These Female Athletes Had the Best Jewelry of the Summer
From Coco Gauff’s hoops to Madison Keys’ diamond medallion, these are Senior Editor Lenore Fedow’s standout jewelry looks of the season.

Out of love for my home state, I’ll always root for a New York team given the choice, but I don’t really care all that much.
When I find myself subjected to sports by the people I love, I make the best of it.
Sometimes, that’s popcorn at a baseball game or a Honey Deuce at the U.S. Open, but usually, it’s jewelry spotting.
As summer comes to an official close, I’m recounting the best jewelry looks I’ve seen sported by female athletes this season.
Coco Gauff
These affordable earrings ($187) are rhodium-plated brass with cubic zirconia stones and beaded details.
Gauff actually lost one of her earrings, a throwback to Chris Evert losing her diamond line bracelet back in 1978.
Luckily, Gauff’s opponent, Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska, found the missing hoop and returned it.
Madison Keys
Madison Keys, pictured at the top of the story, had the perfect necklace for the U.S. Open, and that’s because she helped design it.
Brilliant Earth tapped Keys as its new brand ambassador this summer, the first time the retailer has had an athlete representing its brand.
As part of the partnership, Keys co-designed a two-sided 14-karat yellow gold and diamond medallion ($1,350).
On one side, it features a tennis racket motif with a pavé diamond lucky clover and nine diamonds (Keys’ lucky number) along the outer edge.
The reverse side features symbolic embossed charms, including a horseshoe, sun, moon, heart, and key.
“There’s a lot of meaning in every single aspect of this design. It is my way of telling my own personal story,” said Keys.
Brilliant Earth also debuted a curated jewelry collection of Keys’ favorites, including tennis jewelry and stackable rings.
Aryna Sabalenka
Great taste in jewelry doesn’t excuse her unsportsmanlike (to say the least) behavior toward Gauff, but I couldn’t leave jewels this good off the list.
Sabalenka, who ultimately won the U.S. Open this year, wore a suite of custom jewels by Material Good during her U.S. Open appearances, including a necklace, choker, and earrings, chosen to coordinate with her Nike outfit.
 
    
    The peach-pink tourmaline in her necklace was set with eight claw prongs to symbolize her eight U.S. Open appearances. There is one round diamond set atop each prong for added sparkle.
 
    
    Sabalenka’s 18-karat yellow gold choker is set with eight gemstones, another nod to her U.S. Open appearances, including seven pear-cut diamonds weighing 3.71 carats total and one 2.39-carat pear-cut imperial topaz.
All the stones were set using the brand’s signature “Muse” style, Material Good said.
 
    
    Sabalenka also wore a pair of 18-karat yellow gold earrings with detachable drop jackets. The studs are each set with two pear-cut diamonds, a 1.01 carat stone beside a 0.40-carat stone, totaling 2.82 carats for both studs.
The detachable drop jackets are set with six graduated pear-cut white diamonds, weighing a total of 4.56 carats, so eight diamonds in total.
When the studs are worn with the drop jackets, it adds up to a whopping 7.38 carats worth of diamonds. Not too shabby.
“Each piece is imagined through Material Good’s incomparable design approach and bears a special meaning and connection to her time on the court,” the brand said.
Jessica Pegula
The 18-karat gold-plated brass charm retails for $40, making it an accessibly priced option for those of us (myself included) who have been pining for all the gorgeous fruit jewelry that was everywhere this summer.
(Cece Jewellery and Jessica McCormack were among the designers who launched fruit-themed collections.)
Pegula is part of the Gorjana Sports Club, which the company launched this year to celebrate and support female athletes.
The jewelry retailer welcomed several professional- and college-level female athlete ambassadors, including Pegula, Cameron Brink of the Los Angeles Sparks (more on her below), and Lauren and Sienna Betts, who play basketball for UCLA.
Cameron Brink
The Los Angeles Sparks forward is the “perfect blend of fierce and feminine,” said Gorjana.
The 2024 No.2 WNBA draft pick was seen on Instagram wearing stacks of Gorjana jewels with her pre-game fit.
Brink is wearing what appears to be the “Avery” statement necklace ($145) and a 14-karat gold lab-grown diamond tennis bracelet with a pear-shaped stone in the middle (starting at $1,925).
On her Gorjana Sports Club card, Brink lists a diamond tennis necklace as her “jewelry MVP.”
Amanda Anisimova
She even visited the brand’s pop-up at the event where visitors could see the Tiffany & Co. Singles Championship trophies and a diamond-encrusted tennis racket and ball.
Anisimova appeared to be wearing jewels from the “Tiffany HardWear” collection, including a necklace, pendant, and earrings.
She was spotted in the jewels at the pop-up, in a Tiffany & Co. paid partnership post, and on the court.
Millie Couzens
Couzens currently rides for UCI Women’s WorldTeam Fenix–Deceuninck and took part in this year’s Tour de Femmes, the female version of the Tour de France.
Jewelry designer Milly Grace founded her eponymous brand in 2020. Grace, who is also a cyclist, wanted to create durable and beautiful jewelry for women on the move.
The brand organizes run clubs, community meet-ups, and events to “bring together women who inspire us daily with their energy, ambition, and support for one another.”
On that positive note, I will wrap it up here and encourage you to find joy wherever possible, even when subjected to sports.
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