FOCUS ON FERRER

David Ferrer Ern was born in the year 1982 and hails from the Valencian Community. He is a Spanish professional Tennis player who is currently ranked number 5 which itself speaks how good he is at his game.  David Ferrer is known to be the master of his game in clay courts while however on the other hand though he has won on other courts his right hand lies in playing matches on clay courts. He only has one Spanish player who is in front of him and that is the well known and famous Rafael Nadal. David Ferrer turned professional in the year 2000 when he started playing matches with professional tennis players like NADAL, Federer, Andy Murray et al.

The Spanish Davis Cup team had David Ferrer as a contributor to the team.  The Spanish Davis Team won the finals in the year 2008, 2009 and 2011. In the year 2006, David Ferrer achieved a ranking in the top 10 category while he slowly also achieved the top 4 rankings.

In the 2010 Australian Cup, David Ferrer lost in the second round to Marcos. His second tournament was the SA Open where David Ferrer managed to reach the semi finals.  David Ferrer had a record of passing two rounds and then getting out. This happened to him in the BNP Paribus Open as well as in the 2010 Davis Cup. In the 2010 Sony Ericsson Cup, David Ferrer was defeated by Rafael Nadal in the fourth round of the tournament.

This year 2011 started off with the Heineken Open where this time he managed to reach the finals against David Nalbandian and also managed to defeat Nalbandian winning him the first title of the year. In the 2011 Australian Open he also managed to reach the semi finals where he lost to Andy Murray. Thus in this was 2011 was better for Ferrer compared to previous s years.

FERRER DEFENDS TITLE

David Ferrer, the top seeded tennis player got his 3rd straight winner’s title on Saturday at the Mexicun Open, defeating compatriot Fernando Verdasco in the final match by 6 – 1, 6 – 2. David Ferrer, twice, broke Fernando Verdasco in each set to finish the game in just more than an hour.

Ferrer said, after the match, that as Fernando hits so hard, he knew he had to be solid and counter him and he think he did it quite well, particularly at the start. He also knew that today Fernando did not play his best tennis. All faces some good days and bad days as well.

The 6th ranked David Ferrer got his 2nd day clay court championship in as many weeks after his victory at the Copa Claro event last Sunday in Buenos Aires. At the beginning of the season, in Auckland, David got the Heineken Open title. He has an eighteen – one record to begin the 2012 season, the only defeat to  Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open quarterfinals.

Verdasco was targeting for his very first title since winning in 2010 season in Barcelona, Spain. He told that he is really disappointed; he was not able to have the fight he was anticipating to have. He just could not keep the ball in the court today. It is always tough to lose a final, but losing it that way hurts a lot.

Italy’s Sara Errani, in the women’s event, beat Flavia Pennetta by 5 – 7, 7 – 6 (2), 6 – 0 to grab ther 3rd WTA title. Pennetta got the 1st set that was full of mistakes. None of the players got to hold serve in the 1st seven matches and Sara Errani was able o hold in the whole set.

FERRER LOSES OUT TO DJOKOVIC

Fifth seed David Ferrer put up a brave display in his quarterfinal match with world number one Novak Djokovic, but in the end was unable to match the Serbian’s quality and determination. The Australian Open match finished 6-4, 7-6 (7-4), 6-1 to Djokovic, but it wasn’t without its drama, and Ferrer looked like he fancied an upset at times, with his opponent looking uncomfortable and uncharacteristically lax.

The first set took nearly an hour, and saw the top seed regularly clutching his stomach, as well as looking as though his hip flexor and then his hamstring were giving him some trouble. “After the first two games, I was thinking, ‘Wow, this is going to be a long night’. I was very lucky to get through the second set,” Djokovic said. “You have to hang in there, especially with a player like Ferrer. He is a great competitor, I needed to come up with the winners.”

In the second set, Ferrer seemed even better, and with Djokovic’s unforced error count rising, the Spaniard had a great opportunity to equal the match. Perhaps his nerves got to him though, and he was unable to take advantage of the situation, eventually losing the tie break 7-4 after even gaining a couple of mini-breaks. At this point, with a two set lead, the world number would have probably had to retire completely for Ferrer to win, and the third set was quickly over, as the balance of the match swung Djokovic’s way again. “It was a big mental advantage. Momentum was on my side,” he said.

Ferrer has been steadily improving over the last couple of years, to get to the position he is in now, but questions are bound to be asked over whether he has the innate ability to break through into the top 4. His work rate is unquestionable, and he is good at developing weaknesses, but he still seems to lack the technical superiority that the biggest names in tennis enjoy.

Ferrer gunning for Grand Slam

Spanish tennis player David Ferrer is looking to continue the good vein of form that he showed at the end of the last season and wants to go one step ahead and win a Grand Slam title. The fifth ranked player in the world by the ATP finished the season off on a high by beating world number four Andy Murray and number one Novak Djokovic at the season ending ATP World Tour Finals before losing to the eventual champion Roger Federer in the semi final stage and according to the player, if he can keep up his form and fitness, he can follow in the footsteps of fellow Spaniard Rafael Nadal and win a Grand Slam.

Ferrer, who is in Abu Dhabi to play in the Mubadala World Tennis Championships that kicks off on the 29^th where he will face Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the first round knows that maintain that same level of form will be hard this time around as most of the players will be acquainted with his style of play but he will do everything in order to get the better of them.

The 29 year old David Ferrer was a part of the Spanish Davis Cup team that beat Argentina on home soil a few days’ back and he knows that this season might just present him the last opportunity to win a prestigious Grand Slam title. Speaking at a press conference, Ferrer said that he knew time was not on his side and he wants to make the most of his current form and try to win a Grand Slam.

David Ferrer also added that he was extremely pleased to be a part of the star studded lineup of Mubadala World Tennis Championships and hopes that he can start the season with a win under his belt.

David Ferrer Bio

A champion is always borne out of numerous challenges and a number of lessons and the same holds true for David Ferrer. While the entire world knows him as a tough tennis player who have gained and retained his remarkable position in international tournaments and have bagged a gamut a victories against various other legends of this field, very few would be aware of the man behind that court-uniform, or the heart that confronted various dicey events in his life.

Born in the year 1982, on the second day of April, he belongs from Spain and is a current holder of rank 6 in the ATP Rankings besides being the second-highest ranked Spaniard just behind World No. 2 Rafael Nadal. His international tennis career started in 2000 and he is a specialist player of clay court. However, his prowess in hard courts got evident during his performance in semi-final appearances at the 2007 US Open and 2011 Australian Open. In 2008 and 2009, he was a part of the Spain Davis Cup Team that went on to win the finals.

The year 2006 saw him achieving a top 10 ranking which raised him to the rank of No. 4. This was a brief introduction about his initial professional success, which was basically the result of a series of missed chances, disappointments, mistaken judgments and gained wisdom, in the process. Within that tennis champion lays an inner self associated with bravery, perseverance, self-competition and loyalty towards the loved ones. He grew up in a family with close proximity with Tennis, as both he and his brother had proved their affinity and strength in this sport.

However, David Ferrer had had his share of doubts, personal conflicts and complications that made him go through many challenges before he finally chose his life-goal and started to excel in it. Initially from the age of 13 and onwards, he was facing nothing more than self-doubts, lack of courage, confidence and focus in the game. With little progresses made and an ambiguous future in store, he started to let go off his intention to pursue a career out of tennis. Coach Javier Piles have comprehended his waning interest in the game and had held the strings strictly, believing in the fact that David has it in him to make it big in the court.

This single faith of the coach in his young charge made him push and punish David till he learnt the art of the game and imbibed the same in his soul. At one moment out of frustrations and inferiority and lack of self-confidence, David Ferrer decided to call it quits with tennis and took up laborious ways to earn his living, only to find out the truth in the hardest possible ways. His work schedule and exhaustion of brick-loading made him realize the persuasion of tennis as a much better and respectful option and the next moment he made the best decision of his life of returning back to where he started his journey of self-revelation from.

Tennis was the call of his destiny and from then onwards, he never had to look back.  As a human being he is always considered as one the friendliest players in the coach who never misses to appreciate his opponent, just as he never avoid any opportunity of self-development.