
Jordan Thompson isn't a man prone to self-aggrandisement. For a bloke who began this year numbered among the top 30 tennis players in the world he's a humble guy, an average Joe who is also an elite sportsman.
So when he reviewed his passage to the third round of Wimbledon despite the constraints of a back stiffer than an old-school surfboard, you could tell he was feeling stoked when he said "it's been a pretty good effort".