The Norman Brookes Challenge Cup is a thing of beauty. And while there is only one original Trophy, every winner of the men's singles title at the Australian Open gets to take home a like-for-like replica. We went behind the scenes with the team who spend more than 800 painstaking hours creating a single replica, and look at how a flat sheet of metal is turned into one of the most coveted prizes in men's tennis.
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