David Ferrer will leave the Davis Cup captaincy: “The reasons for this decision are solely personal and respond to the desire to be able to start a new stage”

David Ferrer has announced that he will step down as Davis Cup captain at the end of this season. “The reasons for this decision are solely personal and respond to the desire to be able to start a new stage,” says the coach, who had a current contract. “I renounce the year 2027,” he noted.

Ferrer took office in 2023, filling the position of Sergi Bruguera. He will leave after the Davis Cup Final 8, which will be held in the Italian city of Bologna from November 24 to 29. The Spanish team faces Austria in the quarterfinals on Thursday the 26th.

“From now on I am only motivated and excited to be able to guide the Spanish team to another Saladera. We have a very nice challenge ahead of us in Bologna, where, as always, only they, the players, will once again be the true protagonists!”, he concludes in his official note.

David Ferrer is one of the most sought-after coaches on the circuit, he has already worked with the German Alexander Zverev in addition to his academy. He also has experience as director of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell-Trofeo Conde de Godó and television commentator. He has not hung up his racket at all, it is common in exhibitions of senior tennis players.

David Ferrer counts for the next call with Carlos Alcaraz, Rafa Jódar and the doubles Marcel Granollers-Pedro Martínez. It will give a first list with four members, which will then be completed with a fifth chosen, for which Jaume Munar and Alejandro Davidovich are running, especially, without forgetting Dani Mérida or Martín Landaluce. You will decide your performance in the final part of the ATP course.

The one from Xàbia wants to say goodbye with a ‘silver salad bowl’, which he already achieved as a player. Spain has not won the Davis Cup since 2019. It has six titles. During David Ferrer’s era, many times without the help of the natural leader, Carlos Alcaraz, he has won 9 of 13 eliminatory matches. The best result was the 2025 final.

The most difficult moment was experienced in Malaga, in the defeat against the Netherlands, in the farewell to Rafa Nadal of tennis, at dawn and with a painful KO even with Carlos Alcaraz also in the gala lineup.

In the recent qualifying round in Chile, the new generation entered, the people from Madrid made their debut Rafa Jódar and Dani Méridawho shared the call with his young teammate and countryman Martín Landaluce and the more experienced Jaume Munar and Pedro Martínez.

Miguel Díaz, president of the Spanish Tennis Federation (RFET)pointed out that “from the RFET we respect his professional decision and we greatly appreciate the effort and talent that he has dedicated to our team. As a player he has been a legend of our tennis, and in these years he has shown that from the bench his contribution has also been extraordinary. It has been his turn to give the alternative to several young players who have debuted with the Spanish team and who have also done so successfully. Spanish tennis has always been well represented with his presence and his professionalism.”