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2003 Serena Williams trading card sells for record $266,400
May 22, 2022
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A Serena Williams 2003 NetPro signed patch rookie card sold for $266,400 Saturday night at Goldin Auctions, founder Ken Goldin tweeted, more than doubling the record for a card featuring a female athlete. The card was graded a PSA 8 AUTO 10 and includes a piece of a match-worn outfit.
Although Williams was not a rookie in 2003 (the now-40-year-old made her professional debut in 1995), that year's set was the first in tennis made available to the public in nearly a decade, according to NetPro, and includes the first officially licensed cards for a handful of big names also including Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Venus Williams.
The previous women's card record, also for a Williams sale, was set in January when a July 1999 SI For Kids Serena Williams rookie card sold for $117,000. Another Williams card from that set sold on eBay in March for more than $91,000. Before those sales, the record was set on an August 1992 SI For Kids Mia Hamm card that sold for $34,440 in 2021.
Williams' husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, tweeted that he wasn't the buyer of the latest record card.
The record for a men's card is the $6.6 million dished out for a T206 Honus Wagner card last year
