{"id":446744,"date":"2026-01-30T05:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446744\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T05:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:59:11","slug":"olivia-gadecki-john-peers-v-kristina-mladenovic-manuel-guinard-carlos-alcaraz-v-alexander-zverev-novak-djokovic-v-jannik-sinner-day-13-scores-schedule-draw-times-how-to-watch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446744\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Gadecki, John Peers v Kristina Mladenovic, Manuel Guinard, Carlos Alcaraz v Alexander Zverev, Novak Djokovic v Jannik Sinner, day 13 scores, schedule, draw, times, how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are comments big-hitting German Alexander Zverev won\u2019t want to hear.<\/p>\n

His one-time coach David Ferrer, now the Spanish Davis Cup captain, says Zverev\u2019s semi-finals opponent Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> has the magic touch.<\/p>\n

\"Alcaraz<\/p>\n

Alcaraz in action.Credit: AP<\/p>\n

\u201cVery authentic, he\u2019s a very magical player, very Roger Federeresque in his ability to do so many things on a tennis court,\u201d Ferrer told Spanish radio station Onda Cero.<\/p>\n

Take that, Sascha!<\/p>\n

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Earlier in this blog, we brought you the news that Carlitos\u2019 long-time former coach Juan Carlos Ferrero, who is now a golf coach, was coy about the possibility of coaching Jannik Sinner next, while revealing his heartbreak at being parted from the world No.1, with whom he remains friendly.<\/p>\n

Ferrer was asked to comment on the Alcaraz-Ferrero split, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cFerrero is very sincere. It\u2019s normal that the separation was difficult, that there\u2019s pain; it was a long partnership, but these things happen in tennis, in sports,\u201d Ferrer said.\u201cBoth parties are very good people.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his brief but amicable spell of coaching Zverev, Ferrer helped the German star reach the US Open final in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These are comments big-hitting German Alexander Zverev won\u2019t want to hear. His one-time coach David Ferrer, now the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-446744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}