The only sport I love to watch is tennis, especially Wimbledon each June. Wimbledon is one of the four annual grand slams and the world's longest running and most prestigious tournament. I worked at a tennis club for five years and I just love warm sunny days with a big bowl of freshly picked strawberries watching a match. Ben is mad about practically all sports and loves to go and watch the tennis so last summer, after getting given a pair of tickets for my birthday, we had a great British day out in the sunshine.


Tickets can be hard to come by, we got these through a friend who had entered the ballot which you can enter in the hope of being allocated tickets at random or by queuing up on the day. Some people camp overnight to get tickets for a big game like Murray on Centre Court but you can just turn up early and queue for a ground pass which would get you unreserved seating on some of the smaller court and let you take a picnic onto Henman Hill to watch on the big screen and still experience the whole atmosphere of the day.

The order of play normally gets announced the night before so you can decide who you want to see play. We had tickets for Court One so watched a couple of matches in our seats but mainly preferred to be on Henman Hill in the sunshine watching Laura Robson's match on the big screen with our picnic.

Even if you don't like sport, I think everyone gets united for those two weeks with a love for the very British game that symbolises the quintessential British summer with strawberries, picnics and Pimms.



Some of the smaller courts start their matches earlier than the show courts. Most of them have unreserved seating and it's nice that you can get so much closer to the players than in the bigger arenas.