Wimbledon 2

3 years ago, I managed to buy tickets to the women's championship at Wimbledon.  Yesterday, I did it again.

Unlike 2010, this year was sold out but they were selling "returns" online for the next day. (I'm not sure who is stupid enough to return a ticket rather than sell it on eBay, but that's another issue.)  I clicked "search" at exactly 9am and got two tickets.  I opened another browser and clicked "search" just to see if I could get better seats, and it said no tickets were available.  I immediately bought the first set.

It has been a very strange Wimbledon, with many of the top-seeded players eliminated early.  Rafael Nadal (ranked #5) went out on in the first round; Roger Federer (#3) and Maria Sharapova (#3) in the second round; Serena Williams (#1) in the fourth round. Victoria Azarenka (#2) won the first round but injured herself, and so withdrew from the second round.  Radwanska (#4) lost in the semi-final.

As a result, the number 15 seed is playing the number 23 seed, but that should make for an interesting match.  In 2010, Serena Williams wiped out Vera Zvonareva (then ranked #21) in two straight sets, and the game was over in an hour!

The men's semi-finals is this afternoon, but everyone is hoping for Djokovic (#1) v Murray (#2).  Should Murray win, he would be the first British player to win the men's championship since 1936!!