{"id":680052,"date":"2026-07-08T08:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/680052\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:49:13","slug":"keep-believing-arthur-fery-sticks-to-tried-and-trusted-for-wimbledon-quarter-final-wimbledon-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/680052\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Keep believing\u2019: Arthur Fery sticks to tried and trusted for Wimbledon quarter-final | Wimbledon 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arthur Fery said he won\u2019t change a thing before the biggest match of his career on Wednesday, sticking strictly to the winning formula that has fuelled his fairytale Wimbledon<\/a> run to the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just going to stick to what I\u2019ve been doing, just keep believing in myself, not letting go of matches, and we\u2019ll see where that takes me,\u201d Fery said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to change anything now. It\u2019s working, I feel good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two days after the greatest win of his career, a brilliant fighting performance to defeat the former world No\u00a03 Grigor Dimitrov on Centre Court in a fifth-set tie-break<\/a>, Fery will return to centre stage to face the ninth seed Flavio Cobolli, one of the most in-form players on the tour. Fery has ample reason to believe he can defeat Cobolli, precisely because he has already done so this year.<\/p>\n

After coming through the qualifying draw at the Australian Open in January, Fery beat Cobolli, then ranked No 22, in straight sets to clinch what remains the joint-best win of his career by ranking. That victory, he said, will provide him with confidence for their rematch.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefinitely,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a good match regardless. I\u2019m expecting it to be very, very difficult and different to Australia. Completely different conditions. I\u2019m sure he\u2019s going to be at 100% of his capacities here, which maybe he wasn\u2019t quite 100% in Australia. I played really well in Australia. Felt like I dominated the match. So we\u2019ll use that experience for Wednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arthur Fery reaches for a shot against Grigor Dimitrov. Photograph: Tom Jenkins\/The Guardian<\/p>\n

From Cobolli\u2019s perspective, that meeting has no relevance at all to this occasion considering he was sick in Australia and far from at full strength. Either way, the Italian\u2019s level is drastically different compared to the start of the year. Since that defeat, Cobolli has compiled a 10-1 win-loss record in grand slam tournaments, rolling to his first grand slam final at the French Open last month, where he lost in five tight sets<\/a> against Alexander Zverev. As evidenced by his straight-sets win<\/a> here against the fifth seed, Alex de Minaur, the 24-year-old is playing the best tennis of his career to date.<\/p>\n

This sport has demanded a significant amount of patience from Fery in order for him to succeed. His journey took him through the college tennis system in Stanford and his progress has been affected by a bone bruise injury to his arm, the same injury that has plagued Jack Draper, who withdrew from Wimbledon on the eve of the tournament, for a year. Even after his win against Cobolli in Australia, things were not quite right with Fery\u2019s arm and he did not play for nearly two months until March.<\/p>\n

The injury has taken up so much of Fery\u2019s time since he began his partnership with the Dutch coach Jeroen Benard last April. \u201cIt\u2019s only been a year together, but it has been a long journey, regarding the injuries,\u201d Benard said. \u201cThe injury was not just then, it was an injury that reoccurred on a monthly basis. Every time we started, he got hurt. We tried everything to get him healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the disruption, Benard always believed Fery was capable of a result like this. \u201cIn potential, definitely. Yes. I have told my parents this, what was it, five days ago? I said I knew that the potential was there. That it comes out, that quick \u2013 that\u2019s tough to answer. For me as well. You hope, always \u2013 you don\u2019t expect \u2013 but you see that there are definitely a lot of skills and tools that this could happen. That it happens here is great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fery has shown during his time at Wimbledon that through his defensive skills, sweet timing, intelligence and excellence at the net, he has plenty in his game to challenge top players such as Cobolli. \u201cHe\u2019s just a smart player,\u201d Jamie Murray said. \u201cHe reads the game very well, better than most. He\u2019s quick to see when someone\u2019s off balance or maybe going to have to take a hand off the racket. You can see he\u2019s straight into the net and he\u2019s very accomplished at little drop volleys or really whatever volley he wants to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fery\u2019s mental toughness, however, has been his defining quality throughout this run as he found a path to victory through consecutive fifth-set tie-breaks against Zizou Bergs<\/a> and Dimitrov after trailing in both matches. \u201cOh, he loves the pressure,\u201d Benard said. \u201cThat\u2019s something for sure. That\u2019s something that I see with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Australia, I was more nervous to go on that big court than he was. In some sense, he really likes the magnitude of a match, a big stadium. It\u2019s something that probably, I don\u2019t know, he\u2019s born with. I would, I cannot swear, but I would \u2026 my pants. All credit to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greg Rusedski also views Fery\u2019s toughness as one of his biggest weapons. The former British No 1 said: \u201cI like his swagger, his fortitude, the way he never gives up. [Against] Bergs he was done and dusted, double break, found a way to turn it around; again in the fifth, down a break and finds a way to win. Dimitrov, two to one down, down a break in the fourth; amazing resilience, amazing belief, just don\u2019t think about it. Why shouldn\u2019t he be in the semis? What a run. What a moment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arthur Fery said he won\u2019t change a thing before the biggest match of his career on Wednesday, sticking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-680052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}