{"id":785091,"date":"2026-07-07T01:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T01:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785091\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T01:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T01:53:12","slug":"count-taylor-fritz-among-those-who-knew-of-arthur-ferys-potential-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785091\/","title":{"rendered":"Count Taylor Fritz Among those Who Knew of Arthur Fery\u2019s Potential \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Fery has burst onto the scene at Wimbledon, keeping British hopes alive with a remarkable run to the quarterfinals as a wild card.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked No.114, the 23-year-old\u2014who grew up just five minutes from the All England Club before taking his talents to Stanford University\u2014was relatively unknown to the wider tennis world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\"  data-\/>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Fritz, who reached his third consecutive Wimbledon quarterfinal on Monday, was one of the few who already knew about Fery\u2019s potential.<\/p>\n<p>During a training block in London in late 2024, the American spent much of the week practicing with the Brit and quickly came away impressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know a good bit about Arthur,\u201d Fritz said. \u201cI went to London before the 2024 World Tour Finals, and I did a training week there prior to Turin. I practiced with him most of the week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fritz says he took more than a few lumps during those practice sessions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was playing well,\u201d he said. \u201cI made finals of Turin the next week. I felt pretty good about my game. He was beating me, like, every day. I was like, \u2018Yeah, this guy\u2019s really good. This guy can play.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What stood out most?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had a good forehand for his size. Unbelievable serve. Like I said, we were playing sets, baseline games. He was cooking me pretty consistently for the week,\u201d Fritz said. \u201cI knew that I was playing good tennis, so it\u2019s not surprising to me that he\u2019s having results and also taking advantage of a draw that\u2019s opened up a bit. It doesn\u2019t surprise me at all that he\u2019s winning. I\u2019ve known since then that he can play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fery kept his fairy-tale run alive with a 7-5, 3-6, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(7) victory over Grigor Dimitrov to set up a quarterfinal clash with Flavio Cobolli.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he just went and grabbed the match when the important moments came through,\u201d Dimitrov said. \u201cHe went for it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arthur Fery has burst onto the scene at Wimbledon, keeping British hopes alive with a remarkable run to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-785091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}