LONDON: Five facts on the first day of Wimbledon at the All England Club on Monday (today in Manila):

• Former champion Lleyton Hewitt is playing his 17th—and final—Wimbledon this year and starts against Finland’s Jarkko Nieminen on Court Two. Hewitt is one of nine Australian men in action. Eleven Australian men started the men’s main draw this year, the most at Wimbledon since 2000 when there were also 11.

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