{"id":387380,"date":"2026-01-24T05:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387380\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T05:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:01:07","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-makes-australian-open-announcement-after-coach-split-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387380\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz makes Australian Open announcement after coach split | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Alcaraz has revealed his brother will have a bigger role to play in his team after deciding not to replace coach Juan Carlos Ferrero following their split last year.<\/a> Ferrero had been the Spaniard’s coach since 2019, winning six Grand Slams during their seven year stint together.<\/p>\n

Ferrero reportedly didn’t want to leave his role as coach, with Alcaraz<\/a> describing the suprise split as a “chapter of life that has to end.” The world number one said: “We, as I said, both are still friends, good relationship. But we just decided like this. I’m really grateful for the seven years I’ve been with Juan Carlos. I learned a lot. It is probably thanks to him I’m the player that I am right now.”<\/p>\n

Alcaraz has put faith in his existing team including Samuel Lopez,<\/a> who was the world number one’s co-coach last year and coached the 22-year-old on a handful of occasions without Ferrero last year. Carlos’ brother Alvaro will work alongside Lopez having previously helped the six-time Grand Slam winner in a non-coaching capacity.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Alcaraz’s brother has no top-level coaching experience and it’s unclear whether he’ll act as a primary or secondary voice for Carlos. Speaking at a press conference at the Australia Open, Alcaraz said: “My brother is a very important person in my personal and professional life. He brings me many positive things that I need to perform better and well on the court and in tournaments.<\/p>\n

“Now he’s going to take on more prominence alongside Samu [Lopez]. He knows how we operate and how the tour works, and he knows a ton about tennis.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes, he has opinions and a way of seeing things that bring a lot to me and to Samu. Happy to see him in the box, even more involved, and he brings me a lot.”<\/p>\n

There has been plenty of speculation around who may come into the void and fill the role left by Ferrero last year, with tennis legend Roger Federer<\/a> touted as a potential coach. However, the 20-time Grand Slam champion is focusing on other activities after retiring at the 2022 Laver Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz has revealed his brother will have a bigger role to play in his team after deciding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[146234,21399,870,128103,146235,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-387380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alvaro-alcaraz","tag-australian-open","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-juan-carlos-ferrero","tag-samuel-lopez","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387380","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=387380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}