Three days in the stands at SW19

My apologies for the lack of content recently – last week I jumped on the train to Wimbledon on three occasions in four days.

I dreaded the sweaty uncomfortable hour-and-a-half journey but once I arrived at Southfields Station my travel woes were forgotten and I was looking forward to the day of tennis ahead.

I had ground tickets on Wednesday, court one tickets on Friday and centre court tickets on Saturday which meant for a high intensity Wimbledon experience! Read Wednesday’s match analysis here.

On exit from Southfields the first port of call was always the bookies to check a few prices followed by a cheese and bean melt from Greggs.

Depending on the heat and time constraints a choice would then be made to either walk to the grounds or take the £2 bus.

I used this particular bus on the Saturday as I went to meet my more organised brother, part of this years Wimbledon stringing team, who was already sitting in his front row seat on court one. 

I stepped onto the bus to hear the ramblings of two lads who could only be described as arrogant toffs. They asked the ticket inspector where they could sell their centre court tickets because ‘we care more about money than watching tennis’. It is ridiculous that these two ediots have got tickets over the thousands of people that queue over night to get in.

Sitting in the front row was an amazing experience and my brother and I returned home that evening to our Mum excitedly showing how many times we appeared on camera on a Sky+ recording.

The other advantage of being front row was that shout outs could be heard loud and clear and we had a few requests from friends who wanted to hear us on TV and we gladly obliged.

The newest additon to the Tennis Centre writing team, Amir Mehrad, joined me on Wednesday and he has written an in depth analysis of the epic match we saw between Nicolas Almagro vs Andreas Beck. Read it here. 

On Saturday I attended with fellow Tennis Centre writer Richard Shapcott who was furious when Andy Roddick, who was playing Jurgen Melzer dropped a set to lose him his 3 sets to love bet. It was another victory for me over Shapcott as I had bet than Melzer would get a set!