Hangover at Alcaraz academy, which triggers requests from new students

The JC Ferrero Equalite Sport Academythe center where Carlos Alcaraz who trains regularly and where he shares facilities with more than 70 pledges, he woke up today “overwhelmed” with demands and delayed the start of training by an hour and a half due to the “happy hangover” of players and teachers , who stayed until 2:00 am in the morning to experience the victory of the Murcian, the new champion of the US Tomorrow.

Instead of uncorking champagne bottles, the teachers this morning opened dozens of packages of tennis balls trying to appear normal, despite the fact that the young people did not stop talking about the Murcian and emulating his celebrations: “How is Alcaraz? look at last night’s game”, one of the young tennis players asked ironically before the barrage of comments about the Murcian.

The match starring the Norwegian is impossible to miss Casper Ruud and Alcaraz, where academia is your coach, John Charles Ferrerowhich was established 27 years ago, installed more than 150 seats and a giant screen in the center court of this center.

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There, the more than 70 interns at the academy huddled together with friends, family and neighbors from Villena (Alicante), where the academy is located, and “they had fun, sang, danced and celebrated,” he explained to EFE Diana Quintero, commercial director of JC Ferrero Equelite Sport Academy.

On this day of emotional ‘hangover’, Quintero, who explained that everything is in either New York, with the Murcian, or resting, he assures that the night has been “historic” for the academy, when a “milestone” has been reached.

Quintero emphasizes that this “milestone” is more special due to the fact that when he is in Villena, the Murcian “is not noticed, he is another”, although he emphasizes that “he has charisma” despite the fact that the new number one in world tennis is almost 19 years old.

saturation of requests

The ‘boom’ of the Murcian, who became the eighth Spaniard -in the men’s category- to win a Grand Slam, means that in recent months the JC Ferrero Equalite Sport Academy even the sports complex that everyone wants to go to and the demands for new students have increased, they explained.

Quintero pointed out that since Nadal and Alcaraz faced off at last year’s Mutua Madrid Open, the academy, which is run by Alcaraz’s former tennis player and coach Juan Carlos Ferrero, began receiving a “flood” of requests for young tennis players can follow the steps of Pablo Carreño, Emilio Nava or Carlos Alcarazsome of those who usually practice in Villena.

However, he insisted that since Alcaraz won the Mutual Madrid Open and Miami this year, these requests to enter have “increased” and there is now a waiting list to train at the complex, where boys and girls come from Brazil, South Africa, Australia, United States or Kazakhstan.

He explained that this summer they are “full on” holding monthly tennis camps for about a hundred kids at each table trying to prepare for a future in the elite.

In the same way, he emphasizes that starting next week, the ‘internal’ students in the academy will have to combine their studies -to choose between British and Spanish programs- with approx. about seven and a half hours of their training every day.

Likewise, this overexposure of academia through ‘Alcaraz phenomenon’ This leads one to wonder if the facilities of the complex, with more than 120,000 square meters, need to be expanded, an issue that Quintero maintains is being studied, but the most important thing is “not to lose the essence” of academy, dedicated to the professionalization of players, but also to being “a family”.

Quintero emphasizes that since September, this same academy has “elite” facilities for paddle tennis players, while saying that Argentine Sanyo Gutiérrez has been training here regularly, that is, ensuring him, that his partner player, Agustín Tapia, and some of the best players inThe World Padel Tour go to Villena several times a month