne Ferreira (56) and Stefan Edberg (54).

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