{"id":777855,"date":"2026-07-03T15:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/777855\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T15:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:10:10","slug":"emotional-safiullin-relishes-another-wimbledon-upset-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/777855\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotional Safiullin Relishes Another Wimbledon Upset \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roman Safiullin is back with a vengeance at Wimbledon in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old upset 24th-seeded Joao Fonseca 6-3 6-3 6-3, after running through wins over No.12 seed Andrey Rublev and Botic Van de Zandschulp in five sets in his first two rounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cAfter the US Open<\/a>, I had to stop to treat my injury,\u201d Safiullin told the crowd as he broke down in tears. \u201cThat time was super tough. Even half a year ago, I didn\u2019t know whether I would be able to [come] back. I\u2019m super happy to be back here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The world No.132 (career-high No.36) now holds a 9-3 lifetime record at Wimbledon \u2013 he will face either Novak Djokovic or Arthur Rinderknech in the fourth round.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He had won three consecutive five-set matches, counting his victory final round of qualifying over Jerome Kym.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Safiullin, who qualified for the quarterfinals on his Wimbledon debut in 2023, lost in the first round to Luciano Darderi.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He saved all five break points he faced and hit 41 winners to 32 for Fonseca in the two hour and nine minute victory.<\/p>\n

Making the Russian\u2019s story even more remarkable is the fact that he had not won a tour-level match all season. He has competed mainly at challenger level since his return from a knee injury in February. He had not won a match since the 2025 US Open at tour-level.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roman Safiullin is back with a vengeance at Wimbledon in 2026.\u00a0 The 28-year-old upset 24th-seeded Joao Fonseca 6-3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-777855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}