Here is a look at the crème da le crème of the first two rounds of men’s singles at Wimbledon, including upsets, career bests for up and coming players, and a lot of entertainment value.

5) R2: Jiri Vesely d. Gael Monfils 7-6(3) 6-3 6-7(1) 6-7(3) 6-4

The young Czech, now age 20, was for a while the highest ranked teenager in the ATP rankings. He has now reached the third round of a major for the first time in his career, and he did so with a five-set victory over the enigmatic Gael Monfils, who nearly came back from two sets down to dash Vesely’s hopes for a breakthrough.

Vesely relied on his serve and quality net play, winning 73% of his net point opportunities in the match. Monfils put up a solid 71/23 ratio of winners to unforced errors. Vesely’s clutch play won him the match in the end, though, as he saved four break points in the final set. He even served the match out at 5-4 from 15-40 down, and before that he saved two break points when serving at 3-4 in the fifth.

This is a surprising result but in many ways a welcome surprise, since we have been waiting for the next generation of ATP players to start putting up some good results at the top level.

4) R2: Andrey Kuznetsov d. David Ferrer 6-7(5) 6-0 3-6 6-3 6-2

The 23-year-old Russian earned his best career victory and best result at a major with a five-set victory over David Ferrer in a rollercoaster.

Ferrer was suffering from the flu going into Wimbledon, so perhaps a stamina-draining five-set loss isn’t overly unexpected. But Kuznetsov still kept his wits about him to prevail. After dropping the first-set tiebreak in a nail-biter after an hour of play, he put up a bagel in the second set. He also won the fourth set after dropping the third and finished off a worn-down Ferrer in the fifth set. Ferrer gave Kuznetsov 21 break point opportunities in the match and only hit 26 winners, while Kuznetsov hit 77. The better player won on this day.

3) R2: Simone Bolleli d. Philipp Kohlschreiber 4-6 6-4 6-3 2-6 7-5

The formerly top-40 Italian has had a tremendous resurgence under the radar this year, primarily playing at the Challenger level. He finally scored a deservedly noteworthy win over former Wimbledon quarterfinalist Kohlschreiber in five sets. The qualifier dropped the normally all-important first and fourth sets, but he pulled it out anyway late in the fifth. In the opening set, Bolelli had a chance to go up 4-0 but ended up losing it 6-4, and the match was extremely close until 5-5 in the fifth, when he finally seized the moment and won the last two games.

2) R1: Fabio Fognini d. Alex Kuznetsov 2-6 1-6 6-4 6-1 9-7

Fabio Fognini again made headlines not just for his match results but for his on-court behavior. He dropped the first two sets to the American journeyman Kuznetsov in pedestrian fashion, and he smashed his racquet on the grass, incurring a penalty. He then argued about the penalty with the tournament official, including a threat that he would smash a racquet on the official’s head. Fognini has a history of racking up monetary fines for behavioral problems at Wimbledon, and the surprise here was that he was able to pull himself together enough to win the next two sets and then the fifth set 9-7. It was a gut-punching loss for the American Kuznetsov.

1) R2: Nick Kyrgios d. Richard Gasquet 3-6 6-7(4) 6-4 7-5 10-8

In another epic match at a major featuring the fast-rising and highly entertaining Kyrgios, the Aussie saved an incredible nine match points against Gasquet, who lost for the sixth time in a Grand Slam match from two sets to love ahead. Gasquet had a decided edge until he served for the second set 5-4, when he was broken. Although he did eventually win the set in a tiebreak, the momentum had shifted. The next two sets went in favor of Kyrgios, including a break and a hold from 5-5 in the fourth set to force a fifth set. Gasquet was also a miserable 2 for 16 on break point chances overall.

In that fifth set, Kyrgios had to serve impeccably well under the gun, including at 4-5 0-40 down, and at six other match points over his next three service games. At one point, he was called for a double fault on match point, but a Hawkeye review overturned the call, and he snuffed out further Gasquet chances. From 7-8, Kyrgios won 10 points in a row, and he held at love to finish off an entertaining and worthy victory for the Aussie, who is coming into his own and building a legion of fans. Those nine match points saved ties a best-of-five match record for match points saved with three other matches since 1982.