Fery's US Open dream ends in first-round loss to Musetti

In the long arc of athletic becoming, a single defeat rarely defines a trajectory — and so it is with Arthur Fery, the 24-year-old Briton who arrived at the US Open as one of tennis's most improbable stories and departed in the first round, outplayed by Italy's Lorenzo Musetti in straight sets. Six months ago, Fery was ranked outside the top 200; today he stands 33rd in the world, the product of a Wimbledon semi-final run that reminded the sport how quickly the margins between obscurity and greatness can dissolve. New York offered a harder lesson — that the same small margins which carried him