As a Wimbledon queue rookie, I hadn’t fully appreciated that the queue isn’t simply a way to get tennis tickets, but is part of the Wimbledon experience in and of itself 🎾 KasiaLDelgado
A small boy in a colourful jumper and navy Wimbledon-logo hat skips along, holding a bacon roll. The most scandalous, ASBO-worthy behaviour of the morning comes from a 30-something man who is gently urged by a steward to “quieten down a little” when he laughs very loudly for several minutes at a joke his brother tells him. He apologises and he and the steward share a low-decibel joke.
Alain Schutz-Sengel, a 58-year-old primary school teacher from Cologne, Germany, queued on Monday for eight hours and “saw no tennis”, so he has come back today to try again. “It was because of security,” he says, “ it was a long time to wait and not see anything at all. It wasn’t great.” Is he worried about missing out again today? “No, today I’m sure I’ll get in, things seem back to normal.
An American woman next to me in the queue after the queue after the queue tells me she’s come to London for a few days before heading to Ireland for a golfing trip. “Everyone’s very civilised here,” she says, “It would not be like this in America. This queue is the most British thing ever!” A man beside us nods. “We do queuing rather well here, it has to be said.”At 9.
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