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Good afternoon! Well if this match can produce anywhere near the level of drama Angelique Kerber and Maria Sharapova just served up for us on Centre then we're in for a treat! It's two-time Wimbledon champ Rafael Nadal up against next-big-thing Nick Kyrgios and you can follow it LIVE right here.

N. Kyrgios vs R. Nadal | Wimbledon
Men's Singles | Round 4 | 01.07.2014 | London
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Updated 01/07/2014 at 18:11 GMT


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GAME SET AND MATCH NICK KYRGIOS! We have just witnessed a monumental victory and the coming of age of a future star of men's tennis. The teenager topples the two-time champion and world number one! The last time that happened it was Nadal himself inflicting defeat on a certain Roger Federer. Kyrgios serves it out to love, sealing it fittingly with an ace.
KYRGIOS 7-6 5-7 5-6 5-3 NADAL. No gifts here from the number 2 seed. If you want it you're going to have to serve for it yourself, Nick. Nadal's hold is emphatic, it's to love but it doesn't matter much. Kyrgios's mind is already on the next game, where he'll serve for the biggest win of his career. Don't get tight...
KYRGIOS 7-6 5-7 5-6 5-2 NADAL. Nadal rips a forehand winner on the first point but Kyrgios isn't phased, hitting back in the form of two emphatic aces. But his volley on the next point is far from emphatic. Again it's far too casual and it's a bad, bad miss. Not that Kyrgios lets these disappointments hang over him. It's out of his mind in no time and he's glad to see Nadal drag a backhand wide to take him to within a game of victory.
KYRGIOS 7-6 5-7 5-6 4-2 NADAL. How will Nadal respond? Well initially, very well. Here's a love service game. The hard part, though, is coming up. He'll have to break the Kyrgios at some point soon if he's to stay in this tournament.
KYRGIOS 7-6 5-7 5-6 4-1 NADAL. If Kyrgios put himself in the driving seat with that last game then he's just fastened his seatbelt and started the engine with this one. He has a wobble at 30-15 as he tightens up and puts his forehand into the net. But he comes through it, his first serve setting up a searing forehand winner at 40-30.
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KYRGIOS 7-6 5-7 5-6 3-1 NADAL. Kyrgios breaks Nadal's serve and puts himself firmly in the driving seat!! At 15-15 he pats a soft return back over - maybe the sun's in his eyes - but he then absolutely spanks a forehand winner down the line. Nadal, though, steps it up a notch and finds a deep forehand winner of his own to move to 40-30. Kyrgios is not relinquishing his gung-ho appraoch on return, cracking one for deuce before putting away a rasping crosscourt backhand winner to bring up break point. Nadal goes long and Kyrgios has the break! Amazing.
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Just the 35 aces so far for Kyrgios. Outrageous.
KYRGIOS 7-6 5-7 5-6 2-1 NADAL. Kyrgios loses the opening point of his service game again but he has little trouble seeing this one through with the help of two more aces. Ace count to follow...
KYRGIOS 7-6 5-7 5-6 1-1 NADAL. The pressure is on Nadal now. And he's feeling it! He double faults on his opening service point of the set. Like Kyrgios in the previous game, he quickly recovers from the wobble and sends a backhand up the line for 30-15 before closing the game out with ace and getting himself on the board in the fourth set.
KYRGIOS 7-6 5-7 7-6 1-0 NADAL. Nadal wins the first two exchanges of the fourth set. Kyrgios can't afford to rest on his laurels here. But he has no intention of doing so, sending down three blazing aces to recover and get himself ahead in the set.
Incredible stuff. It seemed the match had turned in Nadal's favour. He was on top but couldn't find a break in the third set and he's been made to pay the price.
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KYRGIOS WINS THE TIE-BREAK 7-5! The Aussie is once again ahead in this match! He wins both of his service points and with Nadal serving at 5-6 and set point down, he steps in and absolutely unleashes a crosscourt forehand return. Talk about bottle. Nadal can't get it back in court and if he's going to come through this he'll have to do it in 5.
KYRGIOS 6-6 (4-5) NADAL. Kyrgios finishes off a lengthy exhange with a controlled backhand winner down the line. Brilliant play. Nadal serving again and he has to hit a tricky overhread with the sun in his eyes, which he screws expertly in behind Kyrgios. The Aussie goes for a running forehand on the next point but overcooks it. .
KYRGIOS 6-6 (3-3) NADAL. Nadal wins one service point but overcooks another forehand and Kyrgios has a minibreak at 3-2. Again it doesn't last long as he sends a loose backhand flying long. Unforced errors creeping in on both sides. Change of ends now.
KYRGIOS 6-6 (2-1) NADAL. Nadal gets us underway in the breaker but it's Kyrgios who wins the first point. His minibreak doesn't last long, though, as Nadal finds a sumptuous backhand passing shot down the line. Ace now from the Aussie. We're on serve.
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KYRGIOS 7-6 5-7 6-6 NADAL. A big serve and forehand combo kick this game off and Nadal can't get his next return back in court. It's a double fault, though, at 30-0. Kyrgios then dumps a tired forehand into the net and he lets out more frustration. He unleashes a couple of inside-out crosscourt forehand but Nadal anticipates the second one and spanks his own forehand up the line. Set point now, and a big serve saves the day. An ace brings up advantage and Nadal spoons his next return to take us to another breaker!
KYRGIOS 7-6 5-7 5-6 NADAL. Rafa misses wildly long on the forehand wing at 15-0. That's not like him at all. But two winners then flow from that forehand wing and he's quickly on his way to a hold to 15. Kyrgios to serve to stay in the set at 5-6 - the exact point at which he crumbled in the second set.
KYRGIOS 7-6 5-7 5-5 NADAL. Nadal moves in on his first return and finds an angle, forcing Kyrgios to hit the net. Kyrgios tucks away a forehand but tightens up at 15-15 with a double fault. A big serve and another forehand winner crosscourt this time, bring up 40-30 but he drags a backhand wide for deuce. No bother - two aces see it through and we're level again.
KYRGIOS 7-6 5-7 4-5 NADAL. In contrast to the first set, it's now Nadal who's racing through his service games with ease, and Kyrgios who's having to absorb pressure on his own serve. A hold to love is just the job for Nadal and Kyrgios will have to come out and do what he failed to do last time out- serve to stay a set.
KYRGIOS 7-6 5-7 4-4 NADAL. Needless to say this is a big game for Kyrgios. Lose this and he'll surely be going down two sets to one. But he's still ultra confident on the first point swinging at that forehand again. Nadal's defence is awesome at 15-15 when Kyrgios drops him. Nadal chases that down, and then the ensuing lob, before Kyrgios is far too casual on the volley and puts the simplest of put-aways into the net. The Aussie shaes that off, though, and continues to fight his was through this, levelling at 4-4.