{"id":676591,"date":"2026-07-06T11:40:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676591\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T11:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:40:22","slug":"wimbledon-2026-results-novak-djokovic-beats-roman-safiullin-to-break-roger-federers-match-wins-record-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676591\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2026 results: Novak Djokovic beats Roman Safiullin to break Roger Federer’s match-wins record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Novak Djokovic claimed the all-time record for most men’s singles match wins at Wimbledon, but had to overcome moments of visible frustration to beat qualifier Roman Safiullin and reach the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

Djokovic had matched Roger Federer’s record<\/a> with his third-round victory on Friday, and the 39-year-old earned his 106th win at SW19 by defeating the 132nd-ranked Safiullin 7-6 (8-6) 6-3 3-6 6-3 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

That is second only to the 120 wins achieved by nine-time women’s champion Martina Navratilova.<\/p>\n

The Serb beat Safiullin despite an apparent issue with his eyes early in the contest, while he later received a warning for an audible obscenity and was fortunate to avoid a penalty after firing a ball to the back of the opposite side of the court when he lost serve in the third set.<\/p>\n

“Survive to thrive – that’s how I feel,” Djokovic said, reflecting on his performances in the first week.<\/p>\n

“Hopefully the thriving part is coming!”<\/p>\n

Acknowledging his behaviour during the match, he added: “I’m known for my outbursts and meltdowns, I had a few of those today so I apologise. <\/p>\n

“Our mind wanders all the time. It is very hard to keep it in the present moment. Whoever manages to do that is the winner.”<\/p>\n

Djokovic remains on course for a tantalising semi-final showdown with world number one Jannik Sinner, whose title defence continued to gather momentum as he outclassed qualifier Shintaro Mochizuki.<\/p>\n

Sinner, a four-time major winner, claimed his third consecutive straight-set victory since surviving a huge scare in his opening five-set win against Miomir Kecmanovic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 6-3 7-6 (7-0) 6-3 victory sent Sinner into his fifth consecutive Wimbledon quarter-final, where the Italian will face Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic claimed the all-time record for most men’s singles match wins at Wimbledon, but had to overcome…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-676591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}