1989 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles 1989 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Boris Becker defeated the defending champion Stefan Edberg in the final, 6–0, 7–6, 6–4 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1989 Wimbledon Championships. The semi-final match between Ivan Lendl and eventual champion Becker became at the time the longest ever Wimbledon semi-final at four hours and one minute long. It would not be until the 2013 championships that this record would be broken, when the semi-final match between Novak Djokovic and Juan Martín del Potro would last four hours and forty-three minutes. John McEnroe reached the semi-finals, his best showing in
2014 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles defeat the World No. 1 at a Grand Slam by defeating Rafael Nadal in the fourth round since 1992, when Andrei Olhovskiy defeated then World No. 1 Jim Courier in the third round of the 1992 Wimbledon Championships. The final was the first Grand Slam men's singles final since the 2009 US Open to feature neither Murray nor Nadal. Although Nadal was World No. 1 entering the tournament the Spaniard was seeded second behind Novak Djokovic due to his recent poor performances on grass (as well as his early exits at Wimbledon the previous two years). After claiming the title