By winning in sets of 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) over Kim Clijsters, Amelie Mauresmo won the final of the Diamond Games tournament recently in Belgium. Mauresmo’s trophy cabinet will now be as impressive as much of her play in the tournament, with the addition of a diamond-studded tennis racket trophy.
The golden tennis racket weighs in at 8.8-pounds and has been studded with over 1,700 diamonds, for a value of $1.3 million dollars. The racket is the prize for anyone who can win the tournament three times within 5 years.
If Venus Williams had entered the Proximus Diamond Games last year in 2006, she would’ve had a chance to win this expensive tennis racket, but last year she withdrew from the event 2 days prior.
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Can you play with that thing?!
8.8 pounds that is way to heavy to play with but you can just move it and blind your oponet with the 1,700 dimonds
You’d be STUPID to play with that. What if the dimonds fell of.
what a racket you lot must be mad not to think its “playable” in the 70′s rackets used to weigh over 9 pounds
Mad?
The pro's nowadays use rackets that aren't even one pound. Using a 9 pounds racket would be crazy.
I could win that racket i am better than Roger Federer.
1.3 millionis a LOT!!
I bet in 10 years when i’m 24, i could win that racquet
if anyone else doesnt
I have lots of that racquets I don’t need more thanks
You guys are well into this, of course you can play with this racket it should be perfect in every way so come back when you know more about tennis!
OMG, wow, it would be so gr8 2 play with those golden strings, its so hard (the strings)
I WANT 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wish to play with that racket on the synthetic court. i mean…………… This is too much. Look at those Golden Strings
its like awesome and stuff. i wish i had it. i would sell it and then use the money to buy a real good racket to play with
Yeah, I’m in the running for it now.