WIMBLEDON — For a while, all anyone knew about Arthur Fery was that his Dad owned a football club.
And that’s not even true any more after his father Loic, a successful investment manager, sold Ligue 1 outfit Lorient earlier this year.
But fortunately Fery Jr has taught the country a whole lot more about him over the last 10 days, winning four matches on the spin at Wimbledon and becoming the first British wildcard ever to reach the quarterfinals of a grand slam. He will face French Open finalist Flavio Cobolli to try and keep the Fery-tale going.
His accession to British No 2 has brought with it the usual onslaught of social media trolls who love to hate, specifically accusing the Paris-born Fery of being French, and also a nepobaby: various sources in France have listed his father’s net worth as between £250m and £300m.
Loic Fery moved the family from Paris to London when Arthur was a baby (Photo: PA)“He never had anything different to any of the other kids,” Craig Veal, who coached Fery from the age of 10 to 18, tells The i Paper.
“He never had any kind of privilege: he stayed in the exact same hotels as every other kid, he did everything the exact same as all the other kids.”
It sounds glamorous, but it rarely is, in reality. And even in terms of international travel, Fery’s passport had fewer stamps than most of his peers.
Veal adds: “If anything, his parents scaled it back compared to other children. He was traveling far less to international tournaments than his peer group in that kind of 11, 12, 13 age. He always had second-hand phones.
“There was never anything about him that you would know his background if you ever spoke to him, ever.”
FERY IS NOT SUNK YET The British wild card forces a deciding set against Grigor Dimitrov on Centre Court pic.twitter.com/Bl01voYGrm
— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) July 6, 2026Fery’s travel schedule was part of a wider decision by his parents, Veal and fellow coach Benoit Fucher not to spend his teenage years chasing junior ranking points round the world. He did not grow at 14 in the same way as peers – and 1he is still only 5ft 9in, the fourth-smallest man to have entered the Wimbledon draw.
“[We decided to] actually just let him develop his game and his passion for the game, rather than putting a load of pressure on him to get an international ranking,” Veal says.
“When he was then ready for that, when he was 16, he actually then got his junior ranking up very, very fast compared to a lot of his peers, because he was ready to play, so it was always done on his terms. It was never about trying to keep up with everybody else.”
His education and outside interests remained a focus too. Fery had always been a good footballer, and he shared with Veal a love of basketball, a sport he started playing at King’s College Wimbledon. Unlike many teenage prodigies, he was not homeschooled to work around the tennis tour – which meant some early starts.
“He was basically as a kid who was really good at tennis, but also was the normal kid who played all these other sports and attended school full time,” says Veal.
“There were times during the year where we couldn’t get him out to do a lesson, so I used to do 6.30am sessions with him in the morning at Westside, outdoors, twice a week.”
What a moment for Arthur Fery at Wimbledon He is the first British men's wild card to reach the quarterfinals at any Major in the Open Era pic.twitter.com/it6MB8dDKm
— ESPN (@espn) July 6, 2026Westside Tennis Club, barely a mile from Centre Court, is where Fery was first taught the game by his mother Olivia Gravereaux, a former WTA top 250 player, and his first coach Alison Taylor. He first caught Veal’s eye at an Under-9s tournament he was helping run, where the field also included Sonay Kartal and a certain Emma Raducanu.
By the time he was 10, Fery was regarded as one of the best prospects in the country, and would have been expected to head to one of the big academies to drill groundstrokes with scores of boys his own age. But instead, he grew up in a club environment, playing against adults as often as not.
It allowed him to develop his own game without being scolded for ill-discipline or inconsistency, and develop the unique game style that has allowed him to overcome his vertical challenges to rocket up the rankings: even if he loses to Cobolli, he will rise to No 63 in the world on Monday, the new British No 2.
“It’s quite refreshing to see someone playing like kind of proper grass court tennis and coming forward and knowing how to play at the net, move at the net,” says the newly retired Jamie Murray.
“He plays the right way, he’s very smart, he has good court craft, good court awareness. He’s very quick to move forward when he sees his opponents off balance, which not many other players are willing to do that because they don’t feel comfortable to play at net, but he has great hand skills.
Arthur Fery will take on Flavio Cobolli in the quarterfinals (Photo: Getty)“His ability to improvise when things get awkward for him is super impressive. He’s moving as well as anyone that’s left in the draw. So he’s definitely an awkward player for guys to come up and play against.”
There are not many flickers of doubt in his eyes either. He rallied from two sets to one down against Grigor Dimitrov to win in a deciding tie-break, the tennis equivalent of a penalty shootout. Three years at Californian college Stanford have held him in good stead.
“We went to Stanford for a couple years, and it really helps players develop emotionally, mentally, and socially, all that stuff,” says Bob Bryan, winner of 16 men’s doubles major titles with his brother Mike.
“I feel like they’re complete human beings once they leave college, so it helps you adapt to the stress and the rigours of tour life.
”He has shown that he can handle pressure moments like that on Centre Court, playing for the crowd in this country, and a first-time moment, biggest moment of his life. He’s very mature, and I think Stanford has a lot to do with that.”
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And Fery similarly seems to take everything in his slightly undersized stride. After beating Dimitrov, he sat on the court and listened to the crowd chant his name, soaking it in as if he would never get the chance again.
But he will get at least one more chance against Cobolli on Wednesday afternoon. And maybe many more after that.
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