With over a billion tennis fans across the world, tennis is the elite and elegant unit in the sports dynasty. Fans tune in every day throughout the year, to watch their favorite tennis star play either in the biggest four Grand Slam tournaments or in one of the 68 ATP tournaments that occur around the globe. Especially now, with the reign of Novak Djokovic as the most dominant tennis player in the field for over 2 decades, his fans just want more of him.
When there is a higher level of passion for the sport, fans overtly show their admiration in several ways- traveling countless miles to watch the matches in real life, making posters to support them in the stadiums, getting their autographs, and so on. One of the most common is acquiring super rare collectibles from the tennis community milestones. A mother is going to be winning some big bucks with one such rare collectible.
Novak Djokovic’s Wimbledon winning racquet up for auction
The 2011 Wimbledon final is a match that is part of the reigning supreme Novak Djokovic’s legacy. At 24 years old, he went up against Spain’s raging bull, Rafael Nadal. After 2 and a half hours and 4 sets, the Serbinator won his first-ever Wimbledon title and embarked on his tradition of eating the grass from the SW19 center court!
The racket that helped Novak Djokovic to this monumental career win was thrown by him during his celebration. One mother in the audience caught it and twelve years later, she has decided to auction the irreplaceable treasure, off to one of the greatest Djokovic fans.
The mother is quite possibly one of the luckiest people on earth as she recalls the day she acquired this treasure, “I had already been lucky enough to win tickets through the ballot for Wimbledon, so to walk away with the racket that Djokovic used to make the winning shot was unbelievable.”
It is said that this racket will be auctioned between September 5-6 and fetch the lucky mother around £10,000-15,000!
Which male player’s racket sold at the highest price?
This isn’t the first time tennis fans spent their earnings to possess something as remarkable as the racket that gave the reigning supreme of tennis his maiden Wimbledon title. A couple of years back, the Swiss Maestro, Roger Federer’s red and white Wilson Six One Tour model racket was bought for $55,000!
Amongst his shipload of achievements in the world of tennis, Roger holds the record of being the male player whose racket was sold for the highest price.
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