WIMBLEDON — If you lined up every man in the Wimbledon draw this year along the side of Centre Court in height order, Arthur Fery would be right in the corner by the scoreboard.
But of those 128, only 20 remain and 5ft 9in Fery is the only Brit.
In the men’s game, anything under 6ft is unfortunate, to be as much as three inches short of that mark starts to look like carelessness. There is some irony too that the fourth-shortest man in the Wimbledon draw has become prone to mid-match nosebleeds. But more of that in a minute.
The nosebleeds are new to Fery, but the height issue is not: his own perspective is that tennis is “a sport where all heights, can thrive in a certain way”.
Fery has never played on Centre but will get his first chance on Monday (Photo: Getty)
