Returns for Centre Court and No.3 Court Reserved seating for Centre Court and No.3 Court
New prices: Centre Court - £56 for the first week No.3 Court - £41 for the first week
A limited number of tickets will be available: Centre Court for each of the 13 days of The Championships and No.3 Court for the first 7 days.
For returns tickets will go on sale with Ticketmaster at around 48 hours before the day of play e.g. at noon on Saturday for play on Monday July.
Reserved seating tickets will go on sale each morning at 9.00am for the following day's play e.g. on Sunday 2nd July for play on Monday 3rd July
Got to be in it to win it!
Good luck everyone trying!
Top comments
A13
30 Jun 175#3
Cool story, bro. Not sure what that adds to this post, but extremely impressive none-the-less.
Mentos
13 Jul 173#184
Not the greatest fan of Ticketmaster, but the Wimbledon setup is one of the better ones IMO.
Purchaser has to go and collect the tickets with ID. They are pre-sealed in envelopes limiting staff messing around on the day. The only real way to fiddle it would be for a scalper to go collect the tickets and then try to sell them to someone on the Wimbledon grounds, which would be pretty risk (and having been I've never seen that).
Quite simply the issue is there is overwhelming demand. It's essentially a lottery. If they have a few hundred tickets and 20k people (taking your RG figure) hit their system very few will get lucky. You may as well call the Euro Millions a scam because you haven't won.
Also I suggest you read up on how high load/availability ticketing systems work. To handle thousands of query's within a few seconds the system will be distributed. As such it can't reliably order query's on a first come first served basis. To relate it to a real world example, imagine 100 ticketing booths and suddenly 20k people rush through the doors as you open them. If you take the first person at each booth, you get a group of 100 people, but that won't be the same as the first 100 people that walked through the door. Generally to protect the system and to make it fairer (account for slower connections, people that get hit with the capture, etc) a sample is selected from query's within a time frame and most are dropped. RG will surely operate the same principles, but instead they then give you a queue number rather then just saying success or fail. Ultimately if you're queue number is 20k, the difference is entirely psychological, as in both cases you aint going :disappointed:
In a few years of trying I've got tickets only a couple of times (I also got them once by winning my tennis clubs ballot). The ones I took were returns for the first Federer v Djokovic final. The other set I didn't take (i'd been trying everyday for practice and just to see what I get, but really wanted Mens Semi's/Final).
My attempts are documented on previous Wimbledon ticket threads, including the year I got the final tickets. And unlike you i've been a member here for 8 years with thousands of posts. So the assertion that i'm some kind of plant is even more far fetched then suggesting Wimbledon's ticket system is a scam :smile:
Arsenal1234
13 Jul 173#170
Manged to get 2 again for tomorrow for a friend got them at 2 past in the end after 6-8 different searches!
But me in good confidence for the mens final (friend says I go go for free if I can get him tickets!)
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Arsenal1234
30 Jun 17#1
Question for anyone who has applied has anyone had much success with getting court 3 tickets?
I'm going to the US Open in New York this year! (y) so not overly concerned on going on center court so want to give court 3 a try. Anyone had success with court 3?
Also I went twice to Wimbledon last year the Saturday and middle Sunday had a great time at both so it is possible to get tickets!
a6unx
30 Jun 171#2
thanks for the reminder
A13
30 Jun 175#3
Cool story, bro. Not sure what that adds to this post, but extremely impressive none-the-less.
Arsenal1234
30 Jun 171#4
Was mainly to ask how easy it is to get court 3 tickets as I'm not fussed about going on center court.
davidbrent
30 Jun 17#5
kazka
30 Jun 17#6
What is the difference between RESERVED tickets and RETURN tickets (the latter is a bit self-explanatory)
jdpwest to kazka
30 Jun 171#7
:-) good question and one that will be asked many times over the next 2 weeks.
The easiest way to descrive it is that Reserved are always in the back of the court , normally the back 4 rows of so and there are a lot more (but still not many) available.
Returns are tickets that a coach / LTA couldnt use or one that someone has tried to re sell outside of Wimbledons strick policies. These tickets could be anywhere in the court , either near the back but normally near the middle.
So Returns are a better bet, but reserved are more likely.
user.name
30 Jun 17#8
It's possible to get these but as per you just have to get super lucky.
Arsenal1234 to user.name
30 Jun 17#9
I have been 8 times over the past 3 years so it is possible but chances are slim. Got to be in it to win it.
jdpwest to user.name
30 Jun 17#11
There used to be lots of skill involved. now its pretty much luck of the draw.
kazka
30 Jun 17#10
Interesting… well good luck to all looking to get in!
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Last years deal - http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/wimbledon-centre-court-no-3-court-tickets-from-44-booking-sale-9am-12pm-day-before-2469728
Two types of tickets available
Returns for Centre Court and No.3 Court
Reserved seating for Centre Court and No.3 Court
New prices:
Centre Court - £56 for the first week
No.3 Court - £41 for the first week
A limited number of tickets will be available: Centre Court for each of the 13 days of The Championships and No.3 Court for the first 7 days.
For returns tickets will go on sale with Ticketmaster at around 48 hours before the day of play e.g. at noon on Saturday for play on Monday July.
Reserved seating tickets will go on sale each morning at 9.00am for the following day's play e.g. on Sunday 2nd July for play on Monday 3rd July
Got to be in it to win it!
Good luck everyone trying!
Top comments
Purchaser has to go and collect the tickets with ID. They are pre-sealed in envelopes limiting staff messing around on the day. The only real way to fiddle it would be for a scalper to go collect the tickets and then try to sell them to someone on the Wimbledon grounds, which would be pretty risk (and having been I've never seen that).
Quite simply the issue is there is overwhelming demand. It's essentially a lottery. If they have a few hundred tickets and 20k people (taking your RG figure) hit their system very few will get lucky. You may as well call the Euro Millions a scam because you haven't won.
Also I suggest you read up on how high load/availability ticketing systems work. To handle thousands of query's within a few seconds the system will be distributed. As such it can't reliably order query's on a first come first served basis. To relate it to a real world example, imagine 100 ticketing booths and suddenly 20k people rush through the doors as you open them. If you take the first person at each booth, you get a group of 100 people, but that won't be the same as the first 100 people that walked through the door. Generally to protect the system and to make it fairer (account for slower connections, people that get hit with the capture, etc) a sample is selected from query's within a time frame and most are dropped. RG will surely operate the same principles, but instead they then give you a queue number rather then just saying success or fail. Ultimately if you're queue number is 20k, the difference is entirely psychological, as in both cases you aint going :disappointed:
In a few years of trying I've got tickets only a couple of times (I also got them once by winning my tennis clubs ballot). The ones I took were returns for the first Federer v Djokovic final. The other set I didn't take (i'd been trying everyday for practice and just to see what I get, but really wanted Mens Semi's/Final).
My attempts are documented on previous Wimbledon ticket threads, including the year I got the final tickets. And unlike you i've been a member here for 8 years with thousands of posts. So the assertion that i'm some kind of plant is even more far fetched then suggesting Wimbledon's ticket system is a scam :smile:
But me in good confidence for the mens final (friend says I go go for free if I can get him tickets!)
All comments (227)
I'm going to the US Open in New York this year! (y) so not overly concerned on going on center court so want to give court 3 a try. Anyone had success with court 3?
Also I went twice to Wimbledon last year the Saturday and middle Sunday had a great time at both so it is possible to get tickets!
The easiest way to descrive it is that Reserved are always in the back of the court , normally the back 4 rows of so and there are a lot more (but still not many) available.
Returns are tickets that a coach / LTA couldnt use or one that someone has tried to re sell outside of Wimbledons strick policies. These tickets could be anywhere in the court , either near the back but normally near the middle.
So Returns are a better bet, but reserved are more likely.