Men's Wimbledon final

Game-by-game updates as Djokovic goes for grand slam No 21 and Kyrgios for his first. Join John Brewin.

It could be a classic, it could be a walkover, it’s bound to feature one or both of them roaring like a lion somewhere along the line. But in January, Kyrgios supported Djokovic when he was detained and then deported from Australia. While Kyrgios joked they now have a “bit of a bromance”, Djokovic was less enthusiastic, but he expressed his appreciation for Kyrgios’s support: “When it was really tough for me in Australia, he was one of the very few players that came out publicly and supported me and stood by me. There is something of Djokovic’s close friend and mentor about Kyrgios, and the two finalists do seem to have something of an affinity, a shared outsider status despite one of them being one of the three greatest men’s players to have ever hit a crosscourt forehand. A year earlier, he’d penned an open letter to the people of Australia, which ought to have been grounds for a 14-day quarantine in itself. Who else could have done a court-side chat with Chris Evert that went straight in on her ovarian cancer and still kept the mood high? In the final, Kyrgios will reacquaint himself with Novak Djokovic, who he has had a turbulent relationship with. A smile from Kyrgios as a young man carries out the toss, and then as he and Djokovic pose for a photo. The experience that I have at this level, playing in the finals against someone that has never played a Grand Slam final, could be slightly in my favour. Met Office meteorologist Dan Stroud said: “We should see pretty much wall-to-wall sunshine across the bulk of England and Wales and a good portion of Scotland.” Their first match came at the quarter final at Acapulco in Mexico. While the match only lasted two sets, it was a hard-fought encounter in which Kyrgios won 7-6(9) 7-5. The 23-year-old is the first Kazakh player to win a grand-slam singles tournament. Nick Kyrgios is the first man out, and trying his best to look casual, his loping stride giving off some real masculinity.