At our first attempt in the Wimbledon ballot – spurred into action by our attendance at the Olympics the previous summer – click here or below…
London 2012 Olympic Games, Tennis, Wimbledon, Centre Court, 2 August 2012
…Janie secured Court One tickets for the first Friday. Excellent seats – 4th row. Not bad at all.
The weather was not so keen to play ball as the ballot, unfortunately. It was a dodgy weather day to say the least.
The Getty Images from the day show a pretty poor weather scene – click here.
The ESPN photo gallery for the day shows centre court mostly, as that was where most of the action took place – click here.
But there were clearly going to be breaks in the weather too, so I suggested a meet up time to Janie based on the forecast, which Janie felt was overly-optimistic…
…the upshot being that we missed the first 30-40 minutes or so of the first match on our court.
Still, in the end we got to see a surprising amount of tennis, not least the remainder of the second round match between David Ferrer and Roberto Bautista Agut. Below is the highlights reel from that game:
Then we saw most of the third round match between Petra Kvitova and Ekaterina Makarova. Below is the highlights reel for that game:
We’d done surprisingly well, tennis-wise. Also picnic-wise – I laid on a Big Al special picnic which pleased Janie no end.