Flavio Cobolli, Roland Garros finalist, on Ferrero: “He is like Ancelotti or Guardiola, he always helps his players improve. We tried other coaches, but it was never the right time”

A few days ago the news broke: Juan Carlos Ferrero will train Ben Shelton after the ATP Finals. Thus ended a soap opera that lasted months and that generated much speculation about the professional future of Carlos Alcaraz’s former coach, who had been linked with players of the caliber of Jannik Sinner or Rafa Jódar.

And, without a doubt, Ferrero is a highly sought-after technician on the circuit, as the players themselves demonstrate every time they refer to it.

The last of them has been Flavio Cobolliwho was full of praise for the Spanish coach. “Juan Carlos Ferrero is the best coach in the world: asking him to train me seemed like something enormous, too much, something that belonged to someone else… He is like Ancelotti or Guardiola: he always helps his players to improve. We tried other coaches, but it was never the right time” explained the Italian in an interview with ‘Corriere della Sera’.

“We always said that if Juan Carlos was free, we would try to contact him. I even tried to text him but never did“added Cobolli, who is closing a dream season that has led him to play his first ATP Finals.

The Roland Garros finalist, world number 6, is included in the Ivan Lendl Group and He will face Carlos Alcaraz, Frances Tiafoe and Daniil Medvedev, the rival against whom he will debut on Monday at 8:30 p.m.