Any advice for Wimbledon?

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I have been lucky enough to get two centre court tickets for the first day of Wimbledon.
i don’t know yet the exact seat numbers etc but am very excited and wondered if there’s any do’s or don’t s?
I’ve never been before so not sure what to expect.

10 years in the ballot, got tickets once, court one on the second Friday there wasn't a full days action on one. A great day out, watched chunks of the mens semis on the big screens and juniors and vets before the show courts started but I would love week one tickets one year. 🤞for next year.

There is a resale still but tickets go very quickly! What link/sale are you trying?

I just googled 'Wimbledon tickets on the day'. It's been a few years since I tried, so maybe they've changed the system. I can't remember the site I used to use. I remember they used to release tickets on a Monday for play on the Weds, and so on.

I think to buy on the official resale site you need to have been unsuccessful in the ballot and have been sent a link back in March. It is almost impossible and tickets go immediately but yesterday I did somehow manage to get 2 Court 2 tickets for tomorrow. Was slightly shocked!

OK fine if you enjoy a long walk. I live fairly close by and have been to the championships quite a few times. It is a much shorter walk from Southfields station to the actual public grounds entrances than from Wimbledon station. That kind of information is useful to a lot of people. But you crack on with your long walk if you enjoy it.

They stopped doing those tickets sadly. I managed to go to the men's final twice when they were a thing.

Don't wear white trousers/ skirt/ shorts
Don't forget your sunglasses and suncream
TURN YOUR PHONE TO SILENT
Enjoy an amazing day

That wasn't the case when I got them before. Must have changed more recently.

Oh, that's a pity. It was expensive but at least you could be fairly sure of getting tickets.
I got men's quarter-finals one year and women's semi-finals another. It was brilliant.

Thought I’d come back as you were all so lovely and helpful!!
I was incredibly lucky and won the seats in a competition they were fabulous gangway 105 so only about 10 rows up from the front row!! Weather was amazing. We walked from Southfields station but back to Wimbledon. The Southfields is definitely shorter but both were nice walks.
we don’t drink alcohol so I can’t comment on that but we got food there seemed to range from £10- £30 depending on what you had so not really different to most chain restaurants and the venues were lovely.
no loo queues lovely staff they were almost all military people doing it as a job they sign up for.
the tennis!! I guess I’m totally spoilt now as the matches were the reigning male and female champions followed by Djokovic. Seemed to be a lot of corporate types around us but they were really interested in the tennis not just there for the booze which was lovely. Great atmosphere.
a young man in front of me came during the last game and had queued since 1.30 the day before!!!! Crazy !
anyway it was great so if you are going have a great time and if you’ve never been I hope you get the chance sometime!!

Sounds like you had a wonderful day!

Pimms was £12 a cup plus a £1 deposit yesterday and a huge hot dog with all the trimmings is £8.50. Queues for food etc moved very quickly as did the loo queues! Lots of places to fill up water bottles.