David Ferrer’s stage as sports director of the Count of Godó will come to an end at the end of this edition: “One stage for me is closed and a new one begins. I wanted to face new challenges but I will always carry it in my heartI will never forget it, “said the extenista in a statement released by the Barcelona tournament.
“I feel very satisfied to have done it and I take great friends. I am very happy,” he added, at the same time he has been shown “Very grateful” to RCTB-1899 for having given the opportunity of being sports director of the tournament.
“After my stage as a player, I have felt very personal and professional level. I have known how the tennis industry works, I have known the club’s greatness And the love with which they work every year to carry out the tournament and has been a very rewarding job, “he has sincere.
The club has highlighted Ferrer’s work, which has been Six years at the head of the sports part of the ATP 500 Tournament of Barcelona in which “the illusion, the commitment and the intense work” have taken to the count of Godó to “even higher dimensions”, until leading the most recent change of a picture of 48 players to a final table of 32.
‘Ferru’ also lived first -hand Most difficult time in the history of the tournament: The cancellation for the first time in its history as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“His love for this tournament has been a constant in his life: as a child, when I visited it every year; As a player, with his four lost finals and as a sports director, a facet in which he has discovered the work behind a great competition like this and that he has done tirelessly, ”highlights the club and tournament of his person.
Barcelona Open Bandell-Tropheo Conde de Godó and the Royal Tennis Club Barcelona-1899, for its part, thanked Ferrer for their work at the head of the tournament and He has wished him “the best” in this new stage of his life.