{"id":162472,"date":"2025-09-23T03:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/162472\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T03:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:17:10","slug":"andy-murray-racket-from-2013-wimbledon-title-auctioned-for-73k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/162472\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Murray racket from 2013 Wimbledon title auctioned for $73K"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dan HajduckySep 23, 2025, 12:33 PM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Dan Hajducky is a staff writer for ESPN. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University and played on the men’s soccer teams at Fordham and Southern Connecticut State universities.<\/p>\n

A racket Andy Murray<\/a> used during his historic 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 Wimbledon men’s singles final victory over Novak Djokovic<\/a> in 2013 recently sold for $73,200 (including the buyer’s premium) with Goldin Auctions.<\/p>\n

It is the most ever paid for an Andy Murray item at auction.<\/p>\n

Murray’s 2013 victory was the first time in 76 years that a British man had won at Wimbledon. Since World War I, Murray (who would win again in 2016) and Fred Perry (who won in 1934, 1935 and 1936) are the only British men to have won Wimbledon. On the women’s singles side, a British woman hasn’t won Wimbledon since Virginia Wade in 1977.<\/p>\n

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The auction lot includes a letter of authenticity from Resolution Photomatching, which says it made a “conclusive” match to the racket’s use in the Wimbledon final, as well as Murray’s second-round and semifinals matches. (The LOA also states that the racket was used in a match on June 26, before the tournament.)<\/p>\n

The battle for Murray’s racket was hotly contested; there were 49 bids from when the lot opened Aug. 29 to its conclusion.<\/p>\n

The record paid for a tennis racket belongs to a Babolat racket Rafael Nadal<\/a> used during his 2017 French Open-winning final, which sold for more than $157,000 in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan HajduckySep 23, 2025, 12:33 PM CloseDan Hajducky is a staff writer for ESPN. He has an MFA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-162472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}