The news of the week in the world of world tennis was the professional separation between Carlos Alcaraz and Juan Carlos Ferrero. After seven years of collaboration and having achieved numerous successes, one of the best duos in racquet sport is now history. News that took many by surprise and for which there are several causes, including a disagreement regarding Ferrero’s new conditions. Carlos Santos, who was Murcia’s first coach when he was little, spoke about it in an interview with Eurosport.
Carlos Santos was the coach of “Carlitos” from 5 to 12 years, before Kiko Navarro then Juan Carlos Ferrero. Santos gives his opinion to the newspaper on what he considers to be the reasons for this separation: “It could be for various reasons. Of which I think is the one that could be, the most likely, the thing is “did not reach an economic or one hundred percent agreement.”
“The economic agreements were fundamental. And there, the one who manages everything for Carlitos didn’t see it clearly or it seemed like too much money.or what Juan Carlos Ferrero is already asking for, price percentages, etc. I think that’s where the shooting is going,” he explains.
Likewise, he emphasizes that he also believes that this is due to a question of time that Ferrero spends with the Palmar player, since he does not accompany him the whole season: “They want me to be exclusively with him, to travel to all the tournaments. And Juan Carlos doesn’t want to see them all or he can’t see them all today.”
“I was with Carlitos for eight years, Juan Carlos for seven years. This happened to me too: I wanted a series of conditions, the father didn’t see them that way. And Juan Carlos will have asked for other conditions that the father will not have wanted either and will not give in,” underlines the coach about the Murcian’s father.
Carlos Santos also speaks in the interview about the importance of family and Alcaraz’s innermost circle in decision-making: “It’s a very familiar environment, where everyone who started with him is with him. He loves them all, he respected them all. He really likes being with this whole team. They want the team to be treated well in everything, economically. “He always counted on everyone.”
Despite all the uncertainty about how Alcaraz will now face the Australian Open, the only Grand Slam he has not won, Santos is clear: “Carlitos works alone. He has no problem training with either one. He has very brilliant tennis and doesn’t depend on anyone. “He plays alone.”
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