Tennis has some of the most varied trophy design in sports. Where most leagues hand out a version of the same basic shape year after year, tennis moves between silver urns, crystal sculptures, and centuries-old vase replicas depending on which tournament you’re watching.
That variety makes for a genuinely fun argument, and one of the coolest sports trophies debates going: does the famous Wimbledon trophy actually hold up as the best-looking piece of hardware in tennis, or do the other majors and Masters events do it better? Here’s how the ATP’s most famous hardware stacks up, judged purely on design.
6. US Open Men’s Singles Trophy Design: Elegant but Predictable
The US Open trophy is the safest, most traditional design on this list, and that’s exactly why it lands last. Tiffany & Co. crafts it from sterling silver at its Cumberland, Rhode Island workshop, standing 18 inches tall and weighing nine pounds after roughly 66 hours of spinning, silversmithing, chasing, and hand engraving spread across six months.
It’s genuinely beautiful, high-end craftsmanship, and it’s been the trophy for nearly 40 years. It just doesn’t take any real design risks, and next to the pieces above it on this list, that restraint reads as the least memorable option rather than the most elegant one.
5. Coupe des Mousquetaires: The French Open’s Swan-Handled Trophy
The French Open’s trophy earns points for backstory even if its silhouette is fairly conventional. Parisian jeweler Mellerio redesigned it in 1981 at the request of French Tennis Federation president Philippe Chatrier, honoring the legendary “Four Musketeers” of French tennis. The 40-centimeter silver cup is bordered with vine leaves and finished with two swan-shaped handles, a genuinely elegant touch that separates it from a plain trophy bowl. It weighs 14 kilograms, and the original never actually leaves the French Tennis Federation president’s office except for the trophy ceremony itself, with champions instead receiving a smaller replica that takes over 100 hours to produce.
4. Norman Brookes Challenge Cup: Australian Open’s Warwick Vase Replica
The Australian Open men’s trophy wins on ambition alone. Crafted in London in 1906 and donated to Tennis Australia in 1934, it’s modeled directly on the Warwick Vase, a colossal 2nd-century Roman marble urn discovered near Emperor Hadrian’s villa in 1771.
The silver cup carries the same twisted vine handles, grape clusters, and carved satyr heads as the original, all bacchanalian imagery tied to Bacchus, the Roman god of wine and celebration, which fits a trophy that gets showered in champagne every February. At roughly 40 centimeters wide including its ornate handles, it’s one of the most sculptural, historically loaded pieces of hardware in the sport.
3. Wimbledon Gentlemen’s Singles Trophy: Iconic, But Predictable
Nothing in tennis is more recognizable than the Wimbledon trophy, and recognizability counts for a lot in a “coolest looking” argument. The silver gilt cup has stood 17.5 inches tall since first being presented in 1887, engraved around the bowl with the names of every champion and topped with a pineapple finial, a symbol of rarity and status borrowed from 19th-century dining culture rather than anything tennis-related. Champions never actually take this exact cup home.
The All England Club decided early on that the original trophy would never become the winner’s property, and instead hands out a smaller replica to keep, which is part of why the original has stayed pristine and iconic for well over a century. It loses a little ground here only because its silhouette, elegant as it is, is a fairly standard cup shape once you look past the pineapple.
2. Nitto ATP Finals Trophy Design: A Modern, Geometric Take (Brad Drewett Trophy)
This is the trophy most casual tennis fans have never really looked closely at, and that’s a shame, because the design is genuinely clever. Standing 60 centimeters tall in sterling silver, it’s built as an eight-sided geometric form, a direct nod to the eight players who qualify for the season-ending event.
Thomas Lyte’s London workshop finishes the surface on motorized lathes spinning at over 3,000 rpm to get the mirror-like shine that shows up so well under the O2 Arena’s lights. It’s been the trophy since the Finals moved to London in 2009, and it’s proof that a modern, symbol-driven design can hold its own next to trophies with a hundred years of history behind them.
1. Indian Wells’ Baccarat Shooting Star: Tennis’s Most Unique Trophy
Nothing else in tennis looks like this. The BNP Paribas Open trophy, officially the Baccarat Shooting Star, is carved from dense French crystal rather than metal, fusing two star shapes into a tall, narrow shooting star that catches light completely differently from every silver cup on this list. It also weighs close to 38 pounds, and its awkward, top-heavy proportions have turned lifting it into its own mini tradition.
Simona Halep, Iga Swiatek, and Jack Draper are among the champions who’ve visibly struggled to hoist it after already playing a full final. That combination, a genuinely unique material, a striking silhouette, and a real physical challenge built into the trophy ceremony itself, makes it the most memorable piece of hardware the ATP hands out.
Honorable Mention: Abierto Mexicano de Tenis Trophy’s Regional Silver Design
Leaving this one off the main ranking was a mistake, and it deserves its own spot. The Acapulco trophy has been handmade for three decades by TANE, the Mexican silver house founded in 1942, and the 2026 edition leaned all the way into regional identity instead of generic prestige. The design is built around the guaje, a native gourd tied to Guerrero’s tradition of hand-painted lacquerware, with the surface hand-chiseled in sterling silver to show the fruit alongside the flora and fauna of southern Mexico.
At the center sits a tennis ball finished in 23-karat gold vermeil, and the whole piece rests on a walnut wood base. It’s the rare tennis trophy that’s specific to its host city rather than to the sport in the abstract, and on craftsmanship and regional storytelling alone, it would give the Baccarat Shooting Star real competition for the top spot.
Ranking trophies is always going to come down to taste, and there’s a real case for putting Wimbledon’s pineapple, the Norman Brookes Cup’s ancient-Rome cosplay, or Acapulco’s hand-chiseled silver at the top instead.
But for pure visual surprise among the sport’s most recognizable hardware, nothing else on the ATP calendar looks like a shooting star made of crystal, and nothing else makes a champion work quite that hard just to get it over their head.
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