Well, I'm number 8 in the resale queue, so I'll see what happens.

Good luck Stewart.   Doesn't really seem fair if you are number 00001 from the original queue 

What happened was, the turnstiles opened at about 9:15, then we were kept enclosed behind a chain which I was obviously at the front of. But when they put the chain down, it was in stages, so lots of people got away in front of me, and I also was held up behind guards. So when I properly joined the stampede to the resale queue, there were at least 20 people in front of me, but I managed to re-overtake many of them. I've been told that on Sunday, the order of the resale queue will be based on position in the overnight queue, but that doesn't help me. Apparently, people have already started queuing for Sunday!

Cool!  Well done Stew! 

Congrats on getting in as after queing for that long you deserve it.

Hope Murray can do the job and make it even more worthwhile.

Yes real pity about the result, but personally I think for virtually any big sporting occasion nothing beats actually being there.

I guess each of us just has different limits as to how far we'd go just to be there ( and of course how far we can practically go )  

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 2nd of July 2010 06:40:40 PM

I met Stew on the way back to Southfields station and he seemed none the worse for the experience. He was on his way to Victoria to catch the night coach home - you'd think that would finish you off even if the queueing hadn't, but he seemed pretty relaxed about the prospect.

I'd gone to check whether he was still in the queue after Laura's match ended, thinking that if it was becoming clear he wouldn't get in, we could swap tickets for a set or so (so he wouldn't miss out completely) if that wouldn't mean him losing a hard-won place on the Hill, but was happy to see he wasn't there (assuming it meant good news) and he texted me to let me know he'd got in not long after - he was a row in front but on the other side of the court, I think.

Anyway, huge respect to him for what he did - slightly crazy, but definitely in a good way - in the BT.net tradition, you could say

There's a story about him in the Times today with a bit of follow-up (which more or less amounts to "I'd do it all again," in case you can't get to it) at http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/tennis/article2585413.ece



-- Edited by steven on Saturday 3rd of July 2010 01:35:22 PM