Jo-Wilfried Tsonga suffered the indignity of losing his third-round tie with Sam Querrey in four minutes as the match, suspended on Friday night, entered a second day. With a fifth set going with serve, but at a potentially climactic score of 6-5, play was called off for bad light at 8.58pm on Friday. Returning at 1pm on Saturday, Tsonga stepped up to serve but the Frenchman played eight points before exiting the tournament.

“I am frustrated, but nothing more,” Tsonga said, refusing to blame the suspension for his 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (5), 1-6, 7-5 defeat. “But the light was difficult last night. If we had continued – and I had not seen a return and missed it – I would have been very disappointed.

“I won more points than [Querrey] but I know how tennis works. He was opportunistic. I’m not at all surprised at the way he played; we’ve played here before in the same conditions and had to stop for the night then.”

Querrey and Tsonga’s previous encounter here came in the second round in 2014. It was another five-setter, featuring two tie breaks, which Tsonga finally won in the last set, 14-12.

Querrey said he had never played in a similar situation before, warming up, playing one game, then going off again. “Outside of this tournament there’s no situation where there’s no lights,” the American said.

“I made the offer to play one game last night, but we were in a situation where no one really wanted to play. Hawk-Eye doesn’t work in those situations and I’m reluctant to play without it.

“It was anticlimactic to finish in that way but I’ll take the one-game victory.”

Perhaps the match of the day came on court 12, where the Frenchman Adrian Mannarino came from behind to knock out his compatriot Gaël Monfils, the No15 seed, 7-6 (3), 4-6, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 in a match that lasted three and a half hours.

Monfils had looked to be heading through to the second week for the first time as he produced some sparkling play in the second and third sets. But Mannarino, who had beaten a top-20-ranked player once in a major, somehow managed to raise his level again, and even broke Monfils twice in the final set. His reward is a fourth-round tie against Novak Djokovic.

There was serene progress for the men’s big servers. Last year’s losing finalist, Milos Raonic, went through with a straight-sets win over the No25 seed, Albert Ramos-Viñolas, 7-6 (3), 6-4, 7-5.

Raonic’s Spanish opponent showed willing and earned a first-set tie-break with his aggressive play, which forced the Canadian into uncharacteristic errors. Ultimately, however, he was worn down by the fearsome and relentless serving of the No6 seed. Raonic hit 21 aces in the match and recorded a speed of 138mph on both his first and second serves.

Asked whether his experience last year had added to his game, Raonic said: “Nothing new, but it’s more just how to execute [on the court]. All the cliches prove true: taking it one match at a time, all these kind of things, staying very much in the moment, not getting too far ahead of yourself. Rather than just having the idea of what I need to do, I can execute it much better.”

At 96%, Raonic shares the highest percentage of service games won with Kevin Anderson and Tomas Berdych. The Czech also had a trouble-free afternoon, in complete control against fellow thirtysomething David Ferrer as he won 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.

Berdych broke the Spaniard in the second game of the first set and the first game of the second, before claiming two service games in the third. Ferrer, once ranked third in the world, continues his record of never having reached the fourth round here.

Berdych said of his veteran status. “Right now, I’m in the stage where there is quite a lot of new young guys coming up, and they are quite a good motivation to me, because it’s not easy to cope with them.”

One of those young bucks who is proving difficult to cope with is the 20-year-old German Alexander Zverev, who powered his way past Austria’s Sebastian Ofner, 6-4,-6-4, 6-2.

The No10 seed is still to drop a set in the tournament and, at 6ft 5in, has a real weapon in his towering serve. He claimed the decisive moments in a match where only nine points lasted for nine shots or more.