Kevin Anderson wins 7-6, 7-6!
Second-set tie-break: Anderson* 13-11 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Anderson creams an ace down the middle! That’s it! He’s won! The second seed is out! What a performance from Anderson. He was fantastic and he’ll take some stopping if he serves like that in his quarter-final against either Guillermo Garcia-Lopez or Alexandr Dolgopolov. As for Wawrinka, the French Open champion remains something of an unknown qThanks for reading. Bye.
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Second-set tie-break: Anderson 12-11 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): Wawrinka pulls a forehand wide! Anderson has his sixth match point - and this one is on his serve. This has been an amazing tie-break.
Second-set tie-break: Anderson 11-11 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): Incredible! Wawrinka wallops a forehand wide by a country mile!
Second-set tie-break: Anderson* 10-11 Wawrinka (*denotes server): A great return from Wawrinka, down at Anderson’s feet, and that’s enough to earn a third set point! This one is on Wawrinka’s serve.
Second-set tie-break: Anderson* 10-10 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Anderson saves it. You know how he saved it.
Second-set tie-break: Anderson 9-10 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): A storming serve down the middle from Wawrinka brings up his second set point.
Second-set tie-break: Anderson 9-9 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): Wawrinka saves it with a huge serve. This is relentless.
Second-set tie-break: Anderson* 9-8 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Another ace. Anderson has his fifth match point.
Second-set tie-break: Anderson* 8-8 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Anderson’s serve fires.
Second-set tie-break: Anderson 7-8 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): Anderson nets a forehand return and Wawrinka has his first set point!
Second-set tie-break: Anderson 7-7 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): Wawrinka saves it with a smash!
Second-set tie-break: Anderson* 7-6 Wawrinka (*denotes server): An ace down the middle from Anderson brings up a fourth match point.
Second-set tie-break: Anderson* 6-6 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Anderson comes to the net but Wawrinka has the ball on his backhand. His power is too much for Anderson! Wawrinka has saved three match points!
Second-set tie-break: Anderson 6-5 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): Wawrinka saves the second with a well-placed serve out wide. Anderson has one more.
Second-set tie-break: Anderson 6-4 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): Wawrinka saves the first with a cool backhand volley.
Second-set tie-break: Anderson* 6-3 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Anderson punches a volley away and he has three match points!
Second-set tie-break: Anderson* 5-3 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Wawrinka slices a backhand return into the net off a kicker of a second serve.
Second-set tie-break: Anderson 4-3 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): Wawrinka comes up with a big serve.
Second-set tie-break: Anderson 4-2 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): Wawrinka skitters a backhand long and chucks his racquet to the floor. He’s in a spot of bother now.
Second-set tie-break: Anderson* 3-2 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Ace. Anderson’s 19th.
Second-set tie-break: Anderson* 2-2 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Anderson wafts a forehand long.
Second-set tie-break: Anderson 2-1 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): Anderson, jammed by a body serve, knocks a backhand return long.
Second-set tie-break: Anderson 2-0 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): Anderson scorches a screamer of a backhand down the line! He’s nicked that from Wawrinka.
Second-set tie-break: Anderson* 1-0 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Wawrinka nets a forehand return.
Second set: Anderson 7-6, 6-6 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): We shall have another tie-break.
Second set: Anderson* 7-6, 6-5 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Is it to be a tie-break?
Second set: Anderson 7-6, 5-5 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): Wawrinka wins the first point but Anderson wants this done; two stunning forehand winners have him in a 15-30 lead, two points from victory. Yet he misses two backhands, much to the relief of Wawrinka, who leads 40-30. We go to deuce after Anderson leaps into a backhand return but Wawrinka responds like a champion and holds.
Second set: Anderson* 7-6, 5-4 Wawrinka (*denotes server): More aces. More despair for Wawrinka, who has to hold serve to stay in the match now.
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Second set: Anderson 7-6, 4-4 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): A potentially tricky game for Wawrinka turns out to be a doddle.
Second set: Anderson* 7-6, 4-3 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Anderson’s serving remains awe-inspiring.
Second set: Anderson 7-6, 3-3 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): Wawrinka is up 30-0 but all is not well. He dumps a forehand into the net. Anderson rasps a backhand down the line. Wawrinka knocks a backhand long. And that’s a break point. He rouses himself with a few timely first serves, though, and he holds. He’s under pressure, though. Can Anderson keep going?
Second set: Anderson* 7-6, 3-2 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Wawrinka is getting irritated with his inability to deal with Anderson’s power. The South African is playing very well indeed, his serve awesome, his groundstrokes crisp and his volleys precise.
Second set: Anderson 7-6, 2-2 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): The game goes to deuce. I miss most of it due to the BBC’s decision to cut to Andy Murray’s doubles match. Eventually Wawrinka holds; apparently he had to save a break point.
Second set: Anderson* 7-6, 2-1 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Wawrinka continues to struggle with Anderson’s rocket serve.
Second set: Anderson 7-6, 1-1 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): “Allez, allez, allez!” Wawrinka says, geeing himself up after a doughty hold.
Second set: Anderson* 7-6, 1-0 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Between sets, John Inverdale grabs a quick word with Jeremy Clarkson and asks him what he thinks about Chris Evans taking the Top Gear reins. “I wish him all the very best of luck,” Clarkson growls. What a magnanimous man. Give him a BBC series! Alongside Andrew Castle. Castle & Clarkson would be a great show. They’d offer a no-nonsense, common sense take on all the day’s issues; a worthy successor to The One Show, I say. Anderson continues to ace.
Kevin Anderson wins the first set 7-6!
First-set tie-break: Anderson* 7-4 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Wawrinka cracks a forehand return down the line wide. The No2 seed is in trouble on Centre Court!
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First-set tie-break: Anderson* 6-4 Wawrinka (*denotes server): A volley from Anderson lands on the baseline and Wawrinka is forced to lob wide. He has two set points.
First-set tie-break: Anderson 5-4 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): Anderson nets a backhand return. Wawrinka is coming back.
First-set tie-break: Anderson 5-3 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): A Wawrinka backhand down the line is too good for Anderson.
First-set tie-break: Anderson* 5-2 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Anderson nets a backhand. That’s one of the mini-breaks gone.
First-set tie-break: Anderson* 5-1 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Wawrinka hits wide with a forehand. He’s not happy.
First-set tie-break: Anderson 4-1 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): Wawrinka gets himself on the board with a smash.
First-set tie-break: Anderson 4-0 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): Wawrinka sends a backhand long.
First-set tie-break: Anderson* 3-0 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Another perfect volley from Anderson.
First-set tie-break: Anderson* 2-0 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Anderson charges to the net to put away a volley. That’s his sixth straight point.
First-set tie-break: Anderson 1-0 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): Wawrinka is forced to flail a forehand wide after a crunching backhand return from Anderson.
First set: Anderson* 6-6 Wawrinka (*denotes server): At long last, Wawrinka is granted a look at a second serve at 15-all. Time for a rally! Remember those? Wawrinka licks his chops and picks Anderson off with a glorious forehand pass from right to left, before earning two set points when the South African drifts a careless slice long. These have come out of nowhere. But they retreat back into nowhere, Anderson saving them both, Wawrinka jabbing a return into the net off a second serve on the second one. Deuce. And we shall have a tie-break.
First set: Anderson 5-6 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): Wawrinka has secured himself a tie-break at the very least, weaknesses in his armoury impossible to detect, but he’ll be hoping for better than that.
First set: Anderson* 5-5 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Anderson has lost three points on his serve.
First set: Anderson 4-5 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): This is a serving clinic from both players. Two aces from Wawrinka make it 30-0. He holds to 30 thanks to a pinpoint forehand.
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First set: Anderson* 4-4 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Anderson takes his time leaving his chair to serve. Turns out he’s got a problem with his shoelaces. Been there, Kev. I’ve only recently moved away from velcro. It was a big day. And in the time it takes me to type out nonsense, Anderson thrashes a few aces out of Wawrinka’s zone and holds to love. “Anderson has won the last three between these two to take their head to head to three apiece,” says Amar Breckenbridge. “Much more than Kyrgios, Anderson will be a true test of how far Stan, and his trusty shorts, have progressed in adapting to grass.”
First set: Anderson 3-4 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): Anderson has a chance to squeeze Wawrinka when the French Open champion double-faults at 15-30. But Wawrinka responds with a huge serve. Anderson barely had a sniff of it. From there, Wawrinka holds commandingly. He’s not flustered. These games are flying by.
First set: Anderson* 3-3 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Ace. Ace. Ace. Aceaceaceaceaceaceaceaceaceaceaceaceaceyace.
First set: Anderson 2-3 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): Wawrinka is serving perfectly. An ace wraps up a hold to 15.
First set: Anderson* 2-2 Wawrinka (*denotes server): Anderson serves big - obviously - on the first point, but he’s tight with the follow-up backhand, walloping it past the baseline. He didn’t have to welly that as hard as he did. Then comes a double-fault at 15-all. It’s a good time, then, for him to start scorching a few first serves past Wawrinka. He does just that and he holds. This is probably going to require a tie-break.
First set: Anderson 1-2 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): After a rusty start, Wawrinka is purring. His shots are pure and his aim is true. He holds to 15 and he’s in the mood.
First set: Anderson* 1-1 Wawrinka (*denotes server): A fuss-free hold for Anderson. Anderson’s holds tend to be fuss-free, on account of that massive serve.
First set: Anderson 0-1 Wawrinka* (*denotes server): An awesome start from Anderson, who slams a forehand return down the line to claim the first point. Then he does it again at 30-15. Blimey. Anderson isn’t messing around and he has a break point when Wawrinka clips a forehand into the net. He’ll be annoyed with himself for missing a backhand return off a second serve, though, and Wawrinka belatedly stirs and comes through what was a very awkward opening service game.
The players are out. Wawrinka wins the toss and elects to serve.
Hello. Welcome to live coverage of me talking about Stan Wawrinka’s shorts. We’ll have analysis of the shorts. Pictures of the shorts. Songs about the shorts. Poems about the shorts. Reminiscing about your favourite shorts. Discussion about whether it is appropriate to wear shorts to work. Your memories of the first time you wore shorts. Debate about the true meaning of shorts and the role shorts play in wider society. What your shorts say about you. Why shorts will decide the Labour leadership contest. It’s bound to be a fascinating hour or two.
There will also be some tennis. Stan and His Shorts take on South Africa’s big-serving Kevin Anderson, who will also be wearing shorts, albeit ones that won’t get to near matching the natty look of Stan’s Shorts.
Play begins: soon.
