Djokovic passes Federer with 106th Wimbledon win
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- Djokovic defeated 132nd-ranked qualifier Roman Safiullin 7-6(6), 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in 3 hours 26 minutes to claim his 106th Wimbledon match victory, surpassing Roger Federer's 105.
- The win sends Djokovic into his 17th Wimbledon quarterfinal — one behind Federer's record — and leaves him three matches from tying Federer's mark of eight Wimbledon titles.
- Djokovic trailed 5-2 in the opening set before saving two set points, and was later warned by the umpire for an apparent Serbian obscenity; he apologized on court for "the outbursts, the meltdowns."
- At 39, Djokovic became the third-oldest man to reach a Wimbledon quarterfinal, behind Federer in 2021 and Ken Rosewall in 1974.
- Djokovic has now won 46 consecutive Wimbledon matches against players other than Jannik Sinner or Carlos Alcaraz; his last loss to anyone else at the tournament was a 2017 quarterfinal retirement to Tomas Berdych.
- Djokovic's next opponent will be the winner between third-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime and No. 22 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, who played Sunday on No. 1 Court.
Why it matters: At 39, Djokovic keeps rewriting Wimbledon's record book, but his 3:26 escape of a 132nd-ranked qualifier exposes that the road to a record-tying eighth title runs through a draw where Sinner and Alcaraz remain the only men to have beaten him at the All England Club in eight years.
