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from the official Davis Cup website
9 February 2003
Spain showed no mercy to Belgium on the final day of their first-round Davis Cup by BNP Paribas tie on Sunday, with Juan Carlos Ferrero blasting past Kristof Vliegen 6-1 6-4 and Carlos Moya seeing off Christophe Rochus with a quicksmart 6-2 6-2.
Those comfortable singles wins completed a predictable 5-0 victory for Spain, who possess what is without doubt the strongest clay-court line-up in the world.
Ferrero kicked off the proceedings on Friday with an equally effective 6-3 6-2 7-5 victory over Christophe Rochus, who was surprisingly chosen ahead of his brother Olivier for the opening day’s singles. Moya then claimed a second straight-sets win over the Belgian number one Xavier Malisse 7-6 6-1 7-6 to make it 2-0.
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from the official Davis Cup website
8 February 2003
Juan Carlos Ferrero made short work of Belgium’s Christophe Rochus to claim a 63 62 75 victory on a bitterly cold morning in Seville on Friday and get Spain’s 2003 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas campaign off to a perfect start.
Ferrero took the first two sets in just 55 minutes with some dashing tennis from the back of a slow outdoor clay court and while the third set proved more troublesome, Rochus missing one set point, the world number three completed the win in one hour 45 minutes.
Rochus, surprisingly chosen for the singles ahead of his higher-ranked brother Olivier, did manage to cause Ferrero some problems briefly at the start and again at the end of the match.
The 24-year-old Belgian took Ferrero to deuce on his opening service game and again in game five, upsetting the Spaniard’s rhythm with a couple of astute drop shots.
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from the official Davis Cup website
7 February 2003
Clay court ace Juan Carlos Ferrero will lead off a strong Spanish challenge in the 2003 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas on Friday, taking on Christophe Rochus of Belgium in the opening singles rubber of their first-round World Group tie in Seville.
Thursday’s draw in the Andalucian city also matched up former French Open champion Carlos Moya with Belgian number one Xavier Malisse in the second singles on Friday.
Albert Costa will partner Alex Corretja in the doubles against Kristof Vliegen and Olivier Rochus on Saturday, with the reverse singles set for Sunday.
Spain, winners of the competition in 2000, have an awesome line-up on clay and they will start as overwhelming favourites to take the first-round tie against the Belgians.
Ferrero, Moya and Costa, the reigning French Open champion, are all ranked in the top 10, while Corretja is one of the wiliest clay-court campaigners around.
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taken from Yahoo Sports – AP Sports Article
26 March 2002

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Alberto Martin will replace the injured Juan Carlos Ferrero on the Spanish Davis Cup team that plays the United States next month.

Ferrero hurt his right foot in his third-round loss to Romania’s Adrian Voinea on Monday at the Nasdaq-100 Open in Key Biscayne, Fla., and will be out for at least three weeks.

The rest of the Spanish team for the April 5-7 match in Houston against the United States is made up of Juan Balcells, Alex Corretja and Tommy Robredo.

From the June 2001 issue of TENNIS Magazine
6 January 2001

By Cindy Shmerler

Increíble. It’s a word that rolls off the tongue of Juan Carlos Ferrero with the same ease that he rolls topspin forehand passing shots beyond the racquets of net-rushing opponents. ‘We use it a lot in Spain,’ the 21-year-old says of the Spanish word that means incredible and unbelievable and everything in between. ‘We all say it. And right now, I really mean it.’
To Ferrero, life is increíble, his tennis is increíble, his bright blue Porsche 911 is increíble, and, most especially, Spain’s victory over Australia in last year’s Davis Cup final was increíble.
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from The Independent
17 December 2000

By Ronald Atkin

As seminal sporting moments go, it registered high on the Richter Scale. The low backhand which Juan Carlos Ferrero sent scudding past Lleyton Hewitt to win the Davis Cup for Spain instantly transformed the 20-year-old from a fine tennis player into Hero of Iberia.

Once he had survived the unnerving experience of his beefy captain, Javier Duarte, diving on top of him as he lay flat on his back, Ferrero was hauled to his feet, dusted free of the court clay in which he was smothered and transported for a triumphal circuit of the Palau Sant Jordi on the shoulders of his team-mate, Alex Corretja.

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