We went to Wimbledon! It was a beautiful day and we didn’t have strawberries and cream. We DID get to watch the men’s final on the screens on courts 2 and 3. The match was quite nerve-wracking because you didn’t know who was going to win.
It went to 12-12 in the 5th set, and then there was a tie-break which Djokovic won. It was the first tie break to be played in a final (the longest match ever was played over the 22-24 june 2010 between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut – the score was 6–4, 3–6, 6–7(7–9), 7–6(7–3), 70–68, and was won by Isner in the 5th set!!)
After the final, we got Centre Court tickets for the Ladies’ Doubles Final between Hsieh Su-wei & Barbora Strýcová and Gabriela Dabrowski & Xu Yifan. We were lucky to get to go on Centre Court and it was really exciting! Dabrowski and Yifan’s tactics were to fire everything at Hsieh Su-wei, but she actually got most of them back. It looked like they did this tactic because Strýcová has very powerful shots so they were probably scared! Su-wei & Strýcová won 6-2, 6-4
We sat in the front row which was amazing because you can see all of the movement and where they hit the shots. On TV you see the match from a bird’s-eye view, but being at court-side you can see all the players at once and you can hear them speaking. It’s really exciting and doubles is super fast! At one point they did six volleys in a row! Strýcová did the fastest serve in the match at 109 mph.
We got a Wimbledon bag!
Thanks to Clare & her friend for giving us the tickets so we could go to Wimbledon!