By Alex Perry, Piers Newbery and Mark Jolly BBC Sport at Wimbledon

Opposites attract

Bogdanovic will partner Maria Sharapova on Friday

Alex Bogdanovic had an encouraging build-up to Wimbledon, reaching the final at Surbiton and getting to the second round at Queen's.

It is hoped the 19-year-old Briton will build on his progress and join Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski at the top of the game.

But it looked like his exertions had caught up with him when he lost his first round match here in straight sets to Sargis Sargsian.

He did get one result this week though - on Friday he is playing with photographers' favourite Maria Sharapova in the mixed doubles.

Man of few words

You can learn a lot from players' post-match news conferences.

But there are times when despite their best efforts the world's media find it hard to break down players' defences.

QUOTE OF THE DAY Thanks, Bud, I appreciate it. Nice pants Tim Henman returns a compliment to flamboyant American journalist Bud Collins

This memorable exchange took place in David Nalbandian's conference after his win over Andre Sa.

Q How much do you enjoy grass as opposed to other surfaces?
A I like too much.

Q Do you like it more than clay?
A It's different.

Q Do you have a preference?
A No.

It's good that we got that sorted then.

Anyone for tennis

On the other hand, the members of the fourth estate sometimes only have themselves to blame.

In Jennifer Capriati's press conference they seemed to be competing to ask her the most pointless question.

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Efforts included: "Have you been on the Underground?", "Which show did you see?" and "Do they still run a bath for you there like they used to?"

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Questions about curtsying ended with: 'Was the guy wearing a dress?'.

Capriati dealt with them all good-humouredly, but at one point was forced to ask: "Can we talk about tennis?"

Three's a crowd

"No really - Steffi could beat us both"

Boris Becker has apparently said Andre Agassi might find it hard when he looks across the breakfast table each morning and sees someone who has bettered all his achievements.

Agassi's eight Grand Slam titles pales into insignificance in comparison with Steffi Graf's 22.

When asked about it, Agassi replied: "If Boris joined us for breakfast, she'd be more successful than both of us.

"You could add both our accomplishments together and we wouldn't be close."