How Ferrero gels with Shelton’s dad – a former professional player who won two ATP titles – will be key.<\/p>\n
Ferrero previously had a six-month spell coaching Zverev, which ended after a third-round Australian Open exit in 2018.<\/p>\n
Ferrero was hired by Zverev as an outside voice coming into a father-son coaching dynamic, but the German fired him after claiming Ferrero was “disrespectful” to his team.<\/p>\n
Ferrero later said Zverev lacked the professionalism he expected from a top player.<\/p>\n
Shelton, known for having a strong work ethic and insatiable will-to-win, is likely to be receptive to Ferrero’s demands – as long as they do not neutralise his raw weapons.<\/p>\n
But Rick Macci, the veteran American coach who guided the Williams sisters as teenagers, believes Ferrero will find it harder to improve Shelton’s technical deficiencies.<\/p>\n
“Shelton can win a few Slams if things break his way,” Macci said.<\/p>\n
“His backhand groundstroke and return can be technically unpredictable – at the top of the mountain the margins are razor thin. <\/p>\n
“Ferrero can help a lot in many areas because [Shelton’s] backbone is better than his backhand, but getting to number one is a different landscape to mow.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How Ferrero gels with Shelton’s dad – a former professional player who won two ATP titles – will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-903531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903531","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=903531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}