Four days in to this wet Wimbledon, what a delight to relate that, following the gone-but-never-to-be-forgotten odyssey of Marcus Willis, four more Britons will be in action today, hoping to arrest the nation’s attention in a similar fashion.

Well, not in exactly the same fashion. After all, dear old Marcus did feel that, in the nicest possible way, he had been “duffed up” by Roger Federer. Yet the leaders of the home guard, Andy Murray and Jo Konta, are not planning to be the duffers on Centre Court on Thursday.

Konta, who worked hard to dispose of the dangerous Monica Puig on Wednesday, is ready for a second major test of her credentials in her third successive day on court when she plays Eugenie Bouchard, the resurgent 2014 finalist in a fascinating second round encounter.

“I don't think she really needs much of an introduction. She's an incredibly good player. That doesn't change on where her ranking is,” said Konta, who has seen the Canadian, after a slump in a potentially glittering career, gradually begin to again resemble the woman who seemed to have the sporting world at her feet here a couple of summers ago.

It will be good to see Bouchard back in the spotlight she deserves after an arduous climb back up the ladder. She felt it was a “surreal moment” to be back there again last night two years after losing to Petra Kvitova in the final, but there’s a sense that a talent like hers really belongs there.

It will not be long before Murray and Lu Yen-Hsun, who at the weekend both got voted in as representatives for the ATP Player Council, sit down together to thrash out the burning issues affecting men’s tennis.

Before then, though, the former champion will attempt to make it a pretty one-sided dialogue on Centre Court when he takes on his 32-year-old colleague from Chinese Taipei, a tough campaigner who is in his 13th Wimbledon and knows how to beat the Scot, having knocked him out in the 2008 Olympics.

“Rendy”, as he’s known on tour, became the first man from Asia to reach the quarter-finals at a Grand Slam in 15 years here in 2010, having caused a rare old upset as an unseeded player when he knocked out Andy Roddick on ‘Manic Monday’ in a four-and-a-half hour epic.

After defeating Murray in the Beijing Games, the Scot has since won their next three encounters, including here at Wimbledon in 2013 when he won in straight sets en-route to his historic triumph. A promising omen by any chance?

Partly, we can thank the wretched rain for allowing us such a big domestic presence today. Heather Watson, who was probably glad of the break yesterday after losing the second set of her first round match 6-0 to Annika Beck, returns to Court 12 with the German leading 1-0 in the decider. Meanwhile, Dan Evans and Ukraine’s Alexandr Dolgopolov will resume their match with a first set tie-break on No.2 Court.

There could only be one good thing to come out of yesterday’s rain interruptions. That is, there are even more attractions to be enjoyed, scattered all around the lawns here today, from John Isner and Marcos Baghdatis continuing to do battle - doubtless, lengthy battle - on Court 8 to former US Open champ Sam Stosur and Sabine Lisicki, the 2013 finalist here, fighting it out on 17.