Wimbledon: Alexander Zverev Is the First Finalist; Arthur Fery’s Fairy Tale Comes to an End

Alexander Zverev is the first finalist in the men’s singles at Wimbledon: the German champion, this year’s Roland Garros winner, has definitively ended the fairy-tale run of local favorite Arthur Fery, who had reached the semifinals on a wild card after defeating, in order, Damir Dzumuhr, Otto Virtanen, Zizou Bergs, Grigor Dimitrov, and Flavio Cobolli.

7-6(0), 6-2, 6-4 was the final score in favor of Zverev, who capitalized on the 111-position gap in the rankings as of the latest update, especially after the first set, in which Fery had managed to come back from a two-game deficit to force a tiebreak, before succumbing in the decisive tiebreak. The subsequent sets followed a more straightforward pattern, with Zverev not having to overexert himself to contain the Brit, thus securing his spot in the final after two hours and a quarter of play.