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\u201cI felt the game of Arthur was really good for him, the way that I played, and I think the perfect game for him,\u201d said Cobolli, who struggled to contain his inside-out forehand at times. \u201cI think that I didn\u2019t play good since the first point of the match. Maybe I was a little bit nervous. Maybe I felt the pressure that normally I don\u2019t feel.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlay a quarterfinal against a guy that already played marathon match, many hours on court, ranking lower than me, so I felt like it was a chance to have a good day for me today.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe, like my team says, I wasn\u2019t so humble since the first point, but I felt that it wasn\u2019t my day. Can happens. But still quarterfinal in Grand Slam, so I\u2019m still happy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nicknamed \u201cKing Arthur\u201d with affection by his fellow locals, Fery out-dueled Dimitrov in a Centre Court classic on Monday before tennis royalty Roger Federer. That inspired victory came after Fery fought off Zizou Bergs, 2-6, 7-5, 2-6, 7-6(3), 7-6(5)\u00a0<\/p>\n
And today, Ferry conquered Cobolli in front of British royalty as Queen Camila sat in the Royal Box on the most sweltering day of the fortnight.<\/p>\n
Hometown hero Fery bellowed in triumphant excitement after Cobolli gift-wrapped the break and a one-set lead.<\/p>\n
A twitchy Cobolli netted a backhand slice approach down the line then double faulted to face set point. Cobolli whacked a wild inside-out forehand as Ferry snatched a one-set lead<\/p>\n
Fery attacked at the right times, winning eight of 10 net points, and sensed when the tight Italian was ready to crack. Cobolli committed 16 unforced errors\u2014nine more than Fery\u2014in the first set.<\/p>\n
Shaking off the shaky end to set one, Cobolli broke at love to start the second set. The Italian Davis Cup hero won eight of the first nine points for a 2-0 second-set lead.<\/p>\n
A low first-serve percentage and penchant for sloppy shot selection caught up to Cobolli who dropped serve in the fourth game.<\/p>\n
Tension escalated as Cobolli rallied from Love-30 down to force the second-set tiebreaker.<\/p>\n
An impressive aspect of Fery\u2019s unlikely journey through the field is how he\u2019s kept his calm and played pivotal moments with aggressive precision in just his fifth Grand Slam appearance.<\/p>\n
Though he\u2019s not an ace accumulator, Fery started the tiebreaker off with an ace today just as he opened the fifth-set breaker vs. Dimitrov with an ace.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Working his way to net, Fery spiked a smash down the middle for a 4-1 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A key to this quarterfinal was the homegrown player\u2019s feel and familiarity with the turf coming out of corners. Though Fery tried to play key points on the front foot, when he had to defend he did it with balance and burst. Sliding into a sweet backhand drop volley, Fery sealed a two-set lead on his second set point sending faithful into a frenzy.<\/p>\n
The ninth-seeded Italian managed just 11 games in a straight-sets loss to Fery in the Australian Open first round last January.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A mentally-fried Cobolli could not stay in step in the third set today, while a free-swinging Fery was flying high with some of his most dynamic shot-making of the match.<\/p>\n
Fery ran down a dropper with a crazy-cool flicked re-drop winner for match point then banged his eighth ace to end it.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no place like home, especially when you\u2019re a homegrown dreamer with a penchant for Fery-Tale finishes.<\/p>\n
Richard Pagliaro. Richard Pagliaro is Tennis Now Managing Editor. He is a graduate of New York University and has covered pro tennis for more than 35 years. Richard was tennis columnist for Gannett Newspapers in NY, served as Managing Editor for TennisWeek.com and worked as a writer\/editor for Tennis.com. He has been TennisNow.com managing editor since 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home hero Arthur Fery is the second wild card in Open Era history to reach the Wimbledon men’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-788023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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