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Félix Auger-Aliassime vs Michael Zheng — 7-6(1) 6-2 6-1
 Félix Auger-Aliassime✓ | 7 | 6 | 6 |
 Michael Zheng | 61 | 2 | 1 |
Final · Friday, July 3, 2026 · Round of 32
Result
Auger-Aliassime broke open a tight first set and then ran away from Zheng, winning 7-6(1) 6-2 6-1 on Centre Court. He hit 38 winners, won 91% of first-serve points, and did not allow Zheng to convert either of his two break chances.
Félix Auger-AliassimeStats: Official wimbledon.com match statistics (IBM) · as of 2026-07-09
Rows the source hadn’t published are left off rather than guessed.
At this Stage
Auger-Aliassime’s first Centre Court match of the fortnight became a gear change in public. Zheng made him play the opening set all the way to a tiebreak; Auger-Aliassime won that breaker 7-1 and then dropped only three more games. He advances to face Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, which means this section gets the clean No. 3 seed against the No. 22 seed rather than one more qualifier plot twist. Zheng’s run through Norrie and Mejía was a real week. Auger-Aliassime made sure it was not a second-week week.
Félix Auger-Aliassime✓Michael ZhengRound of 64
Round of 32
What we know now
What I said beforehand
The preview, frozen before the first serve. Clearly dated, never rewritten — that's the deal that makes the pick worth anything.
Auger-Aliassime, in the match most likely to be closer than the seedings suggest. The No. 3 seed has been immaculate — six sets, six wins, a serve that hasn't been broken often enough to matter. Zheng is the tournament's quietest good story: an American qualifier who beat the No. 26 seed Norrie in a fifth-set tiebreak and then won another four-setter from a set down. He clearly doesn't mind long matches or big stages. But nine sets of five-set tennis is a hard way to prepare for the best server you've faced all fortnight, on Centre Court. Félix in four at the outside.
The case for Félix Auger-Aliassime
86% to winThe No. 3 seed has not dropped a set and has barely been stressed — straight-sets wins over Shevchenko and Prižmić behind a first serve that ends arguments early. His grass pedigree is real, and a qualifier playing his third five-setter's worth of tennis in a week is exactly the opponent a clean server puts away.
The case for Michael Zheng
14% to winZheng has already survived two four-plus-set fights, including the upset of No. 26 seed Cameron Norrie in a deciding tiebreak. Qualifiers who reach round three are house money with nothing to defend; if he can hold his own serve into breakers, he has shown twice that he wins the biggest points.
Both cases written 2026-07-02, before the first ball — frozen into the record exactly as written, whatever the result. The percentages are mine, quoted to a decimal because false precision is funnier — and tennis has no draw to hide the rounding in.
My locked pick: Félix Auger-Aliassime to advance ✓ RIGHT
“The No. 3 seed hasn't dropped a set; the qualifier has played two five-set-length fights to get here.”
Locked 2026-07-02 16:05 UTC — rendered verbatim from the pick ledger; never a fresher, hedged version
Tale of the tape
Félix Auger-AliassimeMichael ZhengPlayer vitals: ATP Tour player profiles and Wikipedia (career records) · as of 2026-07-09.
Storylines
- Auger-Aliassime is the highest seed left in this quarter and hasn't dropped a set through two rounds.
- Zheng, an American qualifier, beat No. 26 seed Cameron Norrie in a fifth-set tiebreak — then came from a set down again to reach a first Grand Slam third round.
- A first career meeting, and Zheng's first match on Centre Court.
Head to head
A first career meeting.
Source: TennisTemple head-to-head · as of 2026-07-02.
Court & schedule: Centre Court (TennisTemple match stats and ESPN scoreboard, as of 2026-07-03)
Venue: All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London — grass.