He Former tennis player and captain of the Spanish Davis Cup team, David Ferrerassured this Saturday that his greatest achievement, throughout his career, was seeing how people enjoyed his tennis.
Ferrer participated in a round table of Tennis Specific Pathology Meeting which is celebrated in Santander, next to the doctor Angel Ruiz Cotorroevent organizer, physical trainer Vicente Calvo and the physiotherapist Julián Casanova.
In a round table about childhood and tennis, he emphasized that what led him to become number three in the world was “consistent” work and “improving” his virtues.
“To play tennis there is a physical, mental and perseverance process. If there is one thing I have had, it is that I copy, paste and execute what I was observed. That was my greatest talent, what I did best was enhance my virtues,” he said. .
The man from Alicante admitted that during his time as a professional he would change “many things” such as the training sessions which, in his opinion, “are now more specific” and, in the past, were “generalized” and did. not adapted to the conditions of the tennis player.
The former world number three revealed that his life as a professional has been reduced to thinking about tennis “all the time” and believes that he has not missed anything in life, because he approached it in a “different way” and did what he liked ..
“Before I went to my house, Jávea, and it was holidays and, while I was with my friends, I thought that I was wasting my time. Now, that I live differently, I travel every year with them,” he said. underlined.
Ángel Ruiz Cotorro considers Ferrer a “great talent” in Spanish tennis because, for him, talent is “the attitude and passion you have for tennis and David has that.”
Furthermore, the doctor acknowledged that the former tennis player changed all his routines “methods, diet, training…” and, he believes, that young people should have him as an “example.”
For Vicente Calvo The career of the Alicante native is “ten” because “thanks to perseverance” he became one of the tennis players “who reached the top with conditions, perhaps, not as optimal as others.”
“When my players asked me for advice about facing David, I told them to play a very tactical game. He left his rivals useless because he was stubborn and dominated all registers,” he stressed.
For his part, Casanova added that Ferrer is a “wonderful” and a “very constant” person.
The role of families
Ruiz Cotorro said that parents, in ancient times, “to those generation of Moya, Ferrero, Ferrer or VerdascoThey are “different” because they “always seek to cooperate” and be close to their children.
On the other hand, for Cotorro, “parents today are a pain in the ass that don’t allow the coaches to work and you have to send them reports all the time.”
Calvo lamented the “specialization” of boys since they were little, as he believes they “get bored of tennis by the age of 27.”
New generations
Ferrer predicted that Spanish tennis has a “transition” stage ahead and believes that it will be “difficult” to repeat a batch of tennis players like what happened in the country in the last 20 years.
“There are very good players in the top 100 but it’s not like my generation or the previous one. For 20 years there were very good tennis players in Spain, now, for sure, there will be a transition period,” he highlighted.
Nevertheless, the captain of the Spanish team emphasized the “luck” that the country he left behind had Carlos Alcaraz after Rafael Nadalbecause having two players of that talent so close together “is unusual”
Source: La Verdad
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