{"id":645361,"date":"2025-12-21T02:08:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645361\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T02:08:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:08:29","slug":"rafael-nadal-becoming-carlos-alcaraz-coach-verdict-after-unlikely-split-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645361\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal becoming Carlos Alcaraz coach verdict after unlikely split | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rafael Nadal<\/a> is unlikely to become Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>\u2019s coach at the present time, according to former British No. 1 Greg Rusedski. Alcaraz announced his split<\/a> from long-term coach Juan Carlos Ferrero earlier this week, just days after the 45-year-old had been named the ATP coach of the year<\/a> alongside his colleague Samuel Lopez.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz and Ferrero began working together seven years ago. And under his compatriot\u2019s guidance, the 22-year-old won six Grand Slam titles, including this year\u2019s French Open<\/a> and US Open<\/a>. But Alcaraz revealed that the 2003 French Open<\/a> champion had left his set-up, with Lopez set to step up and take on a bigger role for the time being at least.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz has been tipped to bring in Nadal as his new coach, with former Spanish stars David Ferrer and Carlos Moya also being spoken about as potential candidates.<\/p>\n

But Rusedski doesn\u2019t think Nadal would be interested in taking on a full-time coaching role just one year after bringing his own playing career to an end at the age of 38.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just don\u2019t think Rafael Nadal<\/a> is at a time in his life when he wants to get back on the Tour and travel every week,\u201d Rusedski explained on his Off Court with Greg podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cNadal has two young children and he seems to be enjoying his retirement, so I just don\u2019t see him giving everything up to go back on the road with Alcaraz.\u201d<\/p>\n

And discussing Ferrero\u2019s exit from Alcaraz\u2019s backroom team, he added: \u201cWe don\u2019t know whose decision this was, but who can believe it? You win coach of the year one week, Alcaraz is player of the year and world No. 1, and suddenly he splits with his coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a shock. We know it\u2019s nothing to do with the finances, as he has signed a big new deal with Nike and I feel this is about relationship and communication. Maybe he is playing too many exhibitions, enjoying his life outside tennis.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are halfway through the off-season and this is obviously a disagreement about training or too many exhibitions.<\/p>\n

\u201cFerrero looks like he is battling with Alcaraz because the player wants to enjoy his life. If you are happy off court, you play better and if you try to change someone\u2019s personality, it can get more difficult. That may be where the battle lines were drawn.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was hoping this relationship would last throughout his career, like with Rafael Nadal and his uncle Toni, but now this news has come. No one would say no to coaching Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> if he calls you, but it\u2019s going to be tough to replace Juan Carlos Ferrero.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal is unlikely to become Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s coach at the present time, according to former British No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[4719,6359,195186,6357,166406,4296,79,1068,31635,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-645361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp-tour","9":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","10":"tag-greg-rusedski","11":"tag-juan-carlos-ferrero","12":"tag-new-coach","13":"tag-rafael-nadal","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-tennis-section","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115755123294757577","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}