{"id":5813,"date":"2021-04-08T14:38:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T12:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/?page_id=5813"},"modified":"2021-04-08T14:41:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T12:41:04","slug":"golden-racket","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/masterpieces\/golden-racket\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Racket"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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It was called European Champions\u2019 Championship and from 1986 was renamed to European Community Championship (ECC). Its nickname was \u201cGolden Racquet\u201d tournament because if a player won the tournament three times within 5-year span, he would receive also a special trophy, a life-size, 13.2-pound gold racquet studded with 1,420 diamonds valued at $1,000,000<\/p>

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Only one person has achieved this in the history of the Diamond Games. In 2007 Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo was able to take this piece of art home with her after 2 very close sets against our very own Kim Clijsters.<\/p>

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In 2005 Venus Williams came very close to winning this diamond racket, which is worth 1 million euro. Sadly she lost in three very close sets against the very same Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo who was to take the racket 2 years later.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Golden Racket It was called European Champions\u2019 Championship and from 1986 was renamed to European Community Championship (ECC). Its nickname was \u201cGolden Racquet\u201d tournament because if a player won the tournament three times within 5-year span, he would receive also a special trophy, a life-size,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":504,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5813","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5813"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5818,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5813\/revisions\/5818"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}