Britain's Jack Draper was handed the prime-time early evening slot to get his Wimbledon campaign up and running and spared his fans any fingernail biting as he eased past Argentina's injured Sebastian Baez in double quick time on Tuesday.

“I wanted to play a bit longer in all honesty,” was the verdict from Jack Draper after booking his place in the second round at Wimbledon. That the British number one needed just 74 minutes to do so is no bad thing, though, body and mind kept fresh for sterner tests to come.

After all the build-up to Jack Draper’s Wimbledon homecoming, this opening match proved to be a total anticlimax, with his opponent Sebastian Baez retiring early in the third set on account of a tweaked knee.