{"id":714370,"date":"2026-06-19T22:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/714370\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T22:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:20:13","slug":"cerundolo-survives-throat-jolt-for-queens-club-semifinals-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/714370\/","title":{"rendered":"Cerundolo Survives Throat Jolt for Queen\u2019s Club Semifinals \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Pagliaro | Friday, June 19, 2026<br \/>Photo credit: TennisTV<\/p>\n<p>Francisco Cerundolo survived a scary jolt to the throat to advance to the Queen\u2019s Club semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Watch British wild card Arthur Fery blast a backhand pass right off Cerundolo\u2019s throat knocking the Argentinean to the historic Queen\u2019s Club grass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisexpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/610X150-Slide_PRO-PLAYER_5-21-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65402\"  data-\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Climbing up off the turf, Cerundolo arose to post a 7-6(1), 3-6, 6-4 victory over Fery to reach the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, what can I say? I don\u2019t know,\u201d Fery said. \u201cI didn\u2019t try to hit him in the throat, obviously. He<br \/>just didn\u2019t really want to pick a side, so I tried to go through them, and yeah, obviously hit him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunate, but I can\u2019t do much. Yeah, came to apologize and he was fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is Cerundolo\u2019s first semifinal above the ATP 250-level since he made the final four on the clay of the Mutua Madrid Open in May of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Cerundolo will take on American Brandon Nakashima, who toppled top-seeded Alex de Minaur 7-5, 6-3 for a spot in Sunday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Pagliaro | Friday, June 19, 2026Photo credit: TennisTV Francisco Cerundolo survived a scary jolt to the throat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-714370","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\/714370","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=714370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}