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TIL: The origin of the “tennis bracelet” came from the 1987 US Open when Chris Evert lost her diamond tennis bracelet and stopped the match to look for it
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Why the F would you play tennis wearing a diamond bracelet?
How could you lose a thing and know it by a name that was given to that thing because you lost it?
Seems like it wasn’t the origin, if the “origin” is her losing the thing that’s meant to be invented.
“In 1977, Kenny invented cheese, when he ran out of cheese and had to make more!”
So what were those types of bracelets called before?
Serena and Venus playing the Australian Open with beads in the braided hair. Damn beads kept of falling off.
[This article](https://theadventurine.com/culture/jewelry-history/chris-evert-tells-us-the-true-story-of-her-tennis-bracelet/) posits that the incident actually occurred in 1978 and that somewhere along the way the final two digits in the year were transposed. This jives with what I remember. My girlfriend during my junior and senior years of high school (class of 1983) played tennis for our school and tennis bracelets were already a thing by then.
[Another article](https://www.brides.com/tennis-bracelet-history-6543722) that supports this theory.
It’s crazy that the product failed on a national stage and it increased its popularity. The opposite of And-1 shoes.