Fery-mania builds in advance of Wimbledon semi-final against Zverev

Rising British tennis star Arthur Fery beat the Italian Flavio Cabolli in Wednesday’s quarter-final match. Photograph: Mark Greenwood/IPS/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Rising British tennis star Arthur Fery beat the Italian Flavio Cabolli in Wednesday’s quarter-final match. Photograph: Mark Greenwood/IPS/Shutterstock Fery-mania builds in advance of Wimbledon semi-final against Zverev Tennis fans suggest Henman Hill should be renamed Arthur’s Seat if new British star continues his meteoric rise Tennis fans gathered on Wimbledon’s famous grass mound spent much of Thursday speculating how Henman Hill – more recently known as Murray Mound – might be renamed if the newest British star, Arthur Fery, continues his meteoric rise. As Fery-mania builds in SW19 and across the UK in advance of Fery’s hotly anticipated semi-final match against the German No 2 seed, Alexander Zverev, on Friday, they have eschewed suggestions such as Fery Field to alight on one name: Arthur’s Seat. “There’s literally nothing that begins with ‘f’,” lamented Natalie Humphreys, who had travelled from Glasgow to attend the championships. “But could we make it Arthur’s Seat? It’s such a good one!” Humphreys was among thousands of tennis fans enjoying the added buzz around Wimbledon’s grounds after Fery’s unexpected victory on Wednesday. View image in fullscreen Fans gathered on Henman Hill, also known as Murray Mound, which some think should be renamed Arthur’s Seat if Fery continues his meteoric rise. Photograph: Maja Smiejkowska/AP “We’re big Murray fans, because we’re from Scotland, so it’s actually amazing to see someone British coming through and winning again,” said Humphreys. “He’s 23 so he’s a bit older than a lot of the new people coming up, and it’s almost like he’s got the maturity that younger players haven’t … so he seems to just be sailing through. It’s so exciting.” Humphreys and her partner, Kai, had just returned from seeing Scotland play against Morocco in the World Cup in Boston. “We’re having such a sporting summer, living our best lives,” she said, adding that she was hoping it would continue with Fery facing off against Novak Djokovic in Sunday’s final. Sarah Cadwallader, from Dorset, and her mother, Jane Collishaw, from Frome, Somerset, had secured ballot tickets for Thursday and considered whether to extend their visit to soak up the festive vibes on Friday. “I did say to Mum: ‘Should we give up our hotel and camp out tonight so that we can sit here and watch it?’, but I think you’d need a tent tonight,” said Cadwallader. Arthur Fery: the Wimbledon wildcard carrying Britain’s hopes Read more Cadwallader had phoned her mother on Wednesday to tell her how gripped she was by the match that propelled Fery through to the quarter-final. “[She said] ‘I haven’t moved for three and a half hours’, and then I said I hadn’t either, and at the end it had been nearly five hours. I looked at my watch and I hadn’t got up. It’s been amazing.” She first saw Fery at the