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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Katie Strick

MYSTERIOUS: Why the queue is still the most fun way to do wimbledon | Mind Blowing Facts

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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