Normal service was resumed on Centre Court as Andy Murray cruised into the third round of Wimbledon with a straight-sets victory over in-form Lu Yen-hsun.
The world number two has been overshadowed by the Marcus Willis show during the first week at the All England Club but looks primed to take centre stage.
From 3-1 behind in the opening set, Murray lost just three games in a 6-3 6-2 6-1 win that lasted an hour and 40 minutes. He will play Australia's John Millman next on Saturday.
"The first set was tough. There were a lot of close games, I managed to hang on at the end of the first and then settled down towards the end of the second and was hitting the ball much better in the third and feeling more comfortable," he told the BBC:
"If you can win matches easily it does help because you can rest. It has been a good start. I will just try and do my best - work hard, keep my head down and hopefully have a good tournament."
It took him just four points to break serve at the start of the third set and Lu's afternoon looked like it was coming to a rapid end.
The Chinese Taipei player would be ranked higher than 76 but for the four months he spent sidelined following elbow surgery in January.
He also has Wimbledon as well as grass-court pedigree having beaten Andy Roddick to reach the quarter-finals in 2010.
But he had no answer to Murray and, although he finally brought to an end another run of seven straight games, it was merely delaying the inevitable.
He netted a forehand on his first match point but Lu double-faulted on the second and Murray pumped his fist at his box in recognition of a job well done.
Viktor Troicki meanwhile launched one of the most extraordinary rants ever heard at Wimbledon with a sustained volley of abuse at umpire Damiano Torella.
The Serbian blew his top at the Italian chair umpire for overruling a line call that led to match point in his five-set defeat to Spain's Albert Ramos-Vinolas in the second round.
Troicki lost his cool, screaming twice on Court 17, before imploring Torella to look at the ball, that he claimed had no chalk residue, in his mind proving Ramos-Vinolas' shot was long.
Branding Torella "the worst ever umpire in the world", Troicki then surrendered the match on the very next point, before resuming his extreme tantrum.
After bellowing "What are you doing?" six times, Troicki exclaimed "Bull****" before storming off court.
Ramos-Vinolas kept his cool despite Troicki's petulance, to prevail 3-6 6-3 6-3 2-6 6-3 and progress into the third round.
Troicki's unruly outburst means he faces a likely heavy punishment from tournament organisers.
In an immediate reaction to the overruled call, Troicki screamed out twice, before grabbing the ball and storming to the umpire's chair.
"No white, look at it!" shouted Troicki. "Come on please, look at it, once, once! Look at it."
As Torella remained unmoved, the 30-year-old then swatted the ball clean away into the air with his racket, before exclaiming: "The worst ever umpire in the world!
"What are you doing? Did you see the ball. You're so bad."
Troicki then stormed back to his mark for what would prove the final point of the match, only to pick up his rant once more, to cement an ignominious end to his efforts in this year's singles draw.
Troicki did at least manage to greet Ramos-Vinolas at the net in defeat, but that was where the pleasantries ended.
"You're the worst umpire, ever!" shouted Troicki, storming back to the umpire's chair.
"Do you know what you did? Do you know what you did? Do you know what you did?
"You're horrible!
"What are you doing?! What are you doing?!
"What are you doing? Tell me, what are you doing?
"What are you doing here? What are you doing here?
"Bull****!"
Ninth-seeded Croatian Marin Cilic unleashed 22 aces and 62 winners in his second-round win, bundling out unseeded Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-2 6-7(6) 6-4 6-4 in just under three hours of hard-hitting tennis.
Cilic, who won the 2014 U.S. Open and equalled his best All England Club result last year by reaching the quarter-finals, sailed through the first set with two breaks of serve.
The 94th-ranked Ukrainian took the second set on a tiebreak when Cilic's radar went awry in two consecutive baseline rallies.
But the Croatian, who lost in three sets to world number two Andy Murray in the semi-final of the Wimbledon warm-up event at Queen's Club, was relatively untroubled thereafter, sealing victory with a service game to love.
Cilic next plays 120th-ranked Slovakian qualifier Lukas Lacko who defeated Ivo Karlovic.
Britain's Dan Evans kept his cool in uncharted territory today, downing 30th-seeded Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov 7-6(6) 6-4 6-1 to sweep into the third round and equal his best ever grand slam performance.
The prize for Evans, who before this year had never won a match in the main draw at the All England Club, is a clash with Roger Federer.
That sets up a second date in a row with a home-grown outsider for the seven-times winner, who on Centre Court on Wednesday wrote the final chapter in the Wimbledon fairytale of 772th-ranked Marcus Willis.
Evans, ranked 91st after breaking into the top 100 for the first time in May, represents a tougher proposition for the Swiss on paper, and the Briton played Thursday's key points better than his 33rd-ranked opponent, a former Australian Open quarter-finalist.
After a closely-fought opening, a Dolgopolov double-fault handed the first set to Evans 8-6 in a tiebreak.
Evans, who reached the U.S. Open third round as a qualifier in 2013, was again the more clinical in the second set, staying aggressive and taking it on his first set point with a deft stop volley that left the Ukrainian floundering.
Dolgopolov faded badly in the third set, dropping serve three times and netting weakly on match point as Evans won the last four points to wrap things up in just under two hours.
Asked about his next opponent, Evans said in a courtside interview: "It's going to be ...an amazing experience...I have to put to the back of my mind that he is one of the best players ever to play the game."
Gilles Simon ensured the weather remained a talking point on day four as he threatened to sue umpire John Blom.
After the rain washed out large chunks of days two and three of the championships, better conditions ensured a prompt start on Thursday.
But when drizzle passed over the All-England Club just after 1.30pm, Simon - on Court One against Grigor Dimitrov - was unhappy with having to play on.
At 40-30 down in the second game of the second set, he walked to his chair and exchanged words with Blom, clearly about the weather.
"I don't want to play, when it's raining, on grass. That's it," he was heard saying, before adding: "If I play and get injured, I will sue you and you will pay."
Dimitrov returned to his seat too but the weather soon passed over and the pair resumed their second-round clash.
Sam Querrey eased past Thomaz Bellucci for the loss of nine games, while Roberto Bautista Agut got a walkover when Mikhail Kukushkin withdrew injured.
Bautista Agut is now the highest-ranked Spaniard in the draw after David Ferrer was knocked out.
The 13th seed was a surprise casualty, losing in straight sets to Nicolas Mahut 6-1 6-4 6-3.
Sixth seed Milos Raonic booked his place in the last 32 with a straight-sets win over Andreas Seppi, while Croatian serve machine Karlovic was dumped out by Lacko.
Because of the inclement weather, plenty of first-round games - normally put to bed by Tuesday - were also ticked off.
Amongst them, Donald Young beat Florian Mayer, Lucas Pouille saw off Marius Copil and Australian qualifier Matthew Barton won a deciding set with Albano Olivetti 14-12.
John Isner also finished his first-round match against Marcos Baghdatis, a clash which did not start until after champion Novak Djokovic had already booked a place in the third round.
