Fearnley showed great resilience to battle to victory over Frenchman Luka Pavlovic, which set up a meeting with Austria’s Jurij Rodionov.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old world number 100 recovered from a break of serve down to take the opening set, and held his nerve in the decider to clinch a 6-4 6-7 (4-7) 6-4 win.<\/p>\n
Samuel, bidding to qualify for the US Open for the first time, produced a 4-6 6-4 6-1 victory against fellow Briton Billy Harris.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old, who made his slam debut at this year’s French Open, will face Chile’s former top-20 player Cristian Garin next.<\/p>\n
Wendelken, who has never contested the main draw at an overseas major, saved a match point to come through a three-hour tussle with Switzerland’s Remy Bertola.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old, ranked 196th, appeared on the brink of elimination at a set and 5-2 down but eventually clinched a 5-7 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 win. He will face Lithuania’s Vilius Gaubas.<\/p>\n
However, Katie Swan and Jack Pinnington Jones both missed out.<\/p>\n
Swan fell to American Mary Stoiana 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 6-3, while Pinnington Jones lost 2-6 7-6 (8-6) 6-3 to Finland’s Otto Virtanen.<\/p>\n
Former semi-finalist Grigor Dimitrov will face Virtanen after the 35-year-old maintained his bid for a 15th US Open men’s singles appearance with a 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 win over Kazakhstan’s Timofey Skatov.<\/p>\n
China’s Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen, contesting a Grand Slam qualifying event for the first time since 2022, beat France’s Clara Burel won 6-1 7-5 to set up a match against Russian Elena Pridankina.<\/p>\n
There was also victory for 2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu, who will aim to secure a first US Open main draw appearance in two years against Slovenian Tamara Zidansek after defeating Ukraine’s Veronika Podre 6-0 6-3.<\/p>\n
Fery, meanwhile, continued his US Open preparations by reaching the quarter-finals at the Winston-Salem Open.<\/p>\n
The fourth seed beat Dutch qualifier Mees Rottgering 6-3 6-3 to reach the last eight.<\/p>\n
Fery is competing in only his second event since his stunning run to the Wimbledon semi-finals in July.<\/p>\n
He will face American Aleksandar Kovacevic for a place in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fearnley showed great resilience to battle to victory over Frenchman Luka Pavlovic, which set up a meeting with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-751156","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\/751156","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=751156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}