Two tickets for Wimbledon Centre Court? That’ll be £586,000 please

According to The Guardian, Wimbledon's Centre Court has become nearly inaccessible to ordinary tennis fans. A pair of debenture tickets—which grant access to every Centre Court match during the championship—recently sold for five hundred eighty-six thousand pounds. That's two hundred ninety-three thousand pounds per ticket. The cost illustrates the barrier many face: after seven years of trying the public ballot without success, one fan learned that debenture ownership is now the primary path to Centre Court attendance.

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