{"id":167513,"date":"2025-09-25T03:16:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167513\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T03:16:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:16:34","slug":"tennis-ball-used-on-championship-point-from-mens-2025-us-open-final-sells-for-almost-100000-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167513\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis ball used on championship point from men’s 2025 US Open final sells for almost $100,000 at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sports fans are always eager to get their hands on memorabilia from iconic events. It comes as no surprise that a rather wealthy investor paid a large sum for the championship-point ball from the men’s US Open<\/a> final between Jannik Sinner<\/a> and Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, paying a record amount to obtain the item at an auction.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz and Sinner faced each other for the third straight time in a Grand Slam final when they met at the 2025 US Open. The dynamic duo had split their earlier two meetings, with Alcaraz winning Roland Garros while Sinner prevailed at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

Their third consecutive encounter saw the Spaniard dethrone the World No.1 as Flushing Meadows champion, behind a decisive four-set victory. Alcaraz sealed his victory with an ace to win his sixth overall Grand Slam singles title, but the fate of the ball used on that point went unnoticed.<\/p>\n

It was later revealed that a Sotheby’s representative authenticated the ball immediately after the match. It was then taken off the premises and prepared for auction.<\/p>\n

Championship-point ball fetches record amount<\/p>\n

The online auction was held from September 4 through Tuesday, September 23. The ball was sold for $88,900, setting a record for the most paid of a tennis ball at a public auction.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, a ball WTA World No.1 Aryna Sabalenka used for championship point in her 2025 U.S. Open women’s singles finale win over American Amanda Anisimova sold for $4,064 at the Sotheby’s auction. By comparison, the US Open shop sells\u00a0sets of three official tennis balls for $10.<\/p>\n

A total of 29 items were sold, including more than a dozen tennis balls, two rackets and match-worn shirts, shoes and a dress. A pair of signed Nike Vapor 12 sneakers Alcaraz wore in his semifinal win over Novak Djokovic sold for $57,150, with a match-point ball from that meeting selling for $31,750.<\/p>\n

A signed racket used by former World No.1 Naomi Osaka in her semifinal loss to Anisimova sold for $16,510. Osaka’s custom purple Nike dress, which she also signed, from her quarterfinal win over No. 15 Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic, sold for $15,240.<\/p>\n

A custom orange Nike shirt Sinner wore in his second-round win over Alexei Popyrin sold for $7,620. A signed custom white ON shirt worn by Iga Swiatek during her second round win over Suzan Lamens sold for $6,350. The auction also included two shirts and four pairs of shoes worn by Swiatek at the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports fans are always eager to get their hands on memorabilia from iconic events. It comes as no…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-167513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}