Wimbledon's wildcard Arthur Fery is set to take on Italy’s Flavio Cobolli in the competition quarter-finals on Wednesday.
The 23-year-old left spectators stunned on Monday after securing a place in the third-to-last round in a nail-biting win against Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov, despite only having a world ranking of 114.
Though it may come as no surprise to some, as Arthur is the product of super-sporty parents, his mother was a fellow tennis star who previously played in the French Open doubles.
Meanwhile, his father is Loic Fery, a multimillionaire hedge fund manager who also owns Ligue 1 club Lorient, a French professional association football club based in Brittany.
Arthur’s father is estimated to be worth £275 million. He boasts an impressive career as a businessman, having worked as a financial trader in Hong Kong and London.
In 2007, he even founded his own investment firm, Chenavari, which was named after a peak visible from his childhood home.According to the French business magazine Challenges, Loic was France's 398th-richest person in 2023 with an impressive net worth of €320 million (£275 million), a €120million increase on his fortune from 2011.
He was previously married to Arthur’s mother, Olivia Fery, but the two divorced in 2022. The pair share three children, two sons and one daughter, with Arthur as the eldest.
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© PA Images via Getty ImagesIn 1991, Olivia used her maiden name, Olivia Gravereaux, when she competed in the Women’s doubles at the French Open. It was a career-defining moment for the tennis star, who reached a singles world ranking of 225.
She later won a national championship in Hong Kong after moving there and competing in the Fed Cup circuit.
Outside of competing, Olivia has worked for the UK’s Lawn Tennis Association, the sport’s national governing body.
© CameraSport via Getty ImagesShe herself had been the daughter of tennis greatness, her mother having competed professionally. Olivia said previously: "I was never really pushed to play tennis, but my mum was a professional player – she was very good; that encouraged me."
She helped me get going. We had a club just up the hill from Wimbledon called Westside – 50 metres from our house."They had hard courts and artificial clay. But there was a great coach there and I played with my mum on weekends."
