By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Monday, April 1, 2024
It’s possible you’ll by no means hit with the tempo and spin of Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal.
Now, you’ll be able to hit with their iconic sticks—for a worth.
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Sotheby’s New York is internet hosting a Sports activities Artifacts public sale with just a few treasured items of Grand Slam historical past on the public sale block. A pair of tennis racquets utilized by Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal to win Grand Slams and a tennis ball signed by Carlos Alcaraz are among the many gadgets within the public sale, which ends on April tenth at 7:02 p.m. Japanese time.
You’ll be able to bid on world No. 1 Novak Djokovic’s 2015 US Open ‘Championship Clinching’ Sport Used Racket.
The Serbian celebrity wielded the Head racquet defeating Roger Federer within the 2015 US Open remaining c6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 to clinch his second US Open crown.
The present bid for Djokovic’s racquet is $18,000. Sotheby’s New York expects the profitable bid to be between $40,000 and $60,000.
The Rafael Nadal Signed and Match Used Racket | 2018 French Open and 2018 Wimbledon Semifinals can be up for public sale.
The Nadal Babolat Aero racquet contains a “Babolat manufacturing label on the throat of the racket, which exhibits a date of January 2018, Nadal’s title, and the racket quantity. There’s one other label affixed to the within of the throat, which exhibits the racket as being strung at 25kg/25kg on July 14, 2018,” in line with Sotheby’s.
The present bid for the Nadal racquet is $7,000. Sotheby’s expects the profitable bid to vary between $30,000 and $50,000.
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