Wimbledon 2024 LIVE: Tennis scores and updates as Novak Djokovic given walkover after Alex de Minaur withdrawal

The Australian No 1, having fun with the very best season of his profession, sustained an harm on match level in opposition to Arthur Fils in his fourth-round match on Monday.

De Minaur’s persona instantly modified and regardless of taking part in down the hip harm in his press convention afterwards, his withdrawal was confirmed on Wednesday lunchtime.

Seven-time Wimbledon champion Djokovic due to this fact receives a walkover to Friday’s semi-finals, the place he’ll play both Taylor Fritz or Lorenzo Musetti.

An early break of serve on Court docket 1 as Barbora Krejcikova wins the second service recreation of Jelena Ostapenko to take a 2-1 lead. Can she consolidate with a maintain?

Krejcikova gained the 2018 French Open utterly out of nowhere and has by no means made it past the quarter-final of every other grand slam. That is additionally her first quarter-final at Wimbledon.

Okay, we’ve reached the time that Court docket 1 will get underway, so meaning our first girls’s singles quarter-final of the day.

It sees two former French Open winners within the type of thirteenth seed Jelena Ostapenko and thirty first seed Barbora Krejcikova go face to face with a semi-final place on the road.

The gamers are simply strolling out on to the courtroom now and each will see this as a golden alternative to achieve the final 4.

The revised order of play on the primary two courts

CENTRE COURT – 13:30 START

Elena Rybakina (KAZ) [4] vs Elina Svitolina (UKR) [21]

Alex de Minaur (AUS) [9] vs Novak Djokovic (SRB) [2] – CANCELLED DUE TO DE MINAUR WITHDRAWAL

Blended Doubles – Second Spherical: Jan Zielinski (POL) / Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) [7] v Joe Salisbury (GBR) / Heather Watson (GBR)

Girls’ Invitation Doubles – Spherical Robin: Ashleigh Barty (AUS) / Casey Dellacqua (AUS) v Andrea Petkovic (GER) / Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK)

Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) [13] vs Barbora Krejcikova (CZE) [31]

Lorenzo Musetti (ITA) [25] vs Taylor Fritz (USA) [13]

See the total order of play:

Right here’s what Alex de Minaur needed to say about his withdrawal:

“Clearly not an announcement I wished to make by any means. Yeah, I am devastated however needed to pull out because of a hip harm.

“I felt a loud crack over the past three factors of my match in opposition to Fils and bought a scan yesterday. It confirmed this was the harm and with excessive danger of constructing it worse if I used to be to step on courtroom. It’s no secret that at this stage of my profession, it was the most important match of my profession.

“I knew the outcomes yesterday however hoped I might get up at present and really feel some type of miracle.

“The issue with me going out and taking part in is one stretch, one slide, one something could make this harm go from three to 6 weeks to 4 months.”

It’s solely about an hour till play begins on Centre Court docket however sadly, the scheduled second match on of Novak Djokovic v Alex de Minaur has been cancelled because of De Minaur’s withdrawal.

Right here’s a reminder of what Djokovic mentioned in regards to the crowd after his final match

Some unhealthy information rising I’m afraid. Alex de Minaur has withdrawn forward of at present’s quarter-final, which means Novak Djokovic has been given a walkover to the semi-finals.

De Minaur appeared to injure himself whereas profitable match level in his fourth-round contest and hasn’t recovered in time!

Alex De Minaur is blissful to be an honorary Briton for the remainder of the match after reaching the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the primary time

The ninth seed from Australia beat Arthur Fils on Court docket One within the fourth spherical and had loads of help from his field, which contained long-term girlfriend and British No 1 Katie Boulter.

De Minaur hopes that relationship means he’ll obtain help from the gang in SW19 after Emma Raducanu’s defeat on Sunday ended the house nation’s participation within the singles draw.

“Oh, 100 per cent. I’ll take all of the help I can get. I might be the honorary Brit right here at Wimbledon,” De Minaur mentioned. “I do really feel very beloved on the market, I need to say. I at all times love coming right here to Wimbledon and taking part in right here. I at all times really feel like I play a few of my finest tennis.

“Over time I really feel just like the help I’ve had has grown considerably. It’s a fantastic feeling as a participant to know you’ve bought lots of people in that stadium backing you in, having your again when basically you’re so distant from house.

“Yeah, undoubtedly over time I’ve learnt much more in regards to the British tradition because of Katie.”

The whole prize cash at Wimbledon has reached £50m for the primary time forward of the 2024 Championships.

The winner of the lads’s and ladies’s singles titles will take house a report £2.7m every, with the runner-ups incomes £1.4m.

The prize cash will increase round-by-round, ranging from £60,000 for reaching the primary spherical – even if you happen to don’t win.

Carlos Alcaraz and Marketa Vondrousova took house a report £2.35m final yr, with the prize cash for the lads’s and ladies’s singles champion rising by nearly 15 per cent in 2024.

A complete prize fund of £50m contains singles, doubles and wheelchair occasions and represents an 11.9 enhance from final yr.

Right here’s the way it breaks down: