<p><img width: 620px; height: 376px; src="http://dd508hmafkqws.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_node_view/public/Cover_Gallery_AP.jpg"></p><p><strong>London</strong><strong>:</strong> Six highlights from the first week at the Wimbledon tennis championships.</p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Nadal downed by dreadlocked Dustin</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">German qualifier Dustin Brown set the tournament alight when he knocked out two-time champion Rafael Nadal in the second round on Thursday. </span></p><p><img width: 620px; height: 451px; src="http://dd508hmafkqws.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_node_view/public/Dustin_AP.jpg"></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Brown, who has not had a haircut since 1996 and used to drive around the European tennis circuit in a campervan, is the world number 102 and had never even set foot on Centre Court before.</span></p><p><img width: 620px; src="http://dd508hmafkqws.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_node_view/public/Rafa_AP.jpg"></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">But his totally unorthodox serve-and-volley style caught out the baseline-loving former world number one. </span></p><p><em><strong><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Watch the highlights here:</span></strong></em></p><p><iframe class="media-youtube-player" width="560" height="340" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/yq8TEYnu8dE?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Brown's unpredictable tennis could not get him past the solidly dependable Viktor Troicki in the following round.</span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Serena given shock by British home crowd heroine</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Five-time champion Serena Williams was given the shock of her life on Friday when she was pushed all the way by British number 59 Heather Watson in a thriller on Centre Court. </span></p><p><img width: 620px; height: 489px; src="http://dd508hmafkqws.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_node_view/public/Serena Williams_AP.jpg"></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Playing the match of her life, Watson already had the 15,000-strong delirious when she took the second set then things went wild as she raced into a 3-0 lead. Watson served for the match at 5-4 up but Williams drew on every ounce of her experience to survive the test. </span></p><p><img width: 620px; height: 913px; src="http://dd508hmafkqws.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_node_view/public/Heather Watson_AP.jpg"></p><p><em><strong>Watch the highlights here</strong></em></p><p><iframe class="media-youtube-player" width="560" height="340" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/kgfY7lg_wPE?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Williams looked utterly shaken as she shook hands at the net.</span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Kyrgios's colourful antics</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Nick Kyrgios divided the All England Club between those who lap up his colourful antics and others who find him petulant and disrespectful. </span></p><p><img src="http://www.apexchange.com/Content/preview/2015/20150703/20/dcdc4b66a0de2c1d7b0f6a7067000460.jpg" style="height: 438px; width: 620px;"></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">The fiery 20-year-old Australian faces a fine after shouting "dirty scum" following a row with an umpire; in the next round he ranted at a line judge and an umpire, snapping: "Does it feel good to be in the chair up there? Do you feel strong up there?"</span></p><p><img src="http://www.apexchange.com/Content/preview/2015/20150703/19/2e744f3ba0ad2b1d7b0f6a706700639a.jpg" style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em; height: 899px; width: 620px;"></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">In round three he angrily bounced a racket into the crowd, got in trouble for wearing a coloured headband, told a barracking spectator to be quiet and took advice from a fan in a Batman t-shirt.</span></p><p><em><strong>Watch the highlights between <span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 20.0063056945801px;">Nick Kyrgios and Milos Raonic</span></strong></em></p><p><iframe class="media-youtube-player" width="560" height="340" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/JvP9kHvn2Ac?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Kvitova leads fall of women's seeds</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Serena, Maria Sharapova, Caroline Wozniacki and Lucie Safarova are the only top 10 seeds still standing after a bruising first week for the big guns. </span></p><p><img width: 620px; height: 376px; src="http://dd508hmafkqws.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_node_view/public/Jelena_AP.jpg"></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Defending champion Petra Kvitova, Simona Halep, Ana Ivanovic, Ekaterina Makarova, Carla Suarez Navarro and Angelique Kerber all failed to get into week two.</span></p><p><em><strong><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Watch the highlights here</span></strong></em></p><p><iframe class="media-youtube-player" width="560" height="340" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/1ptmmHIDaus?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Kvitova has now bowed out of the last four Grand Slams before the quarterfinals. "It's tennis. I'm still human. I'm not a robot," she explained.</span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Hewitt bids farewell</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">It was all set up perfectly: wildcard Lleyton Hewitt, the 2002 champion playing one last Wimbledon before retirement, gets past Jarkko Nieminen to set up a Centre Court swansong against world number one Novak Djokovic.</span></p><p><img width: 620px; src="http://dd508hmafkqws.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_node_view/public/Hewitt_AP.jpg"></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">But his Finnish first round opponent had other ideas, edging out the 34-year-old 11-9, in the final set. However, Hewitt will still be around the second week. He remains in the men's doubles with Thanasi Kokkinakis and the mixed with Casey Dellacqua.</span></p><p><iframe class="media-youtube-player" width="560" height="340" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/pFlRjQcFPT4?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Hottest Wimbledon on record</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Wimbledon sweltered in the hottest day's play ever recorded at the Championships, when temperatures hit 35.7 degrees Celsius (96.3 degrees Fahrenheit) on Wednesday. </span></p><p><img width: 620px; src="http://dd508hmafkqws.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_node_view/public/Heat_AP.jpg"></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">A ball boy passed out, while 170 people were treated by first aiders, with five taken to hospital. An All England Club spokesman confirmed: "It's quite hot."</span></p><p><em><strong><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">(*Photos: AP)</span></strong></em></p>
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