16 July 2025
On our last few visits to The Championships at Wimbledon we have been on Court 1, where we have seen some great tennis. But when you are sitting near the top of the stands you feel a long way from the action and it can be distractingly noisy. So this year we were excited to have tickets for the much smaller Court 2. We did have a much better view but last Wednesday was one of the hottest days of the year and there was nowhere to shelter on this open court. Nevertheless we enjoyed seven hours of tennis, seeing three very entertaining doubles matches. We saw the men's doubles quarter final in which the reigning champions, British player Henry Patten and his Finnish partner Harri Heliovaara, were beaten in three tight sets by the all British pair Lloyd Glasspool and Julian Cash - who went on to become the first British duo to win the Wimbledon Men's Doubles title for 89 years. We then saw a very close ladies' doubles quarter final in which Su-Wei Hsieh (Taiwan) and Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia) beat the Romanian/Russian pairing of Sorana Cirstea and Anna Kalinskaya. Finally we saw an invitation ladies' doubles between Johanna Konta/Kiki Bertens and Agnieszka Radwanska/Magdalena Rybarikova - which was very much played for laughs.
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