{"id":410870,"date":"2026-01-16T12:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/410870\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:40:07","slug":"australian-open-2026-carlos-alcaraz-says-split-with-juan-carlos-ferrero-was-chapter-of-life-that-has-to-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/410870\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2026: Carlos Alcaraz says split with Juan Carlos Ferrero was ‘chapter of life that has to end’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former world number one Ferrero guided fellow Spaniard Alcaraz to all six major wins and once described him as his “fourth child”. <\/p>\n

“The whole situation is a bit of a strange one – I did not see it coming at all,” British player Jodie Burrage told BBC Radio 5 Live.<\/a><\/p>\n

“We can all speculate and guess but speaking from experience of stopping with coaches, sometimes it is innocent and there’s not too much in it, it just doesn’t work.<\/p>\n

“But that coaching relationship was working – with what he achieved, how could it not be? It’s mind-blowing, really.”<\/p>\n

Following the split, Ferrero told Spanish sport newspaper Marca, external<\/a> he had believed things would continue as they were and that he would head to the Australian Open as Alcaraz’s coach.<\/p>\n

However, the 2003 French Open winner said there were “certain issues” when it came to resolving contracts.<\/p>\n

“Perhaps they could have been resolved if we had sat down to talk, but in the end, we didn’t, and we decided not to continue,” Ferrero said<\/p>\n

“It’s clear that it’s been a radical change for everyone. Adapting isn’t easy. For me, obviously, it’s not a pleasant time at all.”<\/p>\n

Former British player Naomi Broady said she could see “cracks” in the pair’s relationship when she commentated on Alcaraz’s defeat by Cameron Norrie<\/a> at October’s Paris Masters.<\/p>\n

“Alcaraz played pretty terribly. There was a lot of tension,” Broady said. <\/p>\n

“You don’t really see it from him on the court but he was really shouting at his box and he was getting a bit back, so there were definitely cracks.”<\/p>\n

Samuel Lopez – who joined Alcaraz in 2024 and has coached him when Ferrero missed tournaments for personal reasons – has remained in his team.<\/p>\n

“I have the same team that I had last year. Just one member missing. But the rest of the team, everyone are the same,” Alcaraz added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world number one Ferrero guided fellow Spaniard Alcaraz to all six major wins and once described him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-410870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}