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Fery marches on as Britain's unlikely Wimbledon standard-bearer
LONDON, July 6 : British wildcard Arthur Fery turns 24 on the day of the Wimbledon men's singles final on Sunday and, quite unbelievably, he could yet spend his birthday on Centre Court.The France-born, London-raised player made his debut on Centre Court on Monday and for the second round in succession he came through a five-set cliff-hanger to reach the last eight.His 7-5 3-6 4-6 6-4 7-6(7) victory over fellow wildcard Grigor Dimitrov in front of Wimbledon maestro Roger Federer in the Royal Box set up a clash with world number 10 Italian Flavio Cobolli whom he beat at this year's Australian Open.Fery, who played college tennis at Stanford, has flown the home flag almost single-handedly during the Championships after 15 of the 19 British singles players involved lost in round one. His thir
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