The opening day is over, and it's all downhill from here for the plush green surfaces that have taken all year to recover from last year. So what memorable moments are we left with after Day One?
Well surely it's far too easy to pinpoint Andy Murray's dramatic turnaround after losing the first set. Let's be honest, it was hardly an epic comeback.
When the Brit levelled the match at 1-1, Daniel Gimeno-Traver literally lost his marbles. So preoccupied was he searching for them in the long grass, he clean forgot to play any tennis and Murray took sets four and five 6-0 as a matter of course.
Obviously I'm underplaying the Scot's role in all this, he played some impressive tennis but his opponent clearly wanted out of the lions' den.
A double fault from Rafa Nadal, yes, Rafa Nadal was cause for a collective intake of breath from Centre Court but the moment of the day came in the game between Donald Young and Alex Bogomalov Jr on No 17 Court.
Innocent passers by were in for a surprise when, after a bad point, Bogomalov slammed his racket into the turf, watching aghast as it bounced over his head and clean out of the court, maybe to join Gimeno-Traver's marbles.
On Day Two, we'll resume what seems to be our own exclusive coverage of Britain's Dan Cox, one set down when rain stopped play. And, of course, there's the small matter of Isner v Mahut, rematch of the world's longest tennis match - no doubt bound to be a one-sided, straight-sets victory this time round!
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