The separation between Carlos Alcaraz and Juan Carlos Ferrero was undoubtedly the most surprising moment of this off-season.
Their professional relationship ended after more than seven years and everyone was speechless, considering that there were no obvious reasons to hypothesize such a change. The world number 1 had shone for almost all of 2025, finally finding that regularity that he had always lacked, instead Ferrero had always been by his side and had won the 'Coach of the year' award awarded by the ATP.
The six-time Grand Slam champion will have to prove that he can win even without his mentor, who is set to take a long break from the professional tour before setting his next step. Recently, 'Juanki' gave a long interview to 'MARCA' in which he explained his version of the facts and his suffering was very evident.
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Ferrero is suffering
Through his official X profile, top analyst Jos Moron confessed that he was very impressed by Ferrero's body language: "Anyone who has a minimum of experience in this kind of thing, intuits what Juan Carlos is feeling right now. For most of his interview with MARCA, his stance expressed discomfort and suffering. I had my gaze down, he was sad and disappointed. He feels hurt right now. He never wanted to part with Carlitos, in fact he wanted to continue, but things went differently from his expectations.
I am sorry that it has come to this different after all they have done together. I hope they can resolve the situation in the future."
Next year will be very important for the 22-year-old from Murcia, who had never been in a similar situation in the past. He will have to defend a lot of points from the spring onwards and his huge rival Jannik Sinner will try to overtake him in the ATP rankings, taking advantage of the fact that he has not played for three months this year due to the ban imposed on him by WADA.
