Entering Wimbledon with the mindset of a champion Roland Garros in high form, Rafael Nadal fully showed his strong fighting spirit, high concentration and confidence to completely overwhelm an opponent who was not at his level.
The Spaniard easily beat John Milman in three sets with a score of 6-1, 6-3, 6-2 to reach 850 wins in his playing career. The opponent Nadal will have to overcome in the second round is the 43rd world-class tennis player from the US Donald Young - who was lucky enough to continue when Denis Istomin withdrew.
Accompanying Nadal is the No. 1 seed of the tournament, Andy Murray. The world No. 1 started his championship defense campaign with stable performance against Alexander Bunlik. Thanks to 29 winning points and despite the match being postponed due to heavy rain in set 3, the Scot still defeated the opponent with a score of 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 after 1 hour and 44 minutes of play.
In round 2, the problem that Murray will have to solve is named Dustin Brown - the tennis player who surprisingly defeated Rafael Nadal in round 2 of Wimbledon 2015.
In contrast to the easy victory of Nadal and Murray, Wawrinka - the number 5 seed of the tournament caused a stir when she easily took the field right from round 1 against Daniil Medvedev with a score of 4-6, 6-3, 4-6, 1-6.
Previously, world-class 20th-ranked young tennis player Nick Kyrgios also made NHM regretful when he had to withdraw early due to injury.
In the women's singles event, the highly rated players also qualified for the next round. Petra Kvitova, with the enthusiastic support of the central audience, easily defeated Johanna Larsson with a score of 6-3, 6-4. Simona Halep with completely overwhelming destructive shots Marina Erakovic with a score of 6-4, 6-1. On the contrary, Victoria Azarenka had to work hard to successfully make a comeback against Catherine Bellis with a score of 3-6, 6-2, 6-1.
