Attending Wimbeldon

[Anonymous]

We will be in London and I would love to get tickets. Anything I should know?

[Anonymous]

Go! You can easily take the tube and buy day of tickets. They are bringing it back this year after stopping it due to covid. In years past you could pay a nominal fee to enter the grounds and wander around, shop and watch tennis on the big screens. Some of the smaller courts don’t require tickets so you can always pop in and watch a match.

There is a distribution area where you can buy day of tickets. Many are cheap as people give their tickets back in the even of a rain delay. I sat in center court after a lengthy rain delay drove off many people.

[Anonymous]

Londoner here! One option is to enter the lottery to get tickets for the show courts but you are too late for that.

Day of options:
- Join "The Queue". This is an official ticket line that takes place in a park right outside the entrance. Each day, the first 20 or so people in line are able to buy tickets for the show courts (Centre court and Court number 1), but usually people camp overnight for this. Joining the line in the morning is fine but you will almost certainly not be amongst the first 20 people. People farther back in line will be able to buy tickets to the grounds. Grounds tickets will let you enter any of the outer courts (all courts other than the show courts), and if you go within the first couple of days of the tournament all the outer courts will have matches going on, many with big names.
- Buy day of tickets from people who leave partway through the day. You can get into show courts easily this way.

It's a magical wonderful place, utterly beautiful grounds. I really should prioritize going there again, but SW19 is a long way off for me!

[Anonymous]

Londoner again. Another idea is to go to the Queen's Club Championships that take place just before Wimbledon. It has all the same names and lower demand so you can buy tickets easily. I know loads of people who do this, bc queueing, much as it can be fun, is a huge pain!