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           Carlos Alcaraz with Juan Carlos Ferrero inset                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\"><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s former coach Juan Carlos Ferrero has revealed what he believes the world No 1 \u201cneeds to do\u201d to become the greatest player of all time.<\/p>\n<p>In December, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/carlos-alcaraz\">Alcaraz<\/a> and Ferrero parted ways, bringing an end to a seven-year partnership that featured 24 titles, including six Grand Slams.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz started attending Ferrero\u2019s academy in Villena in 2018 when he was 15, and he became the youngest ATP world No 1 in history after winning his maiden major at the 2022 US Open aged 19.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Lopez, who coaches at Ferrero\u2019s academy, is now Alcaraz\u2019s head coach, having previously worked in tandem with Ferrero.<\/p>\n<p>In his first tournament since splitting with Ferrero, Alcaraz secured his maiden Australian Open title to become the youngest man to complete the career Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old then won the Qatar Open in February before falling in the semi-finals in Indian Wells and the third round in Miami last month. He is in action this week at the Monte Carlo Masters, where he is the reigning champion.<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Tour News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/carlos-alcaraz-could-juan-carlos-ferrero-return-coach\"><strong>Carlos Alcaraz: Could Juan Carlos Ferrero return to world No 1\u2019s team?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/carlos-alcaraz-speaks-out-privacy-cameras-monte-carlo-masters\"><strong>Carlos Alcaraz speaks out about player privacy as he issues \u2018too much\u2019 criticism<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more from Tennis365? Add us as <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tennis365.com\" target=\"_blank\">a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/tenis\/2026\/04\/06\/juan-carlos-ferrero-descarto-volver-entrenar-ano.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Marca<\/em><\/a>, Ferrero was asked if he believes Alcaraz can become the best player in history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, of course. What he needs to do is keep his motivation intact,\u201d said the former world No 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe needs to stay motivated when he\u2019s achieving all the goals he\u2019s set for himself, and then, when his motivation isn\u2019t at 100%, professional discipline has to kick in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Carlos will stay motivated because he knows he has some very important players ahead of him, players who have achieved great success, and he wants to be one of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see any reason to think his motivation will drop in the short term, and I hope he stays at this level for a long time because he\u2019ll have opportunities to win major titles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2003 French Open champion was also asked if he congratulated his former team after Alcaraz won the 2026 Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, yes, obviously. I already congratulated them when they reached the final, and I congratulated them again after they made history, as Carlos and his entire team have done,\u201d Ferrero said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very commendable achievement, and they deserved that congratulation. And I\u2019m happy that it worked out for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very clear goal that Carlos had for the last few years, and to be the youngest in history to achieve it, I\u2019m very proud of them all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/carlos-alcaraz-surprised-jannik-sinner-stefanos-tsitsipas-alex-eala-novak-djokovic\">Alcaraz \u2018surprised\u2019 by Sinner as he issues complaint, Tsitsipas\u2019 rankings collapse, Eala\u2019s next opponent, Djokovic warned<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Carlos Ferrero tells Carlos Alcaraz what he \u2018needs to do\u2019 to become the GOAT\u00a0 Ewan West 07 Apr 2026 9:00 AM Carlos Alcaraz with Juan Carlos Ferrero inset Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s former coach Juan Carlos Ferrero has revealed what he believes the world No 1 \u201cneeds to do\u201d to become the greatest player of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-1869286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1869286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1869286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1869286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1869286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}