Roger Federer is safely through to the second round at Wimbledon despite dropping the first set to little-known South African Lloyd Harris.
The eight-times champion had a set taken off him in his first-round match at Wimbledon for only the second time in 17 years.
But Federer, the second seed, recovered to beat 22-year-old SW19 debutant Harris 3-6 6-1 6-2 6-2.
The pursuit of nine begins...
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Bidding to become the second player in history to win nine #Wimbledon titles, @rogerfederer books his ticket into the second round by beating Lloyd Harris pic.twitter.com/RzAJ5MYGfJ
Australian Bernard Tomic banked over €50,000 for 58 minutes work as he sauntered to a 6-2 6-1 6-4 defeat against Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
Fans looked bemused as the 26-year-old world number 96 offered token resistance, barely running for shots as the 34-year-old Tsonga cruised through to the second round.
Social media channels lit up with Wimbledon followers slating Tomic's apparent lack of effort with "appalling", "embarrassing" and "playing in slow motion" just some of the descriptions of what they had seen.
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Former British number one John Lloyd, analysing the match for the BBC, said he could have watched a more competitive match in his local park.
Tomic has been in trouble for "tanking" (not trying) during matches before and was fined €13,271 here in 2017 after admitting faking an injury during a loss to Mischa Zverev in the first round, saying later he was "bored" with Wimbledon.
Later, when asked whether he was satisfied with his effort against Tsonga, he said: "Next question please."
Asked to sum up his performance he said: "I played pretty bad." Asked to elaborate, he said: "I just played terrible."
Through in 58 minutes 💨@tsonga7 wins the shortest gentlemen's singles match at The Championships since 2004, beating Bernard Tomic 6-2, 6-1, 6-4#Wimbledon pic.twitter.com/MQCnuKvPlI
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The exodus of men's seeds continued as Austrian Dominic Thiem exited in the first round for the third time in six visits, beaten by American Sam Querrey.
Thiem, the fifth seed, reached the French Open final for the second year running last month but his heavy topspin game is less effective on grass and Querrey took full advantage to win 6-7(4) 7-6(1) 6-3 6-0.
The big-serving Querrey, who reached the semi-finals in 2017 and also beat Novak Djokovic in the third round in 2016, fired down 22 aces as he turned the match around.
Thiem lost heart in the deciding set which whizzed by in 20 minutes, Querrey finishing him off with another ace.
He is the third top-10 player to fall in the men's first round after sixth seed Alexander Zverev and seventh seed Stefanos Tsitsipas bowed out on Monday.
Rafael Nadal or Yuichi Sugita awaits for @NickKyrgios 👀
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The 2014 quarter-finalist has to dig deep to beat compatriot Jordan Thompson in a five-set thriller#Wimbledon pic.twitter.com/hOzoFdmDpY
Nick Kyrgios set up a potentially explosive second-round showdown with Rafael Nadal after a typically erratic and occasionally dramatic five-setter with Jordan Thompson.
The volatile 24-year-old earned a code violation for whacking a ball out of court and lost a set to love for the first time at a grand slam.
Kyrgios threw in five attempted 'tweeners' - all of which missed - and an underarm serve on set point which also backfired.
But he still managed to beat fellow Australian Thompson 7-6 (4) 3-6 7-6 (10) 0-6 6-1 in just under three-and-a-half hours.
Later, Nadal eased through in straight sets against Yuichi Sugita of Japan.
The Spaniard, seeded three and looking for a third title at SW19, was broken in the first game of the match but ran out a comfortable 6-3 6-1 6-3 winner.
Nadal now faces a grudge match with Kyrgios, who criticised him recently, in the second round.
