Juan Carlos Ferrero, in his new book: “To become obsessed with repeating what happened in Alcaraz would be a mistake”

This Wednesday, October 7 Juan Carlos Ferrero He debuts as an author, the book ‘Winning Mentality’ is published, a title accompanied by the phrase ‘beyond motivation, train the habit of discipline’ (Impulsa, Ediciones Península). He shares his experience as a child becoming world number one in tennis and his experiences as a coach.

Life and tennis lessons expressed in this publication. “This book began to take shape in the summer of 2025. From the first moment I assumed that telling my story would also involve talking about the players I have worked with, especially Carlos, as he is the one with whom I have spent the most time,” he says, aware of the appeal of his story with Alcaraz, which came after his experience with the German. Alexander Zverevwhich also deals.

“My intention at all times has been to limit the content to what is related to our experience together, just as I have done with respect to my time with Sasha. “Both still have a great career ahead of them and it is not fair that someone tells their story before they have had the opportunity to close it,” says Ferrero, who prefers to focus the story on what he has experienced in a lifetime dedicated to tennis, including his academy in Villena (Alicante).

The news leads Ferrero to its break with Carlos Alcaraz in December 2025. “It is a topic that I do not want to talk about, it remains within the sphere of private relationships, although I know that it generates great curiosity. For me the fundamental thing is that, after more than seven years, we can look back and say only good things. I believe that we have lived a bond history, which both he and I have served as learning and life experience.”

Among the initial extracts of the book is this chapter with Alcaraz, an unrepeatable figure as he comments. Ferrero in the book. “I am very aware that it is difficult for me to find another player like Alcaraz. History has seen very few tennis players of his quality, and I have been very lucky to participate in this journey. Obsessing over repeating it would be a mistake. In any case, the ranking of the next person I train is not the most important thing to me.”

A few days ago, with the book already in print, Ferrero announced that he will return to the professional circuit next season, although it meant that he still cannot reveal the name of who will be his new pupil.

In the book, the first part is titled ambition, followed by the character section. Next, the legacy. He declares himself “addicted to competition”, talks about “training people, not just players”, self-demand and how to manage defeats and goodbyes. It has been through all the states.

A Grand Slam champion, hero of the 2000 Davis Cupworld number one. Since he was a child called to be one of the greats, from the pain of the early loss of his mother, from the support of his father and sisters to continue his career in Villena with Antonio Martínez Cascales.

And the move to coach, with the impact that a boy from Murcia, whom he bet on when he was a child who promised a lot, began to make history, to destroy records of precocity. The vision of Juan Carlos Ferrero, his baggage, in print.