{"id":1625,"date":"2026-01-18T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2026-01-18T08:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:00:03","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-told-he-may-just-have-made-his-biggest-mistake-by-a-former-wimbledon-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=1625","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz told he may just have made his biggest mistake by a former Wimbledon champion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Wimbledon champion Pat Cash has told Tennis365 that Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> may have made the biggest mistake of his career by deciding to end his partnership with long-time coach, Juan Carlos Ferrero.<\/p>\n

The tennis world was stunned by Alcaraz\u2019s announcement that he was breaking away from the coach who has helped him to win six Grand Slam titles, with the comments from both camps since the split appearing to confirm their partnership will not be revived.<\/p>\n

Now Cash has given his verdict on the split and he didn\u2019t pull any punches as he suggested the move could come back to haunt the world No 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a head scratcher for me,\u201d Cash told Tennis365. \u201cHow can you fire someone who has helped you all the way through and won those Grand Slam titles?<\/p>\n

\u201cMore importantly, he won two of them last year. It\u2019s not like he won just one Grand Slam final, which would still be a great result. He won two of them! And was in the final of another one.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHardly a disastrous year, maybe his best year, but he fires his coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are seeing a lot of managers and agents who get into a player\u2019s ear, think they know the best for the player and throw a seed of doubt in there, it can really destroy a relationship. I\u2019m not saying that\u2019s happened here. I don\u2019t know the ins and outs of it, but I\u2019ve seen a lot of this. Is it a mistake for Alcaraz to do this? We don\u2019t know yet, but let\u2019s see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former world No 2 Alex Corretja also spoke to Tennis365 about the Alcaraz-Ferrero split, as he suggested the shock move could have an impact on his hopes at the Australian Open.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope it won\u2019t affect him, but we have to see what happens when he plays and does not have Juan Carlos in the box,\u201d said Corretja, who will be part of the TNT Sports team for the Australian Open.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing is, he has been with Sami Lopez in the past, he already had that combination with him last year and I feel like he is ready for this.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is fired up for the new season and about having the chance to play well at Melbourne because he has never won there.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, there is this big question about how he will feel, but from what I\u2019ve heard, he\u2019s been working so hard on improving things and he is happy to start a new season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he finished last season quite well. In the past, he finished the season tired and a bit exhausted, but the fact that he was a finalist at the ATP Finals was good.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThen he had this issue with Juanki, but he is ready. He got there in Melbourne a week before to get ready for the condition, so I think he\u2019s going to be ready.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever happens in Melbourne, I\u2019m not going to be the saying \u2018oh, you see he has split up with Ferrero and now things are not going well\u2019. I\u2019m not this kind of person to make this kind of judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Former Wimbledon champion Pat Cash has told Tennis365 that Carlos Alcaraz may have made the biggest mistake of his career by deciding to end his partnership with long-time coach, Juan Carlos Ferrero. The tennis world was stunned by Alcaraz\u2019s announcement that he was breaking away from the coach who has helped him to win six […]<\/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-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","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=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}