{"id":39415,"date":"2025-09-24T14:12:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/andy-murrays-racket-from-wimbledon-2013-reaches-record-figure-at-auction\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:12:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:12:20","slug":"andy-murrays-racket-from-wimbledon-2013-reaches-record-figure-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/andy-murrays-racket-from-wimbledon-2013-reaches-record-figure-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Murray&#8217;s racket from Wimbledon 2013 reaches record figure at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"A tennis collection object, specifically the racket used by Andy Murray during his victory in the Wimbledon 2013 men&#8217;s singles final against Novak Djokovic, has fetched a significant price at a recent auction.\n    <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A historical object<\/h2>\n    The racket, key to Murray&#8217;s triumph with a score of 6-4, 7-5 and 6-4, sold for $73,200 (including the buyer&#8217;s commission) through Goldin Auctions. This price sets a new record for an Andy Murray item auctioned.Murray&#8217;s victory in 2013 was a milestone, marking the first time in 76 years that a British tennis player had won the Wimbledon tournament. Previously, Fred Perry had achieved this feat in 1934, 1935, and 1936. Murray repeated his success in 2016. In the women&#8217;s category, Virginia Wade is the last British woman to win Wimbledon, achieving victory in 1977.The auction lot included a letter of authenticity from Resolution Photomatching, certifying the use of the racket in the Wimbledon final, as well as in Murray&#8217;s second-round and semi-final matches. The letter also specified that the racket was used in a match on June 26, before the start of the tournament.The auction generated intense competition, with 49 bids from its opening on August 29th until its closing.The highest price paid for a tennis racket at auction corresponds to a Babolat racket used by Rafael Nadal during the 2017 French Open final, which sold for more than $157,000 in June.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tennis collection object, specifically the racket used by Andy Murray during his victory in the Wimbledon 2013 men&#8217;s singles final against Novak Djokovic, has fetched a significant price at a recent auction. A historical object The racket, key to Murray&#8217;s triumph with a score of 6-4, 7-5 and 6-4, sold for $73,200 (including the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[1958,2021,9089,1959],"class_list":{"0":"post-39415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tennis","7":"tag-andy-murray","8":"tag-auction","9":"tag-racket","10":"tag-wimbledon"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}