He is the most French of English tennis players. But this Monday, June 30, Arthur Féry is above all a happy man. After having stopped on the Russian Daniil Medvedev, then 3rd in the world, in 2023 then in front of the German Daniel Altmaier (ex-Top 50) in 2024, the Franco-British won his first match on Wimbledon grass.
An authentic feat! Classified in 461st place in the world, invited by the organizers, Féry dominated in four rounds (6-4, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4) the Australian Alexei Popyrin, seeded number 20 of the tournament and n ° 22 in the world in the first round of the London tournament.
“It was worth more to be English”
A victory that will not be counted for the tricolor camp since Féry, although born in Sèvres (Hauts-de-Seine), defends the colors of England. The son of… Loïc Féry, CEO of Chenavari Investment Managers and president of the Football Club of Lorient, also grew up a few kilometers from Wimbledon.
His mother, Olivia Féry, born Gravereaux, nevertheless worn for France on the world circuit, reaching 225th place in the world.
Arthur Féry spent his childhood in London, then, at the end of the school, thanks to a program of the English Federation (LTA), he joined the American University of Stanford and the university tennis NCAA championships.
“The English Federation supported me a lot financially and it was worth more to be English,” he told RMC in 2023 to explain his choice to defend the British colors rather than French.
In the next round he will face the Argentinian Luciano Darderi (56th in the world), a fall of Roman Safiullin in five sets on Monday.
