Britain’s Arthur Fery has reached the fourth round of Wimbledon for the first time after beating Belgium’s Zizou Bergs.<\/p>\n
Fery, a wild-card entry who is ranked 114th in the world, won their marathon round three clash 2-6, 7-5, 2-6, 7-6, 7-6, after more than four and a half hours.<\/p>\n
The British number three defied persistent nosebleeds to triumph in the five-set rollercoaster on court 18, which will take him into the top 100 for the first time.<\/p>\n
Carrying British hopes as the only singles player to make the last 32, the 23-year-old needed treatment three times for his nose, while he was 4-1 down in both the fourth and fifth sets.<\/p>\n
But Fery fought back both times before claiming victory against the world number 37.<\/p>\n
He is only the second British wild card to reach the last 16 at a grand slam after Andrew Foster at Wimbledon in 1993.<\/p>\n
Speaking in an on-court interview, Fery said: “It’s unreal. Four hours 40 with that support, it’s unbelievable. I requested to play on this court because it’s awesome. I had a great time on it in the second round and this trumps it but I got so much support, it’s awesome.”<\/p>\n
Fery was born in France and has French parents, but grew up only 10 minutes from the All England Club. He will play Grigor Dimitrov in the fourth round of the men’s singles after the Bulgarian defeated Italy’s Matteo Berrettini.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Serena Williams’ comeback at Wimbledon this year is over, after she withdrew from the women’s doubles where she was due to compete alongside her older sister, Venus.<\/p>\n
The former champion, 44, said she was “heartbroken” to quit the doubles event due to a knee injury which she suffered during her first-round loss to Maya Joint in the singles event earlier this week.<\/p>\n
The Australian, 20, won the match<\/a> in three sets 6-3, 6-7, 6-3 against Serena who was competing \u200cin her first professional singles match in nearly four years.<\/p>\n US tennis star Serena<\/a> had received a wild-card entry to play alongside \u200cVenus, but tweaked her knee in Tuesday’s match at Wimbledon<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 23-time grand slam champion said on Instagram: “I’m heartbroken \u200bto have to withdraw from doubles.<\/p>\n “Coming back to compete \u200bagain has been a gift, and the \u2060opportunity to play alongside Venus \u2060once more meant the world to me. I did everything I could but \u200cunfortunately my knee just isn’t ready to compete.”<\/p>\n Williams also shared footage of her limping in a heavy bandage, as well as syringes full of fluid, as she confirmed her withdrawal from the competition.<\/p>\n But she left the door open to possibly competing again elsewhere when she added: “All I can say is stay tuned to a city near you.”<\/p>\n The sisters, who won the women’s doubles at Wimbledon six times, including most recently in 2016, had been scheduled to \u200btake on Argentina’s Solana Sierra and Colombia’s \u200bCamila Osorio at the All England Club.<\/p>\n Tournament \u200bdirector Jamie Baker said the first-round doubles match \u2060was pushed back to give Serena “as much time” as possible to recover.<\/p>\n All other first-round matches in \u2060the draw were played on Thursday and \u200bFriday.<\/p>\n Venus, 46, and Serena last played \u200bdoubles at the 2022 US Open, losing in the first round to Linda Noskova \u200cand Lucie Hradecka \u200bof the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n Serena has won the women’s singles at Wimbledon seven times.<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: Meanwhile, defending singles champion and Polish third seed Iga Swiatek, 25, lost in the third round to Alex Eala from the Philippines.<\/p>\n The rising star, seeded 29, won the match 7-6, 6-2 to make it through to the second week of Wimbledon.<\/p>\n Eala, who is aged 21, said: “Maybe for someone like Iga, who \u2060has won so many Grand Slams, or maybe someone like \u2060Serena or Venus Williams, this achievement may seem small.<\/p>\n “But for someone who grew up in the Philippines… I went to training with my brother and my grandfather every day \u200cafter school with my ruffled socks and my light-up shoes and chubby cheeks, so… to her, this is everything.<\/p>\n “But because I’m emotional does not mean I’m satisfied, so yeah, okay, next round. Let’s go.”<\/p>\n Eala has set up a fourth-round clash with 2024 \u200brunner-up Jasmine Paolini from Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain’s Arthur Fery has reached the fourth round of Wimbledon for the first time after beating Belgium’s Zizou…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[34490,31972,13,26503,34491,12239,34492],"class_list":["post-76686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-britain","tag-all-england-club","tag-arthur-fery","tag-britain","tag-serena-williams","tag-venus-williams","tag-wimbledon","tag-women39s-doubles"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116864137894208456","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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