Juan Carlos Ferrero and Carlos Alcaraz are more than just a coach and a player. Their friendship goes beyond the tennis courts and the Murcian plays in Miami offering each of his victories to Ferrero, who lost his father Eduardo Ferrero on March 20.
“Goes for you Juan Carlos“, he wrote on his social networks after beating the Hungarian Marton Fucsovics in his debut. Two games later, the El Palmar tennis player He still hasn’t lost a set and will play the quarterfinals this morning (01:00) with the Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic. On Tuesday ape a whole world ‘top5’ like Stefanos Tsitsipas.
‘Juanqui’, who planned to accompany Alcaraz in the second Masters 1,000 on the calendar, had already done so in Indian Wells, he was forced to return urgently from the United States to be at his father’s funeral. It was held on Wednesday March 23 in Onteniente.
Carlos, until now accompanied in Miami by Samuel López (Pablo Carreo’s trainer in Equelite) and his agent Albert Molina, stays for the rest of the competition with Molina and the physiotherapist Juanjo Moreno. Alcaraz also has the support of his father Carlos, two close relatives such as Toms Noguera and Toms Gonzlez and his doctor Juan José López.
Talks before and after the matches
Ferrero, from a distance, talks to him every day, especially before and after each of their commitments to outline the tactic to follow.