All right so far - but, you have to say, it has hardly been a rocky road to the last 32 of Wimbledon for Andy Murray. Which may prove a problem.
Wins over two counter-punchers, the veteran Frenchman Fabrice Santoro on Tuesday and now Belgium's Xavier Malisse, who at nearly 28 is approaching the veteran stage, have eased him into the tournament. But all his two, straight-sets victories have done is confirm that what Murray, himself a counter-puncher, can do well he is doing well, rather than arm him for the tougher battles that he will certainly have to negotiate if he is to achieve his ambition of making it deep in to the second week.
It should get a little tougher on Saturday when he plays the German Tommy Haas, who had his best Wimbledon last year when he paid his ninth visit to the Championships and made it to the last 16 (at which point an injury ended his run when he was due to play Roger Federer). But Haas is 30 now and unless he can beat Murray quickly, which is unlikely, he will find it difficult to emulate last year's run.
Earlier this year Roger Federer was critical of Murray after being beaten by him in Dubai. Federer was not in the best of health at the time, which may have contributed to his defeat, but it is still worth recalling what he said: "I don't think he [Murray] has changed his game a whole lot since the first time I played him and I really thought he would have done. He is going to have to grind it very hard in the next few years if he is going to play this way. He stands way behind the court. You have to do a lot of running and he tends to wait for the mistakes of his opponent.
"I gave him the mistakes but overall, in a 15-year career, you want to look to win a point more often, rather than wait for the other guy to miss. Who knows, he might surprise us all."
Against Santoro and Malisse, Murray did a lot of waiting at the back of the court and had the added luxury of not really having to grind to stack up the points. Santoro, 35, is no longer the athlete he once was and Malisse remains the limited athlete he has always been, and both were at a huge disadvantage whenever a rally went beyond a few strokes.
Having said this, Murray is entitled to draw encouragement from having taken out two experienced opponents - Malisse was a semi-finalist at Wimbledon in 2002 - without dropping a set and without really looking as though he would concede one.
With Malisse's resilience vaporising rapidly after the first set, he gave Murray plenty of opportunities to go through his routine of eye-catching moves. The one with which the British No1 broke the Belgian's serve at the start of the second set was a gem: a floated return lulled Malisse into answering in kind and then Murray walloped a searingly fast, flat winner. The ability to change up the pace in this way is a gift given too few.
Murray even managed to impress when he was giving his racket a rest. As the players waited for Hawkeye to pronounce on what would prove an unsuccessful challenge by Malisse on match-point, Murray drew applause by doing some keepie-uppies, which requires deft footwork when it's a tennis ball.
While Murray was easing his way into the third round, the man he hopes to meet next week in the quarter-finals, Rafael Nadal, the second seed, was having to fight all the way to beat the outstanding young Latvian Ernests Gulbis. Really it was the sort of match Murray could have done with rather than the easy passage against Malisse.
