Second seed Patrick Rafter of Australia, third seed Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia, reigning French Open champion Andre Agassi of the United States and three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker of Germany headlined the winners on the men's side.

Rafter began his quest for the No. 1 ranking by downing Italy's Cristiano Caratti, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2. Kafelnikov needed to win just two games to complete a 6-7 (4-7), 7-5, 7-6 (8-6), 4-6, 7-5 victory over hard-serving Swede Magnus Larsson.

Agassi, the fourth seed, rolled past Romania's Andrei Pavel, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3; and Becker, making his second farewell appearance at Wimbledon in three years, thrilled the crowd by rallying for a 5-7, 6-7 (7-9), 6-4, 7-5, 6-2 win over Britain's Miles Maclagan.

Apparently still bothered by her loss to Steffi Graf in the French Open final, the top-seeded Hingis was outplayed in every facet of the game by the 16-year-old Dokic as she became only the third No. 1 women's seed to lose in the opening round at the All-England Club. Margaret Smith lost to Billie Jean King, then known as Billie Jean Moffitt, in 1962 and Graf fell to Lori McNeil in 1994.

"I'm not sure what went wrong. A lot of things happened," Hingis said. "I think I need to take some time off, take a break and recover. It is also that the the clay court and grass are a bit different. There probably wasn't enough time between Paris and Wimbledon."

This was Hingis' earliest exit from a Grand Slam since losing to Graf, 6-3, 6-1, in the first round at Wimbledon in 1995. Hingis has won five Grand Slam titles, including Wimbledon in 1997. She was the only seeded female to fail to reach the second round.

After splitting the first four games of the match with Dokic, Hingis unexplicably dropped the next 10 games. Dokic fired two straight aces for her first match point at 5-0, but lost it when she hit a backhand crosscourt passing shot wide. But the Australian got her second match point when Hingis' backhand service return went wide and closed out the monumental upset in 54 minutes when Hingis hit a backhand return wide.

"No one expected me to beat the world No. 1," Dokic said. "It was going to be tough to beat her and there was no pressure on me. Even if I lost the match, if I played well it was sort of good for me to get close. She was the one supposed to win."

Hingis was denied in her bid to complete a personal Grand Slam with her loss to Graf at Roland Garros. Bothered by a vocal crowd in support of Graf and letting her temper get the best of her, Hingis sobbed in the arms of her mother and coach, Melanie Molitor, following the loss.

Hingis' frustration in Paris seemed to carry over to her performance today, with her mother absent from courtside for the first time in a Grand Slam match involving her daughter.

"We decided to have a little bit of distance so that we could work on our private lives and see how it is going to go in the future," Hingis explained on her mother's absence.

Currently ranked at a career-high No. 129, Dokic won last year's U.S. Open junior singles title and finished 1998 as the No. 1 junior player in the world. She became the lowest ranked female to defeat a world No. 1 at a Grand Slam in the Open Era (since 1968) and will move into the top 70 at the conclusion of Wimbledon.

Dokic first made headlines in January when she defeated Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario and Sandrine Testud in teaming with Mark Philippoussis to lead their country to the Hopman Cup title. Later that month, she lost to Hingis, 6-1, 6-2, in the third round at the Australian Open.

Unlike Hingis, defending women's champion Jana Novotna of the Czech Republic stormed into the second round with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Shi-Ting Wang of Taipei.

Novotna originally was questionable to defend her title after injuring her ankle at the French Open in a collision with Natasha Zvereva, her doubles partner. But she did not appear hampered by the injury in coasting to victory today.

"I wasn't sure how well I would play but the minute I stepped on the court today I felt good," Novotna said. "I had my ankle heavily taped and it held up absolutely perfectly."

Also, third-seeded American Lindsay Davenport crushed Alexandra Fusai of France, 6-0, 6-3; seventh seed and two-time finalist Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario of Spain held off Annamaria Foldenyi of Hungary, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; ninth seed Mary Pierce of France, who lost in the first round last year, dumped Fabiola Zuluaga of Colombia, 6-3, 6-2; and No. 11 Julie Halard-Decugis of France vanquished Sandra Nacuk of Yugoslavia, 6-1, 6-0.

No. 14 Barbara Schett of Austria defeated Spain's Gala Leon Garcia, 7-5, 6-2, and the 16th-seeded Zvereva, a semifinalist here last year, rallied past American Kimberly Po, 5-7, 6-1, 6-3.

American Jennifer Capriati, who made a surprising run to the fourth round at the French Open, completed a thrilling 5-7, 6-3, 9-7 win over Germany's Anke Huber in a match that was suspended by darkness on Monday.

Also, Spain's Conchita Martinez, who won her only Grand Slam title here in 1994, stormed past Rita Kuti Kis of Hungary, 6-2, 6-1.

After rain suspended the match at 5-5 on Monday, Kafelnikov served at love to take a 6-5 lead. Larsson fell behind 15-40 on his serve in the next game, but saved one match point on a service winner. The Swede could not save the second as his forehand crosscourt passing shot went wide.

Kafelnikov, the reigning Australian Open champion, had lost in the first round at Wimbledon two of the last three years and prevented his 10th opening-round defeat of the season.

Agassi, the 1992 champion, became the fifth male to win all four Grand Slam tournaments by capturing the French Open crown. He is looking to become the first man to win the French Open and Wimbledon in the same year since Bjorn Borg accomplished the feat in 1980.

"I think I could accomplish a lot more," Agassi said. "I don't know what it's like to be a two-time champion anywhere, so I'd like to win more and finish the year No. 1. That's something I haven't done and I'd like that."

Agassi improved to 25-7 with today's win, but he has not reached the third round here since 1995. He has lost in the second and first rounds, respectively, the last two years.

Becker saved three match points at 4-5 in the fourth set before pulling out the victory in just under four hours. It was the 10th time in his career he came back from a two-set deficit to win and the first time he accomplished the feat at Wimbledon.

"I'm not the kind of player that is going to give in to his opponent, especially at Wimbledon," Becker said. "He (Maclagan) has to earn his victory. He played incredibly well but not good enough at the end."

Two years ago, Becker announced he had competed in his final Wimbledon after losing to Pete Sampras in the quarterfinals. But the German decided to return to the All-England Club one more time as he prepares to retire next month. Becker became the youngest Wimbledon champion in 1985 at age 17 and also won in 1986 and 1989.

Fifth seed Richard Krajicek of the Netherlands, the 1996 champion, powered past Christian Ruud of Norway, 6-2, 6-3, 6-1; eighth seed Todd Martin of the United States came back from a two-set deficit to outlast Germany's Hendrik Dreekmann, 6-7 (6-8), 6-7 (5-7), 6-3, 6-2, 6-4; and 10th seed Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia, last year's runner-up, took out Sweden's Mikael Tillstrom, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4.

In addition, No. 11 Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil beat Britain's Chris Wilkinson, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4, and No. 15 Nicolas Kiefer got past Christian Vinck, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4), in an all-German battle.

No. 14 Tommy Haas of Germany was tied with Dutchman Peter Wessels, 3-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, before the match was suspended by darkness.