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Tennis: Free Rafa tribute T-shirts offered on black market for up to R10 000

# Tennis: It didn’t take long for Rafael Nadal tribute T-shirts to hit the black market. The organisers of the French Open handed out 10-thousand brick-red T-shirts with the words “Merci Rafa” for Sunday’s farewell ceremony to the 14-time Spanish champion at Roland Garros, which formed a dramatic backdrop to the emotional event. But many of the T-shirts were offered for sale since, with prices ranging from three- to ten-thousand-rand. The French Tennis Federation expressed disappointment at people trying to make money from the iconic occasion.