How to get cheap tickets for Wimbledon 2009

Seven money-saving tips – and one suggestion to avoid. This week, how to dine out on the cheap, get a refund on your TV licence and how get a seat on Centre Court for under £100.

As anyone who has ever tried to get tickets for Wimbledon knows, you rarely get them cheap. But a bit of forward planning and a lot of luck could mean you get to sit in Centre Court next year for under £100. Just enter the public ballot held annually for the majority of Centre Court, No. 1 and No. 2 Court seats, says Melanie Wright in The Sunday Telegraph.

To enter send a request for an application form along with a stamped addressed envelope to the AELTC, PO Box 98, London, SW19 5AE, by the end of the year. You will be informed in February if you have been successful, at which point you will be asked to pay the standard ticket price for the seats you've been offered.

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