Britain’s last man standing at Wimbledon heads into the semi-finals – watched by his multi-millionaire father and mother while securing a potential £900,000 payday.

Arthur Fery, 23, defeated number nine seed Flavio Cobolli in straight sets on Wednesday – despite only being given his Wimbledon entry as a wildcard.

He now has the nation’s eyes and hopes upon him, when taking on second seed and recent French Open champion Alexander Zverev on Friday.

Fery’s game on Wednesday was viewed on Centre Court by both separated parents – with £900,000 now pocketed as prize money for reaching this far.

He comes from sporting heritage – his mother being a former tennis player, while his multi-millionaire father bought a French top-flight football club.

Fery has reached the semi-finals despite a series of on-court nosebleeds.

The player has acknowledged how much he suffers with them and vowed to address the problem ahead.

Fery, born in the south-western Paris suburb of Sèvres, is one of three children to now separated parents Olivia and Loïc Féry. 

Olivia, competing under her maiden name Gravereaux, was a tennis player who qualified for the 1991 French Open as a wild card – as her son has done now at Wimbledon. 

Arthur Fery, 23, defeated number nine seed Flavio Cobolli in straight sets on Wednesday

His victory on Centre Court was watched by the tennis player’s millionaire father Loïc Féry

Also there on Wednesday was Arthur Fery’s mother Olivia, a former tennis player herself

Her peak world ranking was 225, while her son last week reached a new height of 114 – sure to hurtle upwards following his subsequent All-England Club successes.

Despite being born in France, he grew up in London – and attended private, £11,940-per-term King’s College School in Wimbledon, a 20-minute walk from his current place of work, while living just a mile away from the tennis grounds.

His sporting talents on display at an early age would take him to the esteemed Stanford University in California, winning a tennis scholarship for a science, technology and society degree. 

Fery’s mother is a member of the All England Club and the pair played together on its courts during his childhood.

He has previously said: ‘I was never really pushed to play tennis, but we lived close to a tennis club, and my mum was a professional player – she was very good – so that encouraged me to try out tennis.

‘She kind of helped me get going. We had a club just up the hill from Wimbledon, called Westside – like, 50m from our house.

‘They had hard courts and artificial clay. But there was a great coach over there and I played with my mum on the weekends. So that’s kind of how I started.’

Fery reached the semi-finals of the boys’ doubles there in 2019 – before making the third round of the main competition’s mixed doubles, alongside Tara Moore, two years later. 

Arthur Fery celebrates his Wimbledon quarter-final victory against Italy’s Flavio Cobolli

Arthur Fery (centre, right) is pictured in a photo shared on Instagram by his father Loïc (centre, left) when the youngster appeared at Wimbledon three years ago

Arthur Fery is seen celebrating at Wimbledon with his businessman father Loïc

Fery’s father Loïc has made millions as a hedge fund manager and bought Ligue 1 football club Lorient in 2009, though sold it earlier this year while remaining president

Fery’s father Loïc has made millions as a hedge fund manager and bought Ligue 1 football club Lorient in 2009, though sold it earlier this year while remaining president.

He is estimated to have a net worth of €320million (£273million).

After previously working in Asia, he returned to Europe in 2001 and settled in London, founding investment firm Chenavari in 2007.  He and Olivia divorced in 2022.

While she competed as a tennis player for both France and Hong Kong, Arthur has committed to Britain – including a role in the country’s Davis Cup side last September.

This year has taken him to new levels, however, initially with getting through to the second round of the Australian Open in January. 

And he was granted a wild card entry to this summer’s Wimbledon, despite not qualifying through the official routes.

His displays since have made him only the fifth wild card entry to reach as far as the quarter-finals.

The only wild card entry to actually go on to win a Wimbledon title is Goran Ivanisevic, in 2001 – for now. 

The Princess of Wales, sitting alongside former British players Sir Andy Murray and Tim Henman, attended Wimbledon last Thursday.

The Princess of Wales visited Wimbledon last Thursday, taking in games including Arthur Fery’s appearance on Court 18 – she is pictured with former British number one Tim Henman

Eight-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer was among the guests in Wimbledon’s Royal Box watching Fery defeat Grigor Dimitrov on Centre Court on Monday

Among the matches she watched was Fery’s Court 18 win over Finland’s Otto Virtane.

Arthur’s mother Olivia has a LinkedIn profile showing her as having worked as business development manager at the Lawn Tennis Association.

One of his siblings, sister Albane, is credited as an assistant product manager for watches at Christian Dior as well as being a keen cross-country runner.

His brother Maxime is a student at Imperial College London and presently working at Wimbledon as a runner, bringing racquets for players.