{"id":339939,"date":"2025-12-28T22:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T22:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339939\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T22:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T22:01:07","slug":"rafael-nadal-speaks-out-on-becoming-carlos-alcarazs-coach-and-teases-future-role-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339939\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal speaks out on becoming Carlos Alcaraz’s coach and teases future role | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rafael Nadal has ruled out the prospect of becoming Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>\u2019s coach following the world No. 1\u2019s split from Juan Carlos Ferrero. Alcaraz and Ferrero went their separate ways<\/a> earlier this month following a successful seven-year spell together.<\/p>\n

Ferrero linked up with Alcaraz in 2019 and helped his compatriot win six Grand Slams, including this year\u2019s French Open<\/a> and US Open<\/a> titles. But just days after Ferrero had been chosen as the ATP coach of the year<\/a> alongside Alcaraz\u2019s other coach Samuel Lopez, the 2003 French Open champion had departed the 22-year-old\u2019s set up.<\/p>\n

Nadal retired from tennis<\/a> just over a year ago following an incredible tennis career that saw him win 22 Grand Slam titles.<\/p>\n

And discussing the prospect of taking on a full-time coaching role, the 39-year-old told Spanish outlet AS<\/a>: \u201cI’ve always had the utmost respect for what might happen in the future, because what you feel today isn’t necessarily what you’ll feel later.<\/p>\n

\u201cLife is constantly changing, especially when you have young children. You see life one way, a few years go by, and it changes.<\/p>\n

\u201cTravelling constantly? I don’t see it happening. Being a coach would require that, and right now it doesn’t fit with my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nadal did insist, however, that he would be happy to lead a Davis Cup team, which would require less of his time.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cBeing a Davis Cup captain someday? Why not? I might enjoy it\u2026 or not. I just retired, it’s too early to think about it. I respect life’s processes and the need to adapt. Right now, it’s not appropriate to think about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nadal also spoke about Alcaraz as he compared the star to his rival Jannik Sinner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He explained: \u201cI don’t identify with any of them. They are different players to what I was. I think Carlos is more random. He makes more mistakes, makes more spectacular points.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes he doesn’t have such a defined pattern of play, which makes him unpredictable and fun for the viewer.<\/p>\n

\u201cJannik is a more methodical, focused player, with a more defined pattern of play and who is adding things little by little, that’s why he is so solid and loses very few games.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes it seems that Carlos is more scattered, but when you see the results… He has had an incredibly regular and solid year in all the major tournaments. That’s why I find it funny when I hear that it’s scattered – the results say otherwise, that’s my point of view.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal has ruled out the prospect of becoming Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s coach following the world No. 1\u2019s split…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[870,36669,811,128103,6767,101,118,12700,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-339939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-coach","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-juan-carlos-ferrero","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-section","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}