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It has been a week of headline-grabbing by the Britons at Wimbledon and on Thursday Jonny Marray's contribution was to knock out 2015 men's doubles champions Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau.
Wild cards Marray and partner Adil Shamasdin of Canada dismissed the No.4 seeds 6-2, 7-6(3) in an hour and 15 minutes on Court 6.
The 35-year-old from Sheffield, men's doubles champion in 2012, has only been playing with Shamasdin for a month and been struggling with injury but the win was never in doubt.
“That was a great result for us,” said Marray. “It was always going to be a tricky match because of who they are. They’ve got good form on grass, but myself and Adil have played together for about a month or so now and although our results haven’t been great we’ve actually been playing pretty well.
“It’s always a bit different when you come to Wimbledon though
“It’s always a bit different when you come to Wimbledon though. There’s always a little bit more on it, and I’ll always have special memories of here. It came together well today. We got a good start which was always going to be vital being best of three sets with less margin for error, and went from there.”
The men's doubles, shortened to best-of-three in the first round because of the adverse weather also saw No.3 seeds Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares get their campaign off to a good start, beating Jonathan Erlich and Colin Fleming 6-2, 6-7, 6-3.
No.2 seeds Mike and Bob Bryan were given a fright. The American brothers lost the first set to Inigo Cervantes Huegan and Paolo Lorenzi before emerging 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 winners.
Another set of American siblings were in action on Thursday, with the Olympic Games very much on their mind.
Venus and Serena Williams, five-time champions in the ladies' doubles, did not contest the competition in 2015 and there was an element of rust about their performance even though they beat Slovenian pair, Andreja Klepac and Katarina Srebotnik 7-5, 6-3 and watched by mother Oracene, who was shown laughing on the TV cameras.
In the press conference Venus was complimentary about her opponents, saying: "It's not easy out there... there's never an easy point against opponents that play so well."
After spending four hours on the court today, 36-year-old Venus showed no signs of slowing down. When asked about her future she replied: "With my tennis future of course I want to win. But everyone is playing so well, it's easier said than done. Outside the court I'm already doing what I want to do.
"My favourite activities are hanging out with my family and my dogs. I feel like I've missed more than half my dogs life and now he's nine."
She said she had no plans to slow down yet, explaining, "it's hard to think about the end when you're playing well. I'm not going to do a swansong, when I'm done I'm done."
