Tickets to Wimbledon

lightening

Hi all. My Ma is obsessed with Wimbledon, but has never gone. Do any of you tennis players know how one gets ones hands on tickets?

Thanks in advance.

Blisterman

They have a bunch of tickets available every year, if you queue the night before each day.

Think it's finished for this year now though.

lightening

Thanks Blisterman. I actually meant next year, I was hoping to get flights, tickets and a hotel for my folks.

If anyone knows how I can buy tickets I would be really appreciative...

DmanDmythDledge

http://www.keithprowse.com/ do package deals.

cfitz

It's not that difficult to get tickets over there if you're willing to queue for a while. I went in 2006 in for a few days in Week 2. Really enjoyed it. The only matches you can't queue for are the semi-finals and finals. You can enter a draw at the end of 2008 and I think you've a decent chance of getting some tickets for the 2009 Championships (but you can't choose which day you want). This way you avoid queueing outside and you know by February that you are guaranteed entry.

I'd say the packages work out quite expensive. Wimbledon is really nice and laid back compared to other big sporting events, so the queueing isn't really that bad. We started queueing at about 8am I think for the 4th Round on Monday and we got grounds tickets but not show court tickets. Got to see Sharapova and Clijsters winning their matches. We queued from about 8pm that evening then for the Women's quarter finals day. We were something like 25th in the queue so we got really good tickets (we chose Court 1) and saw Henin and Mauresmo winning their matches. We also swapped tickets for a while with some Americans in there and got to see some of Bob & Mike Bryan in the doubles on Centre Court.

I'd definitely recommend going to Wimbledon!

d-arke

I'm not sure how you buy tickets in advance, but I know alot of the local i.e. London tennis clubs get a certain allocation for their respective club members. Unless you are willing to pay over the odds, or find a package deal, you probably don't have a lot of chance of getting into Centre Court or Court 1. What a lot of people do is queue up and try barter with anyone who has tickets and is now leaving etc.

Aside from that though, what a lot of people will do is queue from about 6.30 - 7am for ground passes and you should get in for about 9-10am. Ground passes allow you to wonder around all the outside courts and you would be surprised at how many good games you will see depending on what round is on. Sure Look at this year, 4th round matches were held on Court 18.

Also, regarding hotels etc, Wimbledon is well connected so don't think you have to find somewhere nearby. You can get to central London in about 15mins on the train.

lightening

Brilliant, thanks all of you.

EJLL

I enetred a ballot before christmas and won a pair of tickets for Friday July 4th on Court No.1.
You can enter the draw on the AELTC website (www.winbledon.org). A guy I work with posted his entry at the same time but didn't win any tickets. So I guess I got lucky.

cfitz

EJLL wrote: »

I enetred a ballot before christmas and won a pair of tickets for Friday July 4th on Court No.1.

Maybe I've got things wrong but it looks to me like at best you'll get 2 men's doubles matches on Court 1 that day.

You're probably hoping it doesn't stop raining for the next 2 days so?!

MisterAnarchy

Wimbledon is the most difficult of the Grand Slams to get tickets for.
Bit of a joke in this age.
Roland Garros and Flushing Meadows sell their tickets online and are easy to get .

Blisterman

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Wimbledon is the most difficult of the Grand Slams to get tickets for.
Bit of a joke in this age.
Roland Garros and Flushing Meadows sell their tickets online and are easy to get .

It's not really that difficult. If you're willing to queue the night before, it's quite easy to get tickets, for the early rounds. Don't know of any other event this big that does that.

MisterAnarchy

Blisterman wrote: »

It's not really that difficult. If you're willing to queue the night before, it's quite easy to get tickets, for the early rounds. Don't know of any other event this big that does that.

Queuing overnight ,feck that nonsense.
Was at the US Open last year,could buy tickets on the day for $30 for outer courts and either of the 2 main courts for around $30-50.
Easy to get tickets ,thats the way it should be.

GoneShootin

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Queuing overnight ,feck that nonsense.
Was at the US Open last year,could buy tickets on the day for $30 for outer courts and either of the 2 main courts for around $30-50.
Easy to get tickets ,thats the way it should be.

If yer not willing to queue for tickets for something that you REALLY want then no-one is making you. [That's a general comment not one directly pointed at you personally]

I queued from 5am one sunny morning to 3pm to get the 2nd hand ticket stub sales booth. I was first in line at the booth and paid 5 quid for centre court tickets.

Was it worth it? Hell ya!

Don't forget lightening that there's never a shortage of tickets for the "outside" courts, but of course you would need to queue pretty early for those also.

I remember when I was leaving one evening I saw all these guys in tents camping on the street queuing for the next day. The stewards then come out at around 6am the next morning and start handing out wristbands to the first 250 people queuing at either side of the comlex. Those guys are then entitled to head back home, shower, shave, ****, and waltz past the non-wristband queue.