{"id":651183,"date":"2025-12-23T21:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/651183\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T21:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:51:15","slug":"carlos-alcarazs-outrageous-contract-demand-as-spaniard-called-out-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/651183\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s \u2018outrageous\u2019 contract demand as Spaniard called out | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Alcaraz has been criticised for the decision to split from long-term coach Juan Carlos Ferrero. It was announced earlier this week<\/a> that the two would go their separate ways after working with each other for seven years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During that time, Alcaraz<\/a> has won 24 titles, including six majors and is currently the world number one. The split, therefore, came as a shock to the world of tennis and there has been plenty of discussion about the decision.<\/p>\n

There has been some speculation from CLAY that Ferrero was given two days to read and sign a new contract. It\u2019s added that he made a counteroffer that wasn\u2019t accepted.<\/p>\n

The same publication also claims<\/a> that there were \u2018major disagreements\u2019 between Ferrero and Alcaraz\u2019s father. Responding on social media, Ferrero added the telling phrase<\/a>: \u201cI wish I could have continued\u201d in his heartfelt statement.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz has now been criticised for the decison by former French basketball player Frederic Weis. Speaking to RMC Sport\u2019s Les Grandes Gueules du Sport, the former Olympic silver medalist said: \u201cWhat worries me is the ultimatum, the demand to respond within 48 hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very peculiar way of treating someone you\u2019ve worked with for seven years. It\u2019s outrageous.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Alcaraz, he will now be on the search for a potential long-term replacement, while Samuel Lopez will continue with the team and will be in charge for the upcoming Australian Open<\/a>. It is now reported that Lopez will become the new head coach for the 2026 season, with Alcaraz turning down the approach<\/a> of more than five other coaches.<\/p>\n

The world number one has been sent a warning by former Grand Slam champion Marion Bartoli<\/a> who pointed to the early retirement of Bjorn Borg. \u201cI am worried – but in a measured way – because he is someone who has exceptional qualities to begin with,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut he needs structure because otherwise he could end up quitting tennis like [Bjorn] Borg did at 25. And we have a genius here, so we don\u2019t want that – we want him to continue for a very, very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cWhat\u2019s going to happen is that for the first six months, it\u2019s going to be a trial-and-error process.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be names circulating, people wondering who will take the job, who won\u2019t. Of course, to coach a genius like Alcaraz, he\u2019s not going to face many rejections.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz has been criticised for the decision to split from long-term coach Juan Carlos Ferrero. It was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[6359,199311,199312,6357,79,1068,31635,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-651183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","9":"tag-coaching-split","10":"tag-contract-ultimatum","11":"tag-juan-carlos-ferrero","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-tennis-section","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115771099388682551","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651183","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=651183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}