Brad Gilbert has described Carlos Alcaraz and Juan Carlos Ferrero\u2019s break up as an \u201cabsolute stunner\u201d and suggested David Ferrer could take over.<\/p>\n
The player and coach jointly announced the split on Wednesday after six years working together, a time in which Alcaraz has risen to become one of the best players on the planet and won six Grand Slams.<\/p>\n
But Alcaraz\u2019s box will look different in 2026 with Ferrero absent and former player turned coach Gilbert has given his thoughts.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat an absolute stunner with the split of Alcaraz and coach Juan Carlos Ferrero,\u201d he said in a video posted on X. \u201cI kind of said last week, it was really quiet off season, and I expected something to happen, but certainly not with the situation that we just had this morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the incredible year of Alcaraz finishing number one in the world and the best year of his career, I kind of thought between (world numbers) three and eight we would have a coaching split, or somebody add something to the team but that\u2019s the one thing about tennis you just never know.<\/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> \u201cAnd if the player wasn\u2019t feeling it, that\u2019s instantly when they\u2019ll make a move. And the timing, obviously, we\u2019re only less than a month away from the Aussie Open. What will Alcaraz do next?\u201d<\/p>\n As for that question, Gilbert put forward two potential candidates of David Ferrer, who captained Alcaraz in the Davis Cup, or Carlos Moya who previously worked with Alcaraz\u2019s competitor Rafa Nadal.<\/p>\n \u201cThe two thoughts that jump into my head David Ferrer, the Davis Cup, captain of Spain, obviously former great player. Good familiarity with Carlos, maybe he jumps in on an interim.<\/p>\n \u201cBut obviously the name that really jumps out an interesting one would be Carlos Moya, who obviously had amazing success with Nadal, but you know, he\u2019s with the Nadal Academy, so who knows about that dynamic, but it will be an interesting few weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n Read next: What is Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s record at tournaments Juan Carlos Ferrero missed?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post \u2018Absolute stunner\u2019 \u2013 Brad Gilbert reacts to shock Alcaraz coach departure<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brad Gilbert has described Carlos Alcaraz and Juan Carlos Ferrero\u2019s break up as an \u201cabsolute stunner\u201d and suggested David Ferrer could take over. The player and coach jointly announced the split on Wednesday after six years working together, a time in which Alcaraz has risen to become one of the best players on the planet […]<\/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-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","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=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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