Carlos Alcaraz won his first Grand Slam title at the 2022 US Open and he also became the youngest world number 1 in the history of men's tennis.
The 19-years-old Spaniard is improving every day and it's also because of a very experienced coach, Juan Carlos Ferrero. The experienced Spaniard led Carlos Alcaraz to almost every success in his career and he wants to continue also in the upcoming seasons as the biggest challenge starts just now.
“Of course, all the hours that he get on the court, obviously it matters to play the final. As he said, there is no time to be tired at finals," Ferrero said per iNews."It’s one of the things that we were talking before the match. I tried to tell him all the time to go for a match, not have the sensation to not play his level. So he tried to push and push and push all the time. I think he tried to do it all the time.”
“The players now, they’re going to play very motivated against him, now he’s No 1,” Ferrero said. "Before he was 2 or 3, even like this, it’s like Real Madrid-Barcelona, there’s a rivalry that gets you increase your level. It’s what is going to happen to him against his opponents. He has to be ready.”
Speaking about future goals, former world number 1 and coach of current world number 1 added: “I have the goal to put him on the high level of tennis. Of course, I think it’s going to be very, very difficult to achieve what they [Nadal, Djokovic and Roger Federer] have done on tennis. We’re talking about 22 Grand Slams. He has only one. Is a long way still to go. But who knows? I think he has all the tennis and potential to be one of the best. All we have to do is try it.”
"When he arrived to academy when he was 15, he was like a spaghetti, very thin,” Ferrero said.“We had to work. Obviously we saw that he had very fast hands, very fast legs, but no muscles at all, not in the back, not in the legs. We had to work a lot. But obviously we saw something very special on him.”
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