Rafael Nadal says his starting time for the Olympic singles tournament on Sunday is “outrageous” and is uncertain he will play following his doubles victory on Saturday.

“At 2:00 p.m. I’m playing? I don’t understand, it’s 10:00 p.m. at night right now,” Nadal said after he and Carlos Alcaraz — dubbed “Nadalcaraz” — won their doubles match over Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni from Argentina, 7-6(4), 6-4. “It is outrageous to me…”

It was later reported that the 38-year-old Spaniard would huddle with his Spanish team on Sunday morning to make a decision ahead of his singles match with Marton Fucsovics of Hungary.

Nadal was drawn to face No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic in the second round in what would be the first meeting between the two rivals in nearly two years.

Together they have combined to win 46 Grand Slam singles titles.

Earlier Saturday, Djokovic routed Matthew Ebden 6-0, 6-1 victory in less than an hour. Djokovic said he doesn’t think someone like Ebden — a 36-year-old doubles player from Australia who hadn’t competed in a tour-level, main-draw singles match since June 2022 — should have been on the court without a teammate at the Summer Games.

“I really don’t understand the rules. They’re really not logical for me,” said Djokovic, a 24-time Grand Slam champion who is seeking his first Olympic gold medal.

“I don’t think it’s a good image for the sport, to be honest,” he said about having a doubles player enter singles at the Olympics. “There were a lot of singles players that have plenty of time, that were alternates, that could have been called to come. This part I don’t get.”

Nadal and Alcaraz took the court at Roland Garros to much fanfare after the Djokovic match. Princess Leonor of Spain, Billie Jean King and the families of both players were among those in attendance to watch the two Spanish legends.

The Spaniards were broken early in the match, drawing boos from the fans, but then broke back and ultimately secured the first set with a strong return by Nadal to clinch the breaker.

In the second set, the Argentinians again broke early and led 3-0 before Nadal and Alcaraz broke back and knotted it at 3-all.

At 4-all, Alcaraz secured a break, and Nadal closed the match on his serve thanks to a volley winner from Alcaraz.

(The AP contributed reporting)