Former British number one Chris Wilkinson from Fair Oak knows a thing or two about the Wimbledon scene, having reached the third round there on four occasions. So Wilko is the perfect person to report for The Daily Echo on a daily basis during the two weeks of the tournament.

In 1997 Richard Krajicek played a small part in a James Bond film . . . the title of which just happened to by 'Tomorrow Never Dies'. The title is so appropriate as to the character of the man.

Over the last 20 months he has hardly hit a ball due to a bad elbow injury and played his first tournament last week in Holland. It would have been very easy for Krajicek, at the ripe old age of 30, just to say enough is enough and bow out of the game gracefully.

But after his demolition of Andrew Agassi's conqueror Paradorn Srichaphan, he sent out a big warning to all the other players that he's back and of course he has the experience of having already won the championship and remains the last champion in the men's draw.

Similar to Phillippousis, who Krajicek plays in the next round he possesses a massive serve and once on a roll he is very difficult to break down. He puts so much pressure on the returner, as you can go two or three games where you struggle to even get your racket on the ball. Paradorn Srichaphan was on yesterday's receiving end and couldn't quite do enough to change the proceedings.

Having played against some of the big servers in the game such as the Ivanisevic's and Rosset's, as a returner it's important to try and change the rhythm of the opponent's big serve such as moving around forwards or back to get the server to think more. Once they start to think more they are more liable to miss some of the serves.

Yesterday was a case of the underdogs of the round before not following up their impressive previous wins. George Bastl, the conqueror of Pete Sampras, went out against David Nalbandian, Srichaphan, winner against Agassi, failed and Safin's conqueror Oliver Rochus also failed.

It's as though these players had played their finals in those big matches and were unable to focus on their current matches. The mark of a good player is following up wins with wins.

This year's Wimbledon, certainly in the men's draw, has proved to be very unpredictable with only nine of the 32 original seeds left standing and new names will definitely emerge from some of the weaker sections of the draw.

Players to watch out for in the bottom half would be big serving Aussie Wayne Arthurs and French player Arnauld Clement. It's still early days of the championships but the second week should throw up some interesting headlines.