ARTHUR FERY suffered a nose bleed during his appearance at Queen’s Club.
The French-born British player had to come off court for six minutes during his second-round victory over Frenchman Adrian Mannarino at Barons Court.
Britain’s Arthur Fery suffered a nosebleed during his Queen’s Club match Credit: AFP
The moment was described as a “bit embarrassing” by BBC tennis commentator Andrew Castle Credit: Reuters
After winning the first set in a tie-break, the British No5 was in high spirits, but before game three of the second set, when Mannarino was about to serve at 1 apiece in games, he told the umpire he was having an issue.
With blood pouring out of his nose, Fery, 23, stuffed a tissue up his left nostril and had to wait patiently on his bench for a trainer to come out on the Arena.
The medic helped him to stop the bleeding and after six minutes play was able to resume.
Mannarino – the world No44 – looked far from impressed with the interruption but did not appear to say anything to his opponent or the umpire.
The crowd, which included former Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, were patient with the delay and did not slow-clap, like they may have done at in Paris.
Andrew Castle, who is standing down as lead commentator next month, said it was “a bit embarrassing” for Fery.
Castle, 62, claimed it may have been the result of feeling stress or pressure out on court.
And former British No1 John Lloyd said it was “strange”, saying: “I don’t think I have seen that very often at all.”
He won the tie despite his nosebleed Credit: EPA
World No140 Fery received cries of “King Arthur” from the supportive Queen’s crowd and his dad Loic, a businessman, is president of Ligue 1 football side FC Lorient.
He went on to win the second set 6-4 and and wrote “It’s Coming Home” on a TV camera lens ahead of England’s first World Cup game tonight, the star is into his first ATP Tour-level quarter-final.
If he were to have a deep run at Queen’s it would be nose-bleed territory for his career.
He has a £80,000 wildcard for and this is reward for beating No20 seed Alexei Popyrin of Australia 12 months ago.
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