“To interrupt the collaboration was the best decision I made”

With coach Juan Carlos Ferrero with 15 years and agent Albert Molina from 11, Carlos Alcaraz's team shows a stable, long -lasting painting.

The former ATP leader was prepared between 5 and 12 years of Carlos Santos Bosqueon the lands at Real Sociedad Club de Campo in Murcia, along with three other children, Pedro, Fulgencio and Javi.

Two of them, Carlitos and Pedro, came out faster. “When we showed them a new blow, such as a cut or lift, they caught everything in flight, very fast”, The Santos story in 2022 in El Espanol.

It was then the total explosion season in the circuit of Alcaraz, which conquered his first Grand Slam title at the US Open and became the world number one.

The genesis of the book about Carlos Alcaraz

Three years later, the first coach of the Spanish published a book, “Alcaraz – the strength of a champion“, In which he tells how he met, trained and model, as a person, accompanying him to tournaments in Spain and other European countries.

He also describes his own method he experienced with Carlitos. From the use of a baseball stick to improve their reverie, to the placement of small gates in the corners of the field to repeat the long blows as if it were the marking of a gap with the tennis ball.

He perfected his technical gestures by placing him in front of a mirror. He worked the physique in swimming sessions or filmed Carlos and the other students with a GoPro so they could follow their own movements on the field, as El Espanol reported.

Quiet and satisfied with the work he has done, Carlos Santos Bosque, born in Cartagena and with a diploma in physical education, still has an incomplete wound after collaborating with Alcaraz and interaction with his close friends.

“At first, yes, it was a little difficult, especially when it came to reminding me everything, so I relied a lot on the pictures”He revealed in an interview for a break point as the book's genesis was.

The book “Alcaraz – the strength of a champion” photo: Instagram

“I searched for the photos and videos, I have them all sorted after the time, the problem is that I didn't have much time, so I stopped. Then I was back and repeated some things, this was the hardest thing, I can't do everything calmly and at once,” he added.

The book was notable, and the coach has exclusivity on that period of Alcaraz's childhood. When it was dedicated to its modeling not only in terms of tennis, but also physical training, nutrition, studies, travel.

19.85 eurosIt costs in the bookstores in Spain the book written by Carlos Santos Bosque

After he finished writing the book, he printed a copy and sent him to Carlos's father for him to travel and tell him if he wanted to add or, on the contrary, to be removed. “Read it and congratulated me, he liked it, but he didn't say anything else, so I left everything as it was”, Pelged Santos.

He believes, however, that there would have been some episodes that the parent 3 world may not have wanted to publish, between which it is the moment when he gave up.

Carlos Santos and Alcaraz's break: “That person did not appear because he could contribute something”

How and why did he get there? The appearance of another person in the team made Santos lose the decision -making power, to become a second plane figure. That took him to the radical decision.

“That person did not appear because he could contribute something, but because he was bringing a sponsor. When he entered the team he did not assume that role of coming to help, but the father turned a little at the beginning. Until he realized that what he wants with his son is a coach, but first he had to control the sponsor“Carlos Santos detailed.

Carlos Alcaraz and coach Carlos Santos in Paris, near the Eiffel Tournament: Instagram

“I did not leave just because that person came, but it is true that at that moment there was a small dispute. Finally I came to leave the project because I wanted something more than a handshake, something firmer,” added.

Carlos's father assured him would train Carlitos as he wants. “However, my head and heart were telling me exactly the opposite. If I had continued, I suppose it would have been until an IMG or a top coach, although I was always told that I will have my place, either as a second coach or as physiotherapist,” Santos for a break point.

Carlos Santos: “I was not sorry in no day”

Does he regret that he has reached this decision? “On the contrary, it is the best I took. No day was sorry for”, The coach confirmed, who completes that he did not dream of accompanying him to the big tournaments, but only to be part of the team and accompany him here, if he wanted Carlitos.

Santos says that when he sees him playing, he recognizes the imprint he left. “Above all, short, which I have practiced millions of times, or the right-hand blow, which was a cannon since he was little. When I look at him, I admit the same player since then, except that he is taller and stronger. The same magic, the same game, the same disorder when and when, but always with the ability to do everything on the ground“, Carlos Santos listed.

Carlos Alcaraz in action in the final of Monte Carlos Photo: Guliver/Gettyimages

Alcaraz and Santos, the “cordial, but not close” relationship

At the moment, the relationship between his former coach and Alcaraz is “cordial”, but not so close. “Before, I communicated more on WhatsApp, I wrote and answered, I congratulated him after a tour … but this thing was lost. But if we see each other we hug and that's”.

As for the future of his former student, he thinks he will depend on his “style”, revealed in the Netflix documentary. “In the coming years it will mature, now there is no other player other than Sinner, who will always be there, to push every week. Carlos has a magnificent tennis, a spectacular potential, if he puts his mind to the contribution and has truly ambition and motivation, he can be with the greatest in history”, Concluded Carlos Santos Bosque.