177 Facts About David Ferrer

David Ferrer was ranked world No 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals in July 2013.

David Ferrer was the runner-up at the 2013 French Open, the 2007 Tennis Masters Cup, and six Masters events.

David Ferrer turned professional in 2000 and was regarded as a clay court specialist in his early career, winning 13 of his 27 titles on the surface.

David Ferrer retired in 2019, competing for the last time at his home tournament of the Madrid Open.

David Ferrer was born in Xabia in the province of Alicante, but he moved to Gandia at age thirteen, followed two years later by a move to Barcelona to attend the Catalan Tennis Federation.

Once, as a teenager, when David Ferrer did not practice hard enough, his coach, Javier Piles, locked him in a completely dark 2m x 2m ball closet for several hours, giving him only a piece of bread and a bit of water.

David Ferrer has said he considers Piles to be like a second father to him.

David Ferrer won his first career Challenger title in Sopot and reached the semifinals at Manerbio.

David Ferrer reached the semifinals in Spain F15 and Spain F16.

David Ferrer won Challenger titles in Naples, Valencia, and Sassuolo.

David Ferrer made his debut at all four Grand Slam tournaments, as well as six ATP Masters Series events.

David Ferrer reached his third career final in Sopot and lost to Guillermo Coria.

David Ferrer closed the year with a quarterfinal showing in Madrid, where he defeated Puerta, but lost to Robby Ginepri, and Paris, where he lost to Andy Roddick.

David Ferrer opened the year with a quarterfinal showing in Auckland, where he lost to Olivier Rochus.

David Ferrer broke into the top 10 ATP rankings for the first time, following a personal-best fourth-round showing at the Australian Open, where he defeated Mario Ancic, but lost to Fabrice Santoro.

David Ferrer was in the top 10 for five weeks during the year.

David Ferrer reached the third round at the French Open and a career-best fourth round at Wimbledon, where he defeated Gonzalez in the third round, but lost to Lleyton Hewitt.

David Ferrer closed the year by reaching the quarterfinals in Basel, where he lost to Federer.

David Ferrer began the year by winning Auckland, defeating Tommy Robredo in the final.

David Ferrer had quarterfinal finishes at Indian Wells and Monte-Carlo and reached the fourth round in Miami, the semifinals in Barcelona, and the quarterfinals in Hamburg.

David Ferrer beat 20th-seeded Juan Ignacio Chela in the quarterfinals and reached his first Grand Slam semifinal, where he was defeated by third seed Novak Djokovic.

David Ferrer sealed his qualification for the knock-out stage by defeating eighth seed Richard Gasquet.

David Ferrer next defeated fifth seed Andy Roddick in the semifinals.

David Ferrer opened 2008 with a quarterfinal loss to unseeded Julien Benneteau of France in Auckland.

David Ferrer reached the second week of the Australian Open as the fifth seed, without dropping a set in the first three rounds.

David Ferrer then went on to defeat 22nd seed Juan Carlos Ferrero in four sets in the fourth round, before falling to third seed and eventual champion Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals.

David Ferrer reached the quarterfinals in the Monte Carlo Masters, losing against the eventual tournament champion Rafael Nadal, despite having five set points in the second set.

In Barcelona, David Ferrer reached the final, after defeating Nicolas Lapentti, Tommy Robredo and Stanislas Wawrinka.

David Ferrer made it to the quarterfinals of the French Open, matching his previous best appearance in 2005.

David Ferrer then prevailed in two five-set matches over Lleyton Hewitt and Radek Stepanek in the third and fourth rounds, respectively.

David Ferrer eventually fell to Gael Monfils in four sets.

David Ferrer began his grass-court season with another title at 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands.

David Ferrer defeated Croatian Mario Ancic and Argentine Juan Martin del Potro en route to the final, where he won in straight sets over Marc Gicquel.

David Ferrer was eliminated by Ancic in the third round in four sets.

At the US Open, David Ferrer reached the third round as the fourth seed, where he lost Kei Nishikori, ranked 126, in one of the biggest upsets of the tournament.

David Ferrer lost in the second round of the Madrid Masters to fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez.

David Ferrer began his Season at the Heineken Open losing to Sam Querrey in the semifinals.

David Ferrer then bounced back with a semifinal showing at the SA Tennis Open falling to Jeremy Chardy after dominating the first set, in a tightly contested second and third set.

David Ferrer reached his first final of the year at the Dubai Tennis Championships, losing to Novak Djokovic in straight sets.

David Ferrer rebounded by reaching the final of the Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell, losing to Rafael Nadal in the final.

David Ferrer played his Wimbledon warm-up at the Ordina Open and was upset by compatriot Ivan Navarro in the quarterfinals.

At Wimbledon, David Ferrer suffered another third-round loss in a Grand Slam, this time falling to Czech Radek Stepanek in five sets.

David Ferrer then came back to clay at the International German Open, where he reached his fifth semifinal of the year, but lost to Nikolay Davydenko.

David Ferrer then suffered back-to-back first-round loses at the Proton Malaysian Open and China Open, losing to Mikhail Youzhny and Fernando Gonzalez.

David Ferrer fell to Feliciano Lopez in the second round of the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000.

David Ferrer was the defending champion at the Valencia Open 500, but withdrew prior to his second-round match against Albert Montanes due to a hamstring injury.

David Ferrer then helped Spain capture the Davis Cup title, when he defeated Radek Stepanek in five sets.

David Ferrer lost in the second round of the 2010 Australian Open to Marcos Baghdatis, after winning the first two sets, in a match lasting just over four hours.

David Ferrer beat Simon Greul, Frederico Gil, Igor Andreev and Albert Montanes.

David Ferrer defeated Potito Starace, Thomaz Bellucci, Pablo Cuevas and Fernando Gonzalez.

David Ferrer defeated Peter Luczak, Andrey Golubev and Ivan Ljubicic.

David Ferrer defeated Marcel Granollers, Simone Bolelli and Thomaz Bellucci in the quarterfinals.

David Ferrer defeated Jeremy Chardy, Marcos Baghdatis after fending off a match point and Marin Cilic to advance to the quarterfinals.

David Ferrer began his campaign with a victory over David Guez, and then defeated Xavier Malisse when Malisse had to retire.

David Ferrer next played for Spain in the 2010 Davis Cup.

David Ferrer lost his first rubber to Gael Monfils of France.

David Ferrer then traveled to Sweden to play in the 2010 Swedish Open.

David Ferrer defeated Fabio Fognini and Pablo Cuevas to advance to the semifinals.

David Ferrer extended his ATP best wins on clay in 2010 to 31 wins.

David Ferrer was then supposed to play in the 2010 International German Open as the second seed, but had to withdraw due to a shoulder injury.

David Ferrer then defeated Daniel Gimeno-Traver for a spot in the round of 16.

David Ferrer then traveled to Malaysia to play in the 2010 Proton Malaysian Open.

David Ferrer then traveled to Beijing to play in the 2010 China Open.

David Ferrer defeated Denis Istomin, Yen-Hsun Lu, Robin Soderling and Ivan Ljubicic.

David Ferrer then traveled to Shanghai to play in the 2010 Shanghai Rolex Masters.

David Ferrer then traveled to Valencia to play in the 2010 Valencia Open 500 as the hometown favorite.

David Ferrer then traveled to London to play in the 2010 ATP World Tour Finals, where he was seeded seventh.

David Ferrer began his 2011 ATP World Tour season at the 2011 Heineken Open, He defeated Tobias Kamke, Philipp Kohlschreiber and Santiago Giraldo for a berth in the final, where he defeated Nalbandian for his first title of the year and the tenth in his career.

David Ferrer then traveled to Melbourne to play in the 2011 Australian Open, where he was seeded seventh.

David Ferrer defeated Jarkko Nieminen, Michael Russell, Ricardas Berankis and Milos Raonic for a spot in his second Australian Open quarterfinal.

David Ferrer lost to fifth seed Andy Murray in the semifinal.

David Ferrer then traveled to Rotterdam to play in the 2011 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, where he lost in the first round to Jarkko Nieminen.

David Ferrer defeated compatriot Nicolas Almagro for his second consecutive title in Acapulco and his 11th career title.

David Ferrer then traveled to Indian Wells to play in the 2011 BNP Paribas Open.

David Ferrer lost in the second round to big-serving Ivo Karlovic.

David Ferrer then traveled to Europe to begin the clay-court season.

David Ferrer beat Feliciano Lopez, Milos Raonic, Viktor Troicki and Jurgen Melzer to advance to his second Masters 1000 final, where he ultimately fell to Rafael Nadal.

David Ferrer then traveled back to Spain to play in the 2011 Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell, where he beat Carlos Berlocq, Victor Hanescu, Jurgen Melzer and Nicolas Almagro for a spot in his third Barcelona final.

David Ferrer then traveled to Madrid to play in the 2011 Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open.

David Ferrer then pulled out of Rome, due to injury, but then traveled to Paris to play in the French Open.

David Ferrer then took a month off before traveling to London to play in the 2011 Wimbledon Championships, as the seventh seed.

David Ferrer defeated Benoit Paire and Ryan Harrison in five sets.

David Ferrer then defeated Karol Beck in straight sets to advance to the round of 16.

David Ferrer reached the semifinals, where he defeated Nicolas Almagro, but lost to Robin Soderling.

David Ferrer was then set to begin his summer hard-court series in Toronto, but pulled out with a hairline fracture of his left wrist.

David Ferrer won his second-round match against Grigor Dimitrov, before falling to Gilles Simon.

David Ferrer lost his last round-robin match to Tomas Berdych in three sets.

David Ferrer started 2012 by participating in the Mubadala World Tennis Championship held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

David Ferrer won his first tournament of 2012 in Auckland, New Zealand at the Heineken Open ATP 250 over Olivier Rochus.

At the 2012 Australian Open, David Ferrer was seeded fifth, and he defeated Rui Machado, Ryan Sweeting, 27th seed Juan Ignacio Chela, and 17th seed Richard Gasquet on his way to the quarterfinals.

David Ferrer beat fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco in the final, losing only three games.

David Ferrer then lost the final to defending champion Rafael Nadal.

At the 2012 Muatua Madrid Open, held for the first time on blue clay, David Ferrer defeated Radek Stepanek and Nicolas Almagro on his way to the quarterfinals.

At the 2012 Internazionali BNL d'Italia, David Ferrer defeated Fernando Verdasco, Gilles Simon, and Richard Gasquet on his way to the semifinals, where he lost to eventual champion Rafael Nadal.

At the 2012 French Open, David Ferrer lost only 25 games defeating Lukas Lacko, Benoit Paire, Mikhail Youzhny, and Marcel Granollers on his way to the quarterfinals.

David Ferrer then lost to defending champion Rafael Nadal, winning five games.

David Ferrer won his fourth singles title of the year and 15th overall in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

David Ferrer then reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon, defeating Dustin Brown, Kenny de Schepper, Andy Roddick, and Juan Martin del Potro.

David Ferrer made it to the last eight for the first time at the tenth attempt.

David Ferrer then went on to lose the match to Andy Murray in a four-set thriller.

David Ferrer entered the quarterfinals of Swedish Open by defeating Simone Bolelli.

At the US Open, David Ferrer made it to his fourth career Grand Slam semifinal, where he lost in four sets to Novak Djokovic.

David Ferrer had previously defeated Kevin Anderson, Igor Sijsling, Lleyton Hewitt, Richard Gasquet, and Janko Tipsarevic.

David Ferrer won his sixth title of the season in Valencia, defeating Alexandr Dolgopolov in the final.

David Ferrer won his first Masters 1000 title in Paris at the end of the season, beating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the quarterfinals, Michael Llodra in the semifinals, and Jerzy Janowicz in the final.

David Ferrer won more matches that year than any other player, male or female.

In late 2012 David Ferrer faced questions about his involvement with doping doctor Luis Garcia del Moral.

David Ferrer started his 2013 season by successfully defending his Heineken Open title defeating Philipp Kohlschreiber in straight sets.

At the Australian Open, David Ferrer came back from two sets down to defeat fellow Spaniard Nicolas Almagro in the quarterfinals.

David Ferrer then won his second title of the year at the Copa Claro defeating Stanislas Wawrinka in three sets.

David Ferrer then suffered an early loss at the 2013 BNP Paribas Open, falling to Kevin Anderson in his first match of the tournament.

David Ferrer then reached the final of Miami Masters after outlasting Jurgen Melzer and Tommy Haas, but lost to Andy Murray after holding a championship point in the deciding set.

David Ferrer reached his fifth final of the year at the Portugal Open facing Wawrinka, but this time falling in straight sets to the Swiss.

David Ferrer then lost to Nadal in back-to-back quarterfinals in the Masters event of Mutua Madrid Open and Internazionali BNL d'Italia.

At the French Open, David Ferrer reached his first Grand Slam final without dropping a set.

David Ferrer defeated three of his compatriots, Albert Montanes, Feliciano Lopez, and Tommy Robredo, all in straight sets, to reach his sixth Grand Slam semifinal.

David Ferrer then defeated sixth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to reach the final, where he was defeated by defending champion Rafael Nadal.

At the 2013 TOPSHELF Open in 's-Hertogenbosch, David Ferrer went out in the first round to veteran Xavier Malisse.

David Ferrer rebounded at the US Open, losing to Richard Gasquet in the quarterfinals in five sets despite taking the third and fourth sets, in his first loss since 2008 to the Frenchman.

David Ferrer then reached another final, at the If Stockholm Open facing Grigor Dimitrov, but lost in three sets to hand the Bulgarian his first title.

David Ferrer then followed it up with another final appearance at the Valencia Open 500, where he was the defending champion.

David Ferrer did not win any matches at the year-end championships for a disappointing end to the year.

David Ferrer began his 2014 season losing to Daniel Brands in the second round of the Qatar Open.

David Ferrer reached the semifinals of the Heineken Open, where he was defeated by Lu Yen-hsun.

David Ferrer reached the quarterfinals of the 2014 Australian Open, where he lost to Tomas Berdych in four sets.

In February, David Ferrer successfully defended his title at the 2014 Copa Claro, which was his first title of the year.

In 2014 Rio Open semifinals, David Ferrer was defeated by Alexandr Dolgopolov in straight sets.

At the 2014 Abierto Mexicano Telcel quarterfinals, David Ferrer retired against Kevin Anderson due to leg injury.

David Ferrer made his return in the 2014 Sony Open Tennis reaching the fourth round before losing to Kei Nishikori after squandering four match points.

David Ferrer made the semifinals of the 2014 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters.

David Ferrer made the semifinals at the 2014 Mutua Madrid Open, where he lost to Kei Nishikori.

David Ferrer was defeated by Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals at the 2014 Internazionali BNL d'Italia.

David Ferrer made it to the quarterfinals in the 2014 Swedish Open before losing to Carlos Berlocq in straight sets.

David Ferrer made it to the final of the 2014 International German Open, where was defeated by Leonardo Mayer.

David Ferrer began his American Swing by reaching quarterfinals of the 2014 Rogers Cup before losing to Roger Federer.

David Ferrer was upset by Viktor Troicki at the 2014 ATP Shenzhen Open.

David Ferrer continued to struggle in the Asian Swing by bowing out against Marcel Granollers in the 2014 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships.

David Ferrer improved in the 2014 Shanghai Rolex Masters by defeating Martin Klizan and Andy Murray both coming from a set down.

David Ferrer made it to the final of the 2014 Erste Bank Open, losing to Andy Murray.

David Ferrer made it to the quarterfinals of the 2014 BNP Paribas Masters before losing to Kei Nishikori.

David Ferrer began his 2015 season at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open, where he won his 22nd ATP World Tour title by defeating Tomas Berdych in the final in straight sets.

David Ferrer was then scheduled to play at the Heineken Open in Auckland a week later, but withdrew due to fatigue.

In February, David Ferrer won back-to-back titles at the 2015 Rio Open and 2015 Abierto Mexicano Telcel by defeating Fabio Fognini and Kei Nishikori, respectively.

In May, David Ferrer made the semifinals of the Rome Masters, before being defeated by Novak Djokovic, matching his best performance at the tournament since 2012.

However, David Ferrer lost his first match on grass at Queen's Club and withdrew from Wimbledon due to an elbow injury.

David Ferrer proceeded to win his 25th career title at the Kuala Lumpur Open, defeating compatriot Feliciano Lopez.

David Ferrer started his season in an exhibition at the Mubadala World Tennis Championships.

David Ferrer easily defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and then lost to Rafael Nadal in a close three-setter.

David Ferrer then beat Stan Wawrinka in the third place match.

David Ferrer made it through to the semifinals after defeating qualifier Matthew Barton and Lukas Rosol, but lost to Jack Sock despite winning the first set.

David Ferrer then played in the first Grand Slam of the year at the Australian Open.

David Ferrer defeated qualifier Peter Gojowczyk and Lleyton Hewitt, who was playing his last career singles match, 31st seed Steve Johnson and 10th seed John Isner.

David Ferrer defeated Renzo Olivo and Pablo Cuevas, before losing to Nicolas Almagro in straight sets in the semifinals.

At the Rio Open, David Ferrer defeated Nicolas Jarry and Albert Ramos-Vinolas.

David Ferrer's tournament came to an end in the quarterfinals when he lost to Dominic Thiem in straight sets.

David Ferrer fell in the second round of the Mexican Open to Alexandr Dolgopolov and the second round of the Miami Open to Lucas Pouille to end his hard-court season.

David Ferrer followed this up with another third-round appearance in the Rome Masters, this time losing to Pouille in straight sets.

David Ferrer began the French Open well, defeating Evgeny Donskoy, Juan Monaco and Feliciano Lopez before again falling to Berdych in straight sets.

David Ferrer got through the first round against Denis Istomin, before falling to Donskoy in a tightly contested match.

David Ferrer began the US Open by defeating Dolgopolov in the first round and Fabio Fognini in the second, before falling to an in-form Juan Martin del Potro in the third round, matching his performance of the previous two years at the tournament.

David Ferrer defeated two qualifiers before falling to compatriot Roberto Bautista Agut in the third round.

In July of the same year, David Ferrer won his first tournament since October 2015 at the 2017 Swedish Open, defeating Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov in the final.

The match came to a premature end in the middle of the second set when David Ferrer was forced to retire from the match with a calf injury.

On 15 August 2018, Hopman Cup organisers announced that David Ferrer would represent Spain at the 2019 edition alongside Garbine Muguruza.

On 28 August 2018, David Ferrer announced that the 2019 season would be his last in the tour.

David Ferrer announced a preliminary list of 6 tournaments in which he wanted to compete during his final season: the Hopman Cup, Auckland, Buenos Aires, Acapulco, Barcelona and Madrid.

At the Miami Masters, David Ferrer battled from a set down to defeat world number 3 Alexander Zverev.

David Ferrer announced that he would be the new director of the Barcelona Open.

David Ferrer began coaching Alexander Zverev in July 2020 alongside Zverev's father.

David Ferrer is noted for being one of the more dogged, agile, and fit players on the tour, and he has won many matches with consistent baseline play, great fitness, footspeed, and determination.

In February 2016, David Ferrer featured in a video by the ATP titled "David Ferrer Getting Better and Better".

David Ferrer has the most match wins, the most tournament wins, and the most Grand Slam match wins of all players who have not won a Grand Slam.

On 28 November 2015, David Ferrer married his long-time girlfriend, Marta Tornel Nieto.

The next two matches occurred at the 2015 Roland Garros and the 2016 Australian Open, which Murray won, despite David Ferrer managing to win a set off Murray in both matches.

David Ferrer went to win the match in straight sets.

In 2015, David Ferrer had a remarkable start to the season but was beaten in the Australian Open by Nishikori in straight sets.

However, David Ferrer ended his losing streak to Nishikori in the 2015 Abierto Mexicano Telcel, where he beat Nishikori in straight sets in the final.