Carlos Alcaraz vs. Daniil Medvedev - prediction, head-to-head, tournament so far

Both aiming to advance to their first-ever men's singles Wimbledon final, top seed Carlos Alcaraz and third seed Daniil Medvedev face off in a tantalising semi-final on Friday.

Alcaraz comfortably dispatched fellow 20-year-old Holger Rune in three sets in the quarter-finals, while Medvedev came through a five-set spectacular with American crowd-pleaser Christopher Eubanks.

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A slice of SW19 history was written on Wednesday, as Alcaraz and Rune squared up to one another in the first Wimbledon Open era semi-final between two men aged 21 or under, but the world number one soon underlined his credentials against his fellow up-and-coming protege.

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