Alcaraz is eager to watch the Spaniards play at the Euro. The reaction of the organisers at the Queens Club has a paradoxical result

This match is one of the most anticipated on Thursday’s schedule at the Queens Club. Carlos Alcaraz will take on home handcuff Jack Draper in the quarterfinal match. But the Spanish tennis player lives for the Euro. Will the tournament organisers allow him to watch the Spanish national team play?

Alcaraz at the Queens Club

He’s not just the highest seeded player here. Carlos Alcaraz is defending his triumph last year at the Queens Club in London.

He’s doing incredibly well on grass. The Spanish tennis player already has a record of thirteen wins in a row on this traditional surface.

The twenty-one-year-old would like to add a 14th win in his eighth match against the British Draper. That is part of Thursday’s programme and, given its line-up, is also its highlight.

He should rightly come at the very end of the programme. But at this point, paper assumptions clash with Alcaraz’s passion for another sport played on grass. We’re talking, of course, about football.

An unusual request

Even Euro football has a highlight of its programme. In the case of Thursday, it is the duel between the Spaniards and the Italians. And Alcaraz is also eager to watch his national team’s duel.

So the world number two would like to subordinate his tennis schedule to the Euro schedule. So he has made a request to the organisers of the London tournament that his match with Draper be played earlier.

“The Euros are held every four years. Now we need to watch and support Spain,” explains last year’s Wimbledon winner. So it would definitely not suit him if his match ended Thursday’s match schedule.

Alcaraz pleased the organisers. His duel will come second on the schedule and the imaginary highlight will be the match between American Nakashima and Italian Musetti.

Musetti may well miss his country’s much anticipated fight. Holt, if you are not the defending champion, your chances of influencing the tournament programme are more modest.

Source: Eurosport, ATP