Wimbledon 2010 Day 5: Federer v Clement

We headed off for lunch (Noodles for those keeping score!) and then decided to go join the resale queue – we had to make a gamble and try and guess which court they were likely to put Jamie and LRob on for (quite literally) Mixed Troubles. Initially there was no worries – because this was the LONGEST queue I had ever seen…. An opportunity for a good doze!

The queue moved a bit from time to time as they squished everyone up and they had quite a lot of Ct 2 tix left – Venus was due to do dubs but after suitable rest – but the stewards were trying to flog those tickets! Meanwhile over on Ct 1 Roddick and Kohlschreiber were going toe to toe – and slowly to boot.

Which left us with Federer – who’d gone to 5 sets in R1, 4 in R2… we were constantly looking at his scores – and during that time the stewards split us into two queues – Centre and One. We found ourselves behind a sweet guy from the US who was desperate for Centre Court ticket to see Federer so was willing him to go to a 4th set. Meanwhile we had to make a decision which court to go with – we figured stick it out with Centre.
We were made up for the guy when some tickets started to come through at the end of the 2nd set and off he scampered.
We weren’t that close behind him – up in the gods – but on centre!



Fed dispatched Clement quite quickly – so it was just more pictures-for-Tashi time…
I did post on FB that we had to endure Fed heh! So I guess I owe her!