Arthur Fery has invited the Prince and Princess of Wales’ children to play tennis with him.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old sportsman became the first British wildcard to reach the semi-final in Wimbledon’s history, and ahead of the men’s singles final on Sunday (12.07.26), he spoke to Prince William, his wife Catherine, and their older kids Prince George, 12, and 11-year-old Princess Charlotte.<\/p>\n
He told Catherine: “I hear your children play tennis a lot\u2026if you guys want to hit some balls anytime, that would be great.”<\/p>\n
Handing Arthur a card to mark his birthday on Sunday, she said: “Thank you, do you get some downtime now?”<\/p>\n
The princess told the young sportsman he had done a “fantastic” job to reach the semi-finals before his loss toAlexander Zverev, the world number two, and he had gone on a “very impressive” run in the tournament.<\/p>\n
He told the family: “Thanks a lot, I’m so pleased, it was a great two weeks.<\/p>\n
“I’m so glad that I got to spend so much time here and thank you for coming.”<\/p>\n
Catherine told Arthur she had “loved” seeing him in action on Court 18 last week against Otto Virtane, and he admitted his first time on Centre Court had been “really special”.<\/p>\n
He added: “I was a little nervous, definitely, but once I was out there I was fine.”<\/p>\n
William also congratulated Arthur and wished him a happy birthday.<\/p>\n
He told him: “What a tournament\u2026you’re the first British wildcard to reach the semifinals.”<\/p>\n
He noted it would be “only up from here” for the player.<\/p>\n
After his meeting with the family – who were without the youngest member, eight-year-old Prince Louis – Arthur confirmed he had offered to get on the court with the children.<\/p>\n
He said: “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\u2026Let’s see if I get the call up.”<\/p>\n
William and Catherine were accompanied to the men’s final by their older children last year, where George discussed his abilities on court when they were introduced to Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool, who had become the first all-British duo to win the Wimbledon doubles tournament the day before.<\/p>\n
Catherine congratulated the pair on their victory and noted the heat they had played through.<\/p>\n
Julian told her the match was good but “stressful”, and then in a discussion about George playing tennis, the 29-year-old sportsman asked the young prince about his ability on court.<\/p>\n
According to the Daily Telegraph, George appeared to shrug and replied: “I’m all right.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arthur Fery has invited the Prince and Princess of Wales’ children to play tennis with him. The 24-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6646,1347,372,370,369,13470,28,13469],"class_list":["post-39583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-arthur-fery","tag-centre-court","tag-prince-george","tag-prince-william","tag-princess-charlotte","tag-sportsman","tag-tennis","tag-william-and-catherine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39583","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=39583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}