Nicholas Jarry In April 2020, he was suspended for 11 months due to involuntary doping caused in November 2019, after providing a urine sample after his participation in the Davis Cup. This situation brought serious headaches to the Chilean, since several of his sponsors broke the contracts they had signed, his coach also left and he was left alone at a time when he needed company.
It is there that, on his return to the slopes in 2021, the Prince had to go out in search of a work team to be able to prepare at the highest level and recover all the places he lost in the ATP ranking. Thus, after several months of talks, Nicholas Jarry He contacted Juan Ozón, who knew how to be the head coach of several elite tennis players, and recommended the biography of a billionaire businessman to be able to cope with the bad moment.
When the Chilean tennis player started working with the Spaniard, the coach knew that the first thing they had to improve was the mental aspect, since he was very beaten by everything that had happened to him and in the long run it was going to end up affecting him in the game. . Therefore, made ‘Nico’ focus on Elon Musk’s book to be a source of inspiration and see what the current owner of Twitter had to go through to get to where he is today.
Ozón’s main axis is mental work, since it is one of the main weapons of tennis and where all tennis players have to be at their best to cope with every situation that comes their way, both in the race and in the same match. . In this sense, the coach Nicholas Jarry He said in an interview that he likes to connect with people outside of tennis to learn and then adapt it to his pupil. “I read a lot about entrepreneurs, about inspiring people. I like the way you think outside the box or as if there is no box. What’s more, I like to listen to people outside of tennis more than inside tennis”he explained.
The key to stay in the elite
After leaving the hard suspension on the road, Nicholas Jarry he was able to recompose himself to get back among the best tennis players in the world. But the road was not easy and he needed the help of Juan Ozón, who guided him along the best possible path and in one of the last interviews he gave, he warned about the keys for an athlete to be in the elite for so long.
“The mental structure, the management of emotions, more than his quality of play. If you combine the talent that he has with a mental, emotional structure, better management, you have this player who will be able to perform as many weeks as possible”, the Hispanic coach expanded in dialogue with ‘DF MAS’.
