Economists go on about recessions and stuff like that based on data they crunch in their gloomy offices. They’d do well, however, to step out into the daylight, at the Wimbledon for instance. According to an AP newswire report, Wimbledon sold more tickets than it has ever before on opening day. Monday’s attendance was 42,811, up nearly 3,500 persons in comparison with the previous opening-day record in 2001. And more than 14,000 persons lined up to buy tickets — that’s around 1,600 higher than it was last year. A club spokesperson told AP that ‘If the capacity here was 100,000, there’d be 100,000 here.” The All-England Club also sold 2,500 Centre Court seats in five-year blocks for every day of the tournament from 2011 to 2015.

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