As a recognition of his career, Rafael Nadal was presented with a full-size solid gold racket at the first edition of the Six Kings Slam. This costly gift, worth 250,000 euros, has now gone to Jannik Sinner, the champion for the second consecutive year of the exhibition in Riyadh.
It wasTurki Al Sheikh, better known in Spain for having been the owner of Almeria from 2019 until early 2025, who presented him with the award as Saudi Arabia’s minister of entertainment. He had already done the same with Nadal a year earlier
The game weapon weighs just over three kilos and joins the six million dollar check as the winner. That’s 12 million that the Italian has taken out of Saudi Arabia in just two seasons. Carlos Alcaraz, the runner-up, could not stop looking at the racket in the awards ceremony. Alcaraz admitted in an interview with MARCA published on Wednesday that he would like to “have that racket one day“
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