{"id":178310,"date":"2025-09-24T10:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T10:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178310\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T10:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T10:10:09","slug":"carlos-alcarazs-us-open-final-point-ball-sells-for-record-88k-at-auction-after-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178310\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz&#8217;s US Open Final-Point Ball Sells for Record $88K at Auction After Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The tennis ball from the final point of Carlos Alcaraz&#8217;s U.S. Open final victory over Jannik Sinner sold for $88,900 at Sotheby&#8217;s on Tuesday, per <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cllct.com\/sports-collectibles\/auctions\/ball-from-final-point-of-carlos-alcaraz-s-u-s-open-win-goes-to-auction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Matt Liberman<\/a> of Clict. That figure set a record for a tennis ball sold at a public auction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Alcaraz earned the final point via an ace in a four-set victory: 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The 22-year-old Alcaraz is now a six-time Grand Slam singles champion who has won two French Opens (2024, 2025), two Wimbledons (2023, 2024) and two U.S. Opens (2022, 2025). <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">He&#8217;s currently the world&#8217;s No. 1 ranked player after his latest U.S. Open victory against Sinner, who was the top men&#8217;s player in the world for 65 straight weeks until Alcaraz earned the distinction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Liberman also reported that the championship point from Alcaraz&#8217;s straight-set victory over 24-time Grand Slam Singles title winner Novak Djokovic at this year&#8217;s U.S. Open sold for $31,750.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tennis ball from the final point of Carlos Alcaraz&#8217;s U.S. Open final victory over Jannik Sinner sold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-178310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}