WIMBLEDON — If you lined up every man in the Wimbledon draw this year along the side of Centre Court in height order, Arthur Fery would be right in the corner by the scoreboard.
But of those 128, only 20 remain and 5ft 9in Fery is the only Brit.
In the men’s game, anything under 6ft is unfortunate, to be as much as three inches short of that mark starts to look like carelessness. There is some irony too that the fourth-shortest man in the Wimbledon draw has become prone to mid-match nosebleeds. But more of that in a minute.
The nosebleeds are new to Fery, but the height issue is not: his own perspective is that tennis is “a sport where all heights, can thrive in a certain way”.
Fery has never played on Centre but will get his first chance on Monday (Photo: Getty)Alex Ward, an LTA national coach who oversees Fery’s team, says: “He has to be an exceptional mover, which he is, and he has to be, in some ways, a better tennis player because he’s got a very good first serve, but he’s not going to get as many cheap points off first serves, or just hitting people off the court.”
Growing up, he used to play endless volley and touch games at the start and end of practice, knowing that he had to find other ways to be effective.
A gifted academic who studied and played tennis – with equal focus on both – at the prestigious Stanford, Fery has the same approach to his tennis, and with Ward they have looked at the game styles of other similar-sized players in search of the keys to playing effective tennis the vertically challenged way.
“He likes to do stuff his own way, which is a positive, and he’s definitely different to these players, but we’ve talked about Dan Evans, the way that Dan sets up points and comes in, Arthur can do that as well, because Arthur is very good at the net,” adds Ward.
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— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) July 4, 2026“We talk about some baseliners that have double-handers – obviously Dan’s got one-hander – like Sebastian Baez [the shortest man in the men’s draw this year], who’s more experienced than Arthur on the clay, but there are similarities. Even a [5ft 7in Diego] Schwartzman who’s retired.
“All of those players are slightly different. Evo is definitely different to Baez, but we’re trying to help him with a mix of players.”
And what about these low-altitude nosebleeds? Well, it seems they are linked to stress somehow, because they only seem to happen in the biggest moments. In the most significant match of his career – so far – on Saturday, Fery had three such attacks.
“It happened at times today when I didn’t want to stop, when momentum was with me,” Fery said after a five-set win over Belgium’s Zizou Bergs, preemptively brushing off any suggestion it could give him an unfair advantage.
“I know it is annoying for the opponent. It gives me some extra time to rest sometimes, I guess.”
There is a plan to go through treatments after Wimbledon that Fery’s team hope will solve this quite unusual problem, although for now there is little they can do but prepare: and this is a man who in the second round produced a pair of earplugs to block out the noise of his opponent, a notorious whinger. He will not be short of tissues this time around.
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“We’re used to playing in front of a lot of people in big stadiums. And Centre Court is probably the most famous tennis court in the world,” said Fery.
”I’ve played on a big court in Australia, I’ve played on No 1 Court three years ago here. I’ve played on other big courts, so I’m a bit… I’m not used to it, but I’ve had experiences on big courts before.”
There will be nothing like this though, and Fery will have to stand tall if he is to upset the odds.
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