{"id":7906,"date":"2025-06-09T16:59:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T16:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/09\/rafael-nadals-2017-french-open-winning-racket-is-on-sale-at-a-record-price\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T16:59:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T16:59:48","slug":"rafael-nadals-2017-french-open-winning-racket-is-on-sale-at-a-record-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/09\/rafael-nadals-2017-french-open-winning-racket-is-on-sale-at-a-record-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal&#8217;s 2017 French Open Winning Racket is on sale at a record price"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Baborat racket used by Rafael Nadal in the 2017 French Open Finals was sold at the Fame Memorial auction on Sunday for $157,333.20, including the buyer&#8217;s premium.<\/p>\n<p>The previous record was Racket Nadal, which was used at the Australian Open in 2022. His last Grand Slam title when he defeated Danil Medvedev &#8211; sold at Sotheby&#8217;s in 2023 for $139,700.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Nadal defeated Stan Wawrinka in straight sets 6-2, 6-3, 6-1 in the record-breaking 10th French open title. He didn&#8217;t drop all the tournaments and continued to win four more titles with Roland Garros.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal&#8217;s 2017 French Open Racket matched a light-up resolution for 24 different matches over Nadal&#8217;s 2017 season, including the Madrid Open Final, the Miami Open Final, the 2017 Australia Open Final, and the 2017 Australia Open Final, where Nadal may have lost to Roger Federer.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0609%2Fr1504300_1200x675_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0609%2Fr1504300_1200x675_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0609%2Fr1504300_1200x675_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0609%2Fr1504300_1200x675_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s rare to find the final used racket of a Grand Slam from Rafael Nadal,&#8221; reads the description of the memorial lot of fame. &#8220;It&#8217;s unprecedented to find one light-measured throughout the clay season (and beyond) that concludes with the French open title.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The custom-made racket includes his &#8220;Rafa&#8221; emblem on his throat and a 2017 French Open string sticker with &#8220;RG 2017 Nadal&#8221; written on it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baborat racket used by Rafael Nadal in the 2017 French Open Finals was sold at the Fame Memorial auction on Sunday for $157,333.20, including the buyer&#8217;s premium. The previous record was Racket Nadal, which was used at the Australian Open in 2022. His last Grand Slam title when he defeated Danil Medvedev &#8211; sold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[151,1688,32,1670,835,716,872,467,24,587],"class_list":{"0":"post-7906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-french","9":"tag-nadals","10":"tag-open","11":"tag-price","12":"tag-racket","13":"tag-rafael","14":"tag-record","15":"tag-sale","16":"tag-tennis","17":"tag-winning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}