{"id":38844,"date":"2026-07-12T17:30:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/38844\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T17:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:30:54","slug":"arthur-fery-tells-kate-that-george-and-charlotte-can-play-tennis-with-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/38844\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Fery tells Kate that George and Charlotte can play tennis with him"},"content":{"rendered":"

British wildcard Arthur Fery invited Prince George and Princess Charlotte to play tennis with him when he spoke to the royals as they attended Wimbledon for the men’s singles final.<\/p>\n

The Prince and Princess of Wales congratulated the tennis player \u2013 who turns 24 today \u2013 on his run to the semi-finals and wished him a happy birthday.<\/p>\n

William, Kate, George and Charlotte arrived at the All England Club shortly after 3pm on Sunday and greeted a line-up of guests.<\/p>\n

\"Kate<\/p>\n

Kate and her children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte arriving on day 14 of the 2026 Wimbledon Championships (Andrew Matthews\/PA)<\/p>\n

Kate, who wore an olive green midi-dress, greeted Fery by handing him a birthday card and saying: “This is for you, happy birthday.”<\/p>\n

The princess then introduced the tennis player to George and Charlotte, who both shook his hand.<\/p>\n

In their conversation, Fery told the princess that he had not played on Centre Court before the tournament, describing the experience as “really special”.<\/p>\n

He could be overheard telling Kate “I hear your children play tennis”, before inviting them to “hit some balls”.<\/p>\n

\"Prince<\/p>\n

Prince George is understood to be a tennis fan (Mike Egerton\/PA)<\/p>\n

Speaking after the interaction, Fery said: “I mean the princess came to my match in the second round, it was great to have her there and we spoke a little about that.<\/p>\n

“It was good to see her here and good to meet her finally. She wished me good luck for the rest of the year and congratulated me for these two weeks.<\/p>\n

“I know the whole family are all tennis fans, so I told her if her kids ever wanted to hit, I’m free. It would be good to see them again.”<\/p>\n

Asked whether he thinks she will take him up on the offer, Fery said: “Let’s see, I don’t know. Let’s see if I get the call up.”<\/p>\n

During their conversation Fery told Kate that he is “ready to relax” for a bit.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Kate gave Arthur Fery a birthday card (Andrew Matthews\/PA)<\/p>\n

“Next week’s going to be nice, I’m going on holiday, I’ll be able to relax a little bit and process everything,” he told her.<\/p>\n

William congratulated Fery as he greeted him and wished him a happy birthday.<\/p>\n

He then said: “What a tournament.”<\/p>\n

Also in the line-up were Ethan Langley and Martha Pearce, who work as court services attendants.<\/p>\n

Ethan said that during his conversation with William, the prince said he was “thankful” the tournament had had such good weather.<\/p>\n

\"Kate<\/p>\n

Kate waving as she takes her seat (Mike Egerton\/PA)<\/p>\n

“(William) was just really thankful for having such a good champs and really, really good weather, and he expects it to keep going on like this for the next couple of years,” he said.<\/p>\n

“He said it was pretty uncommon, and we haven’t had it like this before and that I think he just expects more of the same things for years to come to us.”<\/p>\n

Martha said William had said it was “great” that it had been so warm, before asking her whether she thought it will be more or less rainy next year.<\/p>\n

The royals received a standing ovation as they entered the Royal Box on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Kate waved to the crowd before taking her seat on the front row.<\/p>\n

Kate, who is patron of the All England Club, will present the trophy to the winner at the end of the match.<\/p>\n

\"Nicole<\/p>\n

Nicole Kidman and Dame Anna Wintour with Sienna Miller in the royal box at Wimbledon (Mike Egerton\/PA)<\/p>\n

Lord Frederick Windsor, his wife Sophie Winkleman, and Lady Gabriella Kingston, are among the other members of the royal family taking a seat at Centre Court this afternoon.<\/p>\n

They join Australian actress Nicole Kidman, American actor Rami Malek, British singer Raye, and former world number one Stan Smith.<\/p>\n

Last year, Kate presented the trophy to Sinner, who became the first Italian to win a Wimbledon singles title, after giving the runner’s up prize to Carlos Alcaraz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British wildcard Arthur Fery invited Prince George and Princess Charlotte to play tennis with him when he spoke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1340,6646,9216,372,369,28,11527,3619,2342,285],"class_list":["post-38844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-all-england-club","tag-arthur-fery","tag-kate","tag-prince-george","tag-princess-charlotte","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-fan","tag-tennis-fans","tag-tennis-player","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}