Replica of Proximus Diamond Games Tennis Racquet Stolen
Posted by Aaress Lawless on Jun 20, 2006 | Print |
Ordinarily, the theft of a tennis racquet does not make the news, but it is not every day that an expensive replica of a diamond studded tennis racquet is stolen.
The trophy of the Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp, Belgium is a magnificent tennis racquet studded with 1,700 glittering diamonds. Not every player to win the Proximus Diamond Games is able to take home this award, which is estimated at a worth of 1 million Euros. Only a player that wins the tournament three times in five years or less is eligible to receive the trophy. Venus Williams came within one set of taking home the racquet last season, but she lost the 2005 final to Amelie Mauresmo in three close sets.
Thieves managed to steal a replica of the racquet Sunday in Amsterdam as the racquet was being removed from a display at a hotel. I wonder if they knew that they made off with the copy, instead of the priceless original! Either way, it was quite the heist!
“Two men said that a woman was lying under a car,” Director Kees Noomen of Coster Diamonds said on Monday. “When we went to look, another man went away with the racket,” he said. The replica was lying under the back seat of the car.
Two security guards from the hotel pursued the thieves - three men and a woman - but they got away.
(source: Expatica)
Coster Diamonds, the owner of the replica, did have the racquet insured, but they have not released its estimated worth.
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