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Andy Bull at Wimbledon

Arthur Fery harnesses power of intangibles in historic Wimbledon run

Arthur Fery
Arthur Fery is poised to become the British men’s No 1 after emerging from obscurity at this year’s Wimbledon. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

How about we all agree on Arthur’s Seat? I’d love to claim it but the honour belongs to a quick-witted friend of a friend, the literary agent Geraldine Cooke. Maybe it doesn’t have the same alliteration as Henman Hill or Murray Mound but you would say Fery’s Foothill does him an injustice given how high he has risen this week.

With his straight-sets victory against Flavio Cobolli, Fery has become the first wildcard to make the men’s Wimbledon semi-finals since 2001. He is, even more extraordinarily, only the fourth player to do it at any grand slam tournament in the open era, after Goran Ivanisevic, Henri Leconte and Jimmy Connors.

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