Liam Broady rightly claimed a large chunk of the coverage in UK newspapers after his first win at The Championships at the age of 21.
In the Daily Mail, Mike Dickson wrote: "Liam Broady, of no fixed abode, suddenly found himself as the king at one of London's most prestigious addresses yesterday.
"The British No.6 lives out of the back of his car, staying with friends and lodging at Roehampton's National Tennis Centre, and emerged from the hinterland of the tour's lower reaches to score a famous victory where the sun shines in SW19."
Broady was one half of the first brother-sister combination to play at Wimbledon for 37 years and the perfect ending would have been for older sibling Naomi to win later during the day in her clash with Colombia's Mariana Duque. But she lost.
Liam, who was in the junior final at Wimbledon four years ago, won 5-7, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3, to earn a basic £47,000, and a second-round meeting with No.16 seed David Goffin of Belgium.
Broady, a wild card, summed up his day: "It means everything, to be honest."
If a rusty Djokovic can dismantle the world's 33rd best player at this kind of canter, it bodes ill for his rivals
Wimbledon's top seeds were both in action on the first day programme on Centre Court. Novak Djokovic advanced with his 6-4 6-4 6-4 victory over Philip Kohlschreiber, who is the world's 33rd best player and therefore only just missed out on a seeding.
Oliver Brown summed up in the Daily Telegraph: "If a rusty Djokovic can dismantle the world's 33rd best player at this kind of canter, it bodes ill for his rivals."
The Williams sisters, with all their legacy of dominance at Wimbledon, did not falter on the opening day and will be eager for more.
Serena, as defending champion, produced a 6-4, 6-1 win over Russia's Margarita Gasparyan, but it was Venus who was particularly acute in her opening match, winning 6-0, 6-0 against fellow American Madison Brengle.
Venus has won Wimbledon five times already and at 35 and with all her knowledge, will be a tough opponent along the way. A family match up with Serena beckons in the fourth round.
The restless and eternally aggressive Lleyton Hewitt said farewell to Wimbledon as a player and it is difficult to envisage The Championships without him and his army of supporters, who always let him and anyone else around that they are there.
When Hewitt won Wimbledon in 2002 he was the first baseliner to graft all the way to the title. It was thoughtful of Hewitt to say afterwards that his 2002 semi-final against Tim Henman was one of his treasured memories because of the English-Australian rivalry.
"The battle-scarred veteran was not about to get sentimental amid all those Poms on Pimm's," said Rick Broadbent in The Times.
"I don't cry easily," Hewitt said.
