Wimbledon day 10: Who said what
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- July 8, 2026
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Key quotes from the 10th day of Wimbledon at the All England Club on Wednesday:"My thoughts are that it's terrible. I think it's very, very far from fair play for all the countries involved here, not just for Ukraine. I 100 percent don't agree with this decision. I just want to go out there and hopefully beat every single Russian I play in Olympics, and that's it."-- Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk slams the decision to provisionally lift the ban on Russians competing at the 2028 Olympics."I felt emotions that I've never experienced before in my life in that last game. It just seems to get better and better every match. It was incredible playing on Centre Court for the second time and getting a second win. I was very nervous beforehand but I just kept going until the finish line. I just can't believe it."-- Britain's Arthur Fery was emotional after becoming the first male wildcard to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals in 25 years."It's OK, you guys can all be for Fery, I understand it. It is going to be an exciting day for both of us. For him, it is a Fery tale story for Arthur Fery. See what I did there! Last year at this time I was practising on the hard court already. It is a dream come true to finally play well at Wimbledon. I hope to play two more matches here."-- French Open champion Alexander Zverev joked with the crowd on Court One after being told his last four opponent will be Fery, who beat Flavio Cobolli."We had two matches against each other, actually. Both of those, I was just kind of stunned that I was on the same court with Petra Kvitova. As a kid, I was always looking up to her. When I didn't really know much about tennis, she was the face of Czech tennis. I would love to follow her in her footsteps."-- Linda Noskova, a semi-final debutant at the All England Club, aims to emulate fellow Czech and former Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova."I almost wish I knew before so I could have just prepared to play a match where I was going to be playing through it. I felt like the whole first set I was, like I said, three games in is when I started feeling it. I was already down a break. I was just like panicking, What am I going to do? I just didn't expect it at all."-- Taylor Fritz was hampered by an unexpected knee injury in his loss to Zverev."Play a quarter-final against a guy that already played marathon match, many hours on court, ranking lower than me, so I felt like it was a chance to have a good day for me today. Maybe, like my team says, I wasn't so humble since the first point, but I felt that it wasn't my day. Can happen."-- Cobolli hinted he underestimated Fery after the Italian ninth seed's loss to the world number 114. Related Story
