Wimbledon Day 1

Nimish and I lined up for grounds tickets around 8:30am. There are about a total of 7000 tickets given out. Our tickets were number 5284 & 5285.
The first 500 tickets are allocated toward centre court, the next 500 are allocated toward court 1, and the next 500 toward court 2. The remaining 5500 are for the ground's pass, which enable you to view matches on all other courts (and standing area on court 2) and roam around the grounds. To be in the first 1000, one must line up the day before. As we were allowed in the grounds around 11:30am, we saw people lining up for the good tickets the next day.
Once in the grounds, we set up on the lawn to eat and watch some of the matches on the big screen.
Fortunately, the weather has been really good, and there was only a 30 minute rain delay.
I really liked being able to be up close to the action on all the smaller outside courts we were able to view. Up close, you can really feel how hard some of the players hit.

We saw Bethanie Mattek defeat Marion Bartoli, a Wimbledon finalist last year.

We were also up close for the mixed doubles with one side consisting of Igor Andreev and Maria Kirilenko.

The other team consisted of Sonchat Ratiwatana and Alisa Kleybanova.
The chair judge looks very relaxed with his feet on the juice bottles.
Igor and Maria win the match! Close up of Maria as she leaves the court.