About Tickets For Wimbledon

About Tickets For Wimbledon

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The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club is a private club founded in 1868, originally as The All England Croquet Club. Its first ground was situated off Worple Road, Wimbledon.

Wimbledon is widely considered to be the premier tennis tournament in the world and the priority of The All England Lawn Tennis Club, which hosts The Championships, is to maintain its leadership into the 21st century. To that end a long-term plan was unveiled in 1993, intended to improve the quality of the event for spectators, players, officials and neighbours.

Stage one of the plan was completed for the 1997 championships and involved building in Aorangi Park the new No. 1 Court, a broadcast centre, two extra grass courts and a tunnel under the hill linking Church Road and Somerset Road.

Stage two involved the removal of the old No. 1 Court complex to make way for the new Millennium Building, providing extensive facilities for the players, press, officials and members, and the extension of the West Stand of the Centre Court with 728 extra seats.

Stage three has been completed with the construction of an entrance building, housing club staff, museum, bank and ticket office.

A new retractable roof was built in time for the 2009 championships, marking the first time in the tournament's history that rain will not stop play for a lengthly time on Centre Court. The All England Club tested the new roof at an event called A Centre Court Celebration on Sunday, 17 May 2009, which featured exhibition matches involving Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf, Kim Clijsters and Tim Henman.

Wimbledon Schedule

Each year, the tournament begins on the Monday falling between 20 and 26 June. Wimbledon begins two weeks after the Queens Club Championships, which is one of the men's major warm-up tournaments for Wimbledon. Another important men's warm-up tournament is the Gerry Weber Open, which is held in Halle, Germany during the same week as the Queen's Club Championships. Other important grass-court tournaments before Wimbledon are Eastbourne, England, and 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands, both combining mixed events. The other women's warm-up tournament for Wimbledon is Birmingham, also in England. And to bring the grass court season to an end after the Championships each year there is a tournament held overseas at Newport, Rhode Island, US.

Wimbledon is scheduled for 13 days, beginning on a Monday and ending on a Sunday with the middle Sunday a designated rest day. The five main events span both weeks, but the youth and invitational events are held mainly during the second week. Traditionally, there is no play on the Middle Sunday, which is considered a rest day. However, rain has forced play on the Middle Sunday three times in the Championship's history: in 1991, 1997, and 2004. On each of these occasions, Wimbledon has staged a Peoples Sunday, with unreserved seating and readily available, inexpensive tickets, allowing those with more limited means to sit on the show courts. Additionally, if the tournament is not completed by the end of the second Sunday, all remaining matches are postponed until Peoples Monday.

Wimbledon is the only Grand Slam event played on grass courts. At one time, all the Grand Slam events, except the French Open, were played on grass. The US Open abandoned grass for a synthetic clay surface in 1975 and changed again to a hard surface (DecoTurf) with its 1978 move to the National Tennis Center. The Australian Open abandoned grass for Rebound Ace, a different type of hard surface, in 1988, and switched to yet another type of hard surface, Plexicushion, in 2008.

The principal court, Centre Court, was opened in 1922 when the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club moved from Worple Road to Church Road. The Church Road venue was larger and was needed to meet the ever-growing public demand.

Due to the possibility of rain during Wimbledon, a retractable roof was installed prior to the 2009 Championship. The retractable roof is designed to close/open in about 10 minutes and will be closed primarily to protect play from inclement (and, if necessary, extremely hot) weather during The Championships.

Wimbledon Tickets

The majority of centre and show court tickets sold to the general public are made available by a public ballot that the All England Club holds at the start of the year. A ballot for tickets has been held since 1924.

The ballot has always been substantially oversubscribed. Successful applicants are selected at random by a computer.

 

The All England Club, through its subsidiary The All England Lawn Tennis Ground plc, issues Debentures to tennis fans every five years to raise funds for capital expenditure. Fans who invest thus in the club receive a pair of tickets for every day of the Wimbledon Championships for the five years the investment lasts.^[34] Only debenture holders are permitted to sell on their tickets to third parties, although for many years ticket touts have made a habit of illegally purchasing tickets allocated to non-debenture holders in the draw and selling them for a profit. Demand for debentures has increased in recent years, to such an extent that they are even traded on the London Stock Exchange.

Wimbledon is the only Grand Slam where fans without tickets for play can queue up and still get seats on Centre Court, Court 1 and Court 2. From 2008, there is a single queue, allotted about 500 seats for each court. When they join the queue fans are handed vouchers with a number on it and the following morning when the line moves towards the Grounds, stewards come through the line and hand out wristbands colour-coded to the specific court. The voucher is then redeemed at the ticket office for the ticket.

To get into the show courts, fans will normally have to queue overnight at Wimbledon,^[35] This is done by fans from all over the world and is considered part of the Wimbledon experience in itself. Those planning to queue overnight are advised to bring a tent and sleeping bag. Times to queue up vary according to the weather, but anyone queueing up before 9 pm on a weekday should be able to get a show court ticket. Queuing for the show courts ends after the quarter finals have been completed.

The Grounds will open at 10:30am each day. On Courts 2–19 play is provisionally scheduled to start at noon for at least the first eight days and then at 11am for the Junior matches on the middle Saturday and during the second week.

On Centre and No.1 Courts play will start at 1pm, except on the final two days when play on these courts will start at 2pm. Please check the daily order of play.

Pro

visional schedule of matches

During the first week the early rounds of the Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Singles, Gentlemen’s, Ladies’ and Mixed Doubles will be played on all courts, with top seeds’ matches played on the Show Courts. On the middle Saturday the Invitational and Juniors’ events commence and will be played on the outside courts as well as on some of the Show Courts.

	Competition	Courts
First Mon	Gentlemen's and Ladies' Singles 1st Round	CC, C1, C2, Outside Courts
First Tues	Gentlemen's and Ladies' Singles 1st Round	CC, C1, C2, Outside Courts
First Wed	Gentlemen's and Ladies' Singles 2nd Round	CC, C1, C2, Outside Courts
First Thur	Gentlemen's and Ladies' Singles 2nd Round	CC, C1, C2, Outside Courts
First Fri	Gentlemen's and Ladies' Singles 3rd Round	CC, C1, C2, Outside Courts
First Sat	Gentlemen's and Ladies' Singles 3rd Round	CC, C1, C2, Outside Courts
First Sun	No play
Second Mon	Gentlemen's and Ladies' Singles 4th Round	CC, C1, C2, Outside Courts
SecondTues	Ladies' Singles Quarter-Finals	Centre Court & No.1 Court
Second Wed	Gentlemen's Singles Quarter-Finals	Centre Court & No.1 Court
Second Thur	Ladies' Singles Semi-Finals	Centre Court
Second Fri	Gentlemen's Singles Semi-Finals	Centre Court
Second Sat	Ladies' Singles Final Gentlemen's Doubles Final Ladies' Doubles Final	Centre Court Centre Court Centre Court
Second Sunday	Gentlemen's Singles Final Mixed Doubles Final Gentlemen's Wheelchair Doubles Final Ladies' Wheelchair Doubles Final	Centre Court Centre Court tbc tbc

On the last three days on No.1 Court there will be a full programme of play, it will comprise Junior and Invitational matches with the possibility of Championship Doubles Semi-Finals.

Order of Play

The matches for each day are prepared in draft the previous evening by the Referee and submitted by him to the Order of Play committee for approval or amendment.

Every effort is made to have the potentially most attractive matches played on the courts with the most spectator accommodation, but care is also taken to give any player likely to go far in the tournament his or her fair share of the Show Courts.