The fifth day at Wimbledon saw yet another classic five-set epic by Lleyton Hewitt, a scary tumble from top seed Novak Djokovic, and everything in between. It was a day in which, overall, the women overshadowed the men. That does not change the fact that we saw a great day of men’s tennis at The Championships as well.

Honor Roll:

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (defeated Jimmy Wang 62 62 75)—At some point in the second or third set of his match against Sam Querrey, Tsonga flipped a switch. It’s like he remembered how to compete on a tennis court and found his rhythm again. Playing qualifier Jimmy Wang to follow that up certainly didn’t hurt either. Tsonga looks in form and ready to attack on the grass, with his unbreakable serve and his strong baseline game. A fourth-round match with Djokovic awaits. To be honest, Tsonga looks like the better player of the two at the moment.

Andy Murray (defeated Roberto Bautista-Agut 62 63 62)—Murray is on a rampage. His defense is insanely good, impossible for even the powerful groundstrokes of Bautista-Agut to hit through. He had two minor blips this match, but both came when he had those respective sets well in hand. Murray utilizes the whole court beautifully, making his opponent move into uncomfortable positions. He also attacks any short ball so well, hitting into an open area of the court whenever the opportunity is presented. Murray looks to be in form to defend his title, although the competition only gets tougher from here.

Marin Cilic (defeated Tomas Berdych 76 64 76)—Cilic has always been an incredible talent, reaching the semifinals at the Australian Open at the age of 21 in 2010. He is in the middle of an impressive comeback from an unfortunate suspension and has shown no signs of slowing down here at Wimbledon. His serve was tough and he showed no signs of nerves at all on court. Cilic outhit Tomas Berdych from the baseline, something tough on any surface but nearly impossible on grass. He did not flinch and won the match in a tiebreak in far less light than tennis was ever meant to be played.

Lost Their Homework:

Fabio Fognini (lost to Kevin Anderson 64 46 64 26 16)— Fognini belonged in both categories today. He was brilliant in the first and third sets. The second set was a tough one to lose, although he played well. He just basically stopped playing at 2-2 in the fourth set. With most other players, we would chalk it up to fatigue and move on. With Fognini, we can have no idea what the reason was. The fact is, Fabio has an outstanding amount of talent and a strange propensity to just not use it.

Sergiy Stakhovsky (lost to Chardy 36 76 36 06)—After two impressive matches, Stakhovsky’s great grass-court play game came grinding to a halt. His serve was still solid, but his usually strong (here, at least) net play fell apart. He won 27 of his 52 trips into net, which really tells the story of the match. He also gave up a bit once he went down a break in the fourth set, but his play before that was not up to his standard of the rest of this week.

Andrey Kuznetsov (lost to Leonardo Mayer 46 67 36)—It is unfair to expect too much of Kuznetsov. He is still very young and definitely moving up in the tennis world. It is very difficult to back up an incredible performance with another. Unfortunately, the performance that followed his amazing victory over David Ferrer was a very poor one indeed. He went for a lot less this match and the result was a lot less. This tournament overall is still very much a positive for Kuznetsov, even if this match was a negative.

Match of the Day:

We had two supremely entertaining five-setters today, though the final set of Alexandr Dolgopolov vs Grigor Dimitrov was a bit underwhelming. Dolgopolov did very well to win two of the first three sets, but he ran out of energy towards the end of the fourth. All credit goes to Dimitrov for hanging in there and forcing his tough opponent to work for every point, which eventually paid off.

The best match of the day has to go to Jerzy Janowicz vs Lleyton Hewitt. The match was suspended at 4-4 in the second set yesterday due to rain, with Hewitt down a set and serving. Hewitt was a little rusty to start and was promptly broken to lose the second set. A tense third set went to a back-and-forth tiebreak, which Hewitt won after Janowicz double-faulted away a match point. Hewitt broke late in the fourth set and served it out, and we were all squared to go five.

Hewitt had all the momentum to start the fifth set, but Janowicz negated that with huge serving. Hewitt played a poor game and was broken early, and then he was broken again for Janowicz to serve for the match up 5-1. Hewitt didn’t give up, however, getting back a break and then holding serve. There were no nerves from Janowicz in the final game, though, as he took the set 6-3 and moved on to the third round.