Former tennis player Feliciano Lopez, director of the Mutua Madrid Open, analysed Carlos Alcaraz’s break-up with Juan Carlos Ferrero on the programme ‘El Partidazo de COPE’.
I feel a little sorry about this breakup
“I’m sad and surprised,” the former tennis player told.
“I don’t know if Alcaraz is mentally ready to face what lies ahead without Ferrero”
Feliciano highlighted that “I think it’s still a little early to stop working with such an important person as Ferrero” and “Juan Carlos has been the most important person in his career, I think, along with his father”.
“I don’t know if Carlos Alcaraz is going to be mentally prepared to face what lies ahead in his career, at least in the short term, without the figure of Juan Carlos Ferrero, it’s my opinion, that’s why I’m a little sorry for this break,” said Feliciano Lopez sharing his concern about Alcaraz’s short-term tennis future.
Feliciano Lopez talks about “small tensions” and “I point more to the economic issue”
Feliciano Lopez talks about “small tensions” that he does not believe, from what he has read and heard, were decisive for the breakup: “Yes, I do point more to the economic issue.”
The director of the Mutua Madrid Open stressed that “Juan Carlos Ferrero deserves to be financially paid as the coach of the best player in the world”
Feliciano Lopez: “I have doubts whether Alcaraz was the one who decided that he did not want to continue with Ferrero”
On Alcaraz’s decision to break up with Ferrero, the former tennis player doubts that the decision was Carlos’: “In Alcaraz’s case, I think he is still not making those decisions. I have doubts whether Carlos was the one who really decided that he did not want to continue with Juan Carlos.”
Feliciano Lopez ruled out that the breakup between Alcaraz and Ferrero was due to Ferrero’s lesser presence in some tournaments: “I don’t think that was really the problem of the separation”.
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