Carlos Alcarazwho has been training under the tutelage of Juan Carlos Ferrero since 2018, moved a year later to the Equelite Academy in Villena.
There you have all the facilities that a professional tennis player needs in a suitable environment with 20 courts: 10 clay courts, nine fast courts and one with artificial grass. Not forgetting the gym, restaurant…
The idea of the center, if the urban problems can be solved, is to expand. Part of the future of the Navy is trained within its four walls, say Alcaraz or the bronze medalist at the Tokyo Games, Pablo Carreo. In addition to the growing demand from young people who want to train or study within its four walls.
“At the moment we have not found an answer to facilitate this expansion that would allow the generation of many jobs for the area directly and indirectly“, says Antonio Martnez Cascales, director as well as founder of the center. “Our idea would be to grow about 15,000 square meters and take advantage of the spaces that we still have free“.
In the plans is the construction of 8-10 more tennis courts and the same number of paddle courts in a margin of three years. In the same way, they want to strengthen the school and expand the gym.
On Equelite’s table there are other proposals to take the Academy to another nearby geographical point, taking advantage of the current pull that the figure of Alcaraz awakens.
Players like Maria Sharapova, who had his base there to prepare for the brick dust tour. Currently there is also Emilio Nava, one of the promises of American tennis.
Alcaraz, as Ferrero did in his day, started living in a prefabricated house of 25 square meters, which is a double room with bathroom included. There he spent the confinement due to the pandemic.
Inherits the house of Ferrero
Precisely just before leaving for Indian Wells he moved into a 90-square-meter house, the one his coach had when he became number one in the world in 2003 and through which other outstanding rackets such as Nicols Almagro and Guillermo Garca-Lpez also passed.
In Equelite, the new Miami champion spends most of his time with Carreo and his coach, Samuel López, with whom he now also coincides on the ATP circuit.
