This is the Alcaraz team: 10 titles and 14.2 million dollars together

There are couples who succeed in all fields and sports make up the tennis player Carlos Alcaraz and his coach Juan Carlos Ferrerois one of the most prolific, proven by the fact that, because they are together, they win ten titles and 14.2 million dollars in prizes.

Although the young player always talks about “team” and that’s where they also come in from the representative Albert Molina even physiotherapists Juanjo Moreno and Sergio Hernandezgoing to the doctor Juanjo Lopezphysical trainers Alberto Lledó and Álex Sánchezand so is the psychologist Isabel Balaguer and Antonio Martínez Cascaleswho once worked as a coach in the absence of Ferrero, the truth is that Alcaraz-Ferrero tandem He is the visible leader of this winning cast.

The man from El Palmar, who turned 20 on Friday and who this week in Rome will regain world number 1 from Serbian Novak Djokovic, was also supported by his family. his father, Carlos Alcaraz Gonzalezis also a tennis player and introduced him to this sport and, although he does not interfere in the technical issues concerning his son’s career, he goes to the matches and knows what it is all about.

his mother, Virginia Hookand his brother, Alvaro23 years old, who usually accompanies Carlos on some tours occasionally sparring because he also plays tennis.

Actually, everyone in that house took a racket, because Jaime, the youngest -11 years old- was also competing and Sergio, 13, did it to switch to soccer.

The player who is called to dominate the ATP for the next decade -he is starting to do so- is surrounded by the right environment and that helps him achieve his goals.

“Carlos, at the age of seven, can already see that he has something unique and different”, his father commented as he started to stand on the circuit and he knew what he was talking about. No wonder Alcaraz González runs his own school at the Sociedad Club de Campo de El Palmar, Reina’s Carlos Alcaraz Tennis Academy. He has been doing it for 30 years and this is where Carlitos gave his first rackets.

That special gift worked well and the results prove it. The world tennis sensation, when it was a project of what it is today, had Carlos Santos Forest as the first coach and then Kiko Navarro directed it. Antonio González Palencia, who coached another Murcian like Nico Almagro, who became ninth in the world and won 13 ATP titles, also worked in that direction, but there came a time when we had to continue a step.

To continue to develop and take a big step, you need to have the services of a so-called top coach and the problem, logically, is economical because the cachet of any of them is what it is.

Alcaraz Gonzalez it explained: “We knew that the next thing was to put Carlos in the hands of a top-level coach, who knew the circuit and the possibility that Juan Carlos appeared, but we thought that we did not have what to pay to him.”

As a sample button, it should be noted that the annual program at JC Ferrero Equalite Sport Academywhere Carlos trains in the Alicante town of Villena, costs 4,025 euros per month.

The Ontinyent coach, who is currently 43 years old and as a tennis player was also number 1 in the world in 2003 and won 16 professional titles, including Roland Garros that year, saw Carlitos in action as a child and it was Albert Molina , representative of the two, who put them in contact and the architect of the beginning of this relationship which proved to be very fruitful.

ferrerowho trained Alexander Zverev, a German player who led him to become number 3 in the world -later he was number 2 and now, after a serious injury, he is number 22-, he saw many possibilities in Carlos and that’s why he agreed to guide her career.

“After training with Zverev, handling Alcaraz is very different. I took a boy with everything to do and I must say that I am excited to mold him and transfer to him all my experiences as a player,” said the Valencian in an interview with EFE in March 2020.

“To be very good and not fall by the wayside, Alcaraz must put dedication and even fanaticism,” he also said when his player was 16 years old and had been working with him in Villena for just over a year.

Since, Alcaraz won ten titles, which was the United States Open, his first and so far only Grand Slam; the Masters 1,000 in Miami, Indian Wells and Madrid -this one twice-, the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro and Barcelona -also repeated by Godó- and the ATP 250 in Umag and Buenos Aires.

In prizes, the Murcian tennis player won $14,267,635, according to the figure published by the ATP itself, and to that we must add what he pocketed in millionaire sponsorships with Nike, Babolat and Rolex as the main sponsors in a list in one that also appears Isdin, BMW and Calvin Klein, as well as the Murcian ElPozo Alimentación and the Autonomous Community, which has a tennis player as an image to promote tourism in the Region.

Alcaraz, selected in 2022 as the player with the greatest development on the circuit and again, in 2020, as the best young man in the ATP, is called to be the best in the global calculation in 2023 and for that he hopes every day if what last year he was chosen as the best coach in world tennis. A couple installed in the elite and aiming to achieve many more successes.