Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s first coach has suggested the departure of Juan Carlos Ferrero was not the player\u2019s decision but instead \u201cmore due to the circumstance surrounding\u201d it.<\/p>\n
The tennis world was shocked this week when Alcaraz and coach Ferrero announced they were to part ways after six years of working together.<\/p>\n
The split is the first major one of Alcaraz\u2019s career and leaves a lot of questions as to why now?<\/p>\n
But Alcaraz\u2019s first coach Kiko Navarro believes it was not the player\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was more due to the circumstances surrounding the decision than the player himself,\u201d he told Spanish radio station RNE Deportes. \u201cCarlitos is very supportive of his coaches. He was with me, and I know he was with Juan Carlos, but there comes a point when, for reasons beyond his control and beyond the sporting aspect, they\u2019ve made this decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cJuan Carlos has done a spectacular job; I worked with him for two years, and there\u2019s little to criticize him for. The people who made the decision, who weren\u2019t Carlitos, must have their reasons, which I\u2019m currently unaware of.<\/p>\n
MORE ON ALCARAZ ON T365<\/strong><\/p>\n Former British No 1 hints at a possible reason for Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s shock announcement<\/strong><\/a> \u201cWell, I know a few things from his father from months ago, which I don\u2019t think is the right time to talk about. But I\u2019ll find out everything tomorrow.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s training at the club tomorrow; I saw him two days ago and he didn\u2019t mention anything to me.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously, they\u2019ve handled it very discreetly, and everything has a beginning and an end. It\u2019s surprised me; if it had happened last year, I would have been even more surprised than this year. It\u2019s caught me completely off guard.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course, I\u2019m friends with the family and I can share a few things, but it\u2019s still a surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n Navarro went on to suggest that Alcaraz could have a coach with a \u201cbigger name\u201d next season.<\/p>\n \u201cI know for a fact that Alcaraz\u2019s father, who\u2019s the one in charge of everything, greatly admires Samu [Samuel Lopez] and knows he\u2019s a professional.<\/p>\n \u201cIt makes me a little sad that it seems like to be expected to coach Carlitos because you need a big name, like Ferrero or Moya, Djokovic or Nadal.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s the case. Ultimately, it\u2019s about Carlos respecting the coach. In fact, Samu Lopez has more experience as a coach than Ferrero, which is normal because he\u2019s worked with Nico Almagro, Pablo Carre\u00f1o, and he knows the circuit.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s a very humble person and a consummate professional, and I do see him, and I think his father does too, as Alcaraz\u2019s first coach.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I think a second person will be needed because the season is very long and involves a lot of travel. And perhaps that second person is more well-known than Samu, but that doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019ll be the head coach. I would bet, without having spoken to his father yet, that the head coach will be Samu Lopez.\u201d<\/p>\n Read next: What is Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s record at tournaments Juan Carlos Ferrero missed?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s first coach makes \u2018big name\u2019 prediction for 2026 after shock departure<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s first coach has suggested the departure of Juan Carlos Ferrero was not the player\u2019s decision but instead \u201cmore due to the circumstance surrounding\u201d it. The tennis world was shocked this week when Alcaraz and coach Ferrero announced they were to part ways after six years of working together. The split is the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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