The British wildcard beat Grigor Dimitrov in a thrilling five-set clash on Monday (06.07.26) to continue his fairytale run at the All England Club and found it surreal to be watched by one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.

Fery said: "When I switched the TV on in the changing rooms for the first match [on Centre Court today], the women's match, I saw Roger was in the Royal Box, I didn't know he was coming.

"I sent a message to my team saying, 'Roger's in the box, I'm pretty tight.'

"It's incredible to be in that position where one of the greatest of all time is watching you, let alone watching me play a five-set match against Dimitrov on Centre Court, Wimbledon."

Fery displayed excellent fighting spirit to come from behind and beat Dimitrov in five sets and is proud of the way he has coped with adversity during his SW19 run.

The world number 114 said: "It's always something you try to pride yourself upon, to be mentally tough.

"If you're not necessarily having the right attitude and you lose a match, then you feel a bit, well, ashamed, or feel like you could have done better. Yeah, it's always a work in progress. I think no one's perfect every single match.

"But especially these two weeks, it's come out multiple times now. I'm really proud of how - my behaviour on court, not complaining or not having any times of anger, but more how I'm fighting back and staying in matches."

Fery also discussed how he used the Centre Court crowd to his advantage as he came through a tense final set tie-break to book a spot in the last eight.

He said: "[I was using the crowd] especially at the end when physically I was starting to struggle, I was losing my legs a little bit, yeah. I knew that when Grigor was serving to stay in the match, it would put some pressure on him as well maybe.

"But I was more doing it just for me and really getting my energy up and getting the crowd involved."