David Ferrer: tennis player with an iron character

Spain is a southern country that is considered not only the homeland of flamenco, bullfighting, passions, but also famous sportsmen, especially tennis players: Carlos Moya, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Rafael Nadal, and other professionals.

In the elite of the tennis world is also 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 world of tennis are not inferior to the former first rackets of the world.

A popular statement by Ernest Hemingway is that a person can be destroyed, but it can not be defeated. Man is not born for defeats. The writer did not see David's game, but if it could happen, Hemingway would undoubtedly shake hands with this athlete from Spain.

Figures and Facts

David Ferrer was born in Spain on April 2, 1982. 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 ratings.

It was a success for the Spaniard. Many of them predicted to play on the Challengers, since the physical data of David (height 175 cm) are not very suitable for tennis.

But Ferrer is fast as a cheetah and tries to pursue the ball all over the court. Athletes who play against the Spaniard know that they will have to perform a small miracle in order to hit the ball twice on the side of David.

In 2003, the tennis player at the 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 at the competitions in Stuttgart in 2006. Since this year, the career of the tennis player has gone uphill: the won tournaments in Acapulco (2010, 2011, 2015), Buenos Aires, Bostade and other competitions.

In 2015, the Spaniard account has five tournaments won, the seventh line of the rating and participation in the final ATP championship by the end of the season.

Iron will

The player from Valencia is not used to stop halfway. Moving on the court, he is ready to jump over barriers and billboards, taking out seemingly hopeless balls.

From the first draw, David immediately starts the fight: easy and easy work of the feet, branding at the same time - and the athlete is already at the other end of the court. David Ferrer is good in motion, it seems that he flits over the ground.

The Spanish tennis player is laid out on 110% regardless of the score. He used to fight until the last moment. The athlete is driven by a masochistic desire to run until the lungs give up. But the choice of blows on the ball often disappoints the tennis gourmets: it seems that David forgot to work out the "corners" for training and now he makes up for lost time.

When watching his game, maniacal stubbornness to run under the forehand, the thought arises: is there a backhand in the Spaniard's arsenal? This blow is in Ferrer and is considered one of the best on the tour. In this case, the tennis player punches the ball along a flat trajectory, creating maximum problems for the opponent.

Life Outside 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 the Spanish sportsman wanted.

But the life of a tennis player is not only his success on the court. Resting 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 has a good library: among his favorite novels are the detectives of Agatha Christie, the thriller of 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 the athlete does not abound in novels and partings. The tennis player has met Marta Tornell for several years. The girl has nothing to do with the world of sports. She has a medical education connected with the human visual system, she is an expert in optometry.

But the girl often accompanies David to all matches and fervently supports him. Lovers have a wedding planned for the end of November 2015. It remains to wish the couple only all the best.