Juan Carlos Ferrero has gone to court to see his disciple, carlos alcarazFace Alex De Minaur in an exhibition match Australian Open,
Alcaraz took a 4–1 lead and lost the opening set 7–5. Afterwards, Ferrero gave some insight into what the team worked on during pre-season.
“There are a lot of things, I think, that Carlos is still very young and he needs to improve on a lot of things,” he told Andrea Petkovic.
“Continuity on his focus is one thing because sometimes there’s a little bit of up-and-down in matches. He knows that and he’s working on it. And of course, we want to see him play very good tennis. “
Petkovic also asked about Alcaraz’s new serve – which she has already discussed with the world No. 3.
Explaining the changes he made, Ferrero said: “We worked a little more on the tempo because before we wanted to hold the tempo up a bit.
“Now what we’ve tried to do is once he starts the movement, follow through until he completes the move. And ball launch is also an area he needs to improve on with more consistency because of his “The pass speed is there but the consistency on the first serve is not there, so that’s one of the things we want to improve.”
