Cool story, bro. Not sure what that adds to this post, but extremely impressive none-the-less.

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:

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!)

Nice work.got any pics ?

What time did you secure them ? Must have been a great surprise !

Yea on tv lots, and in nearly every newspaper today.
Great experience!

Amazing were you spotted on TV?this is from the returns I presume? Any tips for next year ? I had no luck on returns but still had a great day in my seats :smile:

Did managed to get womens Final which was nice, despite the blow out in the second set. The mens dubs from what I did see was fantastic and the womens dubs, well, yeah LOL. It was good they made it open court for womens dubs though. I got a telling off beforehand from a steward cos I moved forward. Jobsworth!

A quick question I do have as I do try to go every day I can, I book the two weeks off work and stay with family in London... I used to use court 3 tickets on ticketmaster as an expensive groundspass to save having to queue every day. However it seems to have gotten more dfficult now. Could this be to do with them making like 75% of the court unreserved and then like 25% reserved, which is not just reserved public tickets but also I assume ballots and press, coaches etc? I doubt they give much allocation to Ticketmaster anymore. I'd roughly estimate like 30-50 seats MAX. Anyone shed some light?

Front row seats for me

Same see you there!

506 right at the back!

wow lot of people got final tickets from this forum congrats everyone! maybe less demand considering the price per ticket of £200 lol who knows

Ricky7& Arsenal123 well done! I was unsuccessful on all my tries apart from the Final this year! which blocks did you get? I'm in 501! Fancy a HUK meetup?

Impressive work ! Thanks for your tips jpdwest I was successful for mens final ! Good luck with the lottery that will help towards a few tickets next year :wink:

i tried the ballot, did not hear anything.
i tried multiple times on Ticketmaster last fortnight.
Just when i thought it wasn't going to happen, perseverance paid off. Fortunately managed to get a pair of tickets right at the back at 9.04 this morning.

Never give up guys, thank you OP for starting this thread.

Definitely however I'm trying for the ballot next year. Thinking about it I could have gone this year:

First day.
Ladies Semi final
Men's Semi final
Men's final

Not bad really but the luck has got to be running out! You use to be able to use Ticketmaster to basically guarantee a ticket but that isn't the case anymore.

Will win in 3 sets. Mixed doubles is after and I think has at least one Brit in that....

Have a great day

Same time next year for more random fun ?

:disappointed:

No luck here

Congratulations.

No luck here.

ball ocks

0 returns this year on all of my tries - wow what shodden luck I have had at this damn thing :disappointed:

Got a pair - ridiculous this year how they can be available at 4 minutes past 9 but I am so happy I got them!

Let's hope for a Roger win now!

Anyone else have any luck?

same here looking myself for a pair

I'll be here tomorrow morning!

Fingers crossed :smile:

HEY!!!! I don't want to share the jackpot! :smiley:

its a 50 Meg fibre but its not about getting onto the site the quickest this year. I've never had one ticket this year through the first run through the captcha. They have all been between 2-13 mins after they went on sale.

There are no tricks or secrets this year. Its just blow through the captcha and keep going asmany times as you can. I'm not even sure if thats the right method or whether ticketmaster sees you as a bot, but thats all I have been doing.

Got 2 days in the first week but had tried every slot that week for up to 15 mins after they went on sale. so 2 out of 14 ish goes.

but this week for others I've had 3 sets, but again tried 9am and 12 each day.


One of the days this week was from my work pc running down a crappy corporate internet link on a dog slow pc. so again I think that rules out any skill. oh and I;'ve not been logged into my account before getting any , so its not like they know its me.

Off to buy a euro millions :smiley:

wow jpdwest do you have a fast connection/pc? did you get captchas -how quick do you get through them if so? i had awful captchas in chrome...unrelenting!

Chrome and they popped in around 12:02. I tended to try and get through between 1:30 and 2:30 as many times as I could as thats the first time they get timed out.

Not doing anything special or clever and had many more misses this year than hits. As ever the days you dont want are the ones you get.

After half an hour of searching I have given up.

Lets hope for some success in the morning!

How did you get in so quick ? What browser did you use ?

Sorry, timed out. Tried a few people on here but went back into the pot at 12:09

You still have these I want them!

Had 2 returns for the final. but the people who were keen werent so keen when they saw the £199 per ticket price

Just for those who think that I make this stuff up

Definitely I will cure it on Arthur Ashe stadium next month!

We will all be getting withdrawal systems next week :smiley:

Nothing for tomorrow but at least I have got better at the captcha!

Well done different searches do you mean different browsers? Which browser worked ?

Pretty much my experience too. Apart from last year, I have been able to attend for each of the last 4 years by putting the effort in and plugging away for up to 20 mins on some occasions to get tickets. Plenty of luck involved with the captcha's but overall, I would say it's a fair process and everyone has a chance.

If you didn't get any tickets so far, keep trying and hopefully you'll get lucky. I've managed to get Women's Finals returns a few years ago and even Men's Finals one year. Last year I didn't manage to get any despite my fast fingers. Main thing is don't give up and keep trying.....

Saturday 9 am and then this is all over anyways, atleast for this year - chin up, who knows one of us will get to see history being made at SW19 :smile:

similar to the posts above, I've been getting tickets via tickmaster for the last 6 years , in the previous years posts you see my efforts and photos. Not sure ticketmaster would pay someone to bother doing that on hotukdeals .

I doubted I'd ever get tickets this year after the first saturday and sundays efforts as you'll see on page 1. In the end I've managed to go twice myself, got a friend "returns" for today and had womens final "returns" in todays run that I put back in.

I've no secret to doing it this year and all 4 sets I got well after the tickets went on sale. I just kept plugging away until 12:15 and most times I got nothing but on 4 occasions its worked.

I preferred it when there was more skill in getting them. Like being able to type the captcha words fastest or by coming up with a system to get the best type of picture captcha.

This year there isnt a system or anything that I've done that has made a difference apart from try , try and try again

Best of luck to everyone for the last 2 "goes" for this year tomorrow and see everyone for more fun next year :-)

I can't tell if you are joking or not. The idea that a company as big as Ticketmaster would do something like that which wouldn't benefit them at all is bizarre.

I think you are also underestimating how much more popular Wimbledon is than Roland Garros. Can you imagine how many people would join an online queue for Wimbledon final tickets if they put say 10,000 of them on Ticketmaster? It's that there are only 500 or so on the last minute reserved seat sale that stops it being total pandemonium and gives people who diligently try each day a sporting chance when most people wouldn't bother at such seemingly terrible odds.

You got me. The shame of it. I feel so dirty I have to scrub myself clean every evening :smile:


I presume the returns come in whenever they come in. For example probably quite a few in the last couple of days due to Konta being booted by Venus and what happened in the mens.

The reserved i'm not sure about. Perhaps they want to give people who are fans of a particular player a chance? i.e. Cilic fans may have more of a chance to get tickets to watch him in the Semi, whereas if they'd sold them all at the beginning they'd be competing with more people (Murray fans for example).

I think if you go in expecting not to win any tickets and think there's always next year, it doesn't hurt as much :smile:

Fine, you're a very experienced Ticketmaster mole planted long time ago :smile:
Joking aside, let's say I believe you and their system is "legit", I still think queuing system is much better. Ok the difference is mostly psychological but at least you know what to expect, here you have no clue what's going on and not to mention going through 100 captcha challenges twice a day, it's very frustrating, almost agonizing.
You feel like someone is trying to make fun of you, can they just tell you after x tries please stop you have no chance or that you are number 2000000000 in the queue and at least you know you can give up ?

If you have a few hundred tickets each day to sell online why not sell them all at once for the entire tournament sometime before it starts ? This would be a much better way to do it and i'll tell you why:

1. Not everyone has time to do this twice a day for 2 weeks and probably the most important part you only have to put up with their horrible system only once.
2. It's fairer - with current system some people can get tickets for 1, 2, 5, 10 or even 20 tickets for a single tournament depending on their "luck" while others get none. If you put a limit of 2 per ID/card a lot more people will get tickets, of course those who are at the front of the queue will get the best tickets but at least everyone would have a higher chance of getting a ticket.

Yep, returns can be great. The mens finals tickets we had were block 102 or 101 and 6th row from the front from memory. Had to keep a hold of the Mrs as she could almost reach out and grab Novak during the changeover :smile:. If only Roger had won, it would have been the perfect day :disappointed:

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:

The tickets I bought for today were actually for a work friend who logged in and paid for them. Those were bought at 12:13 so would have been the last returns they had. He's just sent me a pic and his seats are right behind the royal box.

So some returns at 12:09 could be in a nice spot though :smile:

Enjoy!

Kept refreshing and picked up 2 tickets at around 1209....must have been yours jdpwest.....awesome!!!

Mine just gone back in for some lucky person

Nothing on returns for ladies final - not that I am suprised probably less than 5 avaliable!

I entered the ballot for the past 3 years and so far I only "won" a pair of Court 1 tickets for Sunday July 16th which i turned down but you don't see me "moaning" about the ballot do you ? It's because i don't have anything against it.

Anyway, keep defending Ticketmaster, it only reinforces my belief.

Disagree with this, it isn't a scam but simply a case of supply and demand. The fact is tickets are limited and even on the website it states "several hundred". The only thing I agree with is that Ticketmaster has I think changed how they distribute the tickets I strongly believe that there was more than several hundred people searching before me so why did a ticket come up after 5-6 attempts make no sense?

Also, ticketmaster isn't the preferred way to get tickets you should consider applying for the ballot next year I got ladies final a few years ago from it. Either way, no use of moaning just sounds a bit like sour grapes.

I haven't been paid off by Ticketmaster anyway if I was do you really think I would have gone on court 3 the first day and not been since? As Mac says "You cannot be serious!"

Well I honestly believe this is a complete sham and whole system is rigged or they never put any tickets up for sale.
I must be the unluckiest person alive or the few people here who apparently managed to get tickets (some even 3 times lucky - lol) are probably paid by ticketmaster to post here and create this illusion that in fact the system is fine but you were just not fast or lucky enough to get in.

I tried every day 9:00 and 12:00 sharp for at least 10-15 minutes every time and nothing. It's a shame that such a great tournament doesn't have it's own ticketing system and deal with these Ticketmaster thieves who offer zero transparency with their process, it's a disgrace to be honest.

By comparison the french (imagine that) have a great ticketing system, i managed to get tickets for RG final this year. When they first put tickets up for sale i was number 20k in the queue and when i got in men's semis and finals were sold out and I was only able to select a pair of QF tickets but during check-out I was redirected to their third-party payment system which failed and lost my tickets and after i did not find any i liked and gave up.

A couple of days later i received this email from them:

"Dear Sir or Madam,

You were part of the tennis fans who experienced technical problems whilst trying to validate your payment on the ticketing website for Roland-Garros.

We are sincerely sorry for this inconvenience and as an exceptional measure, we will organize an additional opportunity for you to purchase tickets within the next few days."

On my second chance to buy I was able to find men's final tickets so I ended up with a better result than expected because they had these issues :smile: .

Wouldn't say that just lucky I think, I didn't get some straight away but after many different searches the best tip I can give is do not give up and keep searching for a good 15 minutes.

You are gifted with t fastest fingers on the planet - :smile:

I'm still looking and searching just in case.
I hate the robot thing.

That's fantastic.

I was trying for my brother and even with 3 of us trying we had no success :disappointed:

Awww, no luck :disappointed:

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!)

Is this the link for the ones going on sale at 9am?

http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/centre-court-reserved-seats-allocated-london-14-07-2017/event/350052A2A310497D?artistid=29663&majorcatid=10004&minorcatid=31

Yep 9am for tomorrows play on centre court.

For the 12 sale today people won't know who is in the final but I agree it is a risk still be a great day at a final regardless though.

Your saying this on the assumption Konta makes the final?

Each year Murray has gone out before the final , I've always found peoples interest dies off and tickets become much more easy to get. Probably harder to get womens final tickets then mens this year which will be a first .....

A day of unexpected really - two strong title contenders bowing out leaves the fray open for federer to make it his own I suppose. Tomorow 9 am spot would potentially have semis tickets isn’t it? Anyone had luck with the 9 am one though

Now Novak out best chance yet to get a semi final men's on Ticketmaster!

With Murray out tickets should be easier to get - easier but still not easy!

Wow congrats which browser dead on 12 do you refresh screen ?

Probably 2 minutes past 12

So like at 3 or 4 mins past 9am ??

Probably on the 4th-5th attempt so KEEP TRYING would be my tip for at least 5 minutes.

Were you really fast or did you get them after a few minutes?

2 tickets together

How many returns did you get for SF ??

Managed to get returns to mens semi final - amazing as I have never had returns and semi final is the best day to go!

Shame I got them for someone else as I can't afford the ticket price :disappointed:

I tried as well at 9am and no luck - was just trying for trying sake.....must be totally random

Was that for reserved or returns? Been testing it out this morning but no luck.

Literally just went on and easy as that one for tomorrow!

At £144 I will pass though

Nice one, ta for the info, will be prepared for next year!

yes thats it, they have rebranded since last year, but its the same and £30 per year now, but lots of benefits including all important access to the BTM draw.

Given that both Murray and Federer are playing in CC - I doubt there would be many takers for that swap - but then you never know.

I have two tickets for no1 court tomorrow. Is it possible to find someone willing to swap tickets with CC?

3rd set wow - you are lucky :smile: Hope you have a good day out.

Some people going many times during wimbledon must be bankrupt :confused:

like mens tennis you mean :smile:

First time through at 25 sec it said none available , then plugged away for a couple of mins of more "none available" before one turned up. guess someone else had them and dropped out before checkout. probably when they saw the price !

jpdwest did it say tickets unavailable when you first tried when it hit midday, or did you keep plugging away and got through 25 seconds past midday

Theres a lot better ways I could think to spend £144 than to watch woman's tennis...

Its v random this year but got another pair of tickets (3rd set this year) for Thursday in the returns. Tickets popped in well after 12 ..... took my screen 25 seconds to refresh so didnt hold out much hope.

Team membership seems to be the only choice of membership shown on their website https://www.lta.org.uk/member/ is that the one?

yes

Just to confirm , you can join British tennis as a personal member, and you get your own ballot, this is separate to the public ballot and the club ballot. with the club ballot the more club member who enter the more chance of getting tickets, the club then hold a separate ballot to distribute their allocation.

having watched Wimbledon for as long as I can remember, and never thought I would be able to go, Friday will be a special day, just wish there were some decent matches in prospect :wink:

This is true. But becomes less likely the later in the tournament. As most matches move to the show courts. Also getting a grounds ticket in the first place can be difficult if they are at maximum capacity

So is this only available during the first week, (last week)?

A few years ago an old work colleague said that he thought you could sometimes turn up after about 5pm and buy a ticket that would let you in to wander about and possibly get to see some tennis on the smaller courts. Is there any truth to any part of that? I'm not a big tennis fan but I wouldn't mind having a look around there for a bit.

Nice work.

Is this different from the Public ballet though i.e. is there a certain allocation for British Tennis members or is all just lumped into the same ballot?

Very interesting. Might join in preparation for next year's Wimbledon. Did you just join online?

have tried to get tickets for years!, dont live locally so queueing not an option, also dont want to pay £000's through authorised resellers. so last year I decided to join british tennis, and got a place in the ballot - result!. have got 2 centre court tickets for this friday, Mens semi finals. still not cheap at £155 each (but not £3k-£4k each either!) ,but well worth the £25 membership, I also got davis cup tickets last year to through the membership.

Nope. Felt pretty smooth too :disappointed:

no you?

Anyone get tickets this morning?

Enjoy!

Grounds turn up early am (5-6) tomorrow.

Wasn't able to get a ticket for tomorrow.. Do you reckon if I could get into the grounds if I queued up from around midday tomorrow? (first time going)

Got two for tomorrow :smiley:

Any luck this morning?
Two of us trying on mobile app and laptop and no luck (annoyed)

Got through yesterday in 12 seconds and got tickets. Got through today in 7 seconds and no tickets. Something is happening to pick and choice who it's throwing tickets too and I don't think it's just time .

Thanks Ticketmaster, my last chance of going to Wimbledon was for tomorrow. Couldn't get tickets, I will not be going to Wimbledon this year.

I'm sure Ticketmaster has other code running to just block my chances completely (like blocking the IP address or something).

Also got nothing this morning.

Decided not to go Saturday - with Federer on centre today I can see him being on 1 Saturday with Djokovic and him swapping as he is on one.

Could be proven wrong but it's a £100 risk I am not willing to take!

Definately are I think. Although there are still people keen on Nadal \ Fed as people have said in the above thread. I find though that most days become easier if Andy has gone out, but then my interest tends to go a bit too then also..... and my money has gone by then also :smiley:

Good point jdpwest, you think the murray days are more popular than the federer days (tues/thurs/sat)?

I've always found the exact opposite in previous years. People arent too bothered in the first week and there are more returns as committees or LTA's arent keen. As it gets into the second week people see a lot more of it on the TV and are a lot more wanting to go.

I've had returns on the first day for the last 3 years but neither returns or the easier reserved on Monday of this week.

Having said that , if Murray gets knocked out , there will be loads of tickets going and the interest for most drops off massively .

howcome more people had luck today? will the popularity increase as next week comes about (latter stages but higher price of ticket)

cheers

Tried 20 times or so using chrome - utter waste of time. If I have to complete one more of those robot and image screens i will scream!

Something very strange is going on. I had no captcha yesterday and got through in 6 seconds and nothing. Had two sets of "cars" and then got 2 tickets after 12 seconds. Cant believe the difference is lots of people were trying at the start of the week....

Near the back unlike the tickets I had yesterday but am just happy to get them and in the first week the prices arent crazy high

Anyway. I bought them and mum's getting a day out tomorrow :-)

Chrome

still no luck! What browsers are everyone using?

I managed two centre court tickets this morning right at the back but not a problem for me

Got 2 today, bizarrely that was my worst "attempt" it crashed at one second past so I refreshed then missed the verify button went back in and there they were.

Maybe we are going "to fast" I don't know.

I released them from my screen anyway so hope someone got them!

You got Wozniacki on next so I wouldn't be complaining! :wink:

Well I was until they all started giving up.....

Thanks ;-) having a lovely day

You pickup on the day afraid there is now way of finding out until you arrive.

I got a single again on centre court for Thursday on the returns. Anyone know how I find out my seat number?

The thing with the returns is that there might be none - we just wouldn't know! Or one single return ticket, so if you went for two together you'd be on a loser from the start.

Same for me - tried it bang on 12:00 and it already said nothing available - single captcha tick too :disappointed:

Nothing on returns - again.

A uni friend got court 3 pair
One captcha came up

I got returns for today, but let them go as I wanted to see Rafa on Wednesday - so jdpwest, they might have been mine!!

Other than that, I've had no luck. My friend was trying for me today and got reserved for tomorrow so thankfully I'm getting to go to Centre. Every other year I've got tickets relatively easily. This year is another beast.

From someone who has used some IT tricks in the past, I can tell you it does help a little, but only a little...
TicketMaster is a very smart organisation, if you try too quickly then they automatically fail the request.

This year is just a nightmare, Its been far better advertised, the main ticketmaster homepage has a banner promoting wimbledon...

Have a read of last years thread and see the success we had this year only 2 people I know of have got in (me being one) and there has been 7 sales so far, there is definitely an issue somewhere.

Yeah, Ticketmaster has been much more widely advertised this year in all sorts of guides to getting Wimbledon tickets. It's how I found out about it.

Possibly but I also think more and more people are trying. I was the only one that used to try for tickets or if all my mates a couple of years ago. I now know quite a few friends that try for tickets.

No luck again! Would you say chances are much greater for Court 3 tickets? Definitely luck of the draw. My mum was doing the process too on her iPad/Safari and just got the captcha tick-box more than half the time. Still no tickets.

This I agree with, there can be no way they are getting in so fast and selling out so quickly with a human doing it. It takes a good 5-6 seconds for me to do the captcha which in the past has been enough, this year - no chance.

Something isn't right here!

Sound view, yeah, row L. We'll take a picnic and bunker down, should be comfy.

I also have the fastest browser, fibre broadband and years of doing his successfully and not getting a sniff of tickets.....

I'm not going on about ticket touting (but TM does have that GetMeIn website which is a bit suspect). Ticketmaster in general don't like a transparent process for getting tickets in the first place. They have no queueing system, which leads me to believe that they either have poor technology or prefer to obscure the entire process.

This year seems very different with hardly anyone getting tickets. Who knows perhaps they're even blocking a whole list of IPs (of entirely valid customers)?

I think there are robots buying these up , not to resale but people have their own programmes to grab them before anyone else can get them.Its the only way they can be selling out so fast.

I've been going for the last 5 years via ticket master and the last 2 have been the hardest where its a case of either get a picture captcha or go straight through.

Last year I went 4 times via ticket master although 2 of those was some time after the 12 / 9 slot had opened.

Today tickets came onsale 3 seconds past and my 11 seconds past I was through captcha (no challenge) only to be told tickets had all gone. In previous years I'd of been one of the first through in that time. I can therefore only assume there are some automated systems out there grabbing whats on sale for centre court

I've managed to get tickets for today (returns) only as someone must have bugged out as it was well past 12 .

I'm not even sure I'm going to bother for the rest of the 2 weeks, ticketmaster seems to have gone to pot.

I hope I'm wrong and its just tiketmaster spreading out tickets not to just the quickest but all those who try within the first few seconds and they are going to people who arent scamming but am not sure.

This is the back row (L?) yesterday, the court is small so there isn't a bad seat anywhere!

Where abouts were you on No. 3 mate? Just bagged 2 tickets on there for me and the old man tomorrow, block 1 if you have any idea how far around that is. (we're in the back row)

Usually I would agree but for Wimbledon tickets you need the ID of the person paying and the card they paid with it all must match before you get your tickets. Not to say they don't take a few but it is impossible to buy these tickets and sell on (unless you sell one ticket to a "friend")

I have the fastest browser and fastest internet in UK, that means nothing.

Because that would be sensible and then there would be more transparency to the entire process. Imagine being in a queue and it told you your queue number (other ticketing websites do this), then you would know that if you 10,000 in the queue you were too late, but Ticketmaster have shady business practices and like people to be kept in the dark.

because I use an online page with the time and the seconds so I can precisely click at 9:00:00, by time time I clicked and gone through the captcha it was 9:00:05 and all were gone...

Don't think they do more an annoyed about how they seem to sell out in seconds post.

How exactly do you know the precise time when all the tickets have gone?

No luck was only trying for the practice but very difficult this year - harder than last year I would say!

Think I should be happy with my court 3 ticket yesterday and call it a day.

9:00:05 all gone again, I think the website is playing up.

Anyone know an effective way of not getting the captchas? Seems like if I've tried the previous day, I'll get captchas even on my first attempt the next day.

Also why do you not get shoved into a queue for tickets after you've searched?! This process is madness.

Think thats the only way people are getting tickets. dont think internet speed is a major factor now, just the luck of the draw on the captchas

anyone getting through without any captcha, also what are peoples internet speeds like ?

Ah sorry never noticed that - you are right

Rafa is on No.1 court after Venus has finished - so he'll be playing Wednesday.

It seems harder for me this year too.

Why is it so much harder this year? Has the Ticketmaster route been more widely advertised than in past years? Is it the captcha process?

Wont rafa be playing Tuesday now ?? So 9am tomorrow will be for Wednesday and Murray tickets potentially again ?

Will try again at 9am because I really want to see Rafa! He sure makes it hard...

it seems to be much harder so far than last year- havent heard of anyone getting returns today....or even ones at 9am either

strange

Wow..... thats bad luck then... I got some returns yesterday but a few mins after 12 .... never stood a chance on any of the others and must have only got those as someone failed to checkout. Still given its a lottery am just happy I'm going at all this year.

Just the tick box I think - though I was going for 2 together, so I imagine that might have made it more difficult. You never know if there are even any returns/how many!

Did you get any captchas?

It would seem you are only really in with a chance if you get just the tick box. The 5 times I've tried so far has all given me the 2 screens of "sign posts".... hoping for some luck later in the week I guess.

Went as fast as I thought humanly possible and not a whiff @ 12pm today. Any one else have any luck for Centre?

exactly, same for me...that is clearly a lottery...

9.00.04 and all seats sold...incredible

Unfortunately the captcha is luck. The best you can hope for is simply the tick box.

Anyone have any specific tips? Such as how/when to refresh or if to refresh at all? How to get through the captcha quickly?

Anyone have any specific tips? Such as how/when to refresh or if to refresh at all? How to get through the captcha quickly?

How did you get for Tuesday? Return?
Still no luck... I have been trying for last two hours...

They all say level one who got then at 12 today but they all tend to be v decent seats

Normally they are half way back in the 300s but they can be in he 100s near the course or right at the back if you unlucky

I have been in front row with those before and also last year in bottom section where the players come out.

Wherever they are it will be good.

Ps. I got some too :-) so see you Tuesday

Yep I would assume this is the case.

The one I want to see is Roger. He should be Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday just hope he is on centre for Saturday!

This gives me hope - I want to see Rafa and plan on going on Weds. I imagine he might have worked his way to Centre if he's on No. 1 tomorrow.

I have had both one ticket and two together in the 100 block. In 2014 it was just the one ticket :smiley:

just 1 or 2? i got 1 after trying for 20 mins, but hard to get a pair if you dont get lucky initially

They all say the same thing, you will find out when you collect them. They are distributed in order of who finished the booking process.

For example, I must have been radioactive in the past as I have secured tickets in the 100 block through returns. Then in 2014 I kept refreshing hoping someone would reject a return ticket and they did, so I completed the booking process slowest and had a ticket in the 500 block.

How do you know where your seats are if they are returns? Or did you buy another way? Congrats anyway they will be great seats!

Tuesday?

i got no captcha and still didnt get any!

http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/scores/schedule/index.html

Monday order of play.

Robot - congrats! Your seats will be allocated at how fast you went through the booking process. Let us know on Tuesday! :smiley:

Just got 2x Level one Centre court tickets for play on Tuesday. Result!

mike was it just one captcha with street signs and you got through or did you have to do a second captcha, i had to do street signs then snowboard :disappointed:

It was chrome and I did have a captcha with street signs. But having tried and failed woefully yesterday to get returns on my mobile I opted for a full laptop this time and it was a lot easier.

I got centres with just the tick captcha. Lucky lucky! Chrome browser all the way!

Mike I got on at 3 seconds past but had 2 captcha screens, one is click vehicles, then click cars etc how many layers of captchas did you have?

Excellent. Any seat is a good seat

Can I ask a few questions to help the rest of us?

Which browser did you use and did you get a captcha at all or did it go straight through?

I'm also guessing you refreshed straight at 9?

cheers got some centre for tomorrow. Right up at the back! but not complaining, avoids the queue

its working now... but a bit late.... (never showed up at 12)

Can't they put this on sky sports?

Thanks. I realise it's unlikely but wanted to make sure I wasn't missing any special tricks.

So what am I supposed to have done; just continually refreshed and searched until some become visible to me?

centre on now

The screen changed at around 12:20 for me - so 20 minutes after they were supposed to go on sale. No idea when it actually changed between 12:15-12:20 as I stopped refreshing, so obviously didn't have a chance today :wink:

it wasn't that they were hard to get...
They just never went on sale (for centre court), normally you get through and get no results... but this time it never even put them on sale

Is this the page everyone else got after 12? This means tickets have been made available?

Return tickets are much harder to get - I have never got a return for centre.

Reserved tickets are easier so don't worry and try again tomorrow.

I tried centre; as above though, the screen didn't change. Never done it before so was trying to work out what to do. Had a go with court 3 after although I realise it was pointless.

centre court never went on sale

The window didn't even change for me to attempt to get any, so nope, no luck here. Not particularly great if the window doesn't change at all!

no luck today centre court returns went available around 2 seconds past but nothing, anyone got centre court?

Ah, I was going for Centre Court :smiley:

Did anyone try @ 12pm today? I did but the ticket window didn't change at all...

ticketmaster problem no doubt... screw up

Ive gone plenty of times and had men's semi and women's final in my basket before. A bit of daily persistence and this works every year!

No it doesn't imply that
There is a totally separate public ballot

Does this imply only the back four rows are ever designated to the public an everything else in the first instance, is assigned to coaches lta etc etc?

Don't forget to get American Express £10 cashback when you spend £50 with Ticketmaster.

I went several times (Central once and mostly on the other courts, from friend who knows some people who always have some spare tickets) and as soon as I seat in the chair, I can't stay awake. I find it really tiring and boring. If you don't get a ticket, it's not a big deal. It looks much better on the telly. Although, if you've never been there, it's good if you can get a ticket just to experience it.

Am lucky enough to get tickets as needed (Women's final last year)

Also worth heading over in the evenings for returns as the atmosphere is always wonderful.

So impressive.

It's possible to get these but as per you just have to get super lucky.

Interesting… well good luck to all looking to get in!

What is the difference between RESERVED tickets and RETURN tickets (the latter is a bit self-explanatory)

Was mainly to ask how easy it is to get court 3 tickets as I'm not fussed about going on center court.

Cool story, bro. Not sure what that adds to this post, but extremely impressive none-the-less.

thanks for the reminder

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!