Keeping Up With Carlitos: Alcaraz monitors Rune-ADF thriller, Wimbledon happenings during press

WATCH: Carlos Alcaraz caught watching scores in between press questions | Wimbledon

There are many professional tennis players who can’t stand to look at a tournament draw, refuse to follow the event’s latest developments, and quite a few who don’t even want to know who their next opponent is.

But not Carlos Alcaraz.

The 20-year-old Spaniard is both the world’s top-ranked tennis player, and the world’s biggest tennis fan. After a long day at the office, Alcaraz is known to tune into even more tennis in the hotel room and the player lounge, and he shamelessly rewatches his own highlight-reel worthy shots on the stadium screens during matches. (But honestly, who can blame him?)

On Saturday, barely an hour after escaping Nicolas Jarry 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-3, 7-5 on Centre Court, Alcaraz was spotted doing what else but watching even more tennis.

“I'm a guy who [is] very, very happy when the Grand Slams arrive because every day there are matches,” Alcaraz grinned during his post-match press conference. “I love following the results, following the matches. I love that.

“Having a lot of matches in the Grand Slam, I'm very, very happy. I look the results every day.”

Like the rest of us, Alcaraz was glued to the score of his countryman Alejandro Davidovich Fokina’s dramatic third-round battle with Holger Rune.

He was even caught watching the scoreboard in between questions during his post-match press conference.

“I was looking at [the score of the match between] Holger Rune and Alex… Who won?” Alcaraz quizzed journalists, who informed him of the Dane’s 3-6, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (10-8) victory.

“Whoa, really close match. I mean, I was watching in the locker room the end of that match.”

What the press room scoreboard likely didn’t show was Davidovich Fokina’s puzzling decision to hit an underarm serve at 8-8 in the decisive tiebreak. Rune, who saved two match points earlier in the set, wasn’t fooled in the slightest and passed the Spaniard with a forehand winner as he tried to come in behind the serve.

That move sealed Davidovich Fokina’s fate, sending Rune into the fourth round at Wimbledon for the first time.

Safely into the fourth round himself, Alcaraz now awaits the winner of No. 19 seed Alexander Zverev and 2021 finalist Matteo Berrettini—and once their match resumes after a rain delay, you better believe Alcaraz will be the first to tune in.

“I don't lose the focus. I know what I have to do,” he reassured press. “I love to know what is happening in the tournament.”