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

The revised order of play on the main 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

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

Ladies’ Invitation Doubles – Round 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 full order of play:

The Australian No 1, enjoying the best season of his career, sustained an injury on match point against Arthur Fils in his fourth-round match on Monday.

De Minaur’s persona immediately changed and despite playing down the hip injury in his press conference afterwards, his withdrawal was confirmed on Wednesday lunchtime.

Seven-time Wimbledon champion Djokovic therefore receives a walkover to Friday’s semi-finals, where he will play either Taylor Fritz or Lorenzo Musetti.

Here’s what Alex de Minaur had to say about his withdrawal:

“Obviously not an announcement I wanted to make by any means. Yeah, I’m devastated but had to pull out due to a hip injury.

“I felt a loud crack during the last three points of my match against Fils and got a scan yesterday. It confirmed this was the injury and with high risk of making it worse if I was to step on court. It is no secret that at this stage of my career, it was the biggest match of my career.

“I knew the results yesterday but hoped I would wake up today and feel some sort of miracle.

“The problem with me going out and playing is one stretch, one slide, one anything can make this injury go from three to six weeks to four months.”

It’s only about an hour until play begins on Centre Court but unfortunately, the scheduled second match on of Novak Djokovic v Alex de Minaur has been cancelled due to De Minaur’s withdrawal.

Here’s a reminder of what Djokovic said about the crowd after his last match

Some bad news emerging I’m afraid. Alex de Minaur has withdrawn ahead of today’s quarter-final, meaning Novak Djokovic has been given a walkover to the semi-finals.

De Minaur appeared to injure himself while winning match point in his fourth-round contest and hasn’t recovered in time!

Alex De Minaur is happy to be an honorary Briton for the rest of the tournament after reaching the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the first time

The ninth seed from Australia beat Arthur Fils on Court One in the fourth round and had plenty of support from his box, which contained long-term girlfriend and British No 1 Katie Boulter.

De Minaur hopes that relationship means he will receive support from the crowd in SW19 after Emma Raducanu’s defeat on Sunday ended the home nation’s participation in the singles draw.

“Oh, 100 per cent. I’ll take all the support I can get. I can be the honorary Brit here at Wimbledon,” De Minaur said. “I do feel very loved out there, I must say. I always love coming here to Wimbledon and playing here. I always feel like I play some of my best tennis.

“Over the years I feel like the support I’ve had has grown significantly. It’s a great feeling as a player to know you’ve got a lot of people in that stadium backing you in, having your back when essentially you’re so far away from home.

“Yeah, definitely over the years I’ve learnt a lot more about the British culture thanks to Katie.”

The total prize money at Wimbledon has reached £50m for the first time ahead of the 2024 Championships.

The winner of the men’s and women’s singles titles will take home a record £2.7m each, with the runner-ups earning £1.4m.

The prize money increases round-by-round, starting from £60,000 for reaching the first round – even if you don’t win.

Carlos Alcaraz and Marketa Vondrousova took home a record £2.35m last year, with the prize money for the men’s and women’s singles champion increasing by almost 15 per cent in 2024.

A total prize fund of £50m includes singles, doubles and wheelchair events and represents an 11.9 increase from last year.

Here’s how it breaks down:

It was almost cruel how Alex de Minaur repeatedly sent lob shots up and over Arthur Fils’ head to defuse the Frenchman’s explosive approach. This is new ground for the Australian: a first grand slam quarter-final.

One of the fastest players in the sport is gathering momentum. After four successive fourth-round matches in the sport’s most prestigious events, a run that confirmed the world No 9 was knocking on the door, Monday’s polished victory (6-2, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3) suggests he might be ready to knock it clean off its hinges.

Ashleigh Barty triumphed in 2021, but it’s been 22 years since a male Australian has won the singles at SW19. Lleyton Hewitt, serving as a mentor to De Minaur, passionately lived through each point in the box, barking encouragement down below when the 25-year-old ventured over to his towel to wipe away sweat.

Hewitt will be bullish about De Minaur’s chances to go one better than Mark Philippoussis and Nick Kyrgios. If he can continue to marry his skill and “luck”, as he gleefully described it when handed a walkover in the last round following Lucas Pouille’s injury, then Novak Djokovic better watch out this afternoon.

Carlos Alcaraz admitted to not feeling comfortable on Court One but was happy to win when not at his best after he roared back to down Tommy Paul and reach the Wimbledon semi-finals yesterday.

“I felt the difference playing on Centre Court and on Court One. The grass is different,” Alcaraz said. “Obviously I feel like it was more sand on Court One than Centre Court. I don’t want to say holes.

“There were more matches on Court One than Centre Court, I had to adapt my game on that. I didn’t feel comfortable at all playing on Court One with the conditions on it. As I said, I had to adapt my game on it. I tried to play my best tennis on it.

“Yeah, I think at the end I found it, I found my best tennis and my good tennis just to feel comfortable on it.”