US OPEN

September 4, 2021

Juan Carlos Ferrero

Press Conference

THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.

Q. Thanks for joining us, Juan Carlos, and congrats on the result yesterday. I was thinking about Tsitsipas' comment that he had never seen anybody strike the ball that hard as he did yesterday. And that got me thinking about that delicate balance when you're working with a player who's so aggressive and going for big shots and how you manage that, how you encourage that sometimes and other times to try and rein it in. Wondered how you handled that. Could you talk about his poise yesterday given the moment he was in?

JUAN CARLOS FERRERO: Yeah, I mean, definitely Carlos is a player that likes to be very aggressive, of course. Since I met him when he was 14, 15, I knew of his potential, about his level. But definitely to be that aggressive you have to control yourself and be able to manage all the shots that you've got about the aggressivity that he has. That it's not easy, because sometimes, you know, comes to your mind a lot of ideas to hit the ball and you have to try to not put all those things together to not play as a plan.

So Carlos start to manage all these things on the court. Off court he's still 18 years old and he needs to get more mature, to control his emotions in there, and to control when he has to go with 100% of his potential or when he has to use 80% or sometimes play with a lot more spin or more flat.

So he's on the way to order all these kind of things but I think he's in a good way to do it.