WIMBLEDON – Canada’s F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime defeated Spain’s 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
The Montreal native had 27 aces to just four double faults in the men’s singles tennis match, but only converted on four of his 16 break-point chances.<\/p>\n
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
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
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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and partner Evan King of the United States, lost 6-4, 5-7, 3-6 to Croatia’s Mate Pavic and Hungary’s Fanny Stollar.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 5, 2026.<\/p>\n
Note to readers:Corrects the final graf to reflect that Dabrowski and her partner LOST to Pavic and Stollar. An earlier story said Dabrowski and King won the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WIMBLEDON – Canada’s F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime defeated Spain’s Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6), 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,40189,40191,40192,18151,49,40190],"class_list":["post-117795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-flix-auger-aliassime","tag-grand-slam-tennis","tag-male-tennis-players","tag-men","tag-sports","tag-wimbledon-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}