Spain is a southern country that is considered not only the birthplace of flamenco, bullfighting, passions, but also famous athletes, especially tennis players: Carlos Moya, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Rafael Nadal, as well as other professionals.
The elite of the tennis world includes another Spanish athlete - David Ferrer. Unlike Nadal, Ferrero and Moya, David has never been at the top of the ATP rating, but his achievements in the tennis world are not inferior to the former first racket of the world.
A popular saying by Ernest Hemingway is that a person can be destroyed, but he cannot be defeated. Man is not born for defeat. The writer did not see David play, but if this could happen, then Hemingway would undoubtedly shake the hand of this athlete from Spain.
Facts and Figures
David Ferrer was born in Spain on April 2, 1982. The future athlete was presented with a tennis racket when he was only five years old. After 15 years, the tennis player wins the first cup (2002) and ends the season in the first hundred of the rating.
It was a success for the Spaniard. Many prophesied to him to play on challengers, as the physical data of David (height 175 cm) is not very suitable for tennis.
But Ferrer is as quick as a cheetah and tries to chase the ball all over the court. Athletes playing against the Spaniard know that they will have to perform a small miracle so that the ball hits twice on the side of David.
In 2003, a tennis player at a tournament in Rome defeated the legendary Andre Agassi, but he failed to win the master’s cup. In the same year, the athlete made his first steps in the Grand Slam tournaments.
David Ferrer won the following cup at competitions in Stuttgart in 2006. Since this year, the career of a tennis player has gone uphill: won tournaments in Acapulco (2010, 2011, 2015), Buenos Aires, Bostad and other competitions.
In 2015, the Spaniard has five tournaments won, the seventh line of the rating and, by the end of the season, participation in the final ATP championship.
Iron will
The player from Valencia is not used to stopping halfway. Moving around the court, he is ready to jump over barriers and billboards, getting seemingly hopeless balls.
From the first draw, David immediately begins the fight: light and laid-back leg work, company foot work - and the athlete is already on the other end of the court. David Ferrer is good at moving, it seems that he flutters above the ground.
Spanish tennis player gives all the best 110% regardless of the score. He used to fight to the last moment. The athlete is driven by a masochistic desire to run until the lungs fail. But the choice of hitting the ball often disappoints tennis gourmets: it seems that David forgot to work out the “corners” for training and is now catching up.
When observing his game, manic persistence to run under forehand, the thought arises: is there a backhand in the Spaniard’s arsenal? Ferrer has this blow and is considered one of the best on the tour. At the same time, the tennis player punches the ball along a flat path, creating maximum problems for the opponent.
Life Out of Tennis
“Success in life, in my understanding, is when you have everything you dreamed about and worked on,” says David Ferrer. Tennis gave him much more than what the Spanish athlete dreamed of.
But the life of a tennis player is not only his success on the court. Resting from competitions and constant moving, David devotes a lot of time to charity. He visits boarding schools for children with developmental disabilities, makes donations to foundations.
The athlete has a good library at home in Spain: among his favorite novels are the detectives Agatha Christie, the thrillers of the Englishman Ken Follett, the biography of Lance Armstrong and the prose of Mario Vargas-Llosa.
Future wedding
The real hard worker of tennis is David Ferrer. The personal life of an athlete is not full of novels and partings. A tennis player has been meeting Martha Thornell for several years. The girl has nothing to do with the world of sports. She has a medical education related to the human visual system, she is a specialist in optometry.
But the girl often accompanies David for all matches and warmly supports him. The lovers scheduled a wedding at the end of November 2015. It remains to wish the couple only all the best.