{"id":541624,"date":"2026-07-09T21:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/541624\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T21:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:02:10","slug":"wimbledon-2026-arthur-ferys-journey-to-alexander-zverev-semi-final-on-centre-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/541624\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2026: Arthur Fery’s journey to Alexander Zverev semi-final on Centre Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

By the age of 10, Fery’s technical ability had already marked him as one of the most talented youngsters in the country.<\/p>\n

He caught the eye of Craig Veal, a coach at the Sutton Tennis Academy, and began working with him alongside French former ATP player Benoit Foucher.<\/p>\n

The pair decided he would improve more playing against adults in the UK rather than travelling internationally to compete against his peers.<\/p>\n

“[We decided to] let him develop his game and his passion for it, rather than putting a load of pressure on him to get an international ranking,” Veal told The i Paper., external<\/a><\/p>\n

“When he was 16, he then got his junior ranking up very, very fast compared to a lot of his peers, because he was ready to play.”<\/p>\n

Once Fery did start playing internationally, he won World Tennis Junior singles and doubles titles, and reached 12 in the world rankings.<\/p>\n

At the Slams, he never went past the third round in the boys’ singles, but reached the semi-finals in the Australian Open and Wimbledon doubles.<\/p>\n

A smooth transition to the professional ranks was not guaranteed – so he had an alternative plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By the age of 10, Fery’s technical ability had already marked him as one of the most talented…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-541624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}