The first 10 days of the third ticketing sales phase for the 2010 World Cup has seen the number of tickets applied for hit the 500,000 mark, FIFA revealed Monday. According to football's ruling body, 386,300 of those tickets were requested by South African residents (77 per cent of the total applications), while 114,237 tickets applied for came from the rest of the world. The current sales phase, where around 1 million tickets are available, runs until January 22, 2010.