Feliciano Lopez is a famous Spanish tennis player. French Open Doubles Winner 2016. Five-time Davis Cup winner with the Spanish national team.
Biography
The famous athlete was born in September 1981 in the small Spanish city of Toledo. The father of the future star was a professional tennis mentor, and when his son was born, the future of the child was predetermined - tennis was necessarily included in his education.
Father became a personal trainer for Feliciano, who did not mind active leisure time with his father, and from the age of five he discovered a good talent in this sport. As a teenager, Feliciano realized that he really wanted to achieve great success in the world sports arena and began to strive for this with redoubled zeal.
Professional career
When Lopez was 16 years old, he made it to the Orange Bowl, an annual junior championship in America. Feliciano made it to the final - quite a good result for a beginner, but lost the victory to a more prepared opponent. In the same 2007, he went to a professional tournament in Mallorca. The following year, the young athlete first came to the championship under the auspices of the ATP. Lopez's debut took place in Brussels, Belgium, but was extremely unsuccessful, in the first match he lost to more eminent rival Jiri Novak almost dry.
Despite an unsuccessful start at a serious level, a year later Feliciano rehabilitated himself and won two ITF tournaments at once. In 2001, the promising tennis player again won a victory at one of the tournaments held as part of ITF Futures. In May of the same year, he qualified for the Grand Slam tournament. At the championship, held annually in France, in the first round he lost all three sets to the famous Carlos Moya.
Lopez went to the first serious victory for sixteen years. In 2016, an experienced athlete was able to win an open tournament in France and was able to forever make his name in the history of Grand Slam tournaments. In the men's ranking of world stars, he was only able to climb to 33rd place in 2014. After that, despite a resounding victory in France, he began to lose ground and currently occupies only 64th place.
Personal life
The famous athlete was married to Spanish fashion model Alba Carillo. The wedding took place in 2016, but the couple did not live in marriage for a year, 11 months later, Alba accused Lopez of treason and firmly decided to sue the athlete for part of the property. As a weighty argument, the girl voiced a figure, according to her words, a professional tennis player cheated on her more than two hundred times. By the way, a difficult divorce process and serious public pressure are one of the reasons for the athlete's failures in tennis.
Two years later, Feliciano began dating another famous model in Spain, Sandra Gago, and the couple are still in a relationship, and more recently, in September 2019, they started a family, becoming husband and wife. Sandra and Feliciano have Instagram profiles, where they regularly post both personal and joint photos.
