Wimbledon = Pimms, Strawberries & Cream and QUEUING!
We got our first taste of orderly queuing after we were given our own “Guide to Queuing" booklet at Wimbledon.
One would have thought you hop off at the Wimbledon tube station but the closest tube station is actually Southfields. Bleary eyed, and arriving at 8.05am at Wimbledon Park (it takes a bit over an hour to get there from our place), we were handed our queuing ticket numbers 7,602 and 7,603 - we were the 602nd and 603rd person waiting above the maximum capacity of 7,000. The gates didn’t open until 10.30am and if we missed out we would have to wait for the afternoon session.
Thankfully, after five hours of queuing and all in an orderly manner, we were let into the famous Wimbledon grounds to watch the fifth day of play. Our ground passes allowed us to see mainly doubles matches and some low seeded singles players. We did watch the Australian women’s doubles team (Stubbs and Stosur) who ended up runners up.
Wanting to be in the presence of history, we did it all over again to watch the Men’s Singles Finals. We queued, we waited, and finally we watched with a thousand others sitting around Murray’s Mound looking at the live screens. After a breathless 4 hours and 16 minutes, Roger Federer become tennis’s greatest men’s champion. What a day!
Awesome. Photos are great too.
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