Translation: The great praise does not stop for the Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic, after his excellent season, and this time they came from the close environment of Carlos Alcaraz.

Novak Djokovic’s season was worthy of being framed. It is enough to highlight the fact that he won three of the four Grand Slams. He won the Australian Open, Roland Garros and US Open, he only missed Wimbledon. He lost that contest to Carlos Alcaraz, who was, in 2023, his biggest rival and with whom he fought the best battles on the court.

That’s why, from the Spanish environment, words dedicated to the Serbian arrived. The one who spoke was Juan Carlos Ferrero, coach of ‘Carlitos’. In an interview with ‘El Larguero’, he said, “I’m running out of praise. I drool watching him when he plays, how he touches the ball, how he moves. When he’s mentally fine, and he doesn’t get distracted by certain things, it’s outrageous.”

“How he handles the times and how he handles the hot moments of the game is unique. It has an impressive quality, while putting pressure on you absolutely at all points. There is not once that you see him miss two balls in a row throughout the game, not once and, in that aspect, he achieves almost excellence. That tells you how good he wants to be and how good he is,” he added.

But it wasn’t the only thing he said and continued with the rain of compliments. “We have to follow that trail. Beyond the numbers, for me it’s the best, but it’s complicated. Without a doubt. You may like Roger Federer more for his way of playing or Rafael Nadal for his dedication and everything that each one has achieved. His merits are undeniable, but for me Novak is the best in history,” he said.

And in his statements he had space to make a suggestion to his pupil, remembering that what Novak Djokovic does indoors is spectacular. " Having the level of it on this surface, I think it requires time and many hours on this type of tracks. Obviously, it’s not an excuse, but I think that the fast track hasn’t benefited us," said Juan Carlos Ferrero.

“I suppose that in that aspect you have to spend more hours, train more in this type of situation, and I think that the mental level has made the tennis level not there. He has had two mistakes again, for which the game is going away. I think that in that aspect you have to be more constant. He knows that he has to improve for the future, especially to play with the best,” he said.