Diamond Tennis Racket

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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Madz March 22, 2007 at 5:13 pm

Can you play with that thing?!

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brian March 27, 2007 at 10:09 am

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

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Pepe October 25, 2007 at 10:34 am

You’d be STUPID to play with that. What if the dimonds fell of.

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ben February 14, 2008 at 9:05 am

what a racket you lot must be mad not to think its “playable” in the 70′s rackets used to weigh over 9 pounds

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Brody Fisher May 19, 2008 at 2:06 pm

I could win that racket i am better than Roger Federer.

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Jakey June 19, 2008 at 8:10 pm

1.3 millionis a LOT!!
I bet in 10 years when i’m 24, i could win that racquet
if anyone else doesnt

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Miguel July 25, 2008 at 6:57 pm

I have lots of that racquets I don’t need more thanks

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Micky Brode February 10, 2009 at 4:59 am

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!

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jojo February 18, 2009 at 12:10 pm

OMG, wow, it would be so gr8 2 play with those golden strings, its so hard (the strings)
I WANT 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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sid94 February 14, 2010 at 3:38 am

I wish to play with that racket on the synthetic court. i mean…………… This is too much. Look at those Golden Strings

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jake February 17, 2010 at 8:35 pm

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

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Roger Federer March 5, 2010 at 2:16 pm

Yeah, I’m in the running for it now.

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