Wimbledon 2024 live updates: Day ten latest with Taylor Fritz knocked out by Musetti, Djokovic through after walkover

Recap all the action from day ten at Wimbledon 2024 with Taylor Fritz out, wins for Rybakina and Krejcikova, and the Queen of England in the crowd
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Wimbledon 2024 live updates: Day ten latest with Taylor Fritz knocked out by Musetti, Djokovic through after walkover
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Wimbledon 2024 — Day ten live reaction

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Wimbledon recap: Fritz and Musetti match analysis, Djokovic walkover empties Centre Court

Welcome to the Wimbledon briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories on each day of the tournament.

On day 10 of Wimbledon 2024, Lorenzo Musetti sliced Taylor Fritz out of the tournament, Centre Court emptied early, and Barbora Krejcikova called out the haters.

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British pair out in last match of the day

Ah, a shame for the Brits Olivia Nicholls and Henry Patten in the mixed doubles.

They lost 11-9 in the match tiebreak against seconds seeds Erin Routliffe and Michael Venus.

Shot of the day?

I'll have to let our tennis editor James Hansen decide that...

Other updates today

Other updates today

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The last four scores and results to tell you about: all in the mixed doubles. And here they are:

  • American Asia Muhammad and Andres Molteni, playing their second match of the day, were beaten in three sets by Mexicans Giuliana Olmos and Santiago Gonzalez, 7-6(5), 4-6, 10-8
  • UK-US pair Jamie Murray and Taylor Townsend, pictured, beat Kevin Krawietz and Alexandra Panova, 6-7(3), 6-1, 10-5
  • Another transatlantic duo, American Desirae Krawczyk and Brit Neal Skupski, the sixth seeds, got past Cristina Bucsa and Fabrice Martin, 6-3, 6-3.

While there is one more game still going at SW19!

Brits Olivia Nicholls and Henry Patten took the first set 7-5 against second seeds Erin Routliffe and Michael Venus (2), and the New Zealanders fought back to take the second 7-5. Not long from the end there on Court 1...

More on that as it comes.

Follow reaction to England reaching the Euro 2024 final here

Now, of course, this is a tennis blog. But also, in the football, England have just beaten the Netherlands 2-1 with a last-minute goal from Ollie Watkins to reach the final of the 2024 European Championships.

Follow all the reaction, analysis, updates, and more, with Michael Bailey's live blog here.

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Second seeds get through

Second seeds get through

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In the women's doubles, second seeds Routliffe/Dabrowski beat Krejcikova/Siegemund (8), 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-4.

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Elena Rybakina’s Wimbledon form is as serene as it is ominous

This year’s Wimbledon women’s draw has seen the big names falling one by one. Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff. Now down to the final four, three of the semifinalists have never reached this stage at Wimbledon before.

One has though, and in an event of giant killings, her serene progress has been both anomalous and ominous. Elena Rybakina, the 2022 champion, is starting to get into the zone. The coveted tennis flow state, in which the sport suddenly seems incredibly simple.

It’s where she was during that title run two years ago, and it’s where she resided for most of Wednesday’s 6-2, 6-3 dispatching of Elina Svitolina on Centre Court in 61 minutes.

Rybakina enters Thursday’s semifinal against Barbora Krejcikova as a big favourite both for that match and the tournament, despite Krejcikova’s 2-0 head-to-head record against the Kazakh.

It feels at this point like this is her house. There have been seven different winners of the women’s title at the last seven Wimbledons, and Rybakina seems determined to stop that becoming eight from eight. Read more below.

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Musetti makes his mark

A joyous post-match interview.

Taking the acclaim

Taking the acclaim

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A deserved ovation for Lorenzo.

A bitter pill to swallow

Maybe it’s just me but a W-L-L-W-L type of five set loss feels like the most excruciating of all, particularly for someone like Taylor Fritz, who has never won a major quarterfinal. Getting steamrolled in three sets?

Sure, that hurts, but at least you got waxed and know you have a lot to work on. Winning two then losing three? Probably an injury. But winning out the gate then having a couple of down sets and coming back to life before being squashed at the end? Ouch.

I think he was as surprised as anyone that Musetti kept his cool and aggressively went for the win during the fifth set. Fritz may have been fatigued, which caused the mental lapses, but shockingly he did keep up the fist pumps, even when he was down 0-4 and was able to win a few points during a return game.

The word that comes to mind for Fritz is agony. You may have noticed he gets quite nervous during interviews (and Break Point, certainly) and tends to sort of hug himself during awkward moments. He’s built a shell around himself and I don’t blame him.

He has to feel proud of what he’s accomplished here this summer but this will feel like a big letdown. Flushing Meadows awaits, provided his knee is okay.

What it means

What it means

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Sheer disbelief.

His maiden Grand Slam semi-final.

Musetti's reward for getting there? A last-four clash with second seed Novak Djokovic, fully rested today after his quarterfinal opponent Alex de Minaur pulled out injured.

Still, that can wait. Enjoy the moment, Lorenzo. Molto bene.

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Musetti match point... he takes it!

Musetti match point... he takes it!

Musetti races to 30-0 up, Fritz pulls one back for 30-15.

Then a glorious drop shot from Musetti, Fritz's legs buckle horribly as he sprints to get there.

He's in real pain on the floor. Concern from the umpire, and Musetti, sportingly, but Fritz is alright for now, we think.

He gets to his feet and trudges over to receive the serve. Two match points...

And Musetti takes the first! He beams at his box.

A magnificent victory for the Italian. 3-6, 7-6(5), 6-2, 3-6, 6-1.

Fritz holds

Fritz holds

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Taylor Fritz still in it for now as he wins his first game of the set.

But he's still 5-1 down and Musetti has the chance to serve for the match.

What's happened in the women's doubles?

Jelena Ostapenko, who lost in the ladies' singles quarterfinal earlier today against Barbora Krejcikova, and Ukrainian Lyudmyla Kichenok, who pulled out of the mixed doubles alongside partner Mate Pavic because of illness, have perhaps unsurprisingly lost in the women's doubles.

The ninth seeds were beaten by the fourth seeds Katerina Siniakova and American Taylor Townsend, 6-1, 6-3.

In the fourth and last quarterfinal of the day, Krejcikova and partner Laura Siegemund (8) have just won a second-set tiebreak 7-6(5) against seconds seeds Dabrowski/Routliffe. They lost the first set 4-6. But they're into a decider now.

Lorenzo just one game away...

Lorenzo just one game away...

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In an entertaining marathon of a five-set match here on Court 1 between 13th seed Taylor Fritz, the American and favourite, and 25th seed, Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the momentum has swung this way and that throughout.

But it's firmly with Musetti right now.

He's 5-0 up in the final set, a double break up, and Fritz will have to work incredibly hard to erase that advantage.

Musetti is one game from the semifinals at SW19!

What a shot Musetti!

The Italian is all over Fritz here like a rash.

He races 0-30 up, hits a desperate return long for 15-30, but gets break point and hits a rare sliced backhand winner down the line with Fritz nowhere to seal it, too.

Four-nothing in the final set. And serving for five-nothing, as well.

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That will sting for Fritz!

That's going to sting for Taylor Fritz.

For the duration of the match, Lorenzo Musetti has been pinning the American back with his superb backhand slice, which skids low and forces Fritz to hit up on the ball, mostly out of his backhand corner.

This gives Musetti time to run around his own forehand on his backhand side, often receiving a ball in his strike zone, because Fritz has to use topspin to get Musetti's low, skidding slice up and over the net.

At 0-1 in the fifth set, and Musetti holding a break point, Fritz tried one of the only effective tactics for neutralising a slice backhand: slice it straight back.

Musetti whipped it down the line, kissing the chalk, for 2-0. About 80 seconds later, it's 3-0, and Musetti is halfway to his first Wimbledon semifinal.

Who you got?

I've got Gasly and Alcaraz personally.

I think Novak would loooooose. (If you know, you know).

Break point Musetti... taken!

Break point Musetti... taken!

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Musetti was game point down against Fritz, but pulled it back, some lovely hitting pushing Fritz back, then sliced short. Fritz sliced back, but Musetti slammed it past him down the line, the ball nicking the whitewash for a superb passing winner.

Break point taken.

Musetti leads 2-0 in the final set. He roars with delight.

He holds to love in the next game too. 3-0.

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