The environment of Carlos Alcaraz gave his first public response to the comments of Juan Carlos Ferrero after the brutal professional break between the two, announced a few days ago after seven years of collaboration.
The one who spoke was the father of the world number one, Carlos Alcaraz Gonzalezin a brief statement to the agency EFE who were released in recent hours.
The message from the father of the Murcian tennis player was as concise as it was meaningful. Asked about the statements of Ferrero, who in different interviews had explained his discomfort with the way in which the separation had occurred and had highlighted contractual disagreements, Alcaraz’s father limited himself to highlighting: “Everyone is free to give their opinion with what they know”.
The sentence, although without precise details, marks the first direct reaction from the family environment to the version of the former coach.
Ferrero, until now the only protagonist in the public story of the breakup, had described an exit he did not want.
The former world number one admitted to being “hurt” by the result, insisted that his intention was to continue leading the technical team and placed the origin of the decision in the player’s environment, alluding to disagreements over contract renewal and the impossibility of redirecting the situation in a face-to-face meeting.
His statements depict a scenario in which the personal relationship with Carlos remains good and the sporting results support continuity, but certain points of the new professional relationship – which he did not detail – would have been insurmountable.
Juan Carlos Ferrero and Carlos Alcaraz, during the last Roland Garros.
In this context, the media’s gaze quickly turned towards the tennis player’s closest entourage, with his father as a reference figure.
Alcaraz Sr.’s response comes precisely after this public exhibition of Ferrero. With his “everyone is free to give their opinion with what they know”, he avoids directly denying the Valencian coach, but also suggests that, on the family side, his reading of events is not entirely shared.
At the same time, it avoids offering an alternative version or revealing the true substance of the disagreement.
This refusal to go into details keeps intact the secrecy on the precise reasons for the separation.
Until now, neither the player himself nor his entourage had wanted to go beyond the institutional farewell message broadcast by Carlos on his social networks, thanking Ferrero for his work and highlighting what they experienced together during these years.
The consequence is that, despite the sporting and symbolic impact of the rupture – Ferrero was the key figure in the explosion and consolidation of Alcaraz in the elite – the affair continues to be shrouded in opacity.
On the one hand, the former coach made it public that it was not his decision and spoke of disagreements in the new working environment. On the other hand, the tennis player’s family responds with a calculated sentence asserting their right to keep the details to themselves.
In the absence of more in-depth explanations, the episode reinforces the image of an environment that prefers to manage strategic decisions away from the spotlight, even when it comes to one of the most successful and high-profile associations in recent tennis.
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