Juan Carlos Ferrero has revealed why he unfollowed Carlos Alcaraz on social media following the pair\u2019s split and expressed his wish to have a conversation with the world No 1.<\/p>\n
Alcaraz<\/a> and Ferrero parted ways during the off-season in December, bringing an end to a high-profile and hugely successful player-coach relationship that began in 2018, when Alcaraz was 16.<\/p>\n The Spanish star won 24 ATP Tour singles titles, including six Grand Slams, while working with Ferrero \u2014 who is a former world No 1 and French Open champion.<\/p>\n Since splitting with Ferrero, Alcaraz has amassed a 12-0 record by winning the Australian Open and Qatar Open in a sensational start to 2026.<\/p>\n Samuel Lopez, who coaches at Ferrero\u2019s academy, is now Alcaraz\u2019s head coach, having previously worked in tandem with Ferrero.<\/p>\n Days after Alcaraz completed the career Grand Slam by claiming his maiden Australian Open title, fans noticed that Ferrero had unfollowed his former prot\u00e9g\u00e9 on Instagram. Interestingly, Alcaraz is still following Ferrero.<\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz gets Jannik Sinner warning as Boris Becker answers \u2018unbeatable\u2019 question<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz makes confession about Novak Djokovic\u2019s \u2018impressive\u2019 record<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n In an interview with El Cafelito, Ferrero explained he wanted to \u201cseparate\u201d himself from Alcaraz on social media and declared he did not make the decision \u201cout of spite.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t follow him because I need a little time, to separate myself from him,\u201d said Ferrero.<\/p>\n \u201cBesides, if I look at Instagram, he pops up everywhere. In the end, I haven\u2019t achieved anything. You follow tennis accounts and tournament accounts, and it\u2019s the same.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t do it out of spite. I want to see him and give him a hug. To normalise everything that\u2019s happened, I think we still need to have a conversation. I\u2019d like that.\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking to Eurosport, Alcaraz addressed being without Ferrero at the 2026 Indian Wells Masters.<\/p>\n \u201cI would say it is what it is,\u201d said the world No 1.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously, I wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s a new team. It\u2019s mostly the same members; we just restructured a little bit. The members are the same as before; we\u2019re just missing one.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery time I come back to a tournament I played last year, it feels a little bit different. You can feel it a bit, but we try to feel as comfortable as possible on and off the court.\u201d<\/p>\n Alcaraz will face Grigor Dimitrov or Terence Atmane in his opening match in Indian Wells, where he is seeking a third title after triumphs in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Jannik Sinner beats Carlos Alcaraz \u2013 former British No 1 makes bold Indian Wells prediction<\/a> The post Juan Carlos Ferrero calls for Carlos Alcaraz meeting after \u2018separating himself\u2019 from world No 1\u00a0<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Juan Carlos Ferrero has revealed why he unfollowed Carlos Alcaraz on social media following the pair\u2019s split and expressed his wish to have a conversation with the world No 1. Alcaraz and Ferrero parted ways during the off-season in December, bringing an end to a high-profile and hugely successful player-coach relationship that began in 2018, […]<\/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-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","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=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}ATP Tour News<\/h2>\n
Ferrero breaks his silence on cutting ties with Alcaraz on social media<\/h2>\n
Alcaraz speaks about playing Indian Wells without Ferrero as his coach<\/h2>\n
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