By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Monday, April 1, 2024
You might by no means hit with the tempo and spin of Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal.
Now, you possibly can hit with their iconic sticks—for a value.
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Sotheby’s New York is internet hosting a Sports activities Artifacts public sale with a number of 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. Jap time.
You’ll be able to bid on world No. 1 Novak Djokovic’s 2015 US Open ‘Championship Clinching’ Recreation Used Racket.
The Serbian famous person wielded the Head racquet defeating Roger Federer within the 2015 US Open last 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 successful 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 includes a “Babolat manufacturing label on the throat of the racket, which exhibits a date of January 2018, Nadal’s identify, 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,” based on Sotheby’s.
The present bid for the Nadal racquet is $7,000. Sotheby’s expects the successful bid to vary between $30,000 and $50,000.
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