There were no first-round dramas for Andy Murray as he eased past fellow Briton Liam Broady to open his Wimbledon campaign.
After being taken to five sets in his first two matches at the French Open, Murray needed just an hour and 43 minutes to defeat 22-year-old wild card Broady 6-2 6-3 6-4.
The 2013 champion will hope for more of the same from his next match on Thursday against Chinese Taipei's Lu Yen-hsun.
This was Murray's first match against a fellow British player at a grand slam, and the first involving two British players since Tim Henman beat Greg Rusedski in the first round of the US Open a decade ago.
Not since Henman defeated Martin Lee in 2001, meanwhile, had there been a meeting of home players at Wimbledon in the men's singles.
This was a stroll on the lawns for Murray and he jogged back to his chair after breaking serve again at the start of the third set.
Broady battled manfully to hold onto his serve in the fifth game - the first time he had managed to save break points - and it paid off in the next game.
The underdog created two break points, his first of the match, but Murray raised himself from the second gear he had purred along in for most of the match to keep his advantage.
Broady was doing a good job of hanging around, to Murray's frustration, but breaking the Scot's serve proved to be beyond him as the second seed progressed comfortably to round two.
It was a timely finish from Murray, with the Centre Court covers coming on seconds after the pair had walked off court, as rain arrived.
"I served pretty well. Offensively I thought I did some good stuff. Maybe defensively I could have done a little bit better,” Murray said afterwards.
"But the first match is always tricky. Obviously Liam... we've never played each before although we've practised a lot and it's not that easy playing someone you know so well, but I did okay.
"When we started the match we're both trying to win but it doesn't make it any easier. You just want to go out and try to play a good match."
Dustin Brown returned to the scene of his most famous moment and pulled something special out of the bag once more.
The dreadlocked German won Wimbledon hearts in 2015 when he unseated the great Rafael Nadal, with his story of how he had travelled around European tournaments in a camper van earning him column inches and plenty of support.
He is back in SW19 on a wildcard - he is still ranked just 85th in the world - but looked to be going home as he went two sets to one down against Dusan Lajovic.
However, he delighted the Court 16 crowd by mounting a fine comeback and took the match 4-6 6-3 3-6 6-3 6-4 to book a second-round spot.
He will now face 15th seed Nick Kyrgios after the highly-rated but highly combustible Australian also made it through.
After two serene sets against Radek Stepanek on Court Two, he received a language violation and had words with the umpire before winning 6-4 6-3 6/7 (9/11) 6-1.
World number five Stan Wawrinka is bracing himself to face a "great champion" in Wimbledon's second round after negotiating the highly-rated Taylor Fritz in his opening encounter of the tournament.
The Swiss was a four-set winner over Fritz and will now meet Juan Martin del Potro, the supremely talented Argentinian who - were it not for a series of horror injuries - could well have added to the US Open he won in 2009.
Del Potro has not been seen at Wimbledon since 2013 and was a popular three-set winner over Stephane Robert, prevailing 6-1 7-5 6-0.
He is ranked 165th in the world but clearly has the game to trouble almost anyone and, as a result, Wawrinka is wary of him.
"For me it's going to be interesting to play against him. It's been many years that I didn't play against him. Didn't practice neither," he said after his 7-6 (7/4) 1-6 7-6 (7/2) 6-4 success.
"For sure I think we are all happy that he's back on the tour, hopefully without any injury, and hope that he can play for long now.
"He (has) always been a great champion, a great player to watch also. It's going to be a tough match. He has a big serve, big forehand. When you see how tall he is, it's tough to push him, so powerful."
Joining them in the next phase is Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. The Frenchman, twice a Wimbledon semi-finalist, beat Spain's Inigo Cervantes 6-4 7-6 (7/5) 6-4 on Court 12.
The 22nd seed, Feliciano Lopez, beat Rajeev Ram in straight sets, Benjamin Becker dropped just seven games to Facundo Bagnis and the 31st seed, Joao Sousa, came through a gruelling clash with Dmitry Tursunov 3-6 7-6 (7/2) 4-6 6-3 7-5.
The 22nd seed, Feliciano Lopez, beat Rajeev Ram in straight sets and the 31st seed, Joao Sousa, came through a gruelling clash with Dmitry Tursunov 3-6 7-6 (7/2) 4-6 6-3 7-5.
Other early winners on day two were Richard Gasquet, over Brit Aljaz Bedene, Viktor Troicki and Yen-Hsun Lu, Juan Monaco and Marcel Granollers.
