While drama spread elsewhere, Andy Murray moved with encouraging dexterity on his return to grass on Tuesday and progressed serenely into the second round at Queen’s. He saw the first set of Rafael Nadal’s shock defeat by Alexandr Dolgopolov, and reckoned it looked a tricky assignment for the Spaniard, before following him on to Centre Court to beat the Taiwanese qualifier Lu Yen-hsun 6-4, 7-5 in a fairly untroubled 79 minutes, although he dropped serve in each set.
To compensate for those minor lapses he thrashed 12 aces, 10 of them in the second set, and generally looked comfortable switching from clay – where he has had his most successful season – to the more familiar charms of grass.