The reason Alcaraz won’t be on free TV at Wimbledon

Carlos Alcaraz will play his first semifinal at Wimbledon this Friday, aiming to beat the Russian Daniel Medvedev and became the third Spaniard to reach the men’s singles final at Wimbledon, then Rafael Nadal and Manolo Santana.

Going around the world with women, they joined the list Garbine Muguruza and Conchita Martinezchampions like manacorí and madrileño, Arantxa Sánchez and Lili Álvarez.

A historic appointment for the 20-year-old from Murcia, world number 1, is convinced he can reach Sunday’s final, either against the Serbian seven-time champion Novak Djokovic or the italian Jannik Sinnerwhich opens on the central court of the All England Club in Wimbledon this Friday, at 2:30 pm Spanish peninsular time, less than an hour in London.

Then they jumped into the ‘Cathedral’ of world tennis Carlos Alcaraz and Daniil Medvedev.

Both semifinal matches, as well as the women’s (Saturday) and men’s (Sunday) finals, both at 3:00 pm, can be seen on television through the #Vamos channel, from Movistar Plus+, with extensive coverage of the event from opening day.

#Let’s go for M+ (dial 8) will broadcast live and exclusively the last four Wimbledon singles matches.

There is no open television as it happened at Roland Garros, in the semifinal of Carlos Alcaraz against Novak Djokovic and in the men’s and women’s finals. So, Eurosport kept the broadcast but opened those games, as well as the finals despite the fact that there were no Spaniards, to all viewers via the channel DMAX.

This has been done in recent years, stemming from the audiovisual law that lists which sporting events are considered “general interest”. Among them, any semifinal or individual final of Roland Garros with the participation of a Spanish tennis player. In addition, regarding tennis, the Davis cup and the Billie Jean King Cupdue to the intervention of selections.

The rest of the Grand Slams are not up to that standard. And, for now, Movistar Plus+’s strategy is its #Vamos channel, which is accessible to all subscribers or through the Movistar Plus+ LITE subscription.

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