Wimbledon 2022 men’s singles semi-final: Novak Djokovic v Cameron Norrie – live! | Wimbledon 2022

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Key events:

Oh Alfie! Hewett breaks Fernandez yet again to lead 6-5 but, serving to level the match at one set all he is broken to 15, the Argentinian sending us to a tiebreak with a brilliant forehand return of Hewett’s second serve.

Some belated stirring from Alfie Hewett: he breaks Fernandez back for 2-5 then has three break points on the Argentinian’s subsequent service game. Fernandez saves two of them – the second with a devastating cross-court forehand winner – but Hewett outpoints him in a long rally to claim the break. We’re now back on serve at 4-5 in the second set!

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In the women’s doubles semi-finals, the No 2 seeds Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova have won the first set 6-2 against Lyudmyla Kichenok and Jelena Ostapenko, seeded four, on Centre Court.

Alfie Hewett, meanwhile, is staring down the barrel in his wheelchair semi-final against Gustavo Fernandez. He’s just been broken again and is 1-5 down in the second set, and a set down.

While we’re waiting for the big match, here’s some pre-play reading.

Simon Cambers on why talk of giving ‘lucky losers’ a place in the semis is a bad idea:

Tumaini Carayol on Cameron Norrie’s journey from South Africa to SW19:

And Tumaini again on what Norrie needs to do to stand a chance of outwitting Djokovic:

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Britain’s Alfie Hewett is in a fairly sizeable spot of bother in his men’s wheelchair singles semi against Gustavo Fernandez of Argentina, who won the first set 6-2 and is 3-0 up in the second on Court No 1.

Preamble

Afternoon everyone. And what a glorious day it is for the men’s semi-finals. But alas we have only one to enjoy today as Rafa Nadal’s injury has deprived us of a tantalising showdown with Nick Kyrgios, who advances to his first grand slam final amid all the clouds surrounding him off-court. Kyrgios has wished Nadal well.

All of which leaves us focusing on the intriguing match-up between Britain’s Cameron Norrie, also enjoying a best-ever grand slam run, and Novak Djokovic, whose best-ever grand slam runs have brought him a trifling 20 titles. Both players went through gruelling five-setters in their quarter-finals, and Djokovic’s winning experience of such matches obviously makes him clear favourite, but Jannik Sinner exposed chinks on Tuesday and Norrie showed his own reserves of competitive courage.

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He’ll have the crowd’s backing too, Centre Court having taken to Norrie more and more as the fortnight has progressed although Djokovic, for all his controversies over the past couple of years, has been largely warmly received at SW19 this year.

They’ll be on court around 3.30pm BST but we’ll have buildup and news from the other courts before then. So stick around.

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