{"id":749628,"date":"2026-07-08T02:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/749628\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T02:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:05:18","slug":"wimbledon-2026-what-arthur-fery-must-do-to-beat-flavio-cobolli-and-reach-sw19-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/749628\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2026: What Arthur Fery must do to beat Flavio Cobolli and reach SW19 semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who predicted British wildcard Arthur Fery would be a Wimbledon quarter-finalist this year? Not even the man himself.<\/p>\n

Fery, ranked 114th in the world, illustrated that when he explicitly mouthed his surprise after beating Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov<\/a> in the last 16.<\/p>\n

Now the 23-year-old will aim to reach the semi-finals when he plays Italian ninth seed Flavio Cobolli on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Cobolli, 24, was the runner-up at last month’s French Open and, after becoming a Wimbledon quarter-finalist last year, has showed again he can excel on grass.<\/p>\n

“Arthur still starts as the underdog given the difference in ranking and top-level experience,” said BBC Sport analyst Jamie Murray.<\/p>\n

“But he has proven to be a great grass-court player and poses a lot of different questions to opponents.”<\/p>\n

Before the Centre Court contest, BBC Sport examines how Fery could beat Cobolli and become only the fifth British man to reach the Wimbledon last four since 1968.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who predicted British wildcard Arthur Fery would be a Wimbledon quarter-finalist this year? Not even the man himself.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-749628","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\/749628","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=749628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}