If British tennis is heading ever so cautiously in the right direction, the pilot and guiding light for the foreseeable future remains the man who four years ago got lost on the Paris Métro en route to dinner with his mother. And Andy Murray is not about to get carried away with a couple of good results on the second day of a major.
He would seem to have found his compass here since that bizarre evening and his strong start in the French Open on Monday – subduing then taming the wild-swinging Argentinian Facundo Argüello in an hour and 45 minutes – was the sort of performance to lift the hopes of his compatriots left in the tournament, Heather Watson and Kyle Edmund.