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Two tickets for Wimbledon Centre Court? That’ll be £586,000 please
A pair of debenture tickets changed hands this week for a sum far beyond the means of ordinary tennis fans Like many of us, Marcos Ortega enters the Wimbledon public ticket ballot every year in the hope of seeing some championship tennis. In seven straight years of trying, however, he has never got lucky. So he was delighted – initially, at least – to learn there was a way to secure a ticket for every game played on Centre Court. But Ortega’s hopeful delight quickly turned to anger when he discovered that it would cost him £293,000. Continue reading...
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A pair of debenture tickets changed hands this week for a sum far beyond the means of ordinary tennis fans Like many of us, Marcos Ortega enters the Wimbledon public ticket ballot every year in the hope of seeing some championship tennis. In seven straight years of trying, however, he has never got lucky. So he was delighted – initially, at least – to learn there was a way to secure a ticket for every game played on Centre Court. But Ortega’s hopeful delight quickly turned to anger when he discovered that it would cost him £293,000. Continue reading...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Two tickets for Wimbledon Centre Court? That’ll be £586,000 please, A pair of debenture tickets changed hands this week for a sum far beyond the means of ordinary tennis fans Like many of us, Marcos Ortega enters the Wimbledon public ticket ballot every year in the hope of seeing some championship tennis. In seven straight years of trying, however, he has never got lucky. So he was delighted – initially, at least – to learn there was a way to secure a ticket for every game played on Centre Court. But Ortega’s hopeful delight quickly turned to anger when he discovered that it would cost him £293,000. Continue reading…
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