Friday, June 27, 2008

Click to Tennis

Ticketmaster has this system whereby you can buy Wimbledon tickets a day in advance. They're only for the last rows in center court. Basically, you have to be online at a certain time and click, click, click to make sure you're one of the first people to get through.
I thought the online sales started at 8:00pm, but it turned out to be at 8:30pm. From about 8:15pm, I was constantly clicking the mouse, refreshing the page, opening new browsers. I must've done it at least 50 times...and hooray!!! I got a ticket : )

Thinking that matches started at 11:00am, I was at the court a bit after 10:00am. The start time was actually 1:00pm. Oops. I must've been too excited to be able to see a Federer match...

Being London, rain delays. Nonetheless, I had a fun time watching the rain covers go on and off, the ball boys/girls go in and out of the court, and the fluffy seats in the box area be set up and folded down...all in a finely synchronized manner! In the meantime, I tried out their famous strawberries and cream. Not good - the strawberries were a bit too hard and sour, and I don't like cream to being with. Hehe.

Play finally started around 3:00pm. I watched Federer easily win (over who I forgot...), and Serena kill Mauresmo. Even though the seats were last row, I had a great view of the match.
Federer awesomeness:

Now all I need is to go see the Australian Open to complete my Grand Slam viewing.

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