Completing under English banière, the Franco-British was right for the Australian Alexei Popyrin, seeded n ° 20, this Monday in the first round of the Wimbledon tournament.
Franco-British Arthur Féry, son of FC president Lorient Loïc Féry, created the feeling on Monday by eliminating Australian Alexei Popyrin, seeded n ° 20, in the first round of the Wimbledon tournament. Invited by the organizers of Wimbledon, the one who appears in 461st in the world (the ATP ranking here) conceded only a game, the third, to his 25-year-old opponent, 22nd in the ATP ranking (6-4, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4). The 22 -year -old, born in Sèvres, will face the Italian Luciano Darderi to try to access for the first time in his career in the third round of Wimbledon.
Son of Loïc Féry, president of FC Lorient in Ligue 1, and a former tennis player, Olivia Gravereaux, Arthur Féry plays at home in Wimbledon, where he was educated (Kings College School). He spent his childhood in London, where his father founded his asset management company Chenavari Investment Managers. 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 Championships NCAA. “”The English federation supported me a lot financially and it was worth the blow to be English», He told in 2023 to RMC To explain his choice to defend British colors rather than French.
