Magnus Norman made another stab yesterday at entering the public consciousness and this time succeeded. Acknowledging that his image is as appealing as a long wet winter night in Filipstad, Norman made his exit to unseeded Olivier Rochus, the Belgian with a toothpick physique and who is even less recognised than the Wimbledon third seed.

Norman, who lost the French Open final to Gustavo Kuerten almost three weeks ago, entered his second Wimbledon match determined to prove that his game was rounded enough to make the transition from clay. Instead he, along with the other fallen seeds, opened up the top half of the draw for Pete Sampras. Only Sampras and ninth seed Thomas Enqvist now remain in that sector.

Norman bombed out 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, 6-7 (4-7), 6-1 in the biggest upset of the competition so far. Rochus had won his first grand slam match in the first round here. Norman's forehand was still in Paris. He hit seven winners compared to 21 from Rochus over the three and a quarter hours.

"The grass is not my surface," said Norman. "I'd problems with my ground strokes because the bounce is lower. I like it when it bounces a little bit higher so I can step in. I got a little bit scared.

"Also, I fell over in the fourth set and hurt my right leg a little bit. I was cramping very badly in the fifth. That maybe affected the fifth set."

Wayne Ferreira knocked Richard Krajicek out of the competition 5-7, 6-3, 63, 7-6, stripped the paint with bad language, broke a racquet, was warned by the umpire and then served a volley at the seeding committee in his post-match press conference, just stopping short of saying that the draw was rigged.

The 28-year-old South African has a habit of upsetting top-ranked players and umpires. When a line call in the final game of the first set was overruled by the umpire Ferreira erupted.

"I get very frustrated because I feel that the umpire does nothing until it gets very close. Why pick that time? It always seems to happen right at the wrong time," he said. "Yeh, I lost it a bit."

Americans Paul Goldstein and the infamously combustible Jeff Tarrango took part in the first real slugfest. Tarrango famously walked off court at Wimbledon in 1996 before his wife Benedicte descended from the bleachers to slap umpire Bruno Rebeuh on the face. Tarrango was suspended from playing the tournament for a year.

Yesterday the 32-year-old was roundly booed off court after he refused to shake hands with Goldstein after going out on a double fault 3-6, 6-2, 5-7, 6-2, 12-10.

"He called the trainer twice on my serve at the end. He runs like a deer, so I don't think he was that hurt," said Tarrango. "Of course he was faking the injury. Cramping is no reason to get a trainer, maybe for the girls not the guys."

Sixth seed Cedric Pioline also went out, to the 237th-ranked Belarussian Vladimir Voltchkov, while an injured Pete Sampras advanced in four sets.