{"id":782561,"date":"2026-07-05T21:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T21:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782561\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T21:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T21:49:08","slug":"wimbledon-2026-canadas-auger-aliassime-to-face-djokovic-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782561\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2026: Canada&#8217;s Auger-Aliassime to face Djokovic next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WIMBLEDON \u2014 Canada\u2019s F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime defeated Spain\u2019s Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6), 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-1 to advance to the quarterfinals at Wimbledon on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Montreal native had 27 aces to just four double faults in the men\u2019s singles tennis match, but only converted on four of his 16 break-point chances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The third-seeded Auger-Aliassime was ahead 4-2 in the fourth set before squandering the lead and being pushed to a fifth set by the 22nd-seeded Spaniard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime will next face seventh-seeded Novak Djokovic, who defeated Roman Safiullin for a record 106th career victory at Wimbledon, on Tuesday. Auger-Aliassime is 1-1 against Djokovic, a 24-time Grand Slam champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Earlier in round of 16 mixed doubles action, Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., and Joe Salisbury of the United Kingdom, defeated Ben Jones and Maia Lumsden of the U.K. 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ottawa\u2019s Gabriela Dabrowski was also victorious with Evan King of the United States, earning a 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 win over Croatia\u2019s Mate Pavic and Hungary\u2019s Fanny Stollar. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 5, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WIMBLEDON \u2014 Canada\u2019s F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime defeated Spain\u2019s Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6), 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44,82],"class_list":["post-782561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782561","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=782561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}