The youngest pretender
You'll know him as Carlos, his friends call him Carlitos and apparently when he's talking to himself he's Charlie.
If everything goes Carlos Alcaraz's way this Fortnight, there will soon be a new way of addressing the Spaniard: Wimbledon champion.
Just 20 years old, the world No.1 is threatening to become the youngest winner in his lifetime, and the third youngest of the Open era. Boris Becker was 17 years old when he landed this title in 1985, an achievement so outlandish that he said "people started looking at me like I was from Planet Mars", but those stares didn't stop the German from doing it all again the following summer.
Bjorn Borg had just turned 20 when he won Wimbledon in 1976, the first of his five successive titles.
Alcaraz, whose birthday is in May, plays Frenchman Alexandre Muller for a place in the last 32.
Extra motivation for Jabeur
"An inspiring moment," was how Ons Jabeur described her conversation with David Beckham at the All England Club this week.
The Tunisian, who was the runner-up to Elena Rybakina last summer, is attempting to become the first Arab and first African woman to win the Venus Rosewater Dish, which would be another inspiring moment.
Victory over Chinese qualifier Zhuoxuan Bai would take Jabeur into the third round.
Fierce ambition
No one with a tiger tattoo on their forearm has ever won Wimbledon (there's probably a Tim Henman joke in there somewhere).
You also don't often see body art like that in the Members' Enclosure at the All England Club, but Aryna Sabalenka could change all that this summer.
The No.2 seed, who won a first Grand Slam at this year's Australian Open, plays Varvara Gracheva of France in the second round.
A swell period for Norrie
Surfing culture and the All England Club don't often mix, aside from the occasional mention of a top seed going out early and experiencing a 'Wimbledon wipeout'.
But surfing's influence could be stronger than you imagine at this summer's Championships as Cameron Norrie, Britain's highest ranked player, has been reading a book about big-wave hunting.
In addition to being an elite tennis player - he reached a first Wimbledon semi-final last summer - Norrie is also a surfing enthusiast and at Roland-Garros he was given a copy of Nazaré: Life and Death with the Big Wave Surfers by Matt Majendie.
Perhaps you can detect a little surf-speak in Norrie's interviews, as he said the other day that his routine of cycling from Southfields to Wimbledon every day was "pretty chill".
But could tales of the surfers in a Portuguese town somehow inspire Norrie, who plays American Christopher Eubanks in the second round, to do great things here on the grass?
Stan bars Novak's way again
But for Stan Wawrinka, Novak Djokovic would now be on 25 Grand Slams, rather than 23. The Swiss defeated the Serbian in the final of 2015 Roland-Garros and also in the final of the 2016 US Open. On Friday, they play in the third round of The Championships.
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