The first day of Wimbledon is always the most picturesque in tennis. The grass is pristine, and there are few sights classier than the players clad in white on the pure green lawns. The tennis itself was splendid as well, with drama, upsets, and great play all around. And, of course, we ended the day with our least-favorite Wimbledon staple—a rain delay. So without further ado, here’s who stood out—for better or worse—on Day 1.

Honor Roll:

Blaz Rola:  The young Slovenian is competing in his first-ever Wimbledon and second-ever Grand Slam. He won the NCAA singles title at Ohio State last year and elected to forego his senior season to compete as a pro. He just broke into the top 100 and looks to have great potential. His reward for all of his hard work, including a first-round win today? A matchup with defending champion Andy Murray on Wednesday.

Grigor Dimitrov: His opponent Ryan Harrison played well. Harrison showed off a good serve and had some real power behind his groundstrokes, something he had been lacking for the past few years. Dimitrov wasn’t troubled by that at all, though. His defense was impeccable, and his ability to transition it to attacking shots was seamless. Grigor came to play as he looks to improve his career record at Wimbledon.

Sergiy Stakhovsky:  Stakhovsky showed us his talent on grass last year, when he upset Roger Federer, but he has not been impressive since then. He looks in form for grass again, though, coming into net 39 times on Monday and winning 67% of those points. He also won a staggering 44% of points on opponent Carlos Berlocq’s serve. Stakhovsky probably can’t match what he accomplished last year, but he’ll get a chance to begin approaching that with a matchup against Ernests Gulbis.

And we have to give an honorable mention to qualifier Tim Puetz, who at the age of 26 was victorious in his first career Grand Slam match.

Lost Their Homework:

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga:  While he defeated Jurgen Melzer in five sets, it shouldn’t have been that close. Melzer is a talented player, but the entirety of this match was in Tsonga’s control. Tsonga took early leads in each set but just threw the second and third sets away. He hit awful errors from often routine positions.

Fernando Verdasco:  Verdasco hit eight double faults to become only the second player to lose to Marinko Matosevic at a Grand Slam. The Aussie is certainly talented, but he is far from challenging top-20 players. Verdasco was defending a quarterfinal appearance here and will now probably fall out of the top 30.

Dustin Brown:  This talented grass-courter didn’t play too poorly against Marcos Baghdatis. However, his usually solid net game was very poor. Brown approached the net over 100 times but barely won more than half of those. That is a poor formula for winning anywhere.

Match of the Day:

Tsonga and Melzer played an entertaining five-setter, but the match that was impossible to look away from was Fabio Fognini against Alex Kuznetsov. Fognini basically spotted Kuznetsov the first two sets, not really trying en route to losing the first two sets 6-2 and 6-1. He picked things up after that, moving Kuznetsov around and not giving him the easy groundstrokes that he did in the first two sets.

The fifth set was an affair of its own. Fognini picked up a point penalty for racket abuse, having been warned for obscene language earlier, and was broken in the fifth game. He broke right back, though. A few overrules went against him, leading to some very vocal, classically Fognini complaints. When the set went past 6-6, Fognini responded to a correct overrule against him by pretending to stab himself in the chest. Eventually, Fognini broke for a 9-7 win and, as expected, made a rude gesture towards the umpire instead of shaking hands.