Ready, steady... QUEUE! Image: Simon Tregidgo via creative commons
Lawn tennis. Strawberries and cream. Sun hats. Pimm's. Add a well-organised queue to the mix and you've reached peak Brit.
The Wimbledon Championships — taking place from Monday 29 June-Sunday 12 July 2026 — is one of the few major UK sporting events where the public can get their hands on premium tickets on the day of play itself. And yes, we have a good-old fashioned queue to thank for that. So iconic is this queue, in fact, Wimbledon itself now refers to it as 'The Queue'.
If you haven't been fortunate/organised enough to get tickets through the Wimbledon ballot (which closes by the end of the previous year), then The Queue is your best chance of getting to see some world class tennis in SW19.
The Queue in all its sophisticated majesty. Image: Carine06 from UK via CC BY-SA 2.0
