Posts Tagged ‘2004’

from sportinglife.com
9 April 2004
The Spanish team are in confident mood as they prepare to face Holland in the quarter-finals of the Davis Cup in Palma de Mallorca.
And Juan Carlos Ferrero is looking forward to playing on the court where he has fond memories.
The Valencia-born player enjoyed his first ATP triumph in Palma and will now be hoping to repeat his success there, this time for his country.
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from ultimahora.es (this is a rough web translation only!)
9 April 2004

Moyà and Ferrero show its endow like footballers before an intense session

Amador Pons

The Spanish players of Cup Davis form the best team of the world of tennis, but to none of them them to have imported to be footballers. It is more, Nadal, Moyà and Ferrero it do not do nothing badly. After finalizing the Monday the morning session, Juan Carlos challenged to Rafael to play a party of fut-tennis and yesterday the Valencian one was measured Carlos, before initiating an intense training tenístico.

During the session of tomorrow of the day of yesterday Juan Carlos Ferrero and Carlos Moyà shared the trail of the Theater, while Rafael Nadal and Tommy Robredo occupied the trail of training. The Valencian one and the palmesano heated showing their endow like footballers and later they began the training, in which they had prominence the blows since the fund of the trail. They carried out various exercises to strike parallel and crusader so much of reverse as of right.

After rising some minutes to the network for volear and to heat the service, Ferrero and Moyà played two tie breaks. It is custom to carry out bets so that the loser have to carry out some punishment. Some times are canguros to jump the network, but yesterday they wagered to have to go since the line of fund to the network to four legs and barking. Al to finalize one to one, they played a tie break to decide that it finished gaining Moyà, and Ferrero, their coach and Arrese (that had wagered for the Valencian one) they had to comply their bet when some of the components of the Dutch team already they had arrived at the trail to begin their session of training.

31 March 2004

Spain have recalled big guns Juan Carlos Ferrero and Carlos Moya for their Davis Cup quarter-finals against Holland in Mallorca next month.

Ferrero and Moya missed Spain’s opening round win over the Czech Republic through injury, but were successfully replaced by 17-year-old Rafael Nadal and Feliciano Lopez.

Nadal, who was the hero of the tie after scoring victory in the decisive rubber, has kept his place, but Lopez has had to make way for the return of Moya and Ferrero. Tommy Robredo completes the four-man team.

The quarter-finals will be a special event for both Moya and Nadal, who are from Mallorca and will have the chance to play in their home town.

this is from an after match interview Marat Safin did – from ASAP Sports
25 March 2004
Q. You trained in Valencia with Juan Carlos, right?
MARAT SAFIN: Not exactly.
Q. Not exactly?
MARAT SAFIN: Not exactly. One is from the same place, but different cities. I would live like around 60 miles away from each other.
Q. You know him pretty well?
MARAT SAFIN: Yeah, yeah. We been playing, I mean, we been traveling together in the same tournaments since we are 14.
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this is from an after match interview Andy Roddick did – from ASAP Sports
25 March 2004

Q. For a player that’s won a French Open and finals of the US Open, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Americans haven’t really warmed up to him much. Do you have any idea why that is?

ANDY RODDICK: I don’t. I’m not sure. He’s obviously — he’s obviously a very deserving candidate for respect and for acknowledgment. I’m not too sure, you know. I don’t know.

Q. Style of play? Demeanor on the court?

ANDY RODDICK: I don’t think so, because every time you say “style of play,” “demeanor on the court,” you can find someone who they have embraced who has probably close to the same qualities. So I’m not sure, I don’t know.

22 March 2004
KEY BISCAYNE · The Nasdaq-100 Open lost its fifth top-10 woman plus French Open winner Juan Carlos Ferrero on a Sunday that saw five more names erased from the tournament draw.
Chanda Rubin, runner-up in 1996 and in the semifinals here a year ago, pulled out of the tournament with a knee injury she has been nursing since February.
Later in the day, Ferrero, No. 2 in the world behind Roger Federer, was officially declared out with the chicken pox he contracted a week and a half ago, before the tournament at Indian Wells.
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