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Novak Djokovic: The seven-time champion Novak Djokovic made an entertaining start to his 21st Wimbledon campaign and toughed his way to 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 victory over China’s Yibing Wu in the opener here on Tuesday.

Serving well and playing far from poorly, the No.7 seed could not prevent Wu revelling in the Centre Court atmosphere. In the first set the world No.102 Chinese racked up 15 winners, albeit to an almost equal number of unforced errors.

The key came early in the second. Had Djokovic converted one of his early chances to break, he might have motored on to the kind of economical victory. But he didn’t, and Wu’s confidence multiplied as the crowd sang his name ever louder.