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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Katie Strick

Why The Queue is still the most fun way to do Wimbledon

There's nothing more British than joining Wimbledon's famous queue for tickets - (Katie Strick)

It’s 7.30am in Wimbledon Park, southwest London, and I’m standing in a 100-person queue for a coffee van, listening to the group of twenty-somethings behind me weigh up whether to trade their morning flat white for a Mr Whippy given the relative lack of demand for the nearby ice cream van.

You'd think I wouldn't be particularly bothered about queueing for coffee when the whole point of the day is queueing for tennis. A queue’s a queue, right?

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