[Senator Clay Davis]

So I experienced a day at Wimbledon...and almost literally a full day, I was there for almost 16 hours. I went in with the hope of getting show court tickets for court two to see Genie's match, so based on the research I had done I assumed being there right around 4:30am would probably get me those. Yeah, not even close. When I got my queue card, it was almost 1,000 spots too late to get those tickets. And I was in the first line of actual people, so that should tell you how many people are camping out. And there are people camping out for Monday so there's a they don't even count towards the card disbursement. I'll go through the rest in point form.

- You start in Wimbledon Park and go through the Wimbledon Park Golf Club to eventually get into the grounds. It takes about 90 minutes from when you start moving before you get into the grounds, so calling it a walk is a stretch. A crawl obviously better. I would guess you walk about a half mile to get there.

- Right away all of the non-show courts have unreserved seating. But while that doesn't change throughout the day, you generally will have to queue after the first set of matches started to get onto those courts during a match. A few people come and go every break in play.

- The ground is small relative to how many people are there. I'm sure they'd love to have more concession stands, they simply don't have any room. So the queue for anything except it seemed ice cream was pretty long. Predictably everything is expensive as could be.

- But for a North American I wasn't aware you could bring in a little booze and food if you wanted. Champagne and of course Pimms seemed to be the drinks of choice to bring in.

- It's funny how poorly the tournament is run from scheduling and logic standpoints, because the actual grounds operations were really well done. Maybe that was because that seemed to mostly be run by the London Fire Brigade, but everything was easy

- So while not getting show court tickets sucked, it doesn't mean you can't get on show courts....for cheap too. You just gotta queue....again. When people leave show courts, they are encourage to have their tickets re-scanned or drop them in marked red boxes to allow for those seats to be refilled. And getting resold tickets only costs £10 for Centre or one and court two £5. The queue for those starts at 3pm but really only picks up after 5pm from what I was told. I got onto 2 at the end of the Makarova-Kvitova match so I did see all of Genie's match.

- I sat in every non-show court except the inner courts close to Centre that are all small and the same. In order of how much I enjoyed them I would rank them 2, 18, 3, 12. 18 seemed to be the court with the longest queues to get into, even as it was the smallest and most difficult to go onto. I went right away since it was the first one I saw.

- I think I'm gonna go find a queue to get in just for the hell of it.