Diamond-studded Racquets are a Girls Best Friend

At the “Diamond Games” tournament in Antwerp, Belgium, Amelie Mauresmo beat “hometown” favorite, Kim Clijsters, in her final tournament appearance in her native Belgium.

Amelie's prize? Well a diamond-studded tennis racket trophy, of course!

Likely the most expensive trophy in all of sports. The 8.8 pound gold racket trophy is studded with 1,702 diamonds. What to do with a trophy like that?

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.

From tenniscountry.com

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