Stan Wawrinka suffered a first round defeat to which Spanish tennis player in the 2014 French Open?

Stan Wawrinka suffered his first-round defeat at the 2014 French Open to Spanish tennis player Guillermo García López. García López won the best-of-five-set match 6–4, 5–7, 6–2, 6–0.

The result was a major surprise because Wawrinka entered Roland-Garros as the third seed and the reigning Australian Open champion. Earlier in 2014, he had defeated Rafael Nadal in the Australian Open final to claim his first Grand Slam singles title. His early exit in Paris therefore became one of the tournament’s notable upsets.

García López was an experienced clay-court player from Spain, a country known for producing many strong competitors on the surface. Although he did not become a Grand Slam champion, he reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 23 in 2011 and collected several ATP titles. A common mix-up is confusing this defeat with Wawrinka’s later French Open success: he won the tournament in 2015, defeating Novak Djokovic in the final.