Nick Kyrgios of Australia talks to the umpire during his match against Diego Schwartzman of Argentina at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, June 29, 2015. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
LONDON (Reuters) - Laurence Higgins looked like any young man sun-bathing on a towel with his novel beside him on a balmy English Monday in June -- but what he was really doing was queuing for opening day Wimbledon tickets.
For Higgins, who teaches philosophy at a secondary school in Cambridge, what is popularly called "the Queue" is his way to get into the world's foremost grass-court tennis tournament, where tickets are in such high demand that many are allocated by lottery.
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