Wimbledon

Following weather frustrations which plagued the tournament this year, we targeted a Thursday evening in the first week of Wimbledon to catch some quality tennis. It seemed half of London had thought the same thing and the queue must have been about 800m long. After much deliberation we joined the queue and got in after about 50 minutes.

It took us a while to get our bearings but finally we decided to try and get some £5 returns to Centre Court to watch Rafael Nadal, whom we thought still had a set to play but in actual fact by the time we got in there he only had 1 game to go on his way to a straight sets victory.



Fortunately the weather held and we were able to watch tennis until about 9:20pm so we caught some more doubles action including crowd favourite Marcos Bagdathis who was quite funny and when they lost he hit a ball for a marvellous straight six which would have cleared the boundary on any ground.