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Thousands of people have descended on Wimbledon Park hoping to bag a ticket to the tennis championships, with some playing ball games and others celebrating birthdays.

More than 9,000 people had joined the Wimbledon queue, according to an event steward, with many camping overnight in tents or arriving in the early hours of Monday morning.
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00:11We arrived on Sunday. We flew over from Ireland on Sunday morning and we camped on Sunday and we
00:20went into Hamilton yesterday. We got into court two and then we came back out last night and
00:26rejoined the queue and now we're just staying in the queue until tomorrow so we'll be camping
00:30now for two nights because we want to get centre court tickets for tomorrow. We got here at like
00:35four in the morning. We woke up at three. Wow and why have you come down so early? Wanted to
00:42make
00:42sure we got in. Yeah we're from the States and so we kind of planned to get here super early.
00:48Yeah
00:48very good. It's a little bit chilly but it's actually been good. Very well organised actually.
00:52Very impressed. The English queue very well. It's bad. And you say you're both from Australia.
00:58Yes. Have you come over just from Melbourne or do you live here? No, we've been travelling around for
01:03about seven weeks and this is the end of our trip.
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