Juan Carlos Ferrero will be Nicolas Almagro’s part-time coach – Tennis News
Former world number one, Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain, announced his retirement from professional tennis earlier this season but he still wants to be an active figure on the ATP World Tour. He has planned to provide coaching services
to his fellow compatriot, Nicolas Almagro, and uplift his game in the next ATP circuit.
Currently holding the world number 11th rank in the South African airways ATP World Tour Rankings, Almagro has not been in the best of his form this year. The 27-year-old Spaniard took off the season as a top-tenner
but could merely bag two ATP championship titles in the entire professional circuit. Ferrero believes in his fellow countryman’s abilities and desires to polish his skills to a new level. Although he will not be a permanent trainer for Almagro, the retired
former world number one veteran thinks his part-time coaching will bring positive changes in the game play of his fellow Spaniard.
Ferrero has been one of the most agile players on the tennis court, as he earned the nick name of ‘the mosquito’ by his fellow competitors and tennis critics. It seems like he desires to instil Almagro’s game with this particular
attribute and bring him out as a more agile player than his counterparts. The world number 11 has been witnessed exhibiting some sloppy foot work in his matches, which eventually resulted in his defeats to inferior ranked opponents.
Almagro has been one of the fastest rising tennis prospects of the 2011 ATP World Tour but he couldn’t sustain his impetus in the current year. He took off the 2012 season in his usual aggressive manner in the opening tournaments
but his spark seems to have died out a bit in the events to follow. His title victory in Sao Paulo was followed by a loss in the final of Buenos Aires ATP event but he continued to be a regular quarter-finalist in most of the events.
His downward inclination started after the US Open Championships, as he suffered opening round exits in Tokyo and Shanghai Masters. Almagro was the one to defeat Ferrero in his last played ATP World Tour match in Valencia and the
‘mosquito’ is now by his side to groom him into a tougher and improved player for the years to come.
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