Juan Carlos Ferrero He is one of the most important Spanish tennis players in recent years. After ending his professional career, Ferrero decided to move to the tennis benches and start training.
Today, the Valencian is one of the most recognized mentors on the circuit. His work with Carlos Alcaraz is more than successful and the key to this success lies in the speed with which I started working with him. Ferrero’s decision when he decided to form Carlitos was surprising, especially because he had offers from the best of the world.
The Murcian’s talent was enormous but also very easy to see. Despite this, there was something that signified a before and after in Juan Carlos Ferrero’s decision: “Everyone saw the talent, but he saw that he was a very humble boy. There were children at the academy who were also very good, but who They weren’t even half as talented. of Carlos”.
“While they walked around thinking they were the best, Carlos was very humble, carefree, polite, attentive and I thank everyone. That’s what JC liked, he wasn’t a believer. One day, JC asked me if I thought I would be number 1, and I said yes,” he admits. Antonio Martínez Cascalesmentor of Alcaraz when I was young.
Cascales is a person who knows Carlos very closely and recognizes that there is one aspect that scares him for the future: “Ambition is the key word. This is the main fearat the same time. May he continue to have the ambition to win more titles. If with 25 you continue to keep it the same, then you might still be able to finish with numerous Grand Slams“.
“I remember an interview from years ago with Moyà, where they asked him what the biggest differences were between him and Rafa Nadal, and He replied that ambition. You can’t be number 1 without ambition. He said Rafa had 10 times more ambition than himand this ambition is what makes you want to keep training and trying hard. That don’t lose this ambition, it’s the key“, concludes Cascales.
