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In 2023, a 20-year-old Alcaraz captured his second Grand Slam title at Wimbledon with a win over Novak Djokovic, the four-time defending champion, in an epic five-set thriller—marking a changing of the guard in men’s tennis.
Bidding for his customized pro stock Babolat racquet—photomatched by Resolution to 10 dates, including the July 16 final, and still bearing a stringing sticker from the 2023 Championships—sat at $74,008 until closing day on Sunday, October 19. A flurry of bids in the final hours drove the price up to the winning bid of $173,066.
Even with that record figure, it wasn’t the only eye-catching Alcaraz racquet in the auction.
A racquet used by the Spaniard at a 2019 ATP Challenger event—the earliest known Alcaraz-used frame to surface publicly—sold for $6,670. According to the lot description, it was sourced from ‘a coach who worked with Alcaraz in his developmental years.’
