{"id":420023,"date":"2025-09-13T02:49:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/420023\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T02:49:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:49:27","slug":"arthur-fery-makes-winning-davis-cup-debut-as-great-britain-take-charge-in-poland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/420023\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Fery makes winning Davis Cup debut as Great Britain take charge in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 23-year-old was a late addition to the line-up after Jacob Fearnley pulled out just hours before the tie with a rib injury.<\/p>\n<p>But Fery, ranked 227, showed no signs of nerves as he beat Olaf Pieczkowski 6-4 6-2 in Gdynia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd76 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArthurFery02?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ArthurFery02<\/a> \ud83e\udd76<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DavisCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DavisCup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qZahzdRLYm\">pic.twitter.com\/qZahzdRLYm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LTA (@the_LTA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/the_LTA\/status\/1966581417367765428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cameron Norrie had earlier beaten Tomasz Berkieta in straight sets, meaning Leon Smith\u2019s side \u2013 missing Jack Draper through injury \u2013 moved 2-0 up in the best-of-five tie.<\/p>\n<p>Fery was thrown in at short notice, but it helped that he was coming up against the world number 484.<\/p>\n<p>However, Fery said: \u201cNothing\u2019s easy. Playing away in the Davis Cup, it\u2019s tricky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, rankings don\u2019t really mean anything. And it was a big fight today. I think the match was tougher than the score shows. So, I\u2019m really happy with my first match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Norrie delivered the first point by winning the opening rubber in straight sets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOgrjWvE8zp\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\"background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>It was a mismatch in terms of ranking as Norrie, ranked 34, took on world number 545 Berkieta.<\/p>\n<p>There was no such gulf in the scoreline though and Norrie only got over the line in the first set by edging a dramatic tiebreak, having saved set points.<\/p>\n<p>He was in much more control in the second set and got the job done 7-6 (9) 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s nice to be back playing for my country,\u201d Norrie said during his on-court interview. \u201cIt\u2019s my first time here. Tomasz is a young up-and-coming player, he\u2019s very talented, got a big serve and hits the ball very well off both sides.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew it wasn\u2019t going to be easy, not much rhythm \u2013 he played really well today and challenged me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd Glasspool and Julian Cash, the number one doubles pairing, are in action on Saturday, followed by the reverse singles rubbers.<\/p>\n<p>If Great Britain can get over the line they will go into February\u2019s first round, with a chance to win the 2026 tournament.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 23-year-old was a late addition to the line-up after Jacob Fearnley pulled out just hours before the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-420023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115194715465727308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}