At the “Diamond Games” tournament in Antwerp, Belgium, Amelie Mauresmo beat “hometown” favorite, Kim Clijsters, in her final tournament appearance in her native Belgium. By collecting her third title in five years at this popular stop on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, Mauresmo’s trophy cabinet will now sparkle as much as her play in the tournament with the addition of the diamond-studded tennis racket trophy.
This unique trophy is probably one of the, if not the, most expensive trophy in all of sports. The 8.8 pound gold racket trophy is studded with 1,702 diamonds. What does one do with such a stunning and valuable trophy? Mauresmo admitted after the match that, despite her previous comments to the contrary, she had been thinking about possibly winning the diamond-studded racket trophy all week.
Therefore, the racket will probably find a home among her other tournament trophies… but for how long? Maybe Mauresmo will hold on to the trophy forever or perhaps she will follow in Pete Sampras’ footsteps by donating it to a charity auction in the future. In the 1990s, Sampras donated the diamond-studded trophy he’d won to be auctioned to raise money for The Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS.
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