hiya and welcome

same here as I'm a big fan of clay-court tennis so it's great to see some Brits doing well for once on the red stuff and grinding away in the European futures.

To queue, you don't have to book beforehand, you just turn up....the time at which you turn up, depends on what you're looking for.....be warned the queues are enormous during the first week so you have to get there early even for a ground pass, I went for the first time a few years ago and was staggered at the length !

If you want show court tickets...you're probably best to camp overnight, or get there at about 6am in the morning....for a ground pass, if you get there at around 7-7.30 am you should be ok and get in at around .

If you get there at about 8.30-9 (the gates open at 9.30 btw), the queue will be right down into the field and although you should be ok to actually still get a ground pass, you won't get in till around 12.30 and by then all of the seats for the outside courts will be packed so you'll spend a little while craning over someone's shoulder to watch the tennis before hopefully a seat becomes vacant somewhere

You're probably best advised to decide before you go, on which court you want to spend the day at...check the OOP the night before. When I first when I thought you'd be able to cruise from court to court (like at challengers and futures) depending on which players you want to see...but that isn't the case....because all of the courts get full up for most of the afternoon.....around 6pm, ppl start to leave and you can pretty much take your pick from the final matches on court

Also...you'll be queueing for several hours and when i went I was v surprised to find that you can't leave the queue to go to the toilet/get refreshments and then come back again to where you were in the queue, you'd have to rejoin the queue at the end again....there are lots of stewards around to make sure this happens

It's best to bring refreshments with you as everything at Wimbledon is incredibly expensive plus the queues are crazy....I went to try and get an ice-cream mid-afternoon and the queues were 30 deep at every kiosk !! At Southfields station there is a fantastic corner shop selling cheap value ice creams, chocolate digestives, pepsi extra value cola

any more questions, feel free to ask

yes, when people leave they are asked to leave their tickets which can then be purchased for £5 or so (have to queue for them mind - this is england after all) with proceed going to charity.

i wonder if alex does well one year what will it be called? boggo's boulder?

no Mad, those are the Wimbledon toilets....Boggo's bogs

how about Boggo's bump for the hill....

Welcome to the fraternity, Eddie!


Good to see another Mors fan.

VSandhi20 wrote:

Or Bumpy Bog or Bouncy Bog considering we dont know which boggo turns up!

How about Goodall gradient?