{"id":747629,"date":"2026-07-07T02:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/747629\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T02:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:26:09","slug":"wimbledon-2026-results-arthur-fery-fairytale-continues-with-victory-against-grigor-dimitrov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/747629\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2026 results: Arthur Fery ‘fairytale’ continues with victory against Grigor Dimitrov"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just seven days ago, there was doom and gloom around the performances of British players at this year’s Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

Only four of the 19 Britons in the men’s and women’s singles draws made it through the first round, while both Emma Raducanu and Jack Draper were missing with injury.<\/p>\n

Step forward, Arthur Fery.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Fery played the match of his life<\/a> to come back and beat Grigor Dimitrov in five thrilling sets to reach the quarter-finals of his home major.<\/p>\n

Centre Court could not contain itself as Fery twice fought back from a break down in the fourth set to stun former world number three Dimitrov 7-5 3-6 4-6 6-4 7-6 (10-7)<\/p>\n

Fery is the first wildcard and first player outside the top 100 since Nick Kyrgios in 2014 to reach the Wimbledon last eight in the men’s singles.<\/p>\n

Only once has a wildcard gone on to lift the Wimbledon trophy – and that was Goran Ivanisevic in his iconic 2001 title run.<\/p>\n

While there would still be three matches to go to match run – starting with Wednesday’s quarter-final against Italian ninth seed Flavio Cobolli – Fery will be celebrating either way on Sunday, as it is his 24th birthday.<\/p>\n

“What I experienced today, I’m going to cherish for the rest of my life,” Fery said.<\/p>\n

“Who knows, maybe I will never get to experience that ever again. It’s the first time I’m playing on this stage. <\/p>\n

“That might be the first and last time – but hopefully not.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just seven days ago, there was doom and gloom around the performances of British players at this year’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-747629","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\/747629","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=747629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}