Spain is a southern country that is considered notonly the birthplace of flamenco, bullfighting, passions, but also famous athletes, especially tennis players: Carlos Moyá, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Rafael Nadal, as well as other professionals.
The elite of the tennis world includes one moreSpanish athlete - David Ferrer. Unlike Nadal, Ferrero and Moya, David has never been at the top of the ATP rating, but his achievements in the world of tennis are not inferior to the former first racket of the world.
Ernest Hemingway's popular sayingis that a person can be destroyed, but it can not be defeated. Man is not born to defeat. The writer did not see the game of David, but if this could happen, then Hemingway would certainly have shook the hand of this athlete from Spain.
Facts and Figures
Давид Феррер родился в Испании 2 апреля 1982 года.The future athlete was given a tennis racket when he was only five years old. After 15 years, the tennis player wins the first cup (2002) and finishes the season in the first hundred of the rating.
It was a success for the Spaniard. Many of them predicted to play on Challengers, since David's physical data (height 175 cm) are not very suitable for tennis.
But Ferrer is quick as a cheetah and trieschase the ball around 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 won the legendary Andre Agassi, but he failed to win the master's cup. In the same year, the athlete took the first steps in the Grand Slam tournaments.
The next cup David Ferrer won oncompetitions in Stuttgart in 2006. Since this year, the tennis player’s career has gone uphill: won tournaments in Acapulco (2010, 2011, 2015), Buenos Aires, Bostad and other competitions.
In 2015, the Spaniard counted five tournaments won, the seventh line of the rating and by the end of the season participated in the final ATP Championship.
Iron will
A player from Valencia was not used to stopping halfway. Moving around the court, he is ready to jump over barriers and billboards, taking seemingly hopeless balls.
From the first draw, David immediately starts the fight:easy and relaxed work of the legs, branded raznozhka - and the athlete is already at the other end of the court. David Ferrer is good in movement, it seems that he flutters above the ground.
Spanish tennis player laid out 110%regardless of the bill. He used to fight until the last moment. The athlete is driven by a masochistic desire to run until the lungs are denied. But the choice of strikes on the ball often disappoints tennis gourmets: it seems that David forgot to work on the “corners” for training and now he is catching up.
When watching his game, manicstubbornness to run under the forehand, the thought arises: is there a Spaniard backhand in the arsenal? This kick is in Ferrer and is considered one of the best on the tour. In this case, the tennis player punches the ball on a flat trajectory, creating a maximum of problems for the opponent.
Life outside 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 the Spanish athlete dreamed of.
But the life of a tennis player is not only his success atcourt Having a rest from competitions and constant moving, David gives a lot of time to charity. He attends boarding schools for children with developmental disabilities, makes donations to foundations.
At home in Spain, the athlete collected a goodlibrary: among his favorite novels are detectives of Agatha Christie, thrillers by Englishman Ken Follett, the biography of Lance Armstrong and the prose of Mario Vargas-Llos.
Future wedding
The real hard worker of tennis is David Ferrer.The personal life of an athlete is not replete with romances and partings. The tennis player has been dating 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 to all matches and warmly supports him. A lovers wedding is scheduled for the end of November 2015. It remains to wish the pair only all the best.
