Zverev v Mensik LIVE: French Open latest scores, order of play and updates ahead of first men’s semi-final

Zverev is in cruise control now. He dinks in a drop shot, has Mensik pinned at the net, and fizzes a volley cross-court behind him.

Mensik goes for the backhand slice drop shot but it falls short and his frustration is evident, the body language telling the story.

But Zverev completely stumbles over a routine forehand, and a vicious Mensik forehand to the baseline takes him by surprise too and he can’t clear the net. 40-30.

Zverev hammers a forehand cross-court behind Mensik as he ventures forward and that’s another two break points.

And he takes it at the first time of asking, the pair going back and forth in a table-tennis style net rally, before Mensik can’t stretch far enough and thwacks the ball off his frame and out.

A Zverev forehand looks to be dropping well long but just about makes it onto the line.

The umpire checks a first serve which certainly looked out from the press box, and he double faults for the first time. But another vicious serve keeps him in control and Mensik can’t reach the resulting drop shot.

Mensik gets onto the front foot with a nice drive volley but then double faults and tips his head back in frustration. His first serve percentage has been way down, at 55 per cent.

But he holds with a booming serve and tidy volley.

Some of the fight looks to have gone out of Mensik now. Zverev redirects him nicely with the combo of a serve out wide and forehand into the opposite corner, does it again, and that brings up set point.

Mensik drags one back with another brilliant backhand winner down the line, but Zverev has two more set points.

An ace seals the set. The German has just been too solid.

Mensik double faults twice in his next service game and now Zverev has a first break point as he pummels a forehand beyond the Czech’s reach.

Now Mensik goes for the drop volley but Zverev gets there, and the Czech nets the reply. The second seed will serve for the set.

Mensik plays a tidy cross-court backhand which lands just on the tramline, and Zverev can’t get his volley over the net. 15-15.

But some fierce serving completes an easy hold.

Mensik looks a bit more sparky now and is going for his shots a bit more. Zverev thumps a forehand long for 40-0 and does the same on a second serve return, and that’s a nice, easy hold for the Czech.

A Mensik cross-court forehand, at full stretch, fizzes long, and Zverev escapes.

Mensik earns another break point, a cross-court backhand lasered into the far corner, and Zverev’s reply drops long!

A baby crying disrupts the German as he prepares to serve. He makes the second… Mensik overhits. Deuce again.