After announcing that he will change sports to take charge of a new pupil, the Spanish coach Juan Carlos Ferrero He reappeared on the scene in the last few hours, when he gave more details about the abrupt breakup with his compatriot. Carlos Alcaraz (1st), predicted the champion of the Australian Open 2026 and did not rule out accompanying the Italian Jannik Sinner (2nd) in the future.
“When it has passed, my heart has broken. Am I recovering? Well yes, little by little, but the heart is hurting. It has affected me a lot for everything we have experienced together, for the number of years, for having seen him grow and, suddenly, from one day to the next the relationship is cut off,” confessed the former world number 1, who had led the young man from Murcia since 2018, in statements to COPE’s El Partidazo.
In tune, the 45-year-old native of Onteniente, the new coach of golfer Ángel Ayora, confessed how he is going through grief while the prestigious oceanic event is taking place, in which ‘Carlitos’ is precisely fighting to win the Career Grand Slam: “I’m trying to disconnect a little, I think in the end it’s very recent. Of course it’s not that I don’t want to see him, it just hurts me a little right now.”
Asked if he could become the best player in historythe 2003 Roland Garros champion did not hesitate to evaluate the category of the current leader of the men’s classification: “It can be, it has the capabilities. Let him surpass Djokovic, he can do it. Everything has to be done very well, there are no injuries, and you still want to travel a lot. To reach those types of goals that are so high, so high, there is a very clear path that consists of values, a demand and knowing how to sacrifice.”
Regarding his candidate to lift the trophy at Melbourne Park, the owner of 16 titles at the highest level nominated his former disciple, recent executioner of the local Alex de Miñaur (6th) to access the semifinals for the first opportunity: “I give Carlos a bit of a favorite because I see him very motivated and when he smells blood he is very difficult to beat. If you win the tournament I will write to you. The relationship is there. The affection I have for him and I will always continue to have for him is a lot.“.
“Sinner It is the pure and hard consistency. He is a kid who is a kind of machine. Well, he is Italian but he has flashes of a little German, which means that he is very square, very serious. Maybe it’s better than Alcaraz at the level of managing emotions a little, because of that coldness he has on the court. It is at a very high level and I don’t think it will give us any facilities. His game is very aggressive,” he added in reference to a possible new big finish against the native of San Candido.
Finally, Ferrero surprised by not rejecting a hypothetical job proposal from Alcaraz’s main competitor: “Right now I don’t know. He is a great player who is showing with Alcaraz that they are the two who fight for everything and a ‘no’, I am not going to say. If I am given the opportunity and if everything with Alcaraz has ended in the end I would have to think about it. If they offered it to me I would think about itbut now I’m grieving.”
“If another opportunity comes, I will evaluate it. I have already received one, but my head is still focused on Carlos. Today it would be impossible for me to train another again.“he concluded.
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