Novak Djokovic survived an injury scare to keep his hopes of landing an Olympic gold medal alive following a straight-sets victory over Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Djokovic appeared to be struggling with a knee injury that forced him to withdraw from the recent French Open, but was able to emerge a 6-3 6-6 (7-3) victor.
The Serbian started brightly on Court Philippe Chatrier, earning a break in the fourth game that proved decisive, with Djokovic able to hold serve to see out the first set.
However, Tsitsipas raced out of the blocks in the second, producing a double break to race into a 4-0 lead. But the former world number one was not ready to concede.
With the Greek in touching distance from taking the encounter to a third-set decider, Djokovic rallied to win the next three games on the spin to level the game at 5-5.
Djokovic and Tsitsipas would hold their respective serves, meaning a second-set tie-break would determine whether the encounter would continue at Roland-Garros.
But it would be the Serbian who would advance to the semi-finals, winning three games in a row to complete a brilliant display.
Djokovic will face Lorenzo Musetti for a place in Sunday's final after the Italian defeated reigning champion Alexander Zverev in straight sets.
Data Debrief: Djokovic continues his quest for gold
Djokovic has now made four Singles semi-finals at the Olympics: twice as many than any other player since tennis returned to the Summer Olympics program in 1988.
The Serbian impressed on serve, scoring six aces throughout the contest to Tsitsipas' three, while saving four of the six break points he faced.
'I am looking forward to stopping now', says Murray after bidding farewell to tennis
"I am looking forward to stopping now", were the words of Andy Murray after his glittering tennis career came to an end at the Paris Olympics.
Murray's final tournament ended in the quarter-finals at Roland-Garros as he and Dan Evans were beaten in straight sets by American duo Tommy Paul and Taylor Fritz.
The 37-year-old left Court Suzanne-Lenglen to a standing ovation as the curtain came down on a career that included three Grand Slam titles, as well as singles gold at both the London and Rio Games.
"I feel good. I have been ready for this moment for the last few months since I had the operation on my back," said Murray.
"I knew it was the right time and I feel lucky to come and compete here.
"I am grateful to Dan (Evans) for putting in the effort he did to give us a good chance of having a great run. I am looking forward to stopping now."
While Murray and Evans had pulled off miraculous comebacks against Japan’s Kei Nishikori and Taro Daniel and Belgium's Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen in the previous rounds, both Paul and Fritz proved to be a step too far.
The British pair were second best for much of the contest, despite showing signs of yet another comeback in the second set only for Fritz's strong service game to cinch victory for the Americans.
"I mean it was a great run and we lost to two top players today. They are both top tennis players, we would have had to play very well to win that match and we didn’t.
"We got into it at the end, but if we found that form earlier we could have caused them problems, but it wasn't to be.
"We did make the quarters, but if you get through that match you get an opportunity to win a medal."
Murray bows out having won 739 of his 1001 ATP Tour level matches, earning 46 singles titles across his career as well as spending 41 weeks as world number one.
But in true Murray fashion, he posted to X joking he never liked the sport he played for 18 years shortly after the defeat.
Vekic sets up Olympics final with Zheng after comfortable semi-final win
Donna Vekic will play Qinwen Zheng in the gold medal match at the Paris Olympics after easing to a straight sets victory over Anna Karolina Schmiedlova.
The Croatian dominated proceedings from start to finish on Court Philippe Chatrier, comfortably triumphing 6-2 6-0 in just over an hour.
Vekic and Schmiedlova traded blows in the opening exchanges, but it would be the world number 21 who found the decisive break to go 3-2 up in the fifth game.
From then on, the Croatian was able to hold her serve to claim the first set, but the best was still to come.
Vekic would drop just five points in the entirety of the second set, storming to victory in a contest where she converted all four of her break points.
Data Debrief: Vekic one match away from creating history
Vekic will be the first Croatian player in tennis history to secure a gold or silver medal at the Olympics in singles when she faces Zheng on Saturday.
In a dominant display, Vekic won seven games in a row compared to Schmiedlova's one, winning 24 of her 32 first serve points.
Biles claims sixth Olympic gold medal after glittering all-round final display
Simone Biles claimed her sixth Olympic gold medal following a thrilling conclusion to the gymnastics individual all-round final in Paris on Thursday.
After spearheading the United States to gold in the women's team event, she retained the title she won eight years ago in Rio, edging team-mate Sunisa Lee.
Biles' nine medals (six gold, one silver, two bronze) are two better than Shannon Miller, who won two golds, two silvers and three bronzes across the 1992 and 1996 Games.
"It is crazy I am in the conversation of the greatest of all time," Biles said. "I just think I’m still Simone Biles from Spring, Texas, who loves to flip."
Brazil's Rebecca Andrade finished second on Thursday to get silver and Lee took the bronze in the first Olympic matchup of past all-around champions.
Lee became the first gold medalist to return to the podium in the next Olympics since Romania's Nadia Comaneci won gold and then bronze in 1976 and 1980.
Biles started her quest for gold by scoring 15.766 on the vault, almost half a point better than the score she posted in the qualifying round on Sunday.
The American would relinquish her lead to Andrade after her slight mistake on the uneven bars, with Algeria's Kaylia Nemour posting a rotation-best 15.333.
But the reigning world champion would soon be back on top, producing an error-free routine on the balance beam to earn a score of 14.566, handing her an advantage heading into the floor exercise.
And as she did on Tuesday, Biles showed no signs of pressure and performed a routine packed with a series of stunning tumbles to clinch gold at a canter.
The win made her just the third woman to win two all-around golds and the oldest all-around champion since the Soviet Union's Mariya Gorokhovskaya, who won at the 1952 Games in Helsinki at age 30.
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