The decision to sever professional ties with his historic coach marks a huge change for the current world number 1, who is preparing for a new phase of his career without his mentor. Everyone wants to see how he responds in 2026, especially considering Carlitos is coming off the brightest season of his young career with eight titles won.
The 22-year-old from Murcia has finally found that consistency that had been his biggest weakness in previous seasons and no one thought he would part ways with Ferrero, who would have just two days to extend his current contract.
When he rejected the original proposal, Alcaraz’s team was unwilling to make any changes and the parties reached a shocking divorce.
Everyone is still surprised
It certainly wasn’t good news for the six-time Grand Slam champion, as the start of the Australian Open is less than a month away and this tournament represents one of his main goals (being the only Major title he still misses).
The Spanish star is followed at Melbourne Park by an experienced coach like Samuel Lopez, but hardly anyone believes that the latter is destined to be his head coach in the future.
Through his official Instagram profile, top coach Patrick Mouratoglou used a brilliant parallelism to comment on the surprising split between Alcaraz and Ferrero: “The player needs to feel understood by his coach and in the Netflix documentary it was understood that they did not have the same philosophy. We all thought they were the perfect couple, destined to last forever, but instead they broke up and no one can understand why.”
Carlitos and ‘Juanki’ had been working together for over seven years and Ferrero had turned down several tempting offers to become coach of the young player from Murcia. The Spanish star will certainly face extra pressure in the coming months.
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