A glorious backhand leaves Novak Djokovic flat-footed, before a delightful rally ends with an overhead smash from the Italian. 30-0

That's three in a row for Djokovic. It is his turn to send his opponent galloping around the court. A backhand hits the far corner and Cecchinato can only send the sliced backhand return into the base of the net.

Cecchinato was close to holding two breaks of serves, now he has none. Djokovic breaks to love. All square in the second. The stretching, tweaking and exercising the neck seems to be working at the moment.

Three break points for Djokoivc after Cecchinato can only send a backhand into the top of the net.

It's a full house on Court Suzanne-Lenglen and the crowd are being treated to some wonderful stuff from both men. Djokovic now with a sniff of a break of serve. 0-30.

It was hard work, but Novak Djokovic manages to fight back from 0-30 behind to hold his serve. A very, very crucial game.

Three-nil would have left the Italian holding all the cards in the second set with two breaks, but Djokovic takes the game and the score is not looking as scary for him now.

A slashing forehand is just what Djokovic needs as he takes two points in a row to bring it back to 30-30.

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Novak Djokovic received extensive treatment on a neck injury during the changeover following the first set.

Looks slightly like the physio is trying to rock him to sleep in this picture above, mind...

A drop shot brings Djokovic to the net, this time he gets to it, but Cecchinato can only wrong-foot the former world number one with a fine shot down the line.

The Italian, hunting a second break of serve in this set, wins the next point as well. 0-30

A steady hold of serve for Marco Cecchinato. This is proving to be a tough day at the office for Djokovic.

If Cecchinato wins this or Djokovic has to retire hurt then we are guaranteed to have a new Grand Slam finalist.

Neither Cecchinato, nor Dominic Thiem, who plays the winner in the semi-finals, has appeared in a Grand Slam final before.

After a fine rally, Novak Djokovic puts a bit too much juice on a backhand. It goes long and the Italian is one set and one break up.

The first serve is a good one, tight to the Cecchinato body and he can only flick it wide. One break point saved, one to go.

Break point for Cecchinato.

A delicate drop-shot from the back of the court brings Djokovic sliding into the net and it is too good from the Italian, who grabs a 15-30 lead.

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Marco Cecchinato 6-3 Novak Djokovic*

More work on the Novak Djokovic injury, as a physio, with both arms wrapped around the Serb's head and neck twists it one way and then the other.

It might be relaxing if you had that treatment in a spa, but it looks extremely painful out there during a middle of a match.

Anyway, the magic hands allow Djokovic to keep going. Into the second set we go, Cecchinato one set up.

The Italian had two set points, but only needed the first one, belting down an untouchable serve.

A shock is on. Djokovic, struggling with a shoulder / neck injury, is also struggling on the scoreboard too.

Advantage to the unseeded player, the only unseeded man left in the competition.

Set point Cecchinato after a two-handed backhand return from Djokovic drifts wide.

Cecchinato 30-0, two shots from the opening set after sliding into the net and firing into the open court, with Djokovic stranded.

This is the eighth tournament Djokovic has played in this year, but only the second time he has reached the quarter-finals. His previous time came last month when he got to the semi-finals at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia, before losing to Rafael Nadal.

He is playing through the pain and discomfort at the moment, but does enough to win that game to prolong the first set. But Djokovic is still wincing in pain.