Wimbledon 2024: Djokovic wins, Swiatek, Jabeur, Dart and Norrie out – as it happened

Zverev has a second match point at 8-7 – again, Norrie survives. And carves out a second set point. Two poor errors from Zverev, one on the forehand and one on the backhand. Zverev’s sharper on the next point and drags himself to 9-9 …

Zverev’s backhand barely makes the net. 7-6 Norrie – so from match point it’s set point. Zverev serves … and Norrie isn’t getting that back. 7-7. Meanwhile Dart has been broken and Wang has set point at 6-5, advantage. Wang puts away the volley and Dart has been taken to a third set.

Zverev takes two quick points on his serve to bring up match point at 6-5 – but it’s on Norrie’s serve. A gutsy forehand winner down the line from Norrie saves it! 6-6. They change ends once more …

Zverev is able to cut his deficit from 4-1 to 4-3. But Norrie does still have the mini-break. Zverev’s shot clips the net and trickles wide. 5-3. But Norrie skews a routine backhand wide! 5-4 – they’re back on serve …

Zverev holds and it’s tie-break time. The world No 4 has been serving so smoothly so far, it’s hard to see how Norrie can make some inroads in the breaker. But just as I type that, Zverev coughs up only his second double fault! Norrie is in the ascendancy at 3-1, make that 4-1. Zverev steadies himself with a strong smash. 4-2 to Norrie as they change ends …

It’s a clutch moment on No 2 Court too, where Dart, leading 6-2, 5-4 on serve, is pushing at deuce on Wang’s serve. Dart, though, flaps at a smash and Wang then holds, with a little help from the net cord. Dart leads 6-2, 5-5.

And an underarm serve from Norrie! That’s so unlike the Brit, who’s usually so, well, conventional. It works though – and Norrie holds to lead 6-5. He’ll get at least a tie-break in this third set.

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A quicker than quick service game from Zverev. The German leads 6-4, 6-4, 5-5.

Norrie is break point down at 30-40, 4-4. This may as well be a match point – because if the Brit loses it Zverev will be serving for the match. Norrie survives with a big serve and forehand. Deuce. Advantage Zverev. Deuce. Advantage Norrie. A huge hold for Norrie. Of course it’s a must-win set for him – but I think it’s also a must-win set for Zverev – if he’s taken to a fourth or even a fifth, how will his knee hold up?

Shapovalov has snatched the fourth set on No 1 Court. They’re into a fifth – making it a third consecutive five-setter for Shelton. It’s Shapovalov 7-6, 2-6, 4-6, 6-4 Shelton.

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The problem for Norrie is that Zverev, despite his knee injury, has been a serving machine today. Norrie’s not getting a look-in. 15-0, 30-0, 40-0, game. Zverev has won an impressive 88% of points on his first serve and Norrie hasn’t been able to create a single break point. Zverev leads 6-4, 6-4, 4-4.

As for the British No 2s, Dart is broken back and it’s 3-3 in the second set. Norrie is in danger of conceding his serve at 0-30, 3-3 in the third set. At two sets to love down, he can’t afford to be broken here. And he isn’t. He holds firm from there. Crisis averted but he’s still in the danger zone against Zverev.

Elsewhere, Jelena Ostapenko, the wonderfully quirky big hitter who reached the semi-finals in 2018 and won the French Open in 2017, has thwacked and whacked her way to a 6-1, 4-2 lead over the American Bernarda Pera, and Anna Kalinskaya, the 17th seed and girlfriend of Jannik Sinner, is a set to the good, 7-6, 1-0, against Liudmila Samsonova.

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Rotten luck for Jessica Bouzas Maneiro. The Spaniard knocked out the defending champion Marketa Vondrousova in the first round – but has just been forced to retire injured at 6-0, 4-3 down against the former French Open winner Barbora Krejcikova,

Dart has broken on No 2! She’s well in control now at 6-2, 3-1 against Wang, who sends her backhand wide on the second break point.

Surprisingly there have been only 12 aces so far in the expected ace-athon on No 1 Court. But Ben Shelton does dispatch a 140mph bomb – the fastest of the match so far and the joint-fastest this year – and he’s currently 4-3 down on serve in the fourth set, leading Denis Shapovalov, the 2021 semi-finalist, by two sets to one, 6-7, 6-2, 6-4.

Zverev, despite appearing to still be in some discomfort, is close to breaking Norrie – or rather Norrie is close to breaking himself with a very loose game. Norrie hands Zverev two break points with a double fault – Norrie tries to make amends with an ace on the first but throws in a forehand error on the second. Norrie, usually so consistent and hard to break down, will be kicking himself, especially given Zverev’s knee injury. Zverev zips to 40-15 as she tries to serve out the set – and takes it with an assured smash from Norrie’s return. Zverev leads by two sets to love, 6-4 6-4.

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Harriet Dart is back under way on No 2 Court. Perhaps mindful of the fact that the weather forecast is still dodgy, she’s in a hurry, and now leads Wang Xinyu 5-2. Wang is serving to stay in the set – and Dart darts to two set points at 15-40. And a fine forehand down the line seals the set. The British No 2 is looking so much calmer than she did against the British No 1 Katie Boulter in the previous round – and is a set away from reaching the Wimbledon fourth round for the first time.

But instead – Murray’s name is being taken off the order of play board for the final time:

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It’s a shame tournament rules prevent Murray from finding another mixed doubles partner at this late stage. I’m sure just about anyone at SW19 right now would pick up a racket and join him on court for his swansong. How about one of the sporting stars in the Royal Box? Maybe Jessica Ennis-Hill or Laura Kenny could be tempted out of retirement …

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Andy Murray has played his last ever Wimbledon match after Emma Raducanu announced her withdrawal from the mixed doubles due to concern over her right wrist.

The pair had been due to play their first-round match on Saturday evening but, in a statement, Raducanu said she was pulling out to protect herself against injury.

“Unfortunately I woke up with some stiffness in my right wrist this morning so therefore I have decided to make the very tough decision to withdraw from the mixed doubles tonight,” she said. “I’m disappointed as I was really looking forward to playing with Andy but got to take care.”

Under tournament rules, Murray is unable to pick a replacement partner. An alternate pairing will replace them instead.

The news is a huge disappointment for the fans, who were looking forward to seeing Murray, in particular. The 37-year-old partnered his brother, Jamie Murray, in the men’s doubles on Thursday and received a touching send-off, which included a video tribute and an on-court interview with Sue Barker in front of many of his peers, including Novak Djokovic.

Raducanu is due to play her fourth-round match in the women’s singles on Sunday. The late scheduling of the mixed doubles would have left her with reduced recovery time.

Better news: Zverev says he’s OK to continue. It didn’t look that way a few minutes ago. He’s clutching at his knee again following the first point after the resumption, and he’s doing so again following the second. Norrie is serving at 2-2, with Zverev leading by a set to love. This will be hard for Norrie too; it’s never easy playing an injured opponent. But Norrie is able to focus enough to get to 40-30. Norrie then looks as if he’s pulled off a pass, hitting deep from the right corner, but Zverev is somehow able to dig the ball out of the grass at the net! There’s life in Zverev yet. Deuce. Norrie holds from there. It’s Norrie 4-6, 3-2 Zverev.

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Bad news on Centre Court too, because Zverev had taken a tumble sliding to the net, and has fallen awkwardly. He’s hurt his left knee. It brings back bad memories of his horror injury at Roland Garros in the 2022 semi-final against Rafael Nadal, when he had to retire with a right ankle injury that kept him out of the game for several months. The trainer is on and it’s not yet clear if Zverev will be able to continue.

It sounds as if it’s a precaution from Raducanu, so hopefully she’ll be fine for her match against Lulu Sun tomorrow – but I don’t think it’s a decision she’ll have taken lightly, given how much it would have meant to her to play with Murray – and how much it would have meant to him and the fans too. At least his Centre Court farewell in the men’s doubles on Thursday evening was a fitting send-off.