Morning/afternoon all, and let's have a load of this! Out come Edmund and Dimitrov!

So there we go! Kyle Edmund has boyed off Grigor Dimitrov, and will play Cilic or Nadal in his first Grand Slam semi. He played really well today, hot when he needed to be hot and solid when he cooled; can he take it up another level? We'll find out the day after tomorrow, and I'll see youse tomorrow. Thanks for your company - enjoy the rest of your days.

He says his new coach has helped him with his aggressive game, trying to make sure he doesn't lose close games like he had been doing. He says he'll now go and recover, trying to get ready for Thursday, and tomorrow they'll sort out a gameplan.

"I know what it feels like to be Andy Murray for the last eight years," he says in response to a question about pressure. "You take it in your stride and try and embrace it as much as possible ... I guess it's a good problem to have."

"It's obviously very pleasing," he deadpans, "but obviously I want to keep going."

Edmund says he had a bit of a dip in the second set and the start of the fourth, but held his nerve at the end and prayed that last ball was out.

"Amazing feeling, very happy ... these things you're so emotionally engaged you don't really ... I just tried to enjoy it."

So Edmund will play Nadal or Cilic in the semi; Fredrik Rosengren, his coach is wiping away tears.

Every time he's been challenged, Dimitrov has responded in some way, but not always at the level required - and here he gets 0-15, then goes way long with a forehand. Edmund, though, slides in a double ... this is the biggest game of his life, can he rise to it? Well he doesn't need to, Dimitrov going long with a backhand, and two more points will do it. There's one, an ace down the middle! That's 13 today! And then a serve out wide, a barrage of monumental forehands, and Dimitrov is called long! He challenges ... BUT THE BALL IS LONG, AND KYLE EDMUND HAS ELIMINATED THE NUMBER 3 SEED! HE IS IN THE SEMI-FINALS OF THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN, AND WHAT A PHENOMENAL ACHIEVEMENT THAT IS! HE WAS CALM, COMPOSED, AND BLOODY GOOD WHILE HE WAS IT! OH YES!

So they are! A forehand down the line gets Edmund 0-15 ... but a forehand of his own sees Dimitrov peg it back. Edmund is going for it though, and another punishing forehand has him two points away ... he's well in the next point too, and then Dimitrov pastes an inside-out backhand down the line ... Edmund challenges ... we see a picture ... it looks fractionally out but says in ... NOW IT SAYS OUT! AND AFTER SAVING THE FIRST BREAK POINT, DIMITROV TIGHTENS, NETS A BACKHAND, AND EDMUND WILL NOW SERVE FOR THE MATCH.

Ace followed by double, and I'm not quite sure I agree with Greg, below; Dimitrov can do much better than this, exciting though the match is. We find ourselves at 30-all and then Dimitrov goes long before a giant second serve, at 174km'h is too much. Things are getting tight, so they are.

A crunching backhand and a terrifying forehand send Edmund to 15-30, and even though Dimitrov closes, a big forehand return elicits an error; break point. Just when he needs it, though, Dimitrov finds a first serve - not a belter by any stretch, but Edmund can't get it back into play, and advantage then game swiftly follow.

Dimitrov is absolute Arsenal, graceful, dainty, and ultimately insubstantial. But he starts hitting with his forehand and it gives him 0-15, then 0-30 ... and what a point follows, a booming forehand down the line looking good only for Dimitrov to dive and get it back; Edmund then hits straight to him, but his lob goes long. No matter: Edmund goes wide with a forehand, and must now save two break-back points ... or not ... NOT! Forehand to slice, forehand to slice, Dimitrov refusing to give it away, until Edmund botches one! Well played Griggsy!

Oh yes! A nothing backhand down the middle from Dimitrov is panelled back inside-out by Edmund for a clean winner ... but a forehand and an ace soon make it 30-15. Dimitrov, though, doesn't look comfortable and a forehand down the line goes wide as Edmund's coach points to his temple ... this is a half-chance, and when a defensive backhand return goes low over the net, Dimitrov nets! Break point Edmund, and he has a second serve to attack ... and a wild forehand from Dimitrov is wide! Three holds and Edmund is in the semis! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!

Edmund hasn't wavered at all in this match. Obviously he's not played his best for all of it, that being impossible, but he's never stopped taking aggressive options, even in defence, and at 30-15 that wins him a key point, chasing a ball into the corner, and zetzing it hard enough to force an error. A service winner then follows, and that's 2-2.

Both players are serving well now, just as they were in the last set before they weren't. Love hold for Dimitrov.

Edmund powers to 40-0 before netting a forehand, so makes amends by thrashing one down the line. He's been solid as you like this last 15 minutes or so.

Looking at the stats from that set, there's one essential difference: 39% first serves in versus 68% first serves in. Dimitrov gave Edmund a chance early on in the set with three doubles in a game, then handed him a break with a double; you don't see the serious types do stuff like that. Anyway, if he's to win here it'll take five sets just as it did against McDonald; 'm not sure Edmund is playing as well as McDonald did, but he's starting from higher base and has very defined weapons. Anyway, Dimitrov rebounds well to hold, and broke Edmund in the second game of the second set...

Dimitrov hauls himself back into things, winning the first point of the game, before going long with a return. And then a strong forehand, from corner to corner, gives him 15-30 ... but a colossal forehand from Edmund levels the game again. What a shot that forehand is! Another begets another, into the corner then putting one away off the net cord ... and when Dimitrov's backhand return goes long, KYLE EDMUND IS ONE SET AWAY FROM THE SEMI-FINALS!

Or does it? Good work from Edmund gets him to 0-15, and a good return sets up a backhand to the tootsies. Dimitrov, though, pounces on a tentative return ... only to go long with a forehand for no reason whatsoever! Two break points to Edmund! The first disappears via netted forehand return, but when Dimitrov nets a serve, he has a chance ... and Dimitrov nets another serve right in the same place, cord down the middle! Edmund will now serve for the third set! That was pathetic, I'm afraid.