JC will finally not play at Santiago de Chile

Once more , Juan Carlos Ferrero will not be able to play a tournament which he planned to play due to not recovering enough from the surgery he had . Yesterday it became official that he will not play at Chile , meaning that we will have to wait one week more to see him again playing in courts , which in theory will happen at Brazil , in Costa Do Sauipe´s tournament .

Hope he recovers completely in this next week and that he will be able to play at Brazil to defend last years title .

Ferrero: winner of the Brasil Open!!

Yesterday was an incredible night which JC will laways have on his mind.Yesterday´s tittle was the tenth of his career won on clay,the thirdtieth of all his career and the first one of this season which looks like it is going to be another great season,similar to last years.The final match was really impressive,it was so under control on Juan Carlos that it was impossible for it too scape from JC´s hands.Juan Carlos played so good and he was so concentrated that the polish player only won a game in the whole match.

Although with this win JC hasn´t improve in his ranking,the enormous gap between him and the players on the Top 20 has been completely closed and there is less than 100 points between JC and the 18th position,which means that JC must do a great tournament this week at Buenos Aires,as it is vital for him to pick up more points and take advantage of this close differences,which could make him rise to well inside the Top 20.Also,there has now been created a gigantic gap between him and the players which persecute him in the rankings (a difference of more than 200 points with the 23rd position),which means that if JC had a bad tournament,his position will not be in danger for a couple of weeks.

Analysis of yesterday´s final match

The match started as most of the finals do,with both players being a bit nervous and both making silly errors.Due to this nervous atmosphere,in the first two games there were two breaks done.However,the first two come back to its normal play and start dominating the match was Juan Carlos,who showed his experience and started making the polish run around the court in long rallies and started to make more and more winners.In the third game of the first set,JC broked Kubot´s serve and from that point,the polish dissapeared from the match and JC won the rest 10 games of the match.JC was playing so good that it´s very difficult to analyse the rest of the match as he did so many great shots that we wound finish until tomorrow,but the point i would like to highlight as being the best of the match was one were you could clearly see the quality of JC,his great fitness level and mostly the great motivation he has on fighting every ball .


This magnific point was played in the second set,with the 1-0* and the first deuce of the match.In this rallie,the polish player did a wonderful dropshot and didn´t expect that JC could hit it back.Juanqui did another dropshot,although this one was send to the other side of the court.The polish nearly let it bounced twice,but he did an exceptional effort to reach the ball and hit once more another dropshot.It seemed that JC couldn´t reach the ball,but he finally putted the head of the racket and hitted back into the baseline.Kubot only could send it back doing a lob which was finally smashed by JC finishing an extraordinary point.

Tomorrow i´ll upload some photos,videos,interviews and the first round match of this wonderful week of JC at Costa Do Sauipe.

Thanx for visiting us :)

Happy birthday Juan Carlos!!!

Today is JC´s turn to try to reach the semifinals by playing against Carlos Berlocq,an unknown player which is currently in the 295th position of the ranking and who´s best history ranking was 65 (at 2007).

The match will start around 8:30 pm (british hour) and you can see it through BET365 or by the link i gave in the post of Ferrero vs Schwank.

As you all know,today is a very very important day,as it´s JC´s birthday,he is now 30 years old.A day like today,30 years ago,our hero was born.We hope that he can continue giving us great noticies and that he can win lots of tournaments and finally that he can celebrate by the best way his birthday,by winning on Sunday this tournament of Costa Do Sauipe.

Ferrero wins an exciting match against Massu and he is already in quarterfinals

In the match that Juan Carlos played of second round yesterday,JC suffered too much than expected because of his fault and also due to the high level of play that Nicolas showed in some moments of the match.

In the fisrt set,JC just went over Massu,although JC wasn´t playing as good as he can,doing lots of unforced and strange errors.Once he broked the serve of Massu,Juan Carlos played much better than Nicolas,winning lots of points in a quick way,most of them due to the unpatientness of Nicolas,who tried to do at all time winners and most of them went out.Another key point of the first set was the clearly strategy of Massu to annoy JC by loosing lots and lots of time between his serve,getting to the limit of the time permited and in some times exceeding it.However,this didn´t work for him and JC won the first set by 6-2.Everything seemed that the second set was again going to be quick and that the match would not last a lot,but after a couple of minutes we discovered that this wasn´t going to happen.

At the start of the second set,JC did again a break on Massu´s serve and more or less in this time the anecdote of the match happened,when Massu went to the umpire and commented to him that some people from the court where saying bad things about his mum.This made Massu nervous and agressive and made him wake up and play harder,with much more power on his shots.Although the rythm of Nico was getting each time better and better,JC had a wonderful 30-30 when they were at 5-3* to have the chance of having a match point,but he didnt got it that time as he threw out the ball in a strange way,as the forehand wasn´t that difficult.From that point,JC started to play worse and to loss confidence on his shots,which made him lost the second set by 5-7.

In the third and last set,Massu was playing wonderfully well and it was very clear that JC wasn´t in the best moment of the match.This could be clearly seen in the service of JC,as he had lots of problems to avoid that Massu broked his serve.However,everything changed when JC did a magnific break,leading with 3*-2.From this point,Juan Carlos got again some confidence and started playing really good,more or less in a similar level to the one of the middle of last year.

JC wins his match of first round and will play this night against Massu

Finally,yesterday we enjoyed the first win of Juan Carlos in this year.The match was very leveled and it lasted for a bit more than 2 hours.The final score was of 7-6 6-3.This night,JC will try to win his round 2 match against Nicolas Massu in a match that will be played around 11:30 pm(british hour).The match can be followed by bet365 and also by the link which i gave in yesterdays post.

In yesterday´s first set against Schwank,throughout all this set the game was very leveled.Although at the start of the match Schwank was the one who putted more pressure on JC and was who had more chances of breaking Ferrero´s service,JC fought back well and he demostrated his great quality saving numerous break points (such as in the 4*-4,where JC saved 4 Bp´s which if the argentinian had won,it would probably would mean that JC would had lost this set)

Another key fact which we need to highlight is that in some parts of the first set,JC played too short,so it was constant the silly errors that he did by hitting the ball against the net.In this first set there were some excellent points played (such us the one were Schwank hitted the ball against the net but this passed into JC´s court.Ferrero sprinted powerfully and finally did a wonderful wrist change to do a perfect backslice near the net.Another great shot was the one were JC did a magnific passing shot to win the last point of the tie break)

Finally,to finish the review of the first set,we need to say how important the change of rythm and level of play that Ferrero did between the tie break,where he started loosing by 1*-3 but recovered,played much better without doing any unforced errors and finally won it by 7-4.

We could describe the second set as a crazy one,where lots of breaks were done.In the start of the set,JC started leading by 2-0*,but after the argentinian winning his service (with the 2*-1) the breaks started and 4 consecutive breks were done,leaving the score to 4*-3.JC finally won his own serve and break once more Schwank´s serve to win his first match of the year.

Good luck this night and we wish that you can obtain this night your second win of the year.Good luck JC!

Ferrero vs Schwank,today in the second turn

After more than two weeks without seeing Juan Carlos playing,today we will have the opportunity to see him again in action and also at a good hour,as the match will start more or less around 8:30pm/9:00pm (british hour).The match can be followed by bet365 webpage (were you only need to register).

Good luck Juan Carlos and lets hope we can see you winning for the first time this year :)

LINK TO WATCH JC´S MATCH IN A STARTING SOON HERE

Ferrero at Costa Do Sauipe;let´s go for the tittle!

Nearly one year later,Juan Carlos will be again the first seeded player of a tournament,this time of the Costa Do Sauipe 250 tournament.Main Draw is out and we know who will be the possible opponents of JC,but trust me,the way for JC to win this tournament is not going to be so easy as we wish it would.Here you have the main draw of the tournament:

(1)FERRERO, Juan Carlos ESP vs. SCHWANK, Eduardo ARG
QUALIFIER vs. MASSU, Nicolas CHI
CHELA, Juan Ignacio ARG vs. LUCZAK, Peter AUS
HOCEVAR, Ricardo BRA vs. (8)GASQUET, Richard FRA

(3)BELLUCCI, Thomaz BRA vs. ALVES, Thiago BRA
VENTURA, Santiago ESP vs. GIMENO-TRAVER, Daniel ESP
LORENZI, Paolo ITA vs. MELLO, Ricardo BRA
SOUZA, Joao BRA vs. (5)HANESCU, Victor ROU

(6)CUEVAS, Pablo URU vs. QUALIFIER
QUALIFIER vs. GIL, Frederico POR
QUALIFIER vs. DANIEL, Marcos BRA
STARACE, Potito ITA vs. (4)ANDREEV, Igor RUS

(7)ZEBALLOS, Horacio ARG vs. GRANOLLERS, Marcel ESP
FOGNINI, Fabio ITA vs. VASSALLO ARGUELLO, Martin ARG
KUBOT, Lukasz POL vs. HERNANDEZ, Oscar ESP
GREUL, Simon GER vs. (2)MONTANES, Albert ESP

As you can see above,the first round is going to be tough against Eduardo Schwank,who will play this open really prepared and with a lot of rythm as he has played this week at Santiago de Chile and in the last couple of weeks,he has reached two finals of challengers (winning one of them).In second round,JC should play against Massu (who should be easier to win than Schwank) and in the third round,JC will probably play against the second best player of the Open.Although he has such a low ranking,Gasquet has the quality of a top 20 player,so in quarterfinals the match will be very very difficult for JC.If Juan Carlos won this match,then everything would be much easier and it would be more probable that JC won his 13th tittle.

However,we need to go slowly,round by round and we hope that JC plays his first match against Schwank with his great style and hitting hard.Once we know when JC is playing,we will note it down here :)

Good luck JC!