Roger Federer’s 2011 French Open racquet creates history, becomes the most expensive male player’s racquet of all time!

Roger Federer’s 2011 French Open racquet creates history, becomes the most expensive male player’s racquet of all time!
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Roger Federer in the 2011 French Open Final

Roger Federer’s tennis racquet, from which he played during the 2011 French Open Final against Rafael Nadal, has been sold at the online Goldin Auctions sale for a record price of $55,000.

Federer’s racket is now the most expensive male player’s racket of all time, although he went on to lose that final against Nadal in four sets 7–5, 7–6, 5–7, 6–1.

Federer’s racquet is an ‘incredible piece of tennis history’

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Roger Federer

The Goldin Auctions website described the racket as “an incredible piece of tennis history, a red and white Wilson Six One tour tennis racquet that was signed in black Sharpie by Roger Federer and comes with exceptional provenance.”

The previous record for the auction of a racket used by a male tennis player was the wooden Slazenger racket that British tennis champion Fred Perry used when he played the 1934 Wimbledon final.

Perry had defeated the defending champion, Jack Crawford, in the final 6–3, 6–0, 7–5. That racket had been auctioned off for $32,000 in 2007.

However, the overall record for a racket auctioned off is $125,000 that occurred two years ago for the racket used by tennis legend Billie Jean King to defeat Bobby Riggs in the historic Battle of the Sexes match in 1973.

The 2011 French Open tennis racquet of the legendary Federer, bears his signature and is now the most expensive tennis racquet when it comes to a male tennis player.

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