British number five Arthur Fery recorded the “best result” of his career as he beat Adrian Mannarino to keep home hopes alive in the HSBC Championships at Queen’s.<\/p>\n
The world number 140 reached his first ATP Tour quarter-final with a 7-6 (9-7) 6-4 victory over the veteran Frenchman.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old wildcard needed treatment for a nosebleed at the start of the second set but kept his focus to wrap up victory on Andy Murray Arena.<\/p>\n
Fery was ranked 461 when he upset 20th seed Alexei Popyrin on the opening day of last year’s Wimbledon, but said his win over Mannarino was better.<\/p>\n
“It’s special to be playing in London where I grew up and in front of all these British tennis fans,” the British number five told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n
“This is the best result of my career so far. It’s not been easy, there have been lots of ups and downs so I’m happy to get through.”<\/p>\n
He was the last Briton left in singles after Cameron Norrie lost to fourth seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Asked about having to cope with a nosebleed, Fery said: “It happens to me quite often. I’m used to it.<\/p>\n
“I don’t really know why it happens. Maybe nerves. Sometimes tiredness, the heat. I don’t know. It happens here and there.”<\/p>\n
Fery, who beat fellow Briton Toby Samuel in the first round, will face seventh seed Francisco Cerundolo on Friday after the Argentine demolished American Jenson Brooksby in straight sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British number five Arthur Fery recorded the “best result” of his career as he beat Adrian Mannarino to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-710704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}