{"id":213708,"date":"2026-07-05T13:40:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=213708"},"modified":"2026-07-05T13:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:40:33","slug":"the-story-is-far-from-over-djokovic-chases-his-106th-wimbledon-victory-against-dangerous-russian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/the-story-is-far-from-over-djokovic-chases-his-106th-wimbledon-victory-against-dangerous-russian\/","title":{"rendered":"THE STORY IS FAR FROM OVER: Djokovic Chases His 106th Wimbledon Victory Against Dangerous Russian!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Novak Djokovic, the seven-time Wimbledon champion, will take on Roman Safiullin today in the fourth round as he bids to reach his 17th quarterfinal at the All England Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At 39 years old, Djokovic arrived at Wimbledon 2026 determined to add another trophy to his record haul of 24 Grand Slam titles by capturing another crown at the unofficial World Championship of tennis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has already cleared three hurdles, defeating Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech (3-1), Greek star Stefanos Tsitsipas (3-0), and China&#8217;s Yibing Wu (3-1). Today, he faces Safiullin in a match scheduled for 2:30 p.m. on Centre Court. A victory would mark Djokovic&#8217;s 106th Wimbledon win and see him once again move ahead of his former great rival Roger Federer in the statistical record books on the grass courts of London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Novak Djokovic diving volley on match point! \ud83d\ude31 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HftVyv0pFd\">pic.twitter.com\/HftVyv0pFd<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Wimbledon\/status\/2073075950837797246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It will be interesting. He&#8217;s an excellent baseline hitter, plays very flat and aggressively, stays close to the baseline, and has a very good serve, although not as powerful as Rinderknech&#8217;s, which is good for me. On the other hand, it will be a different kind of challenge. I hope I&#8217;ll be ready,&#8221; Djokovic said ahead of the match, emphasizing that the challenges of Wimbledon continue to inspire him to perform at his highest level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">READ MORE: <\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-serbiantimes-info wp-block-embed-serbiantimes-info\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"b0FMC1kZI4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/srce-veliko-kao-kuca-srbija-u-finalu-svetskog-prvenstva-kusturica-lomio-obruce-lukic-i-simjanovski-utisali-tursku\/\">SRCE VELIKO KAO KU\u0106A: Srbija u finalu Svetskog prvenstva: Kusturica lomio obru\u010de, Luki\u0107 i Simjanovski uti\u0161ali Tursku!<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201eSRCE VELIKO KAO KU\u0106A: Srbija u finalu Svetskog prvenstva: Kusturica lomio obru\u010de, Luki\u0107 i Simjanovski uti\u0161ali Tursku!\u201c \u2014 Serbiantimes.info\" src=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/srce-veliko-kao-kuca-srbija-u-finalu-svetskog-prvenstva-kusturica-lomio-obruce-lukic-i-simjanovski-utisali-tursku\/embed\/#?secret=dplUUTZ1CW#?secret=b0FMC1kZI4\" data-secret=\"b0FMC1kZI4\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Safiullin, 28, currently ranked No. 132 in the ATP rankings, reached the fourth round after coming through qualifying and winning three matches, including an impressive victory over talented Brazilian Joao Fonseca. He has faced Djokovic three times previously and lost all three encounters in straight sets\u2014in Tel Aviv in 2022, Monte Carlo in 2024, and Shanghai later that same year. Today&#8217;s match gives him another opportunity to challenge one of the greatest tennis players of all time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Should Djokovic live up to his favorite status and overcome the aggressive Russian, he will face the winner of the quarterfinal clash between Canada&#8217;s Felix Auger-Aliassime and Spain&#8217;s Alejandro Davidovich Fokina. 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At 39 years old, Djokovic arrived at Wimbledon 2026 determined to add another trophy to his record haul of 24 Grand Slam titles by capturing another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":213216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13405,13407,13408,113,252,2059,5275,13406],"class_list":["post-213708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-106-titula","tag-rus","tag-safijulin","tag-srbija","tag-tenis","tag-titula","tag-vimbldon","tag-dokovic","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213755,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213708\/revisions\/213755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}