{"id":94742,"date":"2025-12-25T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=94742"},"modified":"2025-12-26T08:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T13:11:09","slug":"juan-carlos-ferrero-carlos-alcaraz-separation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/12\/25\/juan-carlos-ferrero-carlos-alcaraz-separation\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Carlos Ferrero Details His Relationship With Carlos Alcaraz Following Shock Separation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/12\/17\/carlos-alcaraz-juan-carlos-ferrero\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">After his split with long-time protege Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, Juan Carlos Ferrero has revealed how his current relationship stands with the player he helped guide from the Challenger circuit all the way to World No.1 over the span of seven very successful years.<\/p>\n<p>A partnership that, to the outside eye, appeared rock-solid, shocked the tennis world last week when both <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/12\/18\/inside-the-collapse-some-background-behind-alcaraz-and-ferreros-sudden-separation\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">parties announced they had decided to part ways<\/a> just before the start of a crucial off-season, one Alcaraz enters as the best player in the world.<\/p>\n<h3>Ferrero Clarifies Relationship With Alcaraz After the Split<\/h3>\n<p>While it has since emerged that the two had points of difference and experienced ups and downs like any long-term pairing, Ferrero has now explained <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/12\/24\/hurting-juan-carlos-ferrero-opens-up-on-alcaraz-breakup-we-never-sat-down-to-talk\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">why they ultimately decided to walk away from each other<\/a>, despite remaining on good terms, as he disclosed in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/tenis\/2025\/12\/24\/ferrero-forma-jugar-carlos-me-tenia-enamorado-mejor-historia.html?utm_campaign=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview with <em>Marca<\/em><\/a>. Speaking about his current relationship with Alcaraz, Ferrero said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuper good, it has always been very good. We\u2019ve had a very close coach-player relationship and then a strong friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, the former World No.1 made it clear that the split has been emotionally difficult. \u201cRight now, I\u2019m hurting,\u201d Ferrero admitted, after a separation that neither fans nor he himself expected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese kinds of relationships are difficult to end overnight. And there has to be a grieving period. And, above all, I suppose it will also hurt when I see him play in tournaments. A lot of shared experiences come into play there. I think it\u2019s going to take some time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a  id=\"KtCr5LVxTU9BkeY3HV6jDw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2243378866\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'KtCr5LVxTU9BkeY3HV6jDw',sig:'SI1KSdVGDGzH2d7DQDDj0GIJz91aNEr_Ybi1bVyBidk=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'2243378866',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In his farewell post <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/carlosalcaraz\/status\/2001262529159250122?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">uploaded to social media<\/a>, Alcaraz also made it clear that he still holds Ferrero in very high regard, ending the partnership \u201cwith the peace of mind of knowing we didn\u2019t hold anything back, that we gave everything we had for each other.\u201d Because no matter how it ended, the two helped each other reach heights in tennis that only a handful of partnerships in the sport\u2019s history have ever achieved.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Susan Mullane-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his split with long-time protege Carlos Alcaraz, Juan Carlos Ferrero has revealed how his current relationship stands with the player he helped guide from the Challenger circuit all the way to World No.1 over the span of seven very successful years. A partnership that, to the outside eye, appeared rock-solid, shocked the tennis world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5608,"featured_media":85561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,9],"tags":[5729,3601],"class_list":["post-94742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp","category-featured","category-news","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-juan-carlos-ferrero"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94768,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94742\/revisions\/94768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}