Comenzó jugando tenis porque su hermano mayor Raúl (ocho años más grande) jugaba... Raúl se convirtió en coach para la Federación de Tenis de Cataluña... Llegó a semifinales en su primera aparición en un torneo ATP en Stuttgart 2001... Luego de dos triunfos en las clasificaciones, ganó cuatro partidos más, incluyendo una sobre su ídolo Sergi Bruguera... Desde entonces ha disputado mayormente el ATP Challenger Circuit... Admite que a veces es frustrante... Su meta es meterse entre los Top 100... Su padre es Eduardo López y su madre Pilar Tarres... Habla un poco de inglés... Disfruta yendo al cine y escuchando música.
2012 -- The Barcelona native teamed with countryman Granollers to compile a 40-17 record and 3-4 in finals, winning titles at ATP Masters 1000 Rome, Gstaad and year-ending Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London on debut (d. Bhupathi-Bopanna). Also finalist in Acapulco, Barcelona, Umag and Toronto. Best Grand Slam SF at US Open. Finished No. 5 in ATP Doubles Team Rankings and career-best No. 6 individually...Played all 4 Davis Cup doubles rubbers with 1-3 record as Spain reached final (l. to Czech Republic 3-2)...Put together best results on clay with titles at ATP Masters
1000 Rome (d. Kubot-Tipsarevic) and Gstaad (d. Farah-Giraldo). Also finalist in Acapulco (l. to Marrero-Verdasco), Barcelona (l. to Fyrstenberg-Matkowski) and Umag (l. to Marrero-Verdasco)...On hard courts, teamed w/Nadal for only tournament in Indian Wells and won title for 2nd time in 3 years without dropping a set in 5 matches (d. Isner-Querrey in F)...Also finalist at ATP Masters 1000 Toronto (l. to Bryans 12-10 in match TB)...Earned career-high $618,260...
2011 -- The Barcelona native started the season by winning Doha title (w/Nadal), beating Bracciali-Seppi 63 76(4)…Finished runner-up at Zagreb and Stuttgart (w/Granollers), also Estoril (w/Marrero)…
2010 -- The Barcelona native compiled his best season on ATP World Tour, concentrating solely on doubles to win three titles, compile a 37-20 match record and finish a career-best No. 15…In March, partnered with Nadal as a wild card in Indian Wells* and captured his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 crown, defeating top seeds Nestor-Zimonjic…The duo, playing together for only fifth time, dropped one set en route to second title together (’09 Doha)…He also won titles (w/Marrero) in Estoril (d. Cuevas-Granollers) in May and in Hamburg (d. Chardy-Mathieu) in July…Reached first indoor final in Montpellier (w/Schwank) in late October…Turned in his best Grand Slam result at Roland Garros by reaching QF (w/Riba)…Played two ATP singles matches and lost in 1st RD in Estoril and Bangkok…Earned a career-high $306,407.
2009 -- Captured first ATP World Tour doubles title (w/Nadal) at Doha (d. Nestor-Zimonjic)...
2013
Partnering fellow Spaniard Marcel Granollers, Lopez fell in the Australian Open SFs (l. to Haase-Sijsling)…Fell in ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Indian Wells 2R (l. to Peya-Soares)…Fell in ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Miami SFs (l. to Qureshi-Rojer)…Fell to Marrero-Verdasco in ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Monte-Carlo 2R…Lost in Barcelona SFs (l. to Peya-Soares)…Lost to fellow Spaniards Marrero-Verdasco in ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Madrid 2R…As defending champions at ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Rome, fell in QFs (l. to Gonzalez-Lipsky)…
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