Wimbledon semi-finals: Berrettini v Hurkacz and Djokovic v Shapovalov – live!

10.57am EDT 10:57

“Slebs” out in force at Wimbledon.

Hurkacz takes a moment to change his shoes. Berrettini will serve.

Updated at 10.58am EDT

10.56am EDT 10:56

Berrettini* 6-3, 6-0, 6-7 (3), 3-2 Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

‘Hubi’ races to 40-0 in double-quick time, but then another sloppy error, hitting wide, gives Berrettini a point, and the Italian storms back to make it deuce. Hurkacz has to fight for it, but he eventually holds. He is still a break down in this fourth set. Berrettini still needs three consecutive holds of serve for an appearance in Sunday’s final.

10.50am EDT 10:50

Berrettini 6-3, 6-0, 6-7 (3), 3-1 *Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

If Berrettini can hold his next three service games, he is in the final. As an attempted Hurkacz lob drops long, sealing victory in the game, he punches the air and looks up to his friends and family in the stands, knowing he is edging closer to the goal.

Updated at 10.53am EDT

10.49am EDT 10:49

Berrettini has hit 22 forehand winners to Hurkacz’s four. Remarkable.

10.47am EDT 10:47

Berrettini* 6-3, 6-0, 6-7 (3), 2-1 Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

Easy hold for Hurkacz. Something to work with. But can he find a break back? If he can’t, he’s going home.

10.46am EDT 10:46

Berrettini 6-3, 6-0, 6-7 (3), 2-0 *Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

Hurkacz’s Herculean effort to get back into this match appears to have left him a little short of energy and precision early in the fourth set. Berrettini’s serve continues to function satisfactorily, and he stays in firm control.

10.42am EDT 10:42

Berrettini* 6-3, 6-0, 6-7 (3), 1-0 Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

A very poor start to the fourth for Hurkacz. He cannot get his first serve going, after clinching that third set in dramatic style, and Berrettini is suddenly back in firm control.

Updated at 10.45am EDT

10.40am EDT 10:40

Now, we are into the fourth set. McEnroe points out that Hurkacz defeated both Medvedev and Federer to get here, not that you’d have thought that from the way most of the first two sets went. We have a game on here.

10.38am EDT 10:38

The TV director picked out a man in a striking red bandana sitting on Centre Court during that third set. I can reveal his name is Bart Kosen, and he’s from Minnesota. Funnily enough I met him on Wednesday, and we watched a bit of women’s doubles on Court Three. Hello to Bart! Have a great day.

10.34am EDT 10:34

Hurkacz wins the third set on a tiebreak!

Berrettini 6-3, 6-0, 6-7(3) Hurkacz

Magnificent. A set for Hurkacz looked very, very unlikely about an hour ago. But he has hustled, harried, regrouped mentally, started to hit some better groundstrokes, started to serve better … Hurkacz is right. Back. In. This.

Hubert Hurkacz wins the third set. Photograph: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images

Updated at 10.36am EDT

10.30am EDT 10:30

Third-set tiebreak! Berrettini 6-3, 6-0, 6-6 Hurkacz

5-1 for Hurkacz now. He has fought back incredibly well. He is on the verge of bringing this back to a mere set down … He smacks a first serve just long, then makes another sloppy error on the forehand, and Berrettini has renews hope at 5-2 …

Updated at 10.31am EDT

10.28am EDT 10:28

Third-set tiebreak! Berrettini 6-3, 6-0, 6-6 Hurkacz

First up, Hurkacz mini-breaks the Berrettini serve with his best return of the match, has further joy with a successful challenge, and moves 3-0 up in the tiebreak. And now 4-0! A horrible missed volley by Berrettini after the Pole hustles to stay in the point! Hurkacz is believing now!

Updated at 10.29am EDT

10.25am EDT 10:25

Third-set tiebreak! Berrettini 6-3, 6-0, 6-6 Hurkacz

At 30-30, Hurkacz produces a sensational, wide first serve for game point. He then chooses to take on a tricky drop shot which loops into the net – deuce. But the Pole, impressively, then hammers down a couple of big, big serves and it’s a tiebreak and a chance for him to fight back into this match.

Updated at 10.26am EDT

10.21am EDT 10:21

Berrettini 6-3, 6-0, 6-5 *Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

Berrettini continues to crush that first serve. The players sit down for a drink with the Italian a game away from Sunday’s final. Hurkacz scrunches up his face as he tries to figure out a way to force the tiebreaker. Four big serves would do it.

Updated at 10.21am EDT

10.18am EDT 10:18

Berrettini* 6-3, 6-0, 5-5 Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

Now hitting nicely from the back of the court, Hurkacz nevertheless concedes a couple of points on his own serve – including a sublime whipped, curling forehand winner from the Italian that bounces on the line. The Italian move on to force deuce – Hurkacz produces a big serve to win advantage – but then sends a forehand wide and we are back again to deuce. Berrettini knows he’s just a couple of points away from the final, but the Pole wins the next, crucial point in style, powering two smashes, and bullying Berrettini into submission. He closes out the game to a huge ovation. It’s 5-5!

Updated at 10.19am EDT

10.11am EDT 10:11

Berrettini 6-3, 6-0, 5-4 *Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

Berrettini smokes a sweetly-directed, hugely powerful forehand winner down the line to take the first point of the game, and soon races to a love hold, with Hurkacz failing with a challenge on the final point. The Italian is one game away from a grand slam final – he would become the first Italian man to appear in one since 1976. Hurkacz must serve to stay in this.

Updated at 10.12am EDT

10.07am EDT 10:07

Berrettini* 6-3, 6-0, 4-4 Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

Berrettini slips and appears to jar his knee during the first point of the eighth game of the third set. That would appear to be Hurkacz’s only hope right now, although he has steadied the ship to a great extent since losing his way halfway through the first set. He winds up a stunning forehand winner to close out the game, and he has a foothold, and then some, in this third set. He has recovered mentally, and he is now competing, but can he recover on the scoreboard?

10.02am EDT 10:02

Berrettini 6-3, 6-0, 4-3 *Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

A couple of plus-130mph serves from the Italian, then a sumptuous angled forehand which Hurkacz cannot hope to get close to … Berrettini again displays his superior movement around the court, but nets a drop shot to give Hurkacz the tiniest sniff at 40-30. Berrettini soon strikes a clean winner to the corner to seal yet another game – and moves himself to within two games of the Wimbledon final.

Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

Updated at 10.07am EDT

9.58am EDT 09:58

Berrettini* 6-3, 6-0, 3-3 Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

Love hold for ‘Hubi’. The crowd, who are desperate to see him make a match out of this, give him a rousing ovation as he again clenches his first in celebration. But now he must face the Berrettini serve again.

Updated at 10.08am EDT

9.56am EDT 09:56

Berrettini 6-3, 6-0, 3-2 *Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

Just a matter of time? Hurkacz has had only two break points, and needs (if at all possible) to put the Italian’s serve under some kind of pressure. But that serve is just too powerful. Berrettini registers a 137mph first serve, and has hit 12 aces now, to Hurkacz’s one.

Updated at 9.57am EDT

9.52am EDT 09:52

Berrettini* 6-3, 6-0, 2-2 Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

Having fallen apart for a set-and-a-half, ‘Hubi’ Hurkacz is now back in business to some extent, starting to serve better, starting to work Berrettini around the court a little in the rallies. An easy hold and we are back to something like we were at the start of the match, with both these huge-hitting players dictating things when on serve.

Photograph: Ben Solomon/Reuters

Updated at 10.03am EDT

9.50am EDT 09:50

Berrettini 6-3, 6-0, 2-1 *Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

Berrettini produces the biggest serve of the match so far, 135mph, on his way to edging ahead yet again. The commentators are talking about football and Euro 2012, which gives you some idea of the intensity of the competition on Centre Court just at the moment.

9.47am EDT 09:47

Berrettini* 6-3, 6-0, 1-1 Hurkacz

Hurkacz wins a game! Finally! He brings a huge roar from the Centre Court crowd, who just a couple of days ago, were stunned to see him dismantle Roger Federer. Now Berrettini is doing all the dismantling, but the Pole has something to work with in this third set, at least. He rounds off the game with a smart volley and clenches his fist as the crowd respond.

Updated at 9.47am EDT

9.44am EDT 09:44

Berrettini 6-3, 6-0, 1-0 *Hurkacz

A comfortable enough hold for the Italian to begin the third set. That is 11 games in a row for the Italian. Will it be the final set? Can Hurkacz find something to make this into a match?

Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty Images

Updated at 9.46am EDT

9.40am EDT 09:40

Hurkacz has made 13 unforced errors to Berrettini’s eight. It feels like more. Before he arrived at this tournament, the Pole had lost six matches on the spin, so this run came seemingly from nowhere. It’s about to end, unless he can get his serve going again, indeed get anything going again.

Updated at 9.43am EDT

9.38am EDT 09:38

“Hurkacz is falling apart here,” observes the commentator, and that is sadly correct. Berrettini is doing to Hurkacz what Hurkacz did to Federer. The Italian is buoyant, and one set away from a place in Sunday’s final. Hurkacz walks off court for a bathroom break, and returns to a round of applause. Can he raise his level? It’s now or never.

Updated at 9.39am EDT

9.36am EDT 09:36

Berrettini wins the second set v Hurkacz: 6-0!

Berrettini 6-3, 6-0 Hurkacz

Hurkacz fires a huge, wide forehand which bounces fractionally wide – he challenges the call, but to no avail, and quickly finds himself 0-30 down. He recovers to 30-30, then another challenge goes his way … but he immediately double-faults for 30-40, and he is pictured in close-up, berating himself again. Berettini closes out the game and the set. In the stands, Hurkacz’s coach looks ashen-faced.

Hubert Hurkacz is in big trouble. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images

Updated at 9.39am EDT

9.32am EDT 09:32

Berrettini 6-3, 5-0 *Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

The Berrettini forehand, always such a huge weapon, is starting to become more and more dangerous. Hurkacz does have something to cling to now – forcing a break point -but Berrettini gets himself out of trouble again with two gynormous serves, fashions the advantage, and wins the game.

9.29am EDT 09:29

“Hurkacz is in a state of depression out there … and panic … and that’s not a good combination,” observes John McEnroe.

9.27am EDT 09:27

Berrettini* 6-3, 4-0 Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

Hurkacz is just making error after error right now. Berrettini has him under pressure in all facets of the game – but he is also causing his own downfall with a lot of sloppy errors. This is going to be over quickly at this rate.

9.22am EDT 09:22

Berrettini 6-3, 3-0 *Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

The Italian tonks another stunning forehand deep to the corner to seal another game – Hurkacz just stands there and watches it flash past him – and has little answer to the quality of his opponent’s all-round game right now. It is notable that Berrettini’s movement is far superior to Hurkacz – the Pole isn’t able to exert any pressure aside from with his big first serve.

Hubert Hurkacz is on the back foot against Matteo Berrettini. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

Updated at 9.25am EDT

9.20am EDT 09:20

Berrettini* 6-3, 2-0 Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

Berrettini crushes a fearsome forehand down the line for 0-15 – a real statement of intent. Hurkacz misses a regulation smash, which flies off the frame of his racket for 0-30. Berrettini surges to 0-40, thanks to another howling error from the Pole, and Hurkacz then hands Berrettini an early break with a drop shot that flops into the net. Not good if you’re a fan of Hurkacz, but Italian fans will be starting to enjoy themselves.

9.17am EDT 09:17

Berrettini 6-3, 1-0 *Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

Berrettini has hit five aces to Hurkacz’s one, so far, and now he holds exceedingly comfortably at the start of the second set. He’s threatening to overpower his opponent who is more and more on the back foot.

Updated at 9.17am EDT

9.12am EDT 09:12

Berrettini wins the first set v Hurkacz: 6-3!

Berrettini, the seventh-seeded Italian, is beginning to take control of this, and he takes the first set – forcing his opponent to deuce, then mustering the advantage, at which point a miscued forehand flies high and wide from Hurkacz and that’s the set over.

Hurkacz’s level dropped in the last few minutes there, quite considerably, and he needs to regroup in this second set if he’s going to stand any chance of a place in the final.

Berrettini celebrates winning the first set. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

Updated at 10.15am EDT

9.09am EDT 09:09

Berrettini 5-3 *Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

The Pole wins the first point of the game after patting back a couple of deliberately awkward short balls, then coming to the net and volleying at a tight angle for the winner. But Berrettini then re-takes control and holds serve with four points on the bounce, serving powerfully and accurately, and Hurkacz must serve to stay in the first set.

Updated at 9.10am EDT

9.05am EDT 09:05

Berrettini* 4-3 Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

A frankly outrageous winner from Berrettini makes it 0-15: Hurkacz smashes deep to the corner and looks to have the point won, but the Italian sprints full pelt to run it down and hammers a fantastic pass, cross-court, that the Pole can only stand and admire. At 30-30, after one notable error from Berrettini, Hurkacz slumps a forehand into the net and it’s a golden chance for Berrettini to move a break up … and he gets it! Berrettini hits three deep sliced backhands in a row, waiting for his opponent to make the error, and it eventually comes as Hurkacz nets another forehand. The first break of serve to the Italian, and that’s a big, big moment.

Berrettini has now converted 1/4 break points, Hurkacz is 0/1.

Updated at 9.06am EDT

8.56am EDT 08:56

Berrettini 3-3 *Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

At 15-15 we are treated to the best rally of the match, the Italian eventually winning it thanks to a fine power-angle forehand into the left corner that Hurkacz can only hit long. But Berrettini then dumps a regulation forehand into the net for 30-30. He immediately hits back with a deep, wide first serve that extinguishes Hurkacz’s hope of winning a first break point … then Berrettini nets another disappointing effort to make it deuce. The Pole saves one game point, then attacks the net and volleys cross-court, in sublime fashion, to win advantage and his first break point of the match. Berrettini responds, though, and digs out two big serves to go to the verge of winning the game … but then hits a forehand long and it’s back to deuce!

It took nearly 10 minutes, but Berrettini eventually holds. He had to work for that and produced several big serves under intense pressure.

Updated at 9.01am EDT

8.51am EDT 08:51

Berrettini* 2-3 Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

Now a love hold for the Pole, and we are still with serve in the first set. Berrettini hit one lovely backhand slice in that game, but immediately followed it up with a horribly skewed forehand. Still, the Italian has been far closer to breaking serve than his opponent, even if winning points against either player’s serve is generally proving tough.

Hubert Hurkacz plays a return. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

Updated at 9.14am EDT

8.48am EDT 08:48

Berrettini 2-2 *Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

Another love hold for the Italian, whose service game is looking very slick indeed. We are with serve after four games, with the Polish player having fought back to save himself from 0-40 down in the third game.

Updated at 8.49am EDT

8.45am EDT 08:45

Berrettini* 1-2 Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

Berrettini has his opponent on the ropes at 0-40, but Hurkacz roars back to deuce, rounding off the third point of his recovery with two confident smashes. A couple more solid serves, and the Polish player has avoided falling a break down. That was a hugely impressive fightback from the 24-year-old, and he edges back ahead with Berrettini to serve again now.

Updated at 8.46am EDT

8.42am EDT 08:42

Berrettini 1-1 *Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

Berrettini does indeed hold comfortably, to love, including one slice of luck with a big forehand that crashes into the net – but down on to Hurkacz’s side of the court. All square.

Updated at 8.47am EDT

8.39am EDT 08:39

Berrettini* 0-1 Hurkacz (*denotes next server)

Hurkacz thunders a couple of big early serves down the middle and holds very easily, in about 90 seconds flat, to get the biggest match of his life up and running. He looks impressively relaxed, as he did against Federer two days ago. Berrettini will hope to hold his own service game in similarly efficient style.

Updated at 8.40am EDT

8.34am EDT 08:34

This is your two-minute call.

John McEnroe says he gives Berrettini the edge in this match. “He’s been building up to this for a couple of years,” says the American pundit.

And of Hurkacz: “What impressed me, particularly in that second-set tie-breaker, is that Hurkacz stood up mentally … Federer kind of went away. ‘Hubi’, as he likes to be called, sensed that and he thrashed him.”

Updated at 8.36am EDT

8.32am EDT 08:32

The players are out on court, they’ve tossed up, and we are moments away from the first men’s semi-final of the day.

Speaking to the BBC, Berrettini says the first time he played Hurkacz was as a 17-year-old, in a match in Poland. Berrettini is 25 now, the Polish player is 24.

Updated at 8.33am EDT

8.31am EDT 08:31

Berrettini has defeated Guido Pella, Botic Van De Zandschulp, Aljaz Bedene, Ilya Ivashka and Felix Auger-Aliassime to get to this stage.

Hurkacz beat Medvedev before he beat Federer, in five sets, so he’s definitely had the tougher path to this stage.

Both men are in their first Wimbledon semi-final.

8.25am EDT 08:25

What else do we know about Hubert Hurkacz, the second Polish man to reach the semi-final of a grand slam tournament?

Well, he adheres to a strict vegan diet, for one thing. He has also told the ATP Tour website that strawberries are his favourite fruit, so he’s in the right place in SW19.

His dream dinner party guests?

“It would be nice to have dinner with Roger [Federer], Robert Lewandowski, a Polish footballer, and I’m struggling for a third person…!”

Updated at 8.25am EDT

8.19am EDT 08:19

Can anyone stop Ashleigh Barty? Karolina Pliskova will be hoping to do so …

8.12am EDT 08:12

You may remember Hubert Hurkacz from such viral videos as the press conference with no journalists and no questions, back in April:

‘A press conference with no questions’: media no-show at Hurkacz presser – video

After his demolition of Federer, I very much doubt a press conference sans questions is a luxury that the Polish player will enjoy again.

8.00am EDT 08:00

Preamble

Hubert Hurkacz’s quarter-final victory on Wednesday felt more like a state funeral than a sporting event: Centre Court was plunged into a state of collective shock as Roger Federer, the king of SW19, was dispatched in three sets by the 24-year-old Pole, even suffering the indignity of a 6-0 reverse in the final set. We live in hope that Federer will return next year.

The world No 18 produced a largely flawless display to reach this semi-final: serving at 130mph, often matching Federer in longer rallies while throwing in the odd exquisitely-judged drop-shot for good measure. If he can produce a similar level this afternoon then the seventh-seeded Italian Matteo Berrettini, who dropped a single set in his quarter-final victory against Canada’s Felix Auger Aliassime, will be in for a tough day at the office.

Following Hurkacz’s showdown with Berrettini, the No 1 seed, five-times champion and heavy tournament favourite Novak Djokovic will stride on to court. He was not genuinely tested by Márton Fucsovics in his straight-sets quarter-final win but it is safe to think that Denis Shapovalov, the 10th seed and world No 12, will provide a much sterner test. Shapovalov recovered from a set down to emerge from a five-set thriller against the Russian Karen Khachanov two days ago and he will be feeling suitably battle-hardened.

Ashleigh Barty and Karolina Pliskova are already busy preparing for their women’s singles final tomorrow, and in a few hours’ time, there will be only two players left standing in the men’s draw. Let’s get it on.