At the end of it all, Fery stood on Centre Court with his hands on his hips, shaking his head in sheer disbelief as the crowd rose to their feet. <\/p>\n
Swiss great Roger Federer, watching from the Royal Box, was among the thousands inside Wimbledon’s centre stage living each point of a captivating conclusion.<\/p>\n
Such theatre had appeared unlikely when Dimitrov, having turned the match in his favour following a superb opening set by Fery, twice took the lead in the fourth set.<\/p>\n
But Fery – as he has done all week – refused to be put away and leapt into the air in celebration after forcing a decider.<\/p>\n
“It’s been the story of the tournament for me, I was really close to losing in the last round and again today,” said Fery.<\/p>\n
“A break down in the fourth, just trying to keep fighting, have a good attitude and it paid off. <\/p>\n
“I played really well with my back against the wall and it paid off today.”<\/p>\n
Former world number three Dimitrov was aiming to reach the quarter-finals after his previous bid ended in tears on this exact stage 12 months ago, when he retired injured while leading eventual champion Jannik Sinner by two sets.<\/p>\n
But Fery never flinched, even as the tension and expectation ramped, becoming just the sixth British player in the Open era to reach the Wimbledon men’s singles quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
Having never previously gone beyond the second round at a major, Fery will now face Italian ninth seed Flavio Cobolli for a place in the semi-finals on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the end of it all, Fery stood on Centre Court with his hands on his hips, shaking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-747359","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\/747359","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=747359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}