Wimbledon 2024 live updates: Day nine reaction as Alcaraz beats Paul, Medvedev shocks Sinner and Paolini defeats Navarro

So what's happened in the doubles?

In the men's, Krawietz/Putz (8) beat Americans Withrow/Lammons (12) 6-3, 6-4, on Court 1, while in the women's, Krejcikova/Siegemund (8) beat Kudermetova/Chan (12) 6-1, 6-2.

In the women's, second seeds Routliffe/Dabrowski are 2-1 up on serve against Kostyuk/Ruse on Court 1 - that's the last match on today.

No mixed doubles matches happened today because of the rain.

Similar situation.

Volynets/Ram vs Willis/Barnett and Krawczyk/Skupski vs Bucsa/Martin are set to be played on the outside courts tonight, weather permitting.

While Nicholls/Patten vs Routliffe/Venus and Murray/Townsend vs Krawietz/Panova are set to be pushed to tomorrow morning.

They've moved the women's doubles match between Barbora Krejcikova/Laura Siegemund (8) vs Chan Hao-ching/Veronika Kudermetova (12).

Of the other three matches due to be played today, Ruse/Kostyuk vs Routliffe/Dabrowski will be played on Court 1 after the men's doubles match just mentioned, while the other two are currently set to be pushed to tomorrow.

Those are:

• Siniakova/Townsend (4) vs Ostapenko/Kichenok (9)
• Mertens/Hsieh (1) vs Gauff/Pegula (11)

The only men's doubles match of the day:

Americans Jackson Withrow/Nathaniel Lammons (12) facing Germans Kevin Krawietz/Tim Putz (8).

It's 1-0 to Krawietz/Putz on serve.

She only lost three games in that quarter-final match, Jasmine Paolini, and becomes the first Italian woman in the Open Era to make the Wimbledon semifinals.

Much deserved too.

Her reward is a last-four clash with Croatian Donna Vekic, who beat Lulu Sun earlier today.

In the men's singles, by the way, Carlos Alcaraz will face Daniil Medvedev after they beat Tommy Paul and Jannik Sinner, respectively.

40-15 to Jasmine Paolini, seventh seed, against Emma Navarro, the 19th seed.

She has two changes to win it... one, now, after dragging a backhand wide.

But she gets the second!

And she has a smile as wide as Centre Court roof.

Paolini has won fourteen out of fifteen net points.

The aggression is putting Navarro on her heels and the hourglass is losing sand like crazy. A slow, sad likely end here for American Emma Navarro, who blitzed past heavy favorite Coco Gauff in the previous round.

Flat does not even begin to describe how she looks against Paolini, particularly when you compare it to the super confidence she oozed against Gauff.

Ah. Emma Navarro has had a poor service game.

The American goes 0-40 down then double faults.

She's 5-1 down against Jasmine Paolini, who will now serve for the match and a place in the semifinal.

Paolini's hit 18 winners to her six.

A lovely cross-court inside-out forehand from Alcaraz, disguised cleverly, and he leads 30-0.

Ace, 40-0. Three match points.

Tommy Paul looks shell-shocked.

Another big serve, Paul goes long, Alcaraz watches it out, and he roars in delight.

'VAMOS!', twice. He shakes hands with Paul, the umpire, and takes the justified ovation from Court 1. What a player.

As he had to.

He's still 5-2 down, though.

And Alcaraz has the chance to serve for the set, and the match.

Carlos Alcaraz is absolutely incredible. The levels he's reaching in this match are ridiculous.

He's won four games in a row, including two back-to-back breaks, to lead 4-1 in the fourth set.

The third seed serving to make it 5-1, and 40-0 up, too. Paul looks plaintively to his box for advice, help, or maybe just sympathy after a ripper of a forehand winner into the corner.

Paul goes long and he's now 5-1 down against the brilliant Spaniard. Alcaraz one game away from the semifinal.

Three breaks of serve for Paolini in that first set, one against, and she takes it 6-2.

She's dominating the stats, too, the only against her being unforced errors (six) to Navarro's three.

On Centre Court, it's the turn of the women.

Italian seventh seed Jasmine Paolini plays American 19th seed Emma Navarro.

And there are two early breaks!

Navarro breaks Paolini, Paolini breaks Navarro right back. And Paolini then holds to go 3-2 up on serve.

There were a few months last year when Novak Djokovic began to emerge as the sport’s surprise elder statesman.

It began at the French Open, when he finally surged ahead of Rafael Nadal to become the king of the all-time Grand Slam singles race. He regaled the crowd with the story of himself as a small boy, and he told children everywhere to pursue their own dreams.

He was gracious in defeat at Wimbledon a month later, tipping his hat to Carlos Alcaraz, his heir apparent. Then he won another Grand Slam at the U.S. Open, where the New York crowds embraced him as they never had before.

Strange as it may have seemed, with Roger Federer retired and Nadal vanquished and injured beyond full repair, the sport’s cantankerous contrarian who had never met a situation he could not turn into a me-against-the-world dynamic, had suddenly become its gentleman king.

Well, that didn’t last long. Read more below.