28 Jun to 11 Jul 2027
Three days, 28 to 30 June, are the ones for a grounds pass bought in the Queue that morning: every outside court has a match on it.
28 Jun to 11 Jul 2027. Times are approximate and can change from year to year.
First-round matches on every court. Gates open an hour before play.
Fourth-round matches, with play on the Sunday of the first week.
Singles quarter-finals over two days, the 6th and the 7th.
The gentlemen's semi-finals follow on Friday 9 July.
On Centre Court.
The last day of the Championships.
Wimbledon keeps back tickets for every day of play and sells them at the gate to whoever lines up in the park across the road. That queue, with its numbered cards and its tents the night before a big match, is as much a part of the fortnight as the grass.
2027 marks 150 years since the first Championships, with a statue of Andy Murray and a rebuilt hill in front of the big screen. In the first week the outside courts are packed with matches, and that is where a grounds pass goes furthest.
A grounds pass covers the outside courts, No.2 Court when it is not ticketed, and the hill in front of the big screen. For this edition the hill has been rebuilt with more room, more seating and cover from sun and rain. Show-court tickets returned by people leaving early are resold inside the grounds from mid-afternoon, with the money going to charity. For a real chance at Centre Court from the Queue, camp in Wimbledon Park the night before: the club allows it and provides toilets and water.
It has been played since 1877 and is the only one of tennis's four majors still held on grass.
Stay on the District line, anywhere between Earl's Court and Wimbledon, so Southfields is one train away in the morning. Rooms in Wimbledon Village itself fill months ahead for the fortnight; if you plan to camp in the Queue, keep your room for the nights you are not.
Where to base yourself, and what else is on
The London guide has the rest of the city.
Sixteen days of beer tents and brass bands on a Munich meadow. Get there on a weekday morning and a bench is yours without a booking.
Lima's purple month: a float carried through the old centre from dawn into the night on five days in October.