At 5-5 Federer made the final break, forcing Del Potro into a mistake with a splendid return.
This is a splendid return to form for director Thomas Vinterberg, after years in the wilderness following his much feted film Festen in 1998.
"Ryan Sidebottom was off the field for Yorkshire with a hamstring injury, but Jack Brooks produced a splendid return and Liam Plunkett weighed in too.
Tim Southee's 10-wicket haul - the first for a Kiwi in a Test at Lord's since Dion Nash 19 years ago and something even Sir Richard Hadlee never achieved - was a splendid return for an indefatigable display.
Looking at where stock prices are today and how America's economy has thrived over the last 60 years, a buy-and-hold investor would have made a splendid return especially if you count dividends if he or she had been able to hang on after the crash.
Bach's motets, of which Jesu meine Freude (Jesus My Joy; c. 1723) is a typical and splendid example, return to the a cappella manner of performance.
These same investors, meanwhile, are quick to shun advisers with splendid long-term returns if their recent performance hasn't measured up.
He said: "After a hiatus of 308 years, and in a moment of splendid coincidence we return to the issue of the taxation of property transactions.
From his first entrance Mr. Uffelman brightens the stage, and he makes a splendid clown when he returns later dressed as a dandy with a mop of bright red hair standing straight up as though he had been struck by lightning.
John Dexter's inspired 1981 production of "Parade," a triple bill of 20th-century French works, with enchanting costumes and sets (freshly repainted and looking splendid) by David Hockney, has returned to the Metropolitan Opera.
