2026 WIMBLEDON DAY 10 RECAP: Fery's Historic Semifinal Run, Kostyuk's Redemption Arc & More

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**Andy Roddick** (1:00)
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**Jon Wertheim** (1:30)
How about that?

**Andy Roddick** (1:31)
It was fantastic. The matches went quick. Not to say that I celebrate anyone getting beat quickly.

**Jon Wertheim** (1:40)
I love how you're experiencing the cadence of this event as a non-player. So you don't get every other day off. You gotta work pretty hard, but you're sort of going through this drill of, yeah, you get two matches, and they're played four matches, two played simultaneously, they're all straight sets, and we all get to have dinner with our loved ones.

**Andy Roddick** (1:58)
Yeah.

**Jon Wertheim** (1:59)
I'm here alone.

**Andy Roddick** (2:02)
That's it. Sorry. So I get to have, actually that's not true. My family went into the city for dinner.
So we get to do Served with a bunch of knuckleheads.
One-way traffic today, we will get to, I mean, the story, the story of the day is Arthur Fery. I don't know that there's much, you know, Naskaba has played great. I am happy that she is going to introduce herself to like the worldwide audience of not, let's say, tennis fans, but people who like tennis, who will watch Wimbledon semifinals beating Elise Mertens in straight sets. She's looked great. She won Berlin, beat Pugula, beat Yala as our resident Mertens expert. What happened?

**Jon Wertheim** (2:45)
I was disappointed that I can't bore you with more Elise Mertens trivia. I'm not bored. I'm filling up the saddlebags though with Naskaba. She comes from the Moravian region of the Eastern Czech Republic, came from a small town in the forest. No, she was great. She played great tennis. For the second match in a row, first it was Maddy Keys and it was Mertens. Basically, she just hit through me. Then you also look at the stats and you say, well, wait, she won a dozen points to the net. She's serving well. She had seven aces. She's a really complete player.
I sort of joked with her for the first time on center court, managed the occasion. I also said to her, were you nervous? She's like, well, I don't really have confidence. If I show confidence, I'm masking it. So she's a top 10 seed in the major for the first time. She's into the semifinals and she's still searching for confidence. But she did everything well today.
Boy, talk about sort of a star in a cent. She does not have the flash of some of the other Czech players necessarily, but a really well-rounded game, good head on her shoulders, stepped them ring, whole pack.

**Andy Roddick** (3:47)
I don't know how she did, but she was playing right behind us. I beat Maddie on a heater from Berlin onwards, top 10 seed the whole thing. And then I look behind us and she's playing doubles yesterday also.
She's taken on the workload, certainly. But good run for Alicia Mertens. I was kind of one of the more stunning results I thought was the win against Robacana earlier. And you were less surprised by it than I was.
But she kind of flipped that whole side of the draw upside down, then it became contagious and the ego went out and the whole thing. Certainly a big part of the storyline. I thought Marta Kostyuk was... I'm a big fan of hers. I really enjoyed getting the chance to talk to her on a Served episode when we got to interview her after Madrid, kind of post-Madrid, I should say. It was actually before the French Open. But she is an athlete. Like, backflips aside, because that's kind of like the cheap talking point with her right now. But her court coverage is unbelievable. I mean, she is... Paolini got beat start to finish today.