Novak Djokovic moved into the third round at Wimbledon 2026 with a 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 win over Stefanos Tsitsipas, and the Wimbledon prize money race now shifts one round deeper for the seven-time champion. He handled the match without dropping serve and converted four of five break points.
The scoreline was clean, but the work behind it was even cleaner. Djokovic won his 104th match at Wimbledon and now has only 11 losses there, a record that leaves little room for hesitation when the draws start thinning out.
Novak Djokovic at Centre Court
Djokovic kept pressure on Tsitsipas from the opening set and never let it loosen. Four break points turned into breaks, and Tsitsipas never broke back, which meant each set stayed on Djokovic’s terms once he found an edge.
That straight-sets result sent him through while Jannik Sinner, Aryna Sabalenka and Jessica Pegula also advanced in straight sets on Day 3 at the All England Club. The tournament moved on quickly around him, but his own route stayed simple: win, protect serve, and stay in the bracket.
Mirra Andreeva and Barbora Krejčíková
Day 3 had its complication in the women’s draw. Mirra Andreeva, the French Open champion, lost to Barbora Krejčíková in straight sets, and the result stood out as the biggest upset of the day.
Felix Auger-Aliassime also reached the third round, beating Dino Prižmić 7-6, 6-3, 7-5. For him, that advance came with a useful marker attached: his best Wimbledon finish before this was the quarterfinals in 2021.
Rafael Jodar and Pablo Carreño Busta
Not every match on Day 3 reached a finish. Rafael Jodar and Pablo Carreño Busta had their match suspended with Carreño Busta leading two sets to one and 2-1 in the fourth set, while Brandon Nakashima and Jan-Lennard Struff were stopped for the night before the fifth set after three straight sets went to tiebreaks.
That leaves the next round of movement to Day 4, where Alexander Zverev, Elena Rybakina, Alex de Minaur, Taylor Fritz, Iga Świątek and Amanda Anisimova are scheduled to play. For players still alive in the draw, the immediate task is simple: keep winning enough to stay in the Wimbledon prize money flow and avoid the kind of interruption that turns one round into two days.
